Color printing debut in southwest Arkansas history
The Star announces its first line color in a southwest Arkansas paper using a Tairchild rotary offset press. Ford display from Hope Auto Co. marks the event. Editor note on color accuracy, four color process, and future full color photographs. Also reports a work study grant of 69,233 dollars for Hot Spring and Laine county schools.
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Blizzard Leaves Plains States Buried In Snow
The second blizzard in a month buried the North Central and Plains states under heavy snow and ice, forcing school and road closures. At least 22 people dead across Nebraska Minnesota and Iowa with two more per state in South Dakota and Wyoming. Travel halted, power lines down, and business losses mounted as frigid winds piled drifts up to four feet. The Twin Cities area faced record disruptions with vast job stoppages and the University of Minnesota closing for the first time in history.
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Russia China quarrel reaches stage demanding west relations change
AP analysis notes increasingly angry clash between Russia and Red China may force radical shifts in their ties with the West. Experts doubt near term change, despite pressure on Johnson to ease tensions. Possible UN General Assembly moves to admit Communist China. U S policy seen as not readily altered. Johnson critics argue timing over substance in China policy.
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Morale Boost Seen From 52 Bombers Through 91 Raids
AP reports that 52 American bombers in 91 large raids on South Viet Nam have shattered Viet Cong hideouts and reduced their will and ability to fight. The missions, begun last June, average 10 hours from Guam with 50 bombs per flight totaling 375000 pounds. Defections to Saigon forces have doubled, and ground sweeps support claims that tunnels, caves, hospitals, and feed caches are being destroyed.
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Betting Slowed in Little Rock
Little Rock police cracked down on bookies halving betting on horse races over two years. Police Chief R E Brians said the estimate comes from comparing names on route slips seized from persons arrested for soliciting bets.
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Woman Dies in Farm House Fire Near Holly Grove
Clarendon Arkansas AP report states 70 year old Hattie Bordner died in a farm house fire near Holly Grove in Monroe County. Also burned were her son in law Joe Diamond 57 and his wife Gussie Mae Diamond 48. Cause of fire not determined.
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Rural Group Goes After More State Money
The Arkansas Rural Education Association moved to secure higher state funding for smaller districts after the consolidation plan faltered. AREA leaders said larger districts blocked formulas and vowed to press for more aid while making the organization permanent with a $10,000 annual executive secretary and an applicant screening committee.
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Household Has Twin Girls for Knittle Family
POTTSTOWN Pa AP The Knittle household grows again as Harry G Knittle and his wife welcome a third pair of twins, girls, born Tuesday at Memorial Hospital. Earlier twins arrived in 1956 and 1982 making the count four children for the family. Knittle, 32, works as a dairy company driver.
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Johnson Ready With More Civil Rights
Washington AP reports President Johnson aims to propose a sweeping civil rights bill covering housing juries schools and public facilities. The 1966 act would ban racial discrimination in sale or rental housing and regulate jury selection while making intimidation a federal crime.
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Beavers Back After Valve Replacement in Arkansas
H u gene H Beavers of Clinton aged 54 was released after a nine day surgery replacing a defective heart valve with a stainless steel and silicone plastic valve. The operation, first in the state at a private hospital, occurred at Arkansas Baptist Hospital. Beavers expressed readiness to fish, noting his return home.
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Hugene H. Beavers
Clinton
All Around Town Notes From Hope Area News
Two weeks after surgery at Methodist Hospital in Houston, All Around Town notes L B Delaney remains hospitalized while Ray McDowell returns home after surgery at Tearkana hospital. A Marionette show by Hope Junior Auxiliary arrives next Wednesday with Aladdin and His Magic Lamp in the Hope High School auditorium at 10 am and 1 pm. The Hope Community Theater meets March 28 at 7 30 pm in Hope City Hall with refreshments. Draft Board mailings list Herman Smith and Leon Nelson for induction on April 26, and a long list of individuals to report for physical examinations. A couple of youths were picked up AWOL from a California naval base. some locals linked this to burglaries. Ashdown Bond Issue is cited as approval for a paper mill, though no direct connection to Hempstead mill plans exists.
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Firepower Display Overshadows Viet Cong Losses
Allied reports recount heavy Viet Cong casualties in 24 hours amid U S fighter bombers striking North Vietnam. South Korean forces claim a large death toll around Qui Nhon while U S and South Vietnamese units push back raids near Saigon Go Dau and along major supply routes.
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Guernsey Seniors Stage Play Mama’s Baby Boy
The Guernsey High School senior class presents the play Mama’s Baby Boy by Charles George on Friday night at 7 30. A three act comedy features cast Sharon Collums Donnie McIver Ronnie McIver Lidna Walden Judy Womack Phillip O Rorke Joyce Jones Diane Rosenbaum Pat Ware Eddie Muncey Carolyn Adams with special numbers by Judy and Diane Crider and The Dead Beats. Admission is 35 cents for students and 50 cents for adults. Public invited.
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Court Strikes Virginia Poll Tax as Unconstitutional
The Supreme Court, in a 6 3 ruling by Justice William C Douglas, declared Virginia's poll tax unconstitutional. The decision notes that wealth or payment of a fee cannot be an electoral standard under the 14th Amendment, marking a final blow to the poll tax in Virginia and signaling similar federal rulings in Alabama and Texas. Mississippi and Vermont still retain the tax.
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