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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1967
Page
1
Editor Louis Graves in Nashville News mocks federal grants including 8,700 to study comic books history, 250,000 for a study on aid avoidance, a grant on a monkey and mother, and a proposal to raise Congress salaries to 50,000 linked to a fiscal surplus. He urges pay tied to budget outcomes as a restraint.
Navy planes bombed the Torrey Canyon to ignite its oil aboard as Britain seeks to burn off the spill. Officials warned ships and planes away from a six mile zone off Cornwall while crews battle advancing ooze on England’s popular coast.
A rock on a creek bank six miles west of McCaskill and north of State Highway 24, on Calhoun Gordon Prescott’s farm, bears a Boone signature dated 1614. Historians doubt the inscription as Daniel Boone was born in 1735 and died in 1820, leaving the question unsettled and debated.
Rep Bethell of Des Arc alleges Gov Rockefeller and Pulaski Garland delegations conspired to push liquor and gambling bills. Liquor failed, gambling passed but vetoed. Bethell claims Little Rock sought convention center status and across the counter drink. He says ministers were urged to oppose gambling after liquor defeat.
Washington AP report notes critics fear Johnson plans to turn Social Security into welfare while administration denies this. Witnesses before the House Ways and Means Committee will discuss cost, financing, and policy shifts. Debate centers on a 20 percent benefit rise, payroll tax funding, and preserving social insurance as rights rather than welfare.
Kansas City Missouri firemen halted their planned walkout as the Missouri Mediation Board opened wage and hour talks with City Council. Mediation chair Daniel C. Rogers set a 10 am City Hall meeting with fire union Local 42 leaders after deputy chiefs sought settlement help from Governor Hearnes who advised Mayor Davis to join. The walkout coincided with the city election and the union urged voters to oppose Davis and the Citizens Association. In New York, the Uniformed Firemen’s Association voted a clerical work stoppage starting Friday to press a $2,000 yearly raise over two years and fringe benefits, with first grade pay at $8,483.
The Pentagon says Communist freighters in Haiphong harbor fired on U.S. planes twice last year in North Vietnam. No U.S. plane was hit and the pilots did not return fire. The Pentagon withheld ship nationality and weapon type and did not confirm if pilots were ordered not to attack.
In Little Rock the state Supreme Court stayed Prosecutor Jett Mobley's investigation into alleged election irregularities to decide if a prosecuting attorney may sit as a grand jury and question witnesses in private. The stay affects a Conway hearing and a contempt citation against Mrs Tur r for failing to produce her bank records.
National Farmers Organization chief says the milk withholding campaign continues full steam ahead in 25 states with widespread picketing of dairy plants. NFC rally speakers report talks of a phase two tactic, while Wisconsin saw intensified picketing and three contract signings announced by dairy officials. vandals minimal.
The Arkansas legislature, returning from a two week recess, overrode Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller’s vetoes on party registration by affiliation and on banning devices to cast write in votes. Senate votes were 22-9 and 32-0. House votes 75-9 and 58-19.
Police pursue three burglaries over the weekend at Martin's Show Store and Hope and Yerger High Schools with thefts from machines. A joint Hope High School reunion for the 1938 39 40 cohorts nears planning, while several graduates cannot be located. Fire calls report wiring blaze at Joe Bruce's car and a bathroom heater caused smoke damage at a Wayne White property. Community updates include hospital visit, beauty contest prize, and garden visit.
American pilots bombed the outskirts of Haiphong and targeted more sites in North Vietnam as weather allowed 107 missions, the heaviest since mid March. Losses included an F4C Phantom and civilian casualties from three bases north of Da Nang, with Navy ships fired on near Hon Me Island.
Arkansas Education Association executive secretary Rozzell reports a poll showing 72 percent of teachers favor a flat 500 raise for each teacher in the next two years. He says the AEA will drop support for a formula based state aid bill, citing insufficient funds. The Joint Budget Committee did not approve Rozzell’s amendment to the Revenue Stabilization Act.
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