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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1967
Page
2
Weather data for the 2 a to 7 a period lists high 87 and low 68 degrees with precipitation totaling .11 inch. The report notes an experimental station reading and ends abruptly with incomplete phrasing.
Black smoke rose 500 feet after a second blast as Communist shore batteries fired on the 7th Fleet cruiser St Paul and destroyer Chandler in the Tonkin Gulf. both ships escaped damage. St Paul claimed one battery destroyed by counter fire. U S B 52s hit troop concentrations and bunkers near Khe Sanh and Tay Ninh. In Da Nang area Marines completed Operation Arizona, killing 80 Communist soldiers in nine days, with eight Marines killed and 65 wounded 20 miles southwest of Da Nang.
A look back at key U S Soviet and Western summit attempts from 1955 to 1962. It traces the Geneva spirit, Camp David cordiality, Paris crisis, Vienna talks, and the Berlin and Cuban missile flashpoints that shaped early Cold War relations.
Police traced leads to Hubert B. McClelland of Beaumont Texas a 42 year old parolee. He allegedly came from Texas to case the countryside then shot a housewife and two farmers and abducted two children riding with her near Elberon. The victims were Mrs Charles Schwab 41 of Belle Plaine Leland Skoog 55 and his son Garith 24. Christine Schwab 11 and Julie Braksiek 11 were found in the trunk. the gunman surrendered near Cedar Rapids.
Ten people die when a station wagon carrying Savannah Georgia residents collides head on with an asphalt truck near Hardeeville at U S 17 and S C 170. Five family members perish. truck driver uninjured. names include Juanita Loadholt and Sharon Williams among others.
Dr. Robert Leslie Martin, 39, dean of the School of Liberal Arts at Arkansas State University, will be named president of the Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts in Chickasha to succeed Dr. Charles E. Grady who resigned in May 1966. Martin, native of Wichita Falls, earned degrees from Texas Tech and a doctorate from the University of Oklahoma. was elevated to dean in 1965 and previously taught at Texas Christian University.
J Wheeler Strickland 85 retired cotton buyer died Thursday night in a local hospital. Survived by wife, son Jack of Houston, stepson Kenneth Bailey of Raveline La, brother Edgar Strickland of Cisco, sisters Kittie May Chambless of Baytown and Alice Chandler of Cisco. Services 2 30 p m Saturday at Herndon Chapel. burial Woodlawn Cemetery Texarkana. Marvin Bailey 74 found dead in car behind service station. coroner cites natural causes. Surviving son Jerry Don Bailey, daughters Burl Creech and Ray Marlar, brother W M Bailey, half brother Dinton Harvin, five sisters. Funeral 4 p m Friday Union Bodcaw Church. burial Union Cemetery. Jane Shields Hussey 72 died in local hospital. Survived by daughter Gene Shumaker, brothers John Pete Shields, Roy Shields, sister Mrs Harry Kauffman. Services 10 30 a m Saturday Washington Baptist Church. burial Washington Cemetery. Winnie Dove McJunkins 71 died in Texarkana hospital. Survived by sons Leroy, Joe Willie, Jack L., daughter Katherine Harris, sisters Herbet Slaughter and Evie Dove. Services Friday Saratoga Church of Christ. burial Saratoga Cemetery.
Prospect Farms Inc of Fort Atkinson Wisconsin plans to locate a chicken plant in North Little Rock Arkansas that will employ 150 persons. The announcement came from local Chamber of Commerce officials and cites last year’s sales of over 5.1 million dollars across 48 states.
The administrator of John E Harrington's estate filed a 197500 damage suit in Circuit Court alleging he was killed July 14 in a helicopter accident involving Helicopters Inc and G L Nicklaus trustee. Harrington, an announcer for KMYO, was struck by the tail rotor while boarding the helicopter.
Two Marine helicopters, a Sea Stallion and a hull class chopper, collided in flight at New River Marine Air Facility near Jacksonville. At least 20 killed and about a dozen injured as troops were aboard the Sea Stallion during a training touch and go. The other craft was practicing landing when it struck the Sea Stallion in its belly. This marked the facility’s worst accident in its history.
Lt Goy Maurice Footsie Britt welcomed his first grandchild when daughter Andrea Tomlin gave birth to a 7 pound 6 ounce boy, James Bernard, at a Little Rock hospital in Lonoke county.
In Little Rock Arkansas the 1909 law, enacted 17 years before the state adopted a constitutional provision against special legislation, can require abutting property owners in first class cities to build and maintain sidewalks curbs and gutters. The attorney general’s office held Thursday. Hope City Attorney James H Pilkington questioned the law’s legality, noting it exempts Polk and Carroll counties.
Two Little Rock men were charged with rape in connection with the assault on a Los Angeles woman who said she was raped in an abandoned sand pit near the Arkansas River in North Little Rock. Bud York, 29, was charged with rape and robbery. Jerry Tim Redmond, 18, was charged with rape. A third man arrested was released. The victim, visiting relatives in Jacksonville during a trip to Ohio, reported she was beaten, robbed of about $10, and dropped off in Jacksonville after the attack.
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