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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1970
Page
8
Mayor Frank Dowglas declares March 15 21 1970 Poison Prevention Week in Hope City urging agencies and local groups to educate residents about dangers from medicines and household substances and to promote safety measures to prevent accidental poisoning.
The Nixon administration sues Florida Power & Light to halt preemptive pollution and force cooling water safeguards at the Turkey Creek nuclear plant. The case could set a nationwide standard for thermal pollution and affect many U S reactors under construction or planned. The government seeks reduced discharge temperatures into Biscayne Bay and a major reevaluation of cooling water practices.
The Columbia Eagle, an American munitions ship, lay 28 miles from U S Navy vessels in Cambodian waters near Kohn Rong Sang Lepi island. A chartered plane briefly approached but could not enter the prohibited zone as U S surveillance ships and aircraft monitored the area. The ship remained unloaded with two forward booms upright, while nearby Coast Guard cutter Mellon and Denver participated in patrols.
Acting president Sonn Chases of the Brotherhood of Police Officers says the union will not strike, pursuing collective bargaining at state and national levels. A founding meeting in Omaha last November drafted a proposed union charter aiming to improve pay and conditions through moral suasion rather than strikes, citing the unique duties of police work and a commitment to orderly society.
In a developing wave of discontent federal employees confront Nixon era civil rights policy and management, with union leaders like Cassese and Morgan arguing for greater employee rights. The movement includes Health Education and Welfare staff and Labor Department dissidents, while FBI and CIA holdouts remain silent, as careers and reforms collide in Washington.
Patricia Theresa Bell 16 of Eudora Arkansas was killed in a two car collision on Mississippi 1 near Greenville Mississippi Saturday night. Four others died in separate weekend crashes across Arkansas and nearby areas including Carroll Dale Flicks 21 Cotton Plant and Lawrence Landrum 45 Truman. Johnny Flynn 4 of Hot Springs was a passenger when a car driven by Glenda Flynn 38 struck a bridge abutment after loss of control.
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