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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1977
Page
1
Editor notes Arkansas lacks data on marine thefts while insurers push for a national program. HB 169 seeks an Initiated Act requiring title certificates and engine serial numbers on outboard sales to aid police tracing and recovery, mirroring auto reforms that reduced thefts.
Northern Arkansas dries as creeks retreat while NWS warns of later flood risk in southern and eastern areas. Search resumes for a drowning victim in Richland Creek near Snowball, with evacuations in Clinton and Batesville. Road closures persist in Randolph and Independence counties. officials estimate wheat losses and fence damage.
Raymond Burr's new series Kingston Confidential performed poorly in its NBC debut. Competing with ABC's Charlie's Angels and a CBS movie, the show ranked 63rd of 67 evening programs and drew about 9.7 million homes, per AC Nielsen ratings released Tuesday.
Emmet High School faculty and students host a Spring Festival starting 10 a.m. Saturday April 2 featuring a parade arts and crafts booths fun booths refreshment booths a sports contest and an auction. A supper is served at 5 p.m. Winners are announced at 7 p.m. followed by an Easter observance.
AP reports Prince Charles has chosen Marie Astrid of Luxembourg as his future bride despite her Roman Catholic faith. Nigel Dempster writes in the Daily Mail that close friends of Britain's Protestant royal family are quietly confident the marriage is being arranged. Buckingham Palace declined to comment. Charles will be 29 in November and Marie Astrid is 22.
Scientists at Cornell and collaborating observatories report five thin rings around Uranus, observed from an airborne NASA Ames lab over the Indian Ocean on March 10. The rings alpha to epsilon are few miles thick, possibly ice, and may be remnants from solar system formation or a broken moon. Pluto remains the last major solar system discovery in 1930.
The KLM jumbo had not received final takeoff clearance when it collided with a Pan Am jet during takeoff at Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Investigators say miscommunication and runway position led to the disaster, with 577 dead and many survivors en route to hospitals and repatriation.
Barbara Pryor executive producer of the film Wishbone Cutter confirms four horses were killed during filming in Arkansas. She says Humane Association objections surprised her and asserts all procedures followed Society rules with horses purchased from a rendering plant and killed humanely by a veterinarian. Joe Hillbert of Hollywood says the horses were used specifically to die in the movie and criticizes the practice.
The Commerce Department reports the leading indicators index increased four tenths in February after a 1.2 per cent January drop, signaling a quicker rebound from severe winter effects. Manufacturing hours and building permits boosted the index while money supply and stock prices weighed on it. The coincident indicators rose nine tenths while lagging indicators gained nine tenths, keeping the February composite at 127.5 per cent of 1967 average, up 4.5 per cent from a year earlier.
A four day dog vaccination schedule begins Monday April 4 across Hempstead County with vaccines at 2 per dog. Dr. Tom Bright Dr. Herbert Rogers and Dr. Brenda Bright will administer vaccines at listed centers from 7:15 to 10:15 a.m. each day, requiring owner cooperation.
The FBI reports violent crime fell nationwide in 1976, with murders down 10 percent across regions and demographics. However theft surges in several large cities kept total crimes reported to state and local police unchanged from 1975. Attorney General Griffin Bell called the figures encouraging but urged continued efforts in the crime fight.
Washington AP Rich ard Sprague the embattled chief counsel to the House Assassinations Committee resigned after being convinced the House would fill the investigation if he stayed. The House votes on continuing the JFK MLK murders probe and if the vote fails it ends at midnight Thursday. Sprague submitted a two sentence resignation effective immediately after a long meeting with Committee Chairman Lou Stokes and others.
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