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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1967
Page
2
Weather report shows Arkansas rainfall and a warming trend with highs in the 40s to 50s and lows in the 30s to 40s. Louisiana forecast calls for cloudy skies, scattered rain northern areas, cooler Thursday with highs reaching 60s to near 80 southeast.
President Johnson has not made a case for a tax increase despite his insistence. Rep. Hammerschmidt says no new condition justifies higher taxes on workers and business, doubting it would counter inflation amid rising unemployment and slipping retail sales. Calgary is noted as Alberta's second largest city.
US Navy planes moved closer to Haiphong as skirmishes near the port intensified. South Vietnamese and US forces targeted Loc Ninh and Bo Due areas. 918 enemy bodies reported at Loc Ninh. reinforcements were sent, but dawn broke with no clear end to the clash.
Britain signs an agreement in Geneva ending 128 years of colonial rule in Aden. The Republic of South Yemen is to be formed as 12,000 square miles of South Arabia shift to Arab leadership. A 60 million pound annual aid figure remains under discussion, while British troops withdraw and a Royal Navy task force redeploys.
The notices report deaths of Willard T. Bateman in Vietnam and Pearl Hewitt Walker of Hope, with extensive survivor lists. Frank E. Holman, 81, ex-Seattle lawyer and ABA president, dies in Virginia. Leon Mba of Gabon dies at the Gabon Embassy. Robert V. Fleming, longtime Washington banker and civic leader, dies in D.C. Virgil Miers, Dallas Times Herald editor, dies at 42.
Thick fog settled over the Atlanta airport Sunday night, forcing a shutdown for over two hours and stranding nearly 1,000 passengers. Limited service resumed later, marking the third disruption in five days after similar shutdowns Wednesday and Friday mornings amid the Thanksgiving travel period.
Kitty Hawk a five year old quarter horse mare staged a sit in Sunday to block a Louisville and Nashville passenger train and a 100 car freight train in northeast Memphis. Paula Roberts, 15, led Kitty Hawk onto the trestle where the horse wedged between the rails. Deputies and about 30 bystanders freed the animal after it became stuck twice, finally removing her with a belt and a seat belt. The ordeal lasted nearly two hours. Kitty Hawk was not seriously hurt.
Lincoln County Grand Jury wrapped a two day inquiry at Cummins Prison Farm and returned no true bills. The panel criticized the prison physician Dr Edwin Barron Jr over drug and supply use allegations while noting reforms were already underway. The jury began hearing from ten witnesses after being instructed by Circuit Judge Henry W. Smith to probe Barron’s prior report.
London AP reports Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan resigning following Britain's pound devaluation. Roy Jenkins replaces him at the Treasury, boosting the Dominions Market faction. Callaghan, in office three years, had pursued measures to avoid devaluation, which occurred on November 18.
U S presidential envoy Cyrus Vance visited Nicosia for talks with Greek Cypriot leaders on Cyprus tensions with Turkey over security provisions for the Turkish minority. The meeting occurred as NATO envoys pursue a general peace package amid disputes over troop withdrawals and international guarantees.
Garland County sheriff reports theft of dynamite four boxes of detonator caps and a two pound can of black powder from the Nevadallte quarry off U.S. 70 east of Hot Springs. Entry appears by forced lock on a storage hut. other items stolen include primer fuse, a 30 foot logging chain and ten shovels. Novaculte quartz noted for use in whet stones and fuel applications in plastics.
Osceola Mayor Charlie Wiggul announced that the Southwestern Power Administration will not cancel its contract to furnish wholesale electricity. The assurance came in a letter from SPA official Douglas G. Wright to Alderman RL E. Prewitt.
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