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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1975
Page
1
The editor denounces a $23.1 billion federal tax cut signed by Ford, arguing it saddles future generations with debt amid rising deficits and a weak economy. He contrasts debt prophets with arithmetic, cites postwar eras, and recalls 1930s policy missteps to warn that the measure is fated to fail.
Police describe letters and notes in a West Monroe apartment that point to a troubled man who killed two people and wounded another before fatally shooting himself. Coroner notes a paraphrased line blaming others for “this mess.” Evidence included shell casings and a newspaper clipping.
The Arkansas Supreme Court unanimously denied Booker T. McDonald's petition for relief from his life sentence for the 1967 killing of Little Rock Patrolman Lloyd W. Worthy. The court ruled he received effective counsel and that pleading guilty after waiving the death penalty was strategically justified, noting witnesses and a ballistics report supported the conviction.
Hanoi broadcast says Viet Cong would meet only an administration that accepts Paris cease fire and excludes President Thieu. In South Vietnam, central coast fighting threatens Saigon enclaves. mass evacuations of Americans and Vietnamese refugees from Da Nang and surrounding areas suspend relief efforts as North Vietnamese forces push east from the Central Highlands toward the coast.
Hamilton Ohio police report 11 members of Charity Ruppert’s family shot to death at the grandmother’s two story home 65 year old Charity Ruppert 42 year old son Leonard his wife Alma and their eight children aged 3 to 18 were killed in an Easter gathering James Ruppert 40 a draftsman is charged with aggravated murder bond set at 200000 and mental examinations requested before preliminary hearing. Neighbors recall an Easter egg hunt turning to horror as officers found the bodies in the living room and kitchen with no sign of a struggle and an overturned wastebasket.
Henry Criner, 109, recalls being given to white families as a child, enduring beatings, and learning to survive under Jim Crow. He moved to Hope, worked in a lumber mill, married in 1908, raised seven children, and notes that today blacks and whites live in better harmony, though he hopes for more years yet.
AP report from M Joley Sweden says a car hit a 90 mile per hour express train packed with passengers at an unguarded crossing. Five of thirteen cars derailed, two pushed 20 yards into a field, one upside down in a ditch. About 300 passengers were aboard between Stockholm and Halsingborg Sweden opposite Denmark.
City subscribers are urged to call 777-8841 to report a missing Star. Please phone Monday through Friday 6 to 6 30 p.m. Saturday 3 30 to 4 p.m. A carrier will deliver your paper. do not call outside the listed times.
Hempstead County 4-H members sharpen outdoor cooking skills for the annual broiler barbecue open to county 4-Hers. The event starts at 9 00 a.m. Saturday April 5 at Hope Park. Contestants may qualify for the District Bar B Que in Nashville April 26 and the State event in Little Rock in June. For information contact the Extension Office at 777 5771.
FBI statistics released show a 17 percent jump in serious crime for 1974, the largest in 14 years, with property crimes leading the rise. Violent crimes climbed 11 percent, robbery 14 percent, and murder 5 percent. Suburban and rural areas saw two-decade high increases, while the South led regional gains at 21 percent.
Mrs Mamie Eisenhower remains in good condition after a hospital stay at Fort Gordon in Augusta Georgia. A spokesman for the U S Army Medical Center said she is recovering from national problems that led to her hospitalization last Tuesday.
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