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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1966
Page
5
Hope Arkansas Star lists county payrolls for Hampstead County departments including Tax Assessor Deputy Tax Clerks and secretary salaries, along with office supplies and retirement payments. It also prints a weather station report with temperatures and precipitation, and a brief Associated Press forecast for central and northwest Arkansas and Louisiana regions.
The Hempstead County financial ledger shows general highway fund disbursements for January February and March 1966 with entries for road department payrolls labor supplies hardware and fuel from firms such as Ritchie Grocer Goodyear Service Stores A. T Gravel Pit and Cities Service Oil Co among others. The document also notes notices to bidders and a series of named contractors and suppliers including Byers Oil Company Gifford-Hill Co Arkansas Machine Shop and Texarkana Welders Supply. Major obituaries and graduation notices from Hope appear after a local memorial feature for John F Kennedy in Rome with sculptor Amerigo Tot tied to a public park installation.
National story on draft deferment tests given at 1200 colleges across the United States. Tests revived to encourage higher education amid debates over fairness and impact on minority groups. Quotes from policymakers and testing agency acknowledge center mixups. discusses political context around Vietnam era and public debate.
Mrs. Winslow C. Spousta of Rogers Arkansas State Regent of the Arkansas State Society NSDAR will keynote the John Cain Chapter NSDAR luncheon at Heritage House on Wednesday May 18 Her talk will cover the Diamond Jubilee National DAR Congress report and plans for her new administration She has held multiple NSDAR offices and studied architectural engineering at North Dakota and Minnesota campuses She will be hosted by Mrs Richards Howard in Hope Florida AP report notes Castro era Havana teachers patrol Clenfuegog streets nightsreporting to central park after school duties.
Congress auto safety hearings wrapped up but expect weeks or months before federal standards are authorized. House and Senate committees plan to extend Johnson’s recommendations and pass standards while clearing other business. Rep Harley C Staggers and Rep James A Mackay push for stronger action including a separate federal traffic safety agency. Vermont’s name proposed by Dr Young of Vert-Mont meaning Green Mountain.
New York Civil Defense Commissioner Henry A. Barnes leaves St Vincent's Hospital after heart attack treatment. A 59 year old veteran says his 15 hour work days are out for a while and he will resume duties part time starting mid text month. His second heart attack occurred on April 15.
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