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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1971
Page
4
A Humble Oil quarterly notes that prolonged silence reveals the body’s pulse and heart rate, while noise pollution is linked to hearing loss and mental illness. Noise levels in America have more than doubled since 1955, spurring talk of silence conservation and public alarm. In Miami the issue sits beside job market worries for college grads.
AP reports Detroit veteran Peter Lemon, a Medal of Honor recipient, said he fought off Viet Cong while stoned on marijuana in 1970. He described being alert and choosing medical aid for others first, and noted the White House ceremony and debate over Social Security impacts on retirees.
Burl Partain’s 267 acre cattle farm near Mountain Valley is described as the remains of a vast Archaic Period Indian workshop. Artifacts including daltons and arrowheads have been found, with archaeologist J Cynthia Weber visiting for a preliminary study. Partain, scarred from a construction accident, cherishes the relics and awaits further digs with students while continuing farm work.
A federal motion filed in Little Rock asks the state Health Department to analyze water and food at the Pulaski County Penal Farm. The suit, filed in May by inmates Jimmy Little and Julius Foster, challenges farm conditions. Little has a six month petty larceny sentence and Foster a one year term for driving while intoxicated.
Capt Ernest Medina will be court martialed on a noncapital basis with trial set for July 26 in the My Lai case. The Army chose noncapital proceedings, allowing written testimony, while Medina faces possible life imprisonment if convicted.
A federal judge in Washington dismissed a motion by 13 congressmen that would have compelled the President to seek a congressional declaration of war over Indochina or halt fighting. The ruling follows prior Supreme Court and federal decisions denying original jurisdiction on this issue.
The Mad Butcher chain in Pine Bluff has a new computerized ordering system now in eight of its ten stores with two more to install. The master computer sits at Associated Grocers near Little Rock, handling 6500 to 7000 items with six digit codes. Each store uses a cassette tape recorder and telephone attachment linked to an electronic keypad device.
Paul Caputo, 26, is believed to be the first blind U.S. TV newsman. He reads Braille on WWLP with a braille typewriter and tape notes, aided by a seeing-eye dog named Lupo. Caputo, a 1969 American International College graduate and former radio DJ, began on air after contacting WWLP owner William L. Putnam. The piece also describes a computer-based ordering system at a grocery store using magnetic ink and a master computer to handle stock, orders, and reorders, illustrating early automation benefits and occasional operator interference.
Gov. Dale Bumpers named two men to the Arkansas AM and N College Board of Trustees to fill vacancies. Richard Smith of McGehee, Desha Central High School principal, and Steve Matthews of Pine Bluff, an attorney, succeed Rev. Hous ton Brookins and Clarence Roberts Jr. Smith is black, Matthews white. The move follows concerns over fiscal affairs at the mainly black Pine Bluff college, which received 1.8 million dollars in extra funds to clear debts and finish the year.
James R. Hoffa filed for a parole rehearing on the 13 year term for mail fraud and jury tampering, the day after resigning all Teamsters offices. The board will hear July 7, weighing new information and Hoffa’s disassociation from the union with decisions on rehearing and possible parole. He has been imprisoned in Lewisburg since 1967, after a sentence increase tied to a Supreme Court ruling. He previously sought to consolidate sentences for concurrent run and a Supreme Court review, both without success.
Clarksville miners, weary from shifts underground, remember Joseph A. Yablonski and his wife and daughter's murder on December 31, 1969, after he lost the United Mine Workers presidency. Claude Vealey’s courtroom confession as one of three killers is discussed with restrained anger, blaming those who pressured him rather than Vealey alone.
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