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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1972
Page
1
The Star declines to take a side on the March 14 school millage vote, deferring to public choice. It notes the tax assessor race this year and urges fair assessments, suggesting readers weigh millage needs against assessment fairness without editorial bias.
President Nixon orders immediate rule changes to keep dangerous individuals weapons or bombs from jets and mandates new crew ground communications within three months. Airline chiefs, Volpe and the FAA were summoned as threats and bomb scares disrupted flights in New York Baltimore San Juan Chicago St Louis Louisville and Reno.
AP investigator Brit Hume quoted ITT lobbyist Dita Beard saying former Attorney General Mitchell told her the President wanted the Justice Department to stop pursuing three antitrust suit actions and reach a reasonable settlement. Mitchell denied any direct or indirect requests from the President.
A bipartisan bloc failed to table a measure to send postcard voter registration to the Judiciary Committee in a 44 37 vote. Senator Ervin said it invites fraud while Kennedy argued bypassing the panel was the only path to floor consideration amid a push to open registration.
A South Vietnamese armored force of about 100 vehicles and thousands of troops moved into eastern Cambodia in a bid to destroy North Vietnamese and Viet Cong bases. Fewer than 5,000 troops were committed on day one but the force may grow to 20,000 by next week. Casualties were light on the main thrust, while a smaller Feb 1 drive southwest reported 35 enemy KIA, two VN soldiers dead, eight wounded. U S B 52s supported the operations.
Government data show February wholesale prices up nine tenths of one percent, the sharpest rise in a year. Farm products and processed foods climbed 1.9 percent, industrial materials 0.5 percent, with adjusted seasonal figures slightly lower. The index reached 117.3 percent of the 1967 average, about four percent above a year earlier.
The Associated Press reports a Saturday outlook of warm conditions and no rain with highs in the 60s to 70s and some readings in the 80s. Thursday’s highs were mostly in the 60s as high pressure drives the mild pattern. A Minnesota high pressure center ahead of a front may drift into northeastern Arkansas today but will have little effect on conditions.
Peggy Simpson reports from Washington as Mrs. Richard P. Holmes of Richardson Texas condemns busing minority students to white schools. She warns it deepens white superiority feelings and fails to substantially improve minority pupils. Edna Wade cites Alabama school closures since 1968 linked to desegregation orders. Other voices argue for choice and lampoon busing with constitutional jokes.
Tomlin and Wolfe Co of Ed mond Okla submitted the apparent low bid of 240 402 for levee repair protecting the Ideal Cement Co plant near Ashdown Arkansas along Millwood Lake. Tulsa District announced four bids with government estimate 232 427. Work covers about 6 600 feet of downstream slopes using 81 000 cubic yards sand fill and turfing 25 acres of eroded areas with completion in 180 days.
Hempstead County votes Tuesday March 14 in six districts Hope Blevins Patmos Spring Hill Saratoga and Washington. Two Hope board seats 3 and 4 contested. 48 mill tax on ballot. Harry Phillips unopposed for 5-year Board of Education. Polling places include Hope Fire Station James Motor Company and courthouse rooms. voting 8 am to 7 30 pm.
All About Town highlights Polly King a Hope High School graduate and band member at Southern State College concert along with news on a Shanhouse & Sons air conditioner installation at Hazel Street plant Bank of Chichester leadership change and community election rides from Hope High Key Club Arkadelphia teaching assignment for Deborah Watson Bledsoe Hempstead Juvenile Court finds two 12 year olds delinquent for malice mischief with probation curfew school attendance and restitution orders.
John L. Jack Riggs announced a 2 p.m. news conference at the North Little Rock Community Center to declare his candidacy for secretary of state. Riggs, 34, is an administrative assistant to Secretary of State Kelly Bryant and has worked for Bryant nine years. Bryant is expected to seek a sixth term, with an advertising firm retained.
Ronnie Higgins, football coach at Hope High School, resigns effective year end after five rewarding seasons with the Bobcats. He accepts an assistant coaching position at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, saying the move offers a career advancement he cannot pass up. He praises Hope High’s bright athletic future and the program’s fine young men.
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