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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1968
Page
5
Considerable cloudiness mainly in the southern half through tonight and Friday. A chance of a few light showers south. Fair elsewhere tonight and Friday. Warmer through Friday. Low tonight around 48.
The Christian Science Monitor cites Washington sources saying if Nixon becomes president he will seek an early summit with the Soviet Union on the Vietnam war. He reportedly aims to avoid escalation, push for tough bargaining, and offer concessions such as expanded East-West trade while requesting a halt to arms supplies to Hanoi.
William Leeke with South Carolina prison system is the board of correction’s chosen candidate for Arkansas commissioner of corrections but balks at a 15000 per year salary. The board offers a house and prison commodities as inducement. Acting Prison Supt Victor Urban is named permanent appointee. Haley notes Leeke would need a Cummins Prison Farm house.
Los Angeles AP reports Paul Rojas of California is a slight favorite to beat Enrique Higgins of Colombia in a nontelevised WBA vacant featherweight title bout. The 25 year olds meet after Vicente Saldivar’s retirement, in a slugger match with both never knocked off their feet. Higgins has 30 wins with 23 knockouts, while Rojas has 33 wins with one loss and 25 opponents stopped.
Printed by offset process the fragment lists color time slots 3 0 0 4 30 9 00 10 00 10 30 and 12 00 with station or network identifiers and notes unclear details involving color broadcasts and scheduling across the day. The readable elements point to a station schedule page from a 1968 newspaper with repeated color indications and times.
A fragmentary TV grid lists programs including The Flying Nun Bewitched Peyton Place Cowboy in Africa and test patterns. Entries show color indicators and time slots from 10:00 to 12:00 with titles such as The Guns of Will Sonnett The Dating Game and The Joey Bishop Show among others.
The fragment outlines NBC and local programming for Thursday March 28 and Friday March 29 1968 with shows such as Huntley Brinkley Report The Today Show Jeopardy The Tonight Show Days of Our Lives The Doctors Another World You Don t Say and Let s Make a Deal plus game show and weather segments and late night sign offs.
A Thursday March 29 broadcast guide shows ABC and CBS airings across daytime and evening blocks. Notable programs include The Flying Nun Bewitched Peyton Place The Fugitive Dark Shadows and The Late Show while CBS features Captain Kangaroo Love of Life Guiding Light and a Friday night movie The Hellsong with cast members listed.
Television schedule fragment lists 6:30 B 7:30 8:30 1968 content including Daniel Boone Ironside Dragnet Dean Martin Show and various daytime shows. Also notes Morning and Today Show segments and game/variety programs such as Hollywood Squares Jeopardy Eye Guess and Partyline in Texarkana Shreveport listings.
TV guide fragment lists Cimarron Strip at 6:30, CBS 8:00 movie A Night to Remember, news with George Moore, weather with Bill Mitchell, Sports Eye with Jim Landers, Academy Theatre films Roblin Hood and the Pirates and Queen of the Nile, late news roundup, Sign Off, and Evening/CBS movie Up Periscope. Includes multiple channels, dates, and a long list of shows and hosts.
On location at Trancas Lakes west of Hollywood, Rod Steiger endures three hour makeups for full body tattoos as his work on The Frustrated Man requires constant care. Ray Bradbury visits, Orient Wrote has no film role, and studio plans loom large over the schedule. Steiger aims for Oscar, with future projects including a Napoleon biopic and a Claire Bloom romance in England.
Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller signed party loyalty pledges and filed for re election at a Little Rock news conference. He noted his administration’s record and discussed his brother Nelson Rockefeller’s presidential bid while announcing a $2 million Manpower Administration grant to train hard core unemployed and upgrade skills across 14 eastern Arkansas counties.
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