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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1968
Page
5
A fragmented TV and radio schedule fragment lists odd times and show titles such as Truth or Consequences News Weather Sports and The Olympic Games. It notes various programs including Sir Kenneth Cick and The Felony Squad with uncertain timing and channel markers.
San Diego State holds the No 10 spot with 278 points in the AP top 20. North Dakota State close second with 224 points as the Aztecs eye Los Angeles State and Grand Forks, N.D. Also noted are EKU, Western Kentucky and Texas A&I in the top five with several changes in ranking.
Bill Bergey, a linebacker for Arkansas State University, was named Southland Conference defensive player of the week after making 18 tackles and an interception in ASU’s 1% victory over Southeastern Louisiana. Bergey is 26 feet 2, 230 pounds and previously earned player of the week honors as a junior. The offensive player of the week award went to Danny Griffin of the University of Texas at Arlington.
Veteran candidates Edward Gurney and LeRoy Collins spar over ties to the Johnson administration and Governor Kirk as Florida voters eye the seat of retiring Senator George Smathers. Gurney leads slightly amid disputes over past affiliations and political bedfellows shaping the high stakes contest in the peninsula.
LITTLE ROCK AP A governor spokesman said Governor Winthrop Rockefeller renewed the moratorium on executions until the U S Supreme Court resolves all constitutional challenges to the death penalty Ten men sit on death row at Tucker Prison Farm with four facing direct appeal Guzman of the University of Arkansas Law School urged an extension and the governor had already pledged not to set dates until major issues are settled The Arkansas Prison Project is funded by the Ford Foundation and reviews the death row cases at Tucker.
Eric Allen Fort Smith author of a novel about the Arkansas Ozarks received a Deluxe Music Co album featuring the song Voices In The Wind by Eugene Deluca. The piece, described as a love song, captures the region’s mountains and valleys.
In a predominantly Negro neighborhood, a former candy-tobacco warehouse is repurposed by the Philadelphia Association for Retarded Children with 185000 in federal grants to renovate a two story work training center. The facility aims to serve 400 persons with schooling diagnostic services and job training while generating over 200000 yearly in packaging work. Trainees are paid on a piece basis with wages from 10 to 90 dollars weekly. 15 former students now earn over 100 dollars weekly as post office mail handlers.
A photographer notes a 384 inch long okra pod weighing four pounds and a sweet potato grown at home reaching 18 inches. The report adds that storage batteries consume more than one fourth of all lead smelted in the United States.
LITTLE ROCK AP State Welfare Director Len E Blaylock asked Attorney General Joe Purcell to recover more than $3,000 paid to John Keech while his uncle A J Red Moss headed the welfare commission Keech received 3193 85 in 1966 67 as Moss welfare visitor The federal government demanded last spring reimbursement for its half of Keechs wages plus any related costs The piece also notes the Southwest Arkansas District Junior Miss Pageant at Hope High School and a Junior Miss Dance at Hope Youth Center with proceeds funding carpet replacement for the Junior High auditorium SHAPE will provide music and welfare employees plan to attend college for social work training.
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