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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1968
Page
1
The Hope Star reports on a weekend Arkansas cross-state trip by motorists, trespass fines on a closed highway, and a delayed post office ownership statement. It also notes a $47,000 Interior Department waterway cleanup grant for Arkansas amid $1.685 million nationwide.
Camden Ark AP report says Robert Jerry Hollis 53 of Locust Bayou Calhoun County died Monday when his car went out of control near Black Water Lake. The fatal crash occurred in Calhoun County with Hollis as the sole occupant.
George C. Wallace tours Michigan cities Grand Rapids Kalamazoo Lansing and Flint projecting a November win if mail from voters reflects support. He speaks to crowds in Cicero Illinois estimating 50 000 to 2 million across events and notes no debate with Humphrey or Nixon.
FBI declares the New Left movement a major security problem while noting gains in crime fighting. The annual report covers fiscal year ending June 30 with 18,881 arrests and 13,059 convictions, a 19 percent rise in arrests from the prior year and a 97 percent conviction rate, raising campaign headlines in Law and Order.
Robert B. Putell of Lockesburg Arkansas was killed in Vietnam on August 19. In a letter to his parents he expressed readiness to give his life to defeat oppression and urged using his life insurance to pay for a new house. He asked his brother to take his place in the family and spoke of reuniting in heaven.
Vice President Hubert Humphrey told a nationwide audience that if elected he would stop the bombing of North Vietnam as an acceptable risk for peace, contingent on evidence of North Vietnamese willingness to restore the demilitarized zone. He warned he would resume bombing if good faith is shown to be lacking.
Paragould Arkansas residents will vote on November 5 on a proposed ordinance allowing the city to issue 145000 dollars in revenue bonds. The proceeds would finance expansion of off street parking, pay an old debt, and refinance a prior bond issue.
Rev Gordon Renshaw of the Hempstead County Christian Civic Foundation said the group will not sue to challenge petitions for a November 5 liquor vote. The clerk certified 1950 valid signatures with a 30-signature margin. 166 signatures deemed definitively invalid, 1341 likely valid, leaving a 21-signature sufficiency margin. The foundation plans to oppose the measure at the polls.
The Hempstead County ASC Convention will be held October 3 1968 in the Federal Building Hope. Former delegates will vote by secret ballot to elect county committeemen for three year terms and alternates for one year. Delegates later choose chairman and vice chairman for the coming year each term renewed annually.
Arkansas Livestock Exposition opens with a five mile parade through downtown Little Rock and North Little Rock. Parade Marshall Bob Moffitt said the event will last about 90 minutes with 24 bands and seven floats among 102 units. Last year attendance reached a record 264 431.
Mrs Susie Clara Watts 45 of Camden was killed Monday in a U S highway 79 wreck about 13 miles southwest of Camden.
The Senate failed to cut off a filibuster against Abe Fortas and put aside his nomination to be chief justice. The debate halt motion failed 45 to 43 after Majority Leader Mansfield led the defense appropriations bill discussion.
Adult education classes start Monday October 7 at 6 30 p m for anyone 18 or older who did not finish high school. Classes meet two nights weekly 6 30 to 9 30 p m at Red River Vocational Technical School and Shover Street Elementary Fulton and Red River School. Call or visit Yerger School to enroll before October 7. Supervisor Will Rutherford announced.
Community meeting invites landowners and the public to discuss the middle and south fork watershed on Oct 3 at 7 30 p m in the Post Office building upstairs conference room. A White Elephant sale is set for Oct 5 in downtown Hope near the Taxi Stand on Main with sales from 9 30 a m to 4 39 p m. Hempstead County Association for Retarded Children meets Oct 3 at 7 30 p m in the Fair Park Boy Scout Hut. Lions Club supports morning classes for handicapped children. members urged to bring cleaning supplies. Collier Furniture and Appliance booth prizes include a stereo, a radio, and a corn popper. Larry Vernon Williams begins first year at Dallas Theological Seminary, starting its 45th year with 427 students. Dee Turnage named Hempstead County 1968 Christmas Seal Chairman by William H. Wyatt. Syd McMath reports Hempstead County Savings Bonds sales of 2098 dollars for eight months, 39 7 percent of goal.
Little Rock AP Marion Burton executive secretary to Gov Winthrop Rockefeller says the governor will not rerecall the election dispute. He notes a draft agreement would fill six of sixteen seats from a multiple choice list prepared earlier by the Republican Party. Roskefeller and Burton discuss a plan to fill ten positions by persons recommended by mats and others. North Little Rock Matthewe chair of the state Democratic party weighed in on the proposal.
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