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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1972
Page
5
In a playful but tense episode the editor and Gene Allen chase a Canadian goose flock in a fenced preserve. A 100-foot rope and a chair trap fail as the geese watch and pigeons enter the cage. Plan to clip flight feathers continues with the flock hungry and the hunt to end soon.
In Belfast a delivery truck bomb exploded in Donegall Street near the New Letter newspaper, killing four including two policemen and wounding 97 as emergency crews evacuated Church Street and treated victims amid a massive fireball and shattered storefronts.
Sen. Ed Muskie campaigns for a comeback in Illinois as Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern seek votes to strike at the Maine front-runner. The trio contest 160 of 170 Illinois delegates for the Democratic National Convention with Daley’s machine controls shaping the field and multiple districts left uncommitted.
The Southwest District Poultry Festival on May 20 in Nashville Arkansas will sponsor an art show at Nashville High School courtyard. Oil acrylic pastel or ink entries with poultry content must be framed and pass inspection. No entry limit or age limit. $1 per artist covers unlimited entries. Entries due by 10 am and may remain until 4 pm. Prizes and purchase awards planned. prices suggested $35 to $50. Contact Nashville Chamber of Commerce.
About 600 people attended Rep. David Pryor's open house for his U.S. Senate campaign HQ in Pulaski County Arkansas. Pryor and his wife Barbara greeted well wishers. he declined an official statement but said he favored medical help for poverty stricken persons. He is challenging Sen. John I. McClellan.
Saigon reports U.S. air activity reaching the 100 attack mark this year with a Sunday strike on a radar site 35 miles north of the DMZ. American fighters also hit an artillery battery and another radar site nearby. Ground actions include Viet Cong raids on government sites and large stockpiles found in eastern Cambodia. A helicopter rescue followed a downed airman incident near Laos.
A congressionally released MIT study shows the gap between America’s poorest and wealthiest nearly doubles over 20 years from $10,565 to $19,071. It argues inflation policies burden the poor and calls for wage-structuring, targeted manpower programs, and minority job quotas to improve income distribution.
The Arkansas Business and Economic Review reports that the state's economy posted its strongest growth in 1971 during the fourth quarter. It notes the quarter marked the eighth consecutive period of record high seasonally adjusted personal income for Arkansas.
In Paris the U S and Chinese ambassadors met for the second time to discuss easier travel and trade and to implement the Nixon Chou En Lai agreement reached in Peking last month. The session lasted about an hour with Watson noting a “fine talk” while no comments were given to press.
The 2K Annual Kiwanis Show is set for April 14 at 8 p.m. on City Hall Auditorium stage. A fast paced program with jokes songs dances and skits runs one and a half to two hours. Proceeds benefit Kiwanis youth programs and the Golden Age Club with over $40,000 raised to date.
United States District Court in the Western District of Arkansas refused to halt the Tex-Ark Joist Company project in Hope. Nucor had claimed Texas building plans were copied, but Judge Paul X. Williams ruled no duty breached and no secrets involved. Judgment dismissed, Nucor to bear costs. defendants represented by Pilkinton Friday Ursery Rocovich Jr.
Life magazine charges the Nixon administration tried to shield friends in San Diego from prosecutions by delaying investigations and curtailing probes. The report says Nixon chose San Diego for the next Republican convention and faced White House denial. The investigation cites three cases involving C Arnholt Smith and Frank Curran among others.
The Police Services Division reports 47 traffic deaths in February. State Police note 3 deaths in the Hope District, with Nevada 2 and LaFayette 1. Several counties had no traffic fatalities. 65 accidents were investigated in the county area, with Clark and Miller leading at 11 each. Causes center on failure to yield, speed, following too close, and DUI.
Nevada County Civil Air Patrol met at Emmet to plan the National Aerospace Education Leadership Conference in Hot Springs March 27 and 28 at the Arlington Hotel. The group meets again Tuesday night. Also notes that Joe Bailey and James Clark are different individuals from other locals. Connie Hendrix was named features editor of the 72 73 Arkansas Traveler at the U of A. Miss Myrtle Williamson of Emmet, a senior at Ouachita Baptist University, received a teaching assignment at Arkadelphia High School. Williamson is a speech major and BSU BYM member, daughter of Mr and Mrs Alexander Williamson. Whitfield Masonic Lodge 239 will hold its regular meeting March 21 at 7 30 p.m. Citizens for Better Quality Schools meets Tuesday at 7 30 p.m. in the old Post Office downtown school administration building. Town and Country Restaurant hosts a 7 30 p.m. Optimist Club meeting organized by Don Gilbert. Southern Forest Resource Council elected Robert M Nonnemacher of Mobile Alabama as its new chairman. council member Monroe Samuel of Hope also noted.
First day of spring brings mild weather across most of the nation with heat and sun as the equinox passes. A band of freezing temps hits the Northeast to Michigan and northern Minnesota while dry conditions prevail elsewhere. A few showers in the Great Lakes and Northwest. In Arkansas, Assistant Atty Gen Roger Glasgow announces he will seek the Democratic nomination for prosecuting attorney for Perry and Pulaski County.
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