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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1965
Page
2
The proposal would extend universal hospital care and broaden Kerr Mills to cover dependent children blind and disabled people and the aged. Government contributions would rise from 50–80 percent to 54–83 percent with funding from payroll taxes and the general Treasury. The committee aims for House passage the week of March 29 despite cost uncertainties.
About 300 students, mostly white, staged a sit down at the White House front gate. The action was organized by the SNCC. In Alabama, aides to Governor Wallace finished plans for him to address a special legislative session on a multimillion dollar new school program. Preparations began.
A gust tipped a Trans World Airlines Boeing 727 during landing at Municipal Air Terminal Kansas City injuring no one aboard. The jet en route from St Louis to San Francisco scraped the left wing on the runway as wind gusts reached 36 mph. The pilot guided the plane off the runway and passengers were rebooked on other flights.
Tass reports continued orbiting of Voskhod 2 as Moscow TV aired Leonov in space. He floated in weightlessness wearing a bulky suit with oxygen cylinders, making somersaults while connected to the ship. The mission follows the first Voskhod 2 flight and precedes the U S Gemini walk.
Wednesday night U S District Judge Frank M Johnson Jr issued a lengthy decree allowing Negroes seeking equal rights and protesting alleged police brutality to march the 50 miles from Selma to Montgomery.
T H McGowan aged 87 died Wednesday at his home in Patmos area where he had lived many years. Survived by wife Carrie May, three sons C G of Alabama T H and C F E of Louisiana, three daughters Mattie Mae Askew of Florida Emma Hamilton of California and Bessie Sorrells of Louisiana, a stepdaughter Estelle Cuthall of Crossett, four stepsons W B Floyd Buffington of Texas Gerald Buffington of New Mexico and Howard Buffington of Patmos. Services set for 2 p.m. Friday at Patmos Church of Christ conducted by J B Walton and Hugh Fuller with burial in Patmos Cemetery.
Friday will bring mainly cold conditions across Arkansas Louisiana Missouri and parts of Kansas with 20s to low 30s at night and highs mainly in 30s. Occasional snow flurries today and increasing clouds with windy and colder Friday in eastern Missouri.
Lee Vann 69 longtime Buckner resident died Wednesday in a Lewisville hospital. He served in World War I and was a mas on. Survived by widow a son Harvey Vann of Hope a daughter Mrs Sam T Burney of New Orleans a brother and two sisters. Services at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Smith Funeral Chapel burial Arlington Cemetery El Dorado.
Mrs Iva Louise Sutton 56 longtime Hempstead resident died Wednesday in a Texarkana hospital. Survivors include husband H E Sutton of Hope a son Howard of Shreveport a daughter Mrs Joey Smith of Fort Smith a brother Cecil Bumpers of Hope a sister Mrs George Diegle of Iowa La Funeral services set for 2 p m Friday at Holly Grove Church. Burial will be in Holly Grove Cemetery.
Detroit manager changes signal focus on pitching for 1965 as spring training opens. Wickersham and Lolich appear set to start, with 21 others competing for two or three spots and bullpen roles.
Judge Johnson says Clark and deputies plus state troopers acted not to enforce valid Alabama law or policy. He notes the March 7 Montgomery march resulted in clashes but was a peaceful exercise of assembly and petition. Johnson refused Justice Department requests to broaden the no interference order to Selma or other cities, stressing case by case analysis.
Collapse of a nose gear blamed for the crash landing of the Charger, a General Dynamics Convair experimental aircraft for potential counterinsurgency use. The Lindbergh Field accident injured no one, and damage was superficial. A Convair spokesman cited a drag link on the tricycle landing gear failing to latch.
The Tigers may assemble one of the youngest majors teams as talks center on a top minor league prospect. His defense needs work but his hitting stands out, suggesting an exciting future. Next: Chicago Cubs.
The Associated Press reports Arkansas endures frigid weather with lows from 15 to 30 degrees and morning overcoats again. Cold air pushed showers out as snow flurries were forecast for northern areas with continued cloudy to partly cloudy skies through Friday.
AP Special Correspondent John M. Hightower reports that the United States is open to halting bombing on North Viet Nam if Hanoi stops sending troops and arms into the South. State Department officials say South Viet Nam’s security is non negotiable but North Viet Nam must end support to the Viet Cong.
An 82 year old émigré widow, Alice Herz, who fled Nazi Germany in 1933, set herself on fire on a Detroit street corner in protest of the arms race. She remains in Receiving Hospital with second and third degree burns to the neck face and head and is listed in critical condition but is expected to survive.
In Washington the AP reports Southern resistance to Negro voting rights shrinking as Johnson pushes landmark civil rights legislation. Senate leaders may lack a viable filibuster, while Northern white support and federal backing mount, echoing the 1955 Montgomery boycott’s defiance and rising cross‑regional pressure.
Ex king Farouk of Egypt, 45, collapses in a Rome restaurant and dies en route to San Camillo Hospital. Once a flamboyant monarch, he ruled for 15 years before the 1952 revolution that brought Gamel Abdel Nasser to power. He left Egypt aboard the royal yacht Mahroussa but later had to surrender it.
Villagers in Pan Quang marched with 15 bodies through Da Nang protesting an attack by two Vietnamese air force fighters that killed 48 civilians, including some in a school. Government officials sought to placate residents as Viet Cong influence is suspected. A Marine corporal was wounded by a mine near the Da Nang air base.
Richard Johnson and Kim Novak married in a civil ceremony in a grassy Aspen glade. Novak, long linked with Hollywood stars, weighs in on marriage while Johnson explains future plans to split time between London and California as they consider a church ceremony. Novak laments past marriages and insists love need not end in matrimony.
Hollywood reports that silent film star Jack Mulhall, age 70, is hospitalized at Cedars of Lebanon with cirrhosis of the liver and a bladder condition. He has been under care for a month, a fact not previously disclosed to the public.
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