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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1968
Page
1
Hope Kiwanis Club kicks off its 25th annual Minstrel and Variety Show at City Hall stage at 8 o'clock tonight with a repeat Friday. Proceeds benefit youth activities and public works in Hope, with the memorial program noting $35,000 spent on youth projects over 25 years.
Washington reports a US FILL fighter missing after a bombing mission over North Vietnam. The two man crew may be lost. the aircraft, a swinging wing supersonic jet, arrived in Thailand March 7 and was en route when last radio contact occurred over Taos. Search operations have yielded no trace.
The Associated Press reports Senator Robert F Kennedy enters Indiana May 7 primary after Utah decision. Kennedy travels to Indianapolis to file and speaks along the route. McCarthy Nixon and Reagan also on ballots in Wisconsin and Indiana, with Nixon aiming for unity against Vietnam policy. A Foreman Arkansas school group forms to develop a state distribution formula.
Memphis AP report details a King march turning violent with looting and tear gas as police disperse demonstrators. A separate Little Rock dispatch reports a prison grave digging probe yielding murder findings with all involved dead, and a Circuit Judge denying inmate petitions claiming rights violations.
New York AP columnist HAL Boyle rails at a growing hangdog American self image. He argues many citizens over 40 feel guilt about aging, finances, culture, and war, eroding independence and pride. The piece warns against crippling self-criticism and urges confidence in national virtues.
Saigon reports a rise in American battlefield deaths to 49 in the seven day period ending at midnight Saturday, with 1,965 Americans wounded and 1,065 wounded hospitalized non permanently. South Vietnamese forces list 270 government troops killed and 670 wounded, plus 49 missing, while allied totals for enemy killed reach 2,223 by U.S. command and 3,428 by South Vietnamese sources. Reports vary and may be adjusted.
Henderson State College's thirty tonce Concert Choir from Arkadelphia performs vocal selections at Hope High School on Monday night April 1 at 7 30 directed by Prof. Eugene Kuyper. The group includes students from Arkadelphia and three from Iowa with one from Texas as part of a new fine arts series funded by government support.
MOSCOW AP Yuri A. Gaga Tin, famed cosmonaut who piloted the first manned spaceflight in April 1961, died in a training crash that also killed Col. Vladimir Seryogin. Ashes to be laid at the Kremlin Wall. Gagarin’s death follows recent Soviet space program tragedies.
AP report details Westmoreland era in South Vietnam, noting enemy deaths reach 253000 since 1964, with 248000 as current Viet Cong and North Vietnamese strength. US tally began later, counting eight years of losses by year end 1967 amid Hanoi manpower buildup.
Ambassador Robert W. Komer says the Viet Cong setback to pacification was real yet predicts Saigon will regain losses faster than the enemy. In a cable from Saigon to the Associated Press, he states pacification remains alive despite Tet era doubts and notes both sides suffered losses but recovery is possible with perseverance and will.
The AP digest outlines campaign chatter as primary day nears with Reagan aides hoping Kennedy speeds up his Democratic bid. It notes Tet offensive setback in Vietnam and Westmoreland era enemy body count. Gagarin dies in a training crash. A congressional probe questions substandard foods in government purchases. Earthquake preparedness rises in Denver amid quake fears.
NORTH LITTLE ROCK AP Bullets from two men killed in separate burglaries were fired from distinct .38 caliber pistols. Ballistic tests by the Arkansas State Police refuted the theory that both killings at a service station and a Camden grocer were by the same attacker.
Kenny R Ridgdill of the Arkansas State Police completed Intensive basic police training at the Arkansas Law Enforcement Training Academy in East Camden He is the son of Mr and Mrs Ernest Ridgdill of Hope Rt 4 A Hope graduate attending Tex Arkana Junior College He has been with the State Police since April 1967 Shipliner Second Class Wil Me RK Scoggins USN son of Bruce Scoggins of Hope Ark Rt 4 serving aboard the RSI Norton Sound Home port Port Huenem Calif Staff Sergeant Bobby L Leggett son of Mrs Nina Leggett of Hope Ark Rt 3 has been recognized for helping his unit earn its second US Air Force Outstanding Unit Award Leggett a guidance and control systems specialist at Elgin AFB Fla wears the service ribbon with an oak leaf cluster He is a Hope High School graduate whose wife Marilyn is the daughter of Mr and Mrs A H Cohoon of Hyannis Mass Singers and lovers of Gospel Music from Arkansas Louisiana and Texas will gather in Shreveport La for the Tri State Singing Convention Apr weekend at the municipal auditorium Mrs Marvin Jones formerly of Hope now in Redondo Beach Calif for about 25 years is seriously ill according to sister Mrs x B Miller of Hope Dr Rex Easter son of Mrs J A Davis of Hope has returned to the U S from service overseas He and his wife Linday and daughter Jennifer Lynn will move from Pine Bluff to Shreveport where he will complete residency at Confederate Memorial Hospital
U S Air Force bombers pounded North Vietnamese supply depots and command centers in the A Shau Valley west of Hue, dropping nearly 2 million pounds of bombs in five missions. Marines at Khe Sanh reported light shelling, with U S and South Vietnamese forces pressing the five province operation around Saigon to clear Viet Cong forces.
Yerger High elected Mary Blake as president Thomas Williamson as vice president Mary Brown secretary Ralph Martin treasurer Donnie McClure assistant reporter Linda Walker assistant reporter. A runoff for reporter between Sarah Jones and Bridget Benpat is planned with installation April 9 in the school gym.
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