FAA Reply on Drag Racing at Hope Airport
The FAA district airport engineer for Arkansas and Louisiana outlined safety requirements for a proposed drag racing event at Hope airport. City officials pledged enforcement, including marking the runway, notifying airmen, coordinating with FAA Little Rock, securing insurance, and earmarking profits for maintenance. The piece questions potential impact on airport title and urges against racing on airport property, advocating a professional drag strip instead.
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The
Star
Fed> Aviation Agency
Washington
Hope Airport
Shreveport
I.A. Winkler
Box 9000
FAA
Arkansas
Louisiana
Winkler
FFA
Garland Medders
Bob Gladney
Little Rock
Mr. Winkler
City of Hope
United States
Weather The Experiment Station Reported For The 24 Hours
The Experiment Station released a weather report covering the 24 hours ending, with forecast notes continuing on Page Five.
Rain Breaks Dreath War in Domingo
Rain drenched Santo Domingo easing drought fears amid rising turmoil. Rebels call themselves constitutionalists while a new junta shifts between peace talks and threat of attack as American troops monitor the scene. Santiago resumes normal activity despite the capital remaining tense.
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William L. Ryan
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Santiago
United States
Hope Lions District Winner Claims Top State Title
Deputy District Governor James Morrow announced Hope Lions Club won the District Governor's trophy with over 36 000 points, the highest in Arkansas. Hope led membership 41 to 60, grew from 49 to 72 members in six months, made 50 club visits, and allocated over 8000 dollars for projects aiding the blind, Christmas baskets, Scouts, Little League, and Boys and Girls State. John Helson of Texarkana was elected District Governor at the state convention. Morrow presented a check toward the scout building fund.
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James Morrow
Hope Lions Club
Hope
Malvern
Bauxite
Fair Park
John Helson
Texarkana
Lion Morrow
Haskell Jones
Scout Building Fund
Rusk urges Inter American standby forces to act fast
Secretary of State Dean Rusk calls on American states to form standby military political machinery for rapid action in emergencies. He rejects gunboat diplomacy in Santo Domingo, saying the U S went in to save lives in support of the OAS and inter American system.
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Rusk
Inter-America
Washington
Dean Rusk
Associated Press
United States
Diplmacy
Santo Domingo
U.S
Organization of American States
inter-American System
Inter- American Affairs
Vaughn
Hale Boggs
D-La
OAS
Rain Totals Reach 2.77 Inches In Local Area
Rainfall measured by the Fruit and Truck Branch Experiment Station shows 2.77 inches since Sunday morning, with .85 inches in the prior 24 hours and 1.92 inches between 7 and noon. The downpour relieved crop and garden stress as temperatures reached a daytime high of 83 and a low of 65.
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Hope
Fruit & Truck Branch Experiment Station
Can-Do Kim Chi Proves Viet Namese Star Sapphire Real
Kim Chi, a 39-year-old Viet Nam native with eight children, tests star sapphires with a blowtorch for American soldiers to prove authenticity. He runs three jewelry stores, assists troops with errands, and aims to become the region’s top jeweler while expressing desire to study business in America.
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DA Nang
South Viet Nam
Kim Chi
Far East
Floyd R. Rockhart
Mogadore
Ohio
America
Tiffany’s
Tornado Alert Issued as Severe Storms Hit Region
Weather Bureau warns of scattered severe thunderstorms with large hail and damaging winds along and 60 miles on either side of a line from Mineral Wells Texas to Texarkana Arkansas from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. today. Flooding and lightning deaths noted in Arkansas. Fort Smith injuries and property damage reported. northwest Arkansas counties under tornado alert without twisters confirmed.
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Kansas City
Weather Bureau Today
Texas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Mineral Wells
Tex
Texarkana
Ark
Floyd Treat
Bull Shoals River
White River
Mountain Home
Camden
KAMD
Fort Smith
Oak Grove
van Buren
Weather Bureau
Northwest Arkansas
Clarksville
Little Rock
Harrison
High Court Curb Unlikely, Says Observor
AP report summarizes predictions that a constitutional convention to curb the Supreme Court is unlikely. It cites the June 15 Supreme Court ruling on state legislative apportionment and notes rural fears of lost political power sparking a rare call for a constitutional convention.
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Raymond J. Crowley
Washington
Supreme Court
Congress
Rebels Turn Down Peace in Dominican Crisis
Dominican rebels reject General Imbert Barrera’s surrender offer urging rebels to lay down arms and leave. Caamano Deno declares rebels’ morale and manpower strong as U.S. forces bolster Embajador Hotel area with 105mm howitzers and troops.
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Louis Uchitelle
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Antonio Imbert Barrera
U.S
Washington
Imbert
Francisco Caamano Deno
U. S
Donald Reid Cabral
Elias Wessing Wessin
Caamano
Caribbean Sea
4Th U.S. Marine Expeditionary Force
82Nd Airborne Division
Embajador Hotel
Goual
Irving Berlin Previews Birthday Quietly at 77
Irving Berlin, about to turn 77, says the idea of age leaves him cold. He plans to celebrate with family in the Catskills and continues to work on new songs for film and Broadway, while overseeing a music publishing business.
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Irving Berlin
New York
Irving
Berlin
Italy
Plane crash in Ocean City claims Carla Tyler and pilot
Coast Guard searched the Atlantic for the sunken wreckage of a single engine plane after Carole Tyler linked to the Bobby Baker probe was killed along with pilot Robert H. Davis. The wreckage sighting proved not to be the plane.
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Ocean City
Coast Guard
Atlantic
Carole Tyler
Bobby Baker
Miss Tyler
Capitol Hill
Robert H. Davis
Huntington
W. Va
Baker’s Carousel
Davis
Miss Taylor
Baker
Marshall University
Chafin Coal Co
Atlantic Beach
Actress Jayne Mansfield Robbed Of Jewelry At Home
New York AP reports actress Jayne Mansfield's East Side town house at 52 East 69th Street was robbed Sunday of $51,000 in jewelry including an 18 carat diamond ring. An open ground floor window was found. Mansfield and husband Matt Cimber were out in Central Park with her children when the loss was noticed at 7 p.m.
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New York
Jayne Mansfield
East Side
E. 69Th St
Miss Mansfield
Matt Cimber
Central Park
Community notices and honors highlighted in Hope area
Town groups gather at Hope Youth Center for officer elections at 7 30 p m Mothers of baseball players and league families attend Also new uniforms purchased for six Little League teams Several locals receive or pursue recognitions including Linda Stewart at a nursing convention James Gilbertson earns Tri C award Wendell Huron Light to graduate at Arkansas A&M College and James Clark gains junior Angus membership The Arkansas Pharmaceutical Association plans its Hot Springs meeting with local Douglas Drake on a committee
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Hope Youth Center
Linda Stewart
Bill Stewart
Hope
San Francisco
Arkansas Baptist Hospital School of Nursing
Little Rock
James Clark
Fulton
American Angus Association
St. Joseph
Assn
James
United States
R. A. Life of Hope
American Angus Assn
The
Arkansas Pharmaceutical Assn
Hot Springs
Douglas Drake
Planes Pounding North Vietnam All Night
American and Vietnamese warplanes attacked targets in North Vietnam from midnight through the day. Pilots reported destroying bridges, highways, rail cars, and emplacements. one large tank was hit. One Navy pilot was killed in a strafing dive. Two U.S. soldiers died and eight wounded in a Mekong Delta battle. Navy carriers Coral Sea and Midway dropped 120 tons of bombs damaging several bridges and trucks.
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Edwin Q. White
Saigon
Viet Nam
North
U.S
Navy
Mekong River
Coral Sea
Midway
Ha Tinh
Hanoi
Tinh
C of C to Visit Shover on Tuesday
Hope Chamber of Commerce invites members to a May 11 Tuesday evening gathering at Shover Springs with a 7 30 pm fort night meal served by local women. Proceeds support church improvements. A caravan from downtown Hope will arrive by 7 30. Publicity via Hope Star and KXAR.
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Hope Chamber of Commerce
Shover Springs
Sweet Home
Blevins
Hope
Hope Star
KXAR
Chamber of Commerce Guard
Chamber
Gene White
Arkansas Cattlemen's Association
University of Arkansas, Southwest Brand
Hempstead County
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Warren Eagle-Democrat
Warren
Arkansas Almanac
Herschel Patterson
Texaco
Shover
Third Sts
Pereogeethe
Dreath
Domingo
Hope Lions
Francisco Caamano Dena
Hubert H. Humphrey
Frank Horton
R-N.y
Jack H. Vaughn
Cyrus R. Vance
ABC
Nebraska
Roman L. Hruska
Colorado
Gordon Allott
Johnson
McCoy
Henrietta Leith
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
Irv
Senate
Ephesus
Emmet
Ernest Avery
Rt. 3
Prescott
Anderson
Route 1
Anderson Baptist Church
Whitfield Masonic Lodge No
Masonic Hall
Wendell Huron Light of Hope
Arkansas A&m College
Magnolia
James Gil
Bert
H. B. Gilbert
Southern State College
Gilbert
Hope High School
Southern State
Tri-C
Bonnie Harris
Rodney Todd
Heber Springs
N. Viet Nam
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