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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1968
Page
2
The manhunt for a suspected killer tied to a Memphis sanitation strike leader expands across borders. Police place Ray under custody in London after authorities tracked him from Canada to Meandville and Westminster, with extradition possible. Royal and federal officials weigh legal steps while Scotland Yard guards the suspect.
Mrs Housewife advertises 50 free trading stamps with boxtop returns for Cloverleaf products. Offers include Buick mixing milk instant nonfat dry milk and other Cloverleaf items with 50 stamps per boxtop. States right to substitute stamps or pay cash if unavailable.
The Supreme Court upheld the FCC power to regulate community antenna television systems, basing authority on the 1934 federal law. The ruling allows government supervision of the growing industry, with CATV networks since 1965 under FCC oversight due to radio spectrum use and licensing. In Terre Haute, Miss Mary Ohm was elected the 49th commander of Fort Harrison Post 40 American Legion, the town's oldest post, marking a milestone for its largely male membership.
Cecil Bittle of the University of Arkansas Southwest Branch Experiment Station told Hope Rotarians the timber industry is the standout development in Southwest Arkansas as the number of woodland acres grows while farms decline He noted rising soybean output and falling cotton and corn with beef cattle poultry and hogs remaining vital to the local economy The program was led by Ray Lawrence with remarks from Clyde Fouse and guests Randall Leister Hugh Donald Barwick and others.
Weather report notes clear to partly cloudy, warm and humid through Tuesday. Scattered mainly afternoon and evening thunderstorms become more numerous from the northwest tonight and Tuesday. Chance of a few storms mainly in the northern portion tonight. Low tonight 66 to 76. High 91, low 68.
A White County woman, 75-year-old Gertrude Durham of Higginson, was killed when her car left a curve on Interstate 40 and struck two utility poles two miles west of Shearerville in Crittenden County. The driver was Maurice Durham of Little Rock. This weekend had the state's lowest highway death toll this year, with no fatalities recorded the prior weekend of Nov. 4-5, 1967.
The piece traces Edward Kennedy’s rise from a cautious freshman senator to a national political figure following the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy. It notes Archbishop Hannan urging him to retreat, compares the brothers’ personalities, and highlights his evolving stances on civil rights, gun control, and Vietnam, with talk of a possible rise to the presidency or a vice presidential bid.
Blytheville Air Force Base will close next Monday for a six hour drill simulating a nuclear attack named Buckskin Rider. Col. Eugene D. Minietta commander of the 97th Bomb Wing said only contract workers and delivery service may enter the base during the exercise to test response readiness.
Four convicts escaped Tucker Prison Farm over the weekend and remained at large. Two escapees, Jessie King 30 and Jimmy Loyd 17, were convicted of second degree murder and possession of stolen property respectively. The pair reportedly obtained permission to fish near a bayou. two others Carlton Carney 17 and Billy Ray McElyen 20 also fled, both serving long sentences for murder and burglary with larceny.
France opens the day election campaign with about 2,000 candidates vying for 487 National Assembly seats to be filled on June 23 and 29. President Charles de Gaulle dissolves parliament May 30 amid France's worst social crisis since World War II urging unity in defense of the Republic.
Washington AP report states the Supreme Court upheld a 1966 federal law creating a minimum wage and time and a half for about 1.7 million state workers after 28 states challenged Congress’s powers. Justice Harlan said labor conditions in schools and hospitals affect commerce as the court noted prior interstate commerce rulings. The Arkansas program to aid the mentally retarded could reach 58 000 persons and families per the State Health Department.
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