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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1967
Page
2
Forecasts show Arkansas clear to partly cloudy and warm through Friday with a low tonight around 46 and a high near 72. Louisiana partly cloudy through Friday with a little warmer tonight and highs in the 70s.
Washington AP reports Arkansas' four U S representatives supported the national majority as the House voted 307 to 116 to expel Adam Clayton Powell and declare his seat vacant.
Washington AP reports the House by 307 to 116 barred Adam Clayton Powell from the New York 18th District seat he won last November. Powell is out, his $30,000 salary stops, his office is vacated, staff cut. A special election will fill the vacancy, and Powell may run again, potentially reopening the dispute before the House. Legal action by Powell’s lawyers could seek to overturn the move. Rep Emanuel Celler says it will haunt the House, Rep Thomas Curtis warns Powell could recur if re-elected.
In Little Rock on Wednesday Majority Leader Marion Crank said the Democratic House executive committee urged completing business by the March 9 adjournment. Speaker Sterling R. Cockrill Jr. signaled the schedule would shift in the session's final week to move as many bills as possible. The legislature plans for an extended session.
Former Gov. Sid McMath told the Young Democrats Club at Southern State College in Magnolia Ark that survival is the basic reason the United States is in Vietnam He said Americans must be told that U S troops are there to contain Red China and to protect U S security He urged Johnson to give two reasons for the conflict and warned against a unilateral withdrawal.
Obituary notices report Oscar V. Thompson age 8 percent for Emmet route who died at home in Little Rock. He is survived by a son John of New York City four daughters and a sister with burial at Shell Cemetery after Emmet Services. Also included are notices for H L Carr 69 who died in a house fire and Roy W Beck 75 who died in a local hospital with multiple survivors and planned services and burials at Bethany and Rose Hill cemeteries respectively.
Federal and state officers pursued links in the Natchez bombing that killed Charlest Jackson, a 36 year old Armstrong Rubber Co. worker and former Natchez NAACP treasurer. Charles Evers urged protests and a boycott of downtown merchants with a march planned for the courthouse.
Secretary Robert S. McNamara says Communist losses in Vietnam have fallen 40 to 50 percent in the past three months due to intensified U.S. air and ground operations though he says new tactics do not signal escalation. Congress debates a $4.5 billion defense bill as Senate backs a similar package.
Air Force Junior ROTC programs will be offered at 50 more high schools this fall including Blytheville and Texarkana in Arkansas. Brig. Gen. Donald F. Blake announced the expansion, expanding senior high school ROTC access nationwide.
The First Lady said Luci Johnson, 19, is pregnant and expecting their first child. Luci and husband Patrick Nugent married in 1966 and live in Austin, Texas. The White House had previously denied hospital birth rumors.
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