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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1965
Page
1
After reversals in the Kansas House and Senate, lawmakers raise cigarette tax from 6c to 8c a pack. The piece questions government profiting from misfortune, contrasts tobacco and gambling taxes, and notes a price rise to 28 2c per pack in cartons and 35c in vending machines.
LAWSON, MO. AP It may be all right for Mary to have a little lamb but Lawson Rotary Club members avoid one as if it were the plague. The club has perfect attendance the last seven weeks because of it. In January president Charlie Black a former University of Kansas basketball star warned members that the first one to receive a lamb would need to care for it until another member misses.
Weather data for 24 hours ending 7 a.m. Friday shows high 50 and low 40 with .76 inch precipitation. Arkansas cloudy and cool with occasional rain through Saturday and a few thunderstorms in the south. Louisiana mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms, little temperature change expected, lows 44 to 54 in the north and 54 to 64 in the south, highs 50s to 70 near the coast.
Central Arkansas and neighboring areas experience cloudy cool conditions with occasional rain through Saturday. Tonight's lows near 40s and daytime highs 52 to 56. Northeast and Northwest regions stay cloudy with similar rain chances and cooler highs 46 to 52. Southeast and Southwest Arkansas follow the same pattern with lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s and highs around 46 to 52.
The National Federation of Music Clubs funds a $295 six week summer scholarship at Inspiration Point Eureka Springs for a high school or college student in opera study covering tuition room and board. Arkansas audition date is March 20 for female voice with three contrasting art songs required. Contact Mrs O L Smith in Little Rock for details. Cooperating group is Friday Music Club Hope with Mrs Thomas Hays Jr president and others leading National Music Week.
Everett R. Baxter age 39 will lead the new Division for Blind Rehabilitation created by a legislative act. He has served ten years with the state's Rehabilitation Service. Education Commissioner A. W. Ford announced the appointment Thursday in Little Rock.
A Fones Bros. hardware transport backed into a car driven by Mrs. Merlin Cox at Hazel and Avenue A this morning near the Missouri Pacific crossing. Police say the car was badly damaged but no one was hurt.
The Navy plans to use shallow draft 36-foot steel craft with twin 50-caliber turrets and side 30-caliber guns. The last two of ten boats were to be delivered in Seattle, with 24 more ordered and to start delivering two per month in June. The Navy did not disclose future deployment sites.
Dr. John Lee Wright 34 of Poplar Bluff Missouri, a Pocahontas native, drowned in the Current River while fishing from the bank. A physician said he apparently suffered a heart attack before falling into the water. The body was recovered at Richardson's Ferry near Reno north of Pocahontas.
New York AP winds through letters people long to receive, from a traffic cop confessing color blindness and forgiving a light, to a divorced relative snagging a steady job, a beatnik gig in Greenwich Village, and a television scout eyeing a dance routine. Other notes joke of a parrot, a teen vocal slot for the Beatles, and a psychiatrist diagnosing a mother-in-law as needing help.
U S officials tout the air campaign as displacing Viet Cong forces and boosting South Vietnamese morale, while South Vietnamese authorities say the impact is small so far. B57 and F100 bombers have carried out numerous sorties since February 24, with reports of hits on Viet Cong units and secondary explosions suggesting stock hits.
Promise Land in Ashley County won the overall Arkansas Rural Community of the Year title and was also named first in Division II state rural community of the year. Center Grove in Grant County earned Division I rural community of the year and the special forestry award at the Arkansas Rural Community Improvement Association meeting.
Planes from Da Nang Air Force base conducted secret strikes with US jet bombers and Vietnamese Skyraiders returning with bombs intact. A spokesman confirmed B57 strikes on Viet Cong targets in Phu Yen Province and noted heightened alert status at Saigon Bien Hoa and Da Nang airfields. One crewman remains missing after a B57 crash during the operation.
Racial demonstrators from the SNCC protested the private Capitol Club cafeteria at Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock. State Troopers drove back two dozen marchers injuring several, including William Hansen and Nancy Stoller, who were treated and released. Demonstrators vowed to return as security limited access to the private club after the noon incident.
Governor Faubus praised the 1965 Arkansas General Assembly as highly productive while lawmakers noted tax debates and rushed budgets. Lawmakers cited $21 million more for public schools, $7 million for higher education, a $42 million construction program, and new education and driver education efforts. Some, like Rep. Arthur Deckelman, criticized a cigarette tax and perceived special interest influence, calling for budget process reform. Faubus announced a potential April 12 special session to discuss highway programs after voters rejected a $150 million bond proposal.
The Rev Z T Rankin missionary from Japan will deliver the morning message at Unity Baptist Church on Sunday March 14. Rankin has served eight years in Tokyo for the North American Baptist Association and invites the public to hear his experiences and message.
Gov. Orval Faubus directs a special State Police squad to investigate illegal gambling in Hot Springs. Citizens must file sworn affidavits of observed gambling with Hot Springs officials to trigger warrants. The unit may range from five to fifty officers, aiming to shield troopers from individual liability.
The First National Bank of Stayton Oregon moves to new quarters, and the old bank building will house the City Hall. The 10 inch thick vault will be converted into a four man jail. Former mayor M. Van Dreische backs the plan.
Kay Bell, a Henderson State junior and daughter of Mr and Mrs Greer Bell, served as organist at a Second Methodist Church recital in Little Rock as part of the Lenten series. A $3,003,794 highway surfacing project on Interstate 30 near Texarkana to Highway 67 overpass was awarded to Hallett Construction Co. of Minnesota. Grandy Royston of Hope earned the Distinguished Expert Medal from the National Rifle Association and plays with the Hempstead County Rifle and Pistol Club. The Eugene Flesher family thanked readers for support after a recent house fire. Red River Army Depot plans layoffs affecting 45 personnel effective May 16. The 1965 State Convention of World War I veterans will be June 6–7 in Batesville with a reunion planned for the 39th Division, 153 Infantry.
In Selma Alabama a planned memorial march for a slain minister fizzled as rain fell and authorities barred progress. Mayor Joseph Smitherman refused a march while LeRoy Collins urged a group walk to the courthouse. Randolph Glenn and other activists waited under plastic as police preserved the blockade.
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