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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1971
Page
1
Memoir style note from Memphis and a satirical take from Louisville poke at rising costs and penny pinching. The pieces reference eight cent stamps, three cent to eight cent changes, and a former Pentagon official, A. Ernest Fitzgerald, linked to cost overruns on the C5A program.
The Associated Press reports a line of thunderstorms swept through Arkansas starting Monday night and continuing today. Central Arkansas saw 5 a.m. wind and hail in Little Rock, with Ashdown and Russellville also affected. The National Weather Service warns of unstable conditions and more scattered thunderstorms. Expect cloudy skies today and tonight, with partial clearing Wednesday and highs in the upper 80s.
Ngo Cong Duc editor of the Tin Sang newspaper, an anti government figure in the National Assembly, was arrested and charged with attempted murder after a dinner party quarrel in Vinh Binh Province in the Mekong Delta. Pham Huu Gia suffered serious injuries and was hospitalized.
The United Steelworkers union and four major aluminum firms reached three year contracts for about 32,400 workers with an average pay rise near 30 percent over the period. Alcoa and Reynolds also struck broader deals with the Aluminum Workers International Union.
Juan Vallejo Corona, held for mass slayings, was moved to Yuba County jail in Marysville. He occupies the only cell on a wing, kept separate due to the seriousness of the charges. Guards monitor him every 15 to 45 minutes, and he is described as very quiet and well mannered. He wears white coveralls and has access to magazines and reading material.
Sheriff Roy Whiteaker says graves were dug and later filled in without bodies at orchard sites tied to a mass killing spree. One suspect, Roy Delong, is in protective custody as detectives link him to a victim seen in Corona's van. Authorities warn more bodies may lie beneath flooded land while the Memorial Day toll across the nation reached 532 deaths.
Sheila Scott, 43, launches a 34,000 mile global attempt as a NASA human guinea pig. She plans equator to equator flight over the North Pole in a Piper Aztec, with data relayed to NASA via satellite. The mission faces navigational scrutiny and high risk, but Scott emphasizes opportunity for a British woman.
Cummins Prison Farm officials searched for Daniel Graham a 31 year old Springdale man who escaped from a work detail at the prison farm Monday afternoon.
The Supreme Court in a 5 3 decision invalidates a Cincinnati loitering ordinance targeting groups on sidewalks as unconstitutional. Justice Potter Stewart rules the statute vague and violates First and Fourteenth Amendments by letting officials base criminality on personal sensitivities to conduct considered annoying.
Texarkana Arkansas AP Joe Murrah a 42 year old former Texas side deputy sheriff was charged with burglary and grand larceny after a Rural Electric Cooperative building burglary. Police disabled his pickup with gunfire as he fled from plainclothes detectives. He is held in Miller County Jail on 10000 bond.
In a third sea battle in four weeks a South Korean warship reportedly sank a 70 ton North Korean boat off Sohuk san Do, with 15 to 17 crew believed drowned. A South Korean C46 plane with seven aboard was missing and thought shot down. A second Free dom Fighter survived after taking fire from the NK boat.
In Palermo a Sicilian Court of Appeals upheld exile of 33 Mafia suspects to Filicudi Linosa and other tiny islands under emergency anti-Mafia laws. Residents fled Cilicudi Lipari officials protested, while 14 national police stayed to monitor the exiles as island life faltered.
Secretary of State William Rogers said the NATO meeting in Lisbon will be important though no firm plan for a mutual European force reduction is likely. He noted Berlin talks with the Soviet Union and stressed allied burden sharing as Mansfield’s debate influences NATO. Rogers will visit Paris and Brussels on a 10 day trip before returning to Washington.
Two unions representing 20,100 employees walked out at 12 01 a m closing public offices and halting domestic telegrams money orders and overseas cables Across AFL CIO unions UTW and CWA rejected a 20 percent two year raise demanding 31 percent over two years The company pledged essential government services and said negotiations would resume at the bargaining table with supervisory staff filling gaps in government and business communications
The apocalyptic smoke over Miami came as thousands of acres of Everglades grass burned amid South Florida’s worst drought. With no rain in sight, NOAA forecasters warn of renewed fires unless significant rain falls in the next two to three days. By mid May, South Florida was about 10 inches below normal in precipitation since January, with 790000 acres burned this year.
A Pan Am spokesman says a hijacked jet with 69 aboard may be detained in Havana due to the arrest of four Cuban fishing boat captains in Key West on charges of illegal fishing. Havana authorities have not stated reasons for a three day detention as Cuba and the United States navigate possible prisoner exchanges and diplomatic limits.
All over the nation students prepare for examinations using the Hope Star News Quiz. It helps review current events from state, nation, and world. The quiz appears on Page four with answers on Page three, part of the Living Textbook Program sponsored by Anderson-Frazier Insurance Agency and Hope Star for area schools.
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