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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1966
Page
2
Page Two Experiment Station report for 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. Wednesday. Arkansas forecast fair with slowly rising temperatures. Low tonight 50s in northwest to low 40s southeast, high Thursday 74 to 82. Louisiana generally fair through Thursday with no significant temperature changes. Low tonight 44 to 54, high Thursday in the 70s.
Samuel H. Sheppard faces a 12 member jury in a retrial for second degree murder in the 1954 bludgeon death of his wife Marilyn in Cleveland. The seven men and five women have heard testimony since November 1 and will now receive their charge from Common Pleas Judge Francis J. Talty. Prosecutor John T. Corrigan urged a verdict based on the facts after a brief closing argument.
Obituary items list Tom Gray Jr 46 of Hope died in Gate City Michigan leaving wife Alice son Gary and daughter in home with many siblings. Also listed are Staff Sgt Janes Janoe former Hope resident killed near Mule Shoe Texas and S Mitchell Stevenson 86 Hempstead farmer with lengthy survivors. Legal notes include Sam Sheppard retrial remarks by F Lee Bailey and Eisenhower signing the Communist Control Act in 1954.
Mrs Mary P Rolen daughter of Mr and Mrs P L Perkins of 400 Edgeweed St Hope Arkansas has accepted a secretary position with the Defense Fuel Supply Center in Alexandria Virginia. She previously worked in Washington for the late Senator Estes Kefauver office. A Hope School graduate she attended a business college in Shreveport and worked for the Vocational Rehabilitation Office in Hope. She is married to John W Ralen of the Army Communications System at the Pentagon. They have two children Phoebe Ann 10 and Charles 6.
Gov. Faubus said he sensed trouble in the 3rd District as Rep. J. W. Trimble faced an upset loss to Republican John Paul Hammerschmidt. Faubus cited notes he sent Trimble predicting strong competition and blamed Rockefeller sentiment and Buffalo River issues for Trimble’s defeat.
Whitney M. Young of the Urban League says the failure of Congress to pass open housing shows racial prejudice is rising in the United States. Speaking in Little Rock, he criticized opponents as ignorant or prejudiced and accused white media of exaggerating Negro leadership.
In Haputale district central Ceylon villagers fled valleys as landslides caused by heavy rain claimed at least 11 lives. locals tied the disaster to superstition predicting an evil planetary alignment today or Thursday.
Secretary of Defense McNamara weighs Army Navy and Air Force requests for large pilot training increases. Army seeks boost from 325 to 800 monthly by June 1968, potentially adding a fourth training base. Navy aims to raise from 180 monthly as it expands training capacity.
Joe Basore, Democratic campaign chair for attorney general, said Tuesday that Republican Jerry Thomasson’s charges of unpaid personal property taxes and misassessed pilots were untrue. Basore highlighted taxes paid by Cherokee Village Development Corp and noted Benton County assessments on related road equipment, while explaining his own tax situation as a rented home resident.
Governor elect Winthrop Rockefeller told the Arkansas Municipal League he will open an office door to cities when he takes office. He criticized indirect tax imposts as a travesty of justice and urged joint budgeting. He praised Gov. Faubus and called for more state funds. league leaders sought extra turnback money and mayoral appointments for one year terms.
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