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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1975
Page
9
El Dorado city council voted to drop the urban renewal courthouse and restore mobile parking in Union Square. The editorial warns urban renewal failures nationwide and faults officials for not pursuing a referendum when the project began. It laments lack of public consultation and urges action.
Four shopcraft unions have postponed a nationwide rail strike to December 4 to allow the President's emergency board to interpret recommendations on subcontracting maintenance and repairs. Mediators announced the postponement as unions and management seek a clarified pattern settlement aiming at 41 percent wage and benefit increases over three years. Boilermakers electrical workers and railway firemen and carmen are involved.
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas is reported ill and hospitalized in Portland Oregon. The brief notice confirms his medical condition without detail.
In Ram bouillet France six industrial democracies led by President Ford wrap up a three day summit. They promise to curb unemployment inflation and energy woes and commit to stable durable growth to restore confidence. They condemn volatile exchange rates threatening economic stability.
Congress edges toward a decision on federal aid for New York City as a 2.3 billion state financing plan nears expiration December 1. The Rhodes Reuss plan trims loan guarantees and duration while the New York legislature debates a debt moratorium and tax measures amid ongoing federal funding battles.
The Supreme Court upheld a 30 year age minimum for city director candidates in 10 Arkansas cities with a manager form of government. The ruling supported a three judge federal court decision that the law is a valid act by the legislature. Whitehead and Young challenged the law, arguing it violates equal protection, but the court found no rational basis to strike it down.
Hope city police hold an 18 year old in connection with a Thursday night burglary at Scooter's Pizza Palace. Burglary and grand larceny charges to be filed Monday. About 200 dollars stolen from the Pizza Palace and 250 from El Matador. Most funds recovered. investigation continues.
The Arkansas Supreme Court reversed Arthur Lee Botany’s felony murder conviction for the 1974 shooting death of K. B. Allen during a shoe-store robbery in Jefferson County. The court ordered a new trial due to prejudicial testimony admitting a co-defendant’s coerced confession, and also questioned admitting a pistol found in the arrest car.
Tom Foli, research coordinator at the Arkansas Ecology Center, warned Pulaski County Historical Society that bedrock warping 2000 to 3000 feet below the surface along the New Madrid Fault makes a damaging quake likely. He cited the 1811 12 quakes and said tremors still occur, urging preparation though the timing remains unknown.
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