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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1968
Page
1
An editorial argues taxes raise living costs for all, noting farm price rigidity, indirect tax shifts, and planned federal rate hikes. It cites Wall Street Journal on utility rate increases and federal spending as ultimately borne by individuals, urging readers to recognize taxation as a universal economic truth.
Senator J William Fulbright mobilizes proxies from Democratic State Committee members to block Jim Johnson and ensure an uncommitted 52 member Arkansas delegation to the Chicago Democratic National Convention. He plans to attend the June 27 meeting to name delegates with voting proxies and aims to protect party integrity while avoiding national political influence on the July 30 state primary.
Virgil Cothren, director of the Arkansas Forestry Commission, says the agency will consider across the board cuts, including salaries, staff reductions, and converting some full-time workers to part time to offset about 70,000 in timber severance tax revenue losses.
Allied Telephone Co. announced on Tuesday that it had bought the stock of the Rural Telephone Co. which operates an exchange at Elaine serving Elaine Lake View Wabash Lambrook Snow Lake and several other communities in Phillips County.
Public pressure shifts support for a bill banning mail order sales of rifles and shotguns. It heads to the Senate Judiciary Committee, with key Senators switching positions and expectations of swift floor action, amid renewed urgency after the MLK assassination and Kennedy events.
Coroner's inquest exonerates Jimmie Lee Criner Linsey for the fatal shooting of John Henry Pugh Sunday. Testimony shows the incident was self defense and the coroner's jury ruled the slaying excusable homicide under the circumstances with all 13 jurors concurring.
New York AP dispatch compiles a string of humorous dieting jests directed at George and others. The quips poke fun at weight, exercise, and self control, illustrating lighthearted social commentary on dieting and body image. Several jokes hinge on mistaken weight, suspicious self-critique, and playful doctor banter about gradual progress.
Little Rock realtors debate how the Supreme Court ruling banning racial discrimination in sale or rental of property interacts with open housing provisions of the Civil Rights bill. A firm spokesman says owners direct tenant selection and that placing a colored applicant in white projects could cost 30 to 40 percent of white tenants, a purely economic concern.
Representative HammarsHmidt of Arkansas announced that the Office of Education approved 211000 in federal grants for 19 Arkansas colleges and universities. Listed are allocations to schools including University of Arkansas 44433 Arkansas State University 17892 State College of Arkansas 16400 Henderson State College 15789 and others.
Camden Arkansas AP reports 17 year old Carl Williams son of Rev and Mrs G E Williams drowned Tuesday in a stock pond near his home in the Lester community eight miles northwest of Camden.
Lulu Bell the seal, stabbed by boys with a pitchfork two months earlier, was euthanized at Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa. The female animal, wounded in three places and losing weight from 350 to 180 pounds, declined further in health.
Firemen fought an automobile fire near Edgewood Street around 9 a.m. today. The car reportedly belonged to Joe Baldinelli of Clearwater, Florida.
McCarthy aides allege Democratic National Convention leadership is stacked in favor of Hubert Humphrey after the New York primary where McCarthy wins a large delegate haul. Paul O’Dwyer defeats rivals for a Senate nomination, while Rockefeller leads Republicans with 71 of 82 delegates. President Johnson allies Albert and Boggs are named convention leaders, prompting charges of bias.
The Associated Press reports warmer, more humid air moving into Arkansas with widely scattered showers expected in southern and western areas this afternoon and evening. Temperatures rose five to six degrees Wednesday, forecast to stay warm through Thursday as a high pressure ridge is squeezed by a southern low and a northern trough. Tuesday highs ranged from 83 at Harrison to 93 at Brinkley, overnight lows from 57 at Calico Rock to 72 at Pine Bluff and Texarkana, with isolated showers noted Tuesday in southern Arkansas.
Cincinnati AP Nick Cale got a phone call when a postal clerk found a letter bearing his aunt Cole's name and a Cincinnati phone number. He provided his address and the clerk sent the letter the next day. The note was from an elderly aunt who did not know his address.
U S Ambassador Harriman stated at Paris talks that the United States seeks peace in Vietnam based on the 1954 Geneva accords and does not oppose eventual unification if neither side uses force. He tied this to the stalled talks and the demilitarized zone concept, noting it is too early to judge Viet Cong rocket threat. The ninth session opened amid North Vietnamese helicopter activity along the border.
Jahncke Service Inc of New Orleans submitted an apparent low bid of 112 352 dollars on a U S Engineers contract for dredging shallow areas in the Arkansas Post Canal on the Arkansas River Navigation Project Tuesday.
Buster Denton and Bob Buze of the Arkansas Forestry Commission led Arkansas delegates at the Southern States Fire Control and Information Education Convention in Houston where Arkansas ranked second in fire control and prevention research, Kentucky was first, with other Arkansas attendees including Jim Tally and Jim Martain of Little Rock and Warren Smith of Conway.
Associated Press reports that Joseph McCarthy surged in New York presidential delegate counts, defeating Humphrey and Kennedy factions while Paul O'Dwyer won a surprise Senate race. Delegates pledged to Kennedy and Humphrey trailed, with McCarthy leading in 37 of 41 districts. Nickerson lost to O'Dwyer as Resnick trailed. Nixon delegates in 11 slots were split, Rockefeller held 71 automatic.
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