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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1968
Page
2
Scattered showers and occasional rain ending tonight then with a chance of thunderstorms mainly central and south portions. Mostly cloudy with little temperature change through Tuesday. Low tonight 40s to mid 30s northwest to southeast 40s.
In Little Rock, the Arkansas Board of Corrections dismissed Thomas G. Murton after 13 months to reform the state prison system. Murton’s family and staff faced intense strain as Governor Rockefeller’s administration released a critical letter. Murton cried as guards and colleagues expressed shock, while some board members and the Crawford family offered resignations.
Obituaries note Fred Sutton of Hope died in Little Rock. Joseph Tawalt of Prescott and Sam McKamie of Hampstead County pass away with funeral details. Reunion Island General Ailleret killed. Ireland's education minister O Malley dies at rally. Sir Robert Laycock and Rachel Rickover die. Roy Dunne, NP Syndicate VP, dies. War updates describe camouflaged trucks destroyed 15 miles southwest of Hue and Westmoreland forming a new command facing North Vietnamese forces with Hue as a potential next objective.
A garbled report shows press leaders pressing Gov Winthrop Rockefell er for access and a private meeting while officials defend press cooperation after a two hour news conference. Conley noted plans to take up the issue with the governor, as questions arose about secret meetings and layoffs at the state Correction Board. A separate item proclaims Girl Scout Week with Mayor Donal Parker urging citizen support.
Ce cil Victor Sessum, 31, stands trial accused of murdering prosperous Negro landowner Vernon Dahmer who died defending his family from night riders near Hattiesburg. The case draws tight security as witnesses and defendants, including Billy Roy Pitts who pleaded guilty to arson and murder, prepare for testimony. Charles Evers, a NAACP figure, is subpoenaed as a defense witness amid imminent local elections. Dahmer died after a Jan 10, 1966 firebomb attack at his home and store in the Kelly settlement.
Pope Paul VI marked the second Sunday of Lent by driving from the Vatican to St Saturninus Church in a Rome middle class district. He paused before entering to speak with children in the courtyard and spoke individually with four Black boys in the group.
A 14 hour period ending Sunday midnight saw eight deaths from separate crashes across Arkansas. Names include Shirley Kahr, 23, and son Eric, Stuttgart couple Stella and Gilbatt Rofkahrs, Mack Watson, Shelby Jean Witgon, Jethro Corbin, Paul Bridges, and others tied to crashes on I 40 US 64 Arkansas 79 and near MorriIton.
Lee Bowman of McGehee is named assistant vice president at Simmons First National Bank effective Monday announced by president Wayne A. Stone Bowman a 1964 University of Arkansas graduate in banking formerly with Mc Gehee Bank and First National Bank of Little Rock a former Junior Bankers Association executive council member now enrolled in the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking at SMU he is married to Sharon Foster of Hope.
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