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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1969
Page
9
SEARCY Ark AP entries include Lubbock Christian Fort Worth Christian Ohio Valley and Michigan Christian colleges. The fourth annual JC tournament will be held at Harding College Friday and Saturday.
The Garland School PTA Cub Scout Pack 62 held a blue and gold banquet at the WOW Hall this week to celebrate its ninth birthday. About 115 Scouts and families attended a potluck, with invocations and opening by den leaders, songs, and a skit. Awards earned in February were presented, including a $25 bond to Rusty Saunders for Segat-O-Rama ticket sales.
The Nixon administration shows little headway in freeing or improving conditions for U S prisoners in North Vietnam. A Defense memo by Melvin Laird cites Geneva Convention violations including denial of family contact and lack of independent inspection. Hanoi holds about 333 U S servicemen, many believed alive, while mail and visits remain restricted.
Aquanaut Robert Barth testified as a Navy board viewed footage of a 610 foot Pacific dive that cost colleague Berry L. Cannon his life. The tape shows Barth on the diving platform and Cannon off screen as Barth wrestles with a jammed hatch and frees a crow bar before the tragedy unfolded near the leaking Sealab 3 habitat on February 17.
The Rev. C C Truitt pastor of First Assembly Church spoke at the Lions Club luncheon in Town and Country about being a real man and a community leader across business home and church. Guests included Hubert Bright Wickett C R Burnham Oklahoma Tire & Supply, Jim Wheeler Meyers Bakery as a new member, and Lt Milton Mosier was reinstated after years away.
Cannon led a four person Sealab team including John F. Reaves and Richard M. Blackburn on a two descent mission to seal a habitat leak. Cannon died of carbon dioxide poisoning. An autopsy confirmed the cause and one breathing rig lacked chemicals for CO2 filtering. The board will continue inquiry later this week.
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