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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1968
Page
2
The Associated Press reports a warm, cloudy Arkansas forecast with thundershowers tonight and possible locally severe storms. Much of the state expected to see scattered showers and thunder as a warm front moves in. Temperatures tonight in the 60s, with a hot, mostly cloudy Saturday and isolated showers or thunderstorms.
Federal highway rules agreed by 10 states plus District of Columbia and Puerto Rico set standards for billboard position size spacing and lighting along interstate and primary roads. The 1965 Highway Beautification Act motivates view preservation and threatens 10 percent loss of federal highway funds for noncomplying states. Several states have interim accords with the Federal Highway Administration and more consider billboard controls.
AP dispatch reports six Tucker Prison Farm escapes in five days as officials note unease amid new administration led by William H. Barker. A hidden source cites shifts in policy toward farm work over education, following Board of Correction action. Two inmates captured south of Humphrey after a daylong manhunt. one inmate, Jesse Ring, turned himself in.
Mrs Johnson is set to appear Saturday before the state AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education which may back labor’s choice. Crank will appear first, followed by Ted Boswell Bry ant Bruce Bennett El Dorado and Frank Whitbeck Little Rock. Clyde Byrd and Mrs Johnson are invited as well as Rockefeller and his GOP rival S.R. Roberts of Little Rock.
Little Rock resident Mrs. Alan J. Rost helped convict Charles Edward Dillard in 1967 as a juror then urged Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller to pardon him. Dillard, sentenced to life for rape, will be released soon at age 18 as Rockefeller grants clemency. Rost recalled the jurors’ shift and her guilt over aiding a possible innocent man.
U S casualties projected through 1968 would total 35 730 combat deaths and 115 284 wounded, far surpassing Korea's totals. Pentagon notes war wound figures include nonhospital injuries and are not directly comparable to earlier conflicts. Meanwhile a separate case details a rape conviction and possible parole for Dillard following a suspended burglary sentence.
A flood of letters, telegrams, and calls urging tougher federal gun-control laws has reached Congress since the Kennedy assassination. The AP survey of 90 members shows urban and rural districts increasingly favor stronger curbs, with support spreading to the East, Midwest, South, and West. Some lawmakers note a shift from opposition to cautious approval during the inflow.
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