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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1966
Page
1
A field report recalls a Halloween party at a Batesville area school where students and adults discuss fights and mischief. A boy claims to fight first and mentions a plan for Halloween mischief, while a teacher offers ambers on the floor game. The piece blends local memory with a warning about aggressive behavior and school hallway antics.
Arkansas announces a $750,000 federal grant to help start an industrial technology institute at the Shumaker Ordnance Depot near Camden. The state must provide $617,000 and operate the school, with a special Board of Education meeting to review Brown Engineering Co. offers of land and buildings worth over $1.65 million.
The ballot lists congressional and governor choices with party labels for Trimble Hammerschmidt Johnson Rockefeller and a call to vote Democratic on other races. An initiated act supports compulsory school district consolidation Act No. 1 and act No. 2 is opposed.
Former Chancellor Lee Ward of Jonesboro who ran for governor in 1958 and for Congress this year says he will vote for Winthrop Rockefeller in Tuesday's general election. He sent a letter to Dr. Charles E. Kemp of Democrats for Rockefeller in Jonesboro.
Philadelphia AP reports a $78,000 project using weather, street light outages, saloon hours, unemployment, payrolls and vacations to build a computer model for predicting crime. Capt. Herron criminologist Wolfgang and Franklin Institute’s Bloom seek factors and judgment inputs to forecast when and where crime will occur.
Joseph P. Kennedy aged 78 in Boston at New England Baptist Hospital for minor skin surgery. A hospital spokesman said lesions will be removed from his legs and back.
Republicans draft a rebuttal to any suggestion by President Johnson that Democratic victories could signal U S resolve in Vietnam. Nixon warns of a Johnson blitz while Ford cites party concerns about a wartime appeal and Morton disowns a controversial GOP campaign film.
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and President Johnson meet at the Texas ranch to review the Manila conference and pursue a Vietnam peace path. Westmoreland’s requests for extra troops and the war’s effect on defense spending shape the talks.
A Star Feature advises Christmas mail by November 10 for surface shipments and December 10 for airmailed items to reach service personnel overseas. It emphasizes sturdy packaging, avoidance of prohibited items like matches, keeping weight around five pounds, and including a content slip and clear ZIP codes. Suggested items include pens, soap, tissue, writing supplies, games, cookies, sauces, and vacuum cans for freshness. A prayer poem inside the package is encouraged to share goodwill.
Rep. James W. Trimble announces Rural Electrification Administration approval of a 1.3 million loan to the Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative Corp. The funds will finance 140 more miles of power lines, serve 1,500 new consumers, and fund system improvements.
President Johnson faces a second operation in 13 months to repair an incisional hernia from his 1965 gall bladder and kidney stone surgery. Surgeons will also remove a small vocal cord polyp, the result of public speaking. The hernia causes a golf ball sized lump beneath the skin as a tube drainage safeguard may have weakened abdominal tissue. The procedure, about a five inch incision, should take under an hour with no brain tubes needed.
Three Arkansas County Extension Agents received national Distinguished Service Awards at the annual meeting in Honolulu. Calvin J. Caldwell of Hope Hempstead Delton E. Price of Ozark Franklin Harold Oakes of Danville Yell were recognized for impactful educational work with beef producers soil testing and agricultural development programs aligned with the University of Arkansas Extension Service. Caldwell has 19 years in Extension and holds a BSA from Arkansas.
In a Nebraska bid for governor Norbert Tiemann, a 42 year old Wausa banker, faces Lt. Gov. Phil Sorensen, 33, Democrat, in a state where Tiemann has built a strong campaign and outsized lead in polls. The candidates have barnstormed the state, with endorsements from the Lincoln Journal praising both men as competent and determined.
Communist troops mounted a fierce counterattack against a large American infantry force that had breached enemy bunkers in jungle near Cambodia as Tay Ninh Province battle, now in its third day, drew in as many as ten thousand American infantrymen. Air losses rose with two more U S planes shot down in the north bringing total to 418.
U.S. and Soviet officials sign a pact authorizing the first direct air service between Moscow and New York. The ceremony in Washington signals a thaw in Cold War relations and clears the way for Pan American and Aeroflot flights pending technical arrangements next spring.
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