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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1963
Page
6
New government figures show June cost of living up to 106.6 as sugar prices spike and services costs climb. Businessmen debate whether this signals a renewed inflation pattern after years of deflationary trends, with steel and aluminum price moves contributing. Page two continues.
The J. A. Riggs Tractor Co plans a 16,800 square foot branch on a seven acre tract along U.S. Highway 67, NE Texarkana, with completion by December 1. The $200,000 building will start with 15 employees and grow later, housing sales and repair for farm and construction machinery. Riggs operates plants in Little Rock, West Memphis, Fort Smith, Jonesboro and McGehee.
Weather experiment station records show 24 hours ending 7 am Wednesday with high of seven dollars and low of seventy.
Police report a collision at 6th and Walnut involving a pickup driven by W L Bazzelle and an auto operated by Mrs Henry Aldridge. Both vehicles sustained heavy damage and officers charged Bazzelle with failure to yield the right of way.
Camden Arkansas AP Representative Hardy Croxton urged a state administration to oversee personnel records purchasing rules and standards and the use of state funds He criticized idle cash and suggested selling it to the highest bidder with proceeds to the state treasury He noted Republican dissension and urged Democratic Party rejuvenation while proposing a reorganization committee to study 143 state commissions with overlapping duties.
Peking accuses the United States of imperialist plots targeting Korea and southwest China. Broadcasts claim U S agents are entering the region to sabotage reunification efforts as South Korea reports fatalities among American and North Korean forces near the DMZ.
In London the Old Bailey jury retires to decide on vice charges against Dr Stephen Ward while he lies unconscious in hospital after an overdose. Justice Marshall will defer sentencing if convicted until Ward is well enough to attend. Ward remains in a coma five hours after admission as staff treat him with oxygen. Christine Keeler, named by prosecutors as the star in his circle of prostitutes, is shaken by the case. Hospital officials expect Ward to recover. The judge finished his summary after canceling Ward's bail and ordering police to resume normal procedures.
London AP bulletin reports society osteopath Dr Stephen Ward found guilty of two charges lying about prostitutes earnings. He was acquitted on three other vice charges after an eight day trial by an 11 man 1 woman jury following about four and a half hours deliberation. Conviction could have led to 25 years in prison.
Lt Gen Jacob EB Smart relinquished command of U.S. forces in Japan and the 5th Air Force in a ceremony at Tachikawa Air Base near Tokyo. Maj Gen Maurice A Preston succeeded him, after Smart held the posts since August 1961.
Herbert Earl Trest of North Bend Oregon was charged Tuesday with arson in connection with a July 22 fire at an east side duplex apartment building. He was arrested the day after the blaze.
Dr Phillip Manus president of the Hope Civitan Club announced truckloads of watermelons donated to the club to be taken to the Children Colony in Conway on August 8. Johnny Lloyd and Leonard Morton of Hope Route 3 donated a pickup truck load of melons for this purpose. The Civitan Club expressed gratitude for the contributions and will arrange the trucks to depart Hope with the melons for Conway, arriving around 1:00 PM.
Haskel Jones Scrap Paper Drive Chairman for Hope High Bath announced a late check from Elk Roofing Company for 190.64 brings the total over 400 raised to aid the Hope High Junior and Senior Band. The funds will buy instruments uniforms and muffs. An announcement in September will say if the project returns next year.
Demonstrations resumed with civil rights leaders noting hopeful talks. Police arrested 12 at a Brooklyn hospital site, 3 at the mayor's office, and 2 at a Queens project. A linked arm sit-in outside Mayor Wagner's gate drew arrests despite officials saying such tactics would not be tolerated. Roy Wilkins urged access to the mayor's office while a 10 member committee formed to push nonwhite hiring without displacing current workers.
Arkansas administrators will hear two nationally known education figures at the AEA summer meeting in Little Rock. Richard Morgan of Washington will address professional rights and responsibilities as associate counsel for the National Education Association. J. Win Payne of Ponca City Oklahoma will speak as an elect member of the American Association of School Administrators.
Mississippi state senator John C McLaurin charges Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy whitewashed Negro leadership and claims no evidence of Communist control of civil rights leaders. He cites FBI files and House Un-American Activities files, while urging stronger civil rights legislation and fair employment practices.
AP report from Seoul states ballistic tests confirmed that submachine guns taken from two North Koreans killed Tuesday match the weapons used in Monday’s ambush that killed two U S soldiers and wounded a third. Brig. Gen. Brown said no U S or South Korean casualties occurred on their side in the latest clash near the demilitarized zone.
The Golden Age Club schedules a 1 30 p m Thursday gathering at the Youth Center while Coach Ben Burton calls a 7 30 p m Thursday meeting for Hope High football candidates and their parents at the school. Watermelon will be served and attendees are urged to attend.
U S military and diplomatic leaders monitor a sharp rise in Red Chinese mood and potential for renewed conflict in Korea and Southeast Asia. Ambushes near the demilitarized zone escalate vigilance as Washington weighs possible offensive patterns and broader Communist pressure in Indochina and Vietnam.
Newport voters chose their first City Manager Board with two races contested. R Z Wilkinson defeated Neill Ward for Position 5 983 to 939. Elphingstone beat H L House for Position 6 1154 to 157. Both winners ran on a pro city manager slate from Citizens for Better Government. Elphingstone carried all wards. The five unopposed incumbents were L Burkett Minton Holt Dotsan Jackson. The seven take office Monday.
The Senate passed a measure authorizing future water project construction costing 32.404 million dollars with Arkansas allocations. Republicans sought to return it to committee for deeper cuts but failed 25 to 64. Arkansas items include 31 million for the Arkansas River, 1 million for the White River, and 404 thousand for the Belle Dam on the Arkansas River.
Sheriff Jimmie Griffin said charges of burglary have been filed against Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Wilson of north stead in connection with the theft of a hot plate and an electric heater from a residence in the area. They are scheduled to enter pleas before Judge Lyle Brown this week.
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