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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1969
Page
3
The column notes Pod Rogers rehearsing a speech at Hope Kiwanis and a comment about being used as a prop. It recalls radio and printing plant changes at KXAR and compares old presses to new automation, praising skilled technicians who keep modern communication running.
Red River Vocational Technical School will offer night classes starting Monday October 27 at 6 30 p m. Courses cover basic shorthand typing office occupations and basic accounting plus calculator. Additional offerings include machine shop practice automotive electrical systems and blueprint reading. Contact the business office for details.
North Vietnamese troops killed seven Americans and wounded 18 as two helicopter losses were reported near the Cambodian border north of Saigon. The U.S. announced 2,300 Marines would depart South Vietnam this week under Nixon’s withdrawal plan, including the first major elements of the 3rd Division’s 4th Regiment bound for Okinawa. After 40 years of combat, the 4th Regiment is the last unit of the 3rd Division in Vietnam, leaving the 1st Division as the remaining Marine unit in the central highlands south of Da Nang.
AP Special Correspondent John M. Hightower reports a clash between Nixon administration support for returning hijackers to their origin and granting asylum to escapees from Communist countries. Two East Germans forced a Polish Airlines flight with 63 passengers to West Berlin, landing in Tegel. United States Britain and France confer on handling the case amid ICAO and UN moves to curb hijacking.
In Wilkes Barre, Philadelphia medical examiner Dr. Joseph W. Spelman testifies that an autopsy and external exam on Mary Jo Kopechne could alter the Massachusetts drowning verdict. Dinis seeks Kopechne’s exhumation for an inquest, aiming to reconcile the body’s condition with death by drowning.
A Birmingham father recounts taking his 5 year old Claudette along to a dentist appointment for his own front tooth filling. The child’s curiosity and questions heighten the stress as he tries to reassure her and endure the visit.
United States and Japan reach understanding to return Okinawa to Tokyo by 1972 while keeping a U.S. base on the island. Nuclear weapons to be removed. joint statement planned after the Nov 19 21 Washington talks. Final agreement negotiations expected to take a year or more.
AP reports Rep. James O’Hara criticizes IRS plans to sell data from tax returns to private firms for direct mail. He cites Sears Roebuck Gel Spiegel and others, warning it could invade privacy and target citizens with junk mail. The IRS has published income statistics by metropolitan areas and by zip code regions since 1960.
Sen. George D Aiken forecast all ground troops out of Vietnam within a year while the Senate Foreign Relations Committee postponed hearings until after President Nixon's Nov 3 policy report. Senate GOP leader Hugh Scott urged tolerance and an end to name calling in the Vietnam debate as Spiro Agnew faced opposition in Washington. Secretary Rogers said the administration listens to opponents of the war at the Family of Man awards dinner in New York.
Washington report notes since World War I the U S merchant fleet deteriorated and 96 percent of imported raw materials now enter America on foreign vessels. Helen Bentley urges action, citing Soviet port influence and the need for more U S owned tonnage by mid-1970s. AFL-CIO calls for 50 percent of foreign trade to ride American bottoms.
An autopsy found two people dead from carbon monoxide poisoning in a car abandoned in a ditch near Dermott. Loki Mae Jones, 25, of McGehee and J.T. Adams, 39, of Dermott were identified as victims after the Saturday discovery.
The Bundestag elected Willy Brandt chancellor of West Germany, ending twenty years of Christian Democratic rule and giving the nation its first Socialist chancellor in the two decades of postwar history. The vote was 251 to 235 with five abstentions, four ballots invalid and one deputy absent.
A Pan American World Airways Boeing 720 jetliner with 46 aboard was hijacked while flying from Mexico City toward Miami. The pilot diverted toward Havana after signaling over Merida, Mexico. The flight, Pan Am 551, had planned stops at Merida and Tampa en route to Miami.
AP reports Senate GOP leader Hugh Scott urged tolerance and an end to name calling in the Vietnam debate without naming Spiro Agnew. Official sources say Okinawa may be returned to Tokyo's control by a military base on the island. In Wilkes Barre a Philadelphia medical examiner autopsy on Mary Jo Kopechne could modify or negate the drowning verdict. Cambodian border unrest noted.
Congressman Hammerschmidt reports the Economic Development Administration approved a $453000 grant to Hope for access roads and sewer and water improvements at four industrial sites. The grant combines with $302000 from the city, totaling $755000.
Short notes from Hope area events include Marvin Stanley Jr. age 14 killing a button back on the Stanley farm north of Ozan with a bow and arrow, L. Wassell of Hope at the Arkansas logging equipment show, Lynda Bearden in Ouachita Baptist University honors program, and fond notes on large watermelons from the Middlebrooks and Kent families. Fire crews fought a grass and woods blaze on Spring Hill Road and 6th Street. Texarkana College Rodeo Club hosts its first annual open horse show on Saturday October 25 at the Third District Livestock Show Coliseum starting at 10 a.m. Arkansas Game and Fish Commission leaders, including Andrew Hulsey, attend the SE Association meeting in Mobile with Dick Broach presenting papers on fishing management in Delta Arkansas. Hope Athletic Boosters meet tonight at 7:30 in the High School Science Building to view a film of the Hope-Malvern game.
Gale winds from Hurricane Laurie whipped offshore Louisiana and drifted northeast as the hurricane center lay 230 miles south of New Orleans. A hurricane watch extended from Galveston to Apalachicola while thousands fled coastal areas, especially Lafourche Parish, to refugee camps inland.
Hope High School Cafeteria hosts a pancake supper Friday starting at 5 p.m. with hot pancakes sausage butter and syrup plus milk or coffee. Proceeds aid Kiwanis youth projects including K Park and funds toward a new Youth or Community Center.
Mrs. Mary Ellen Parker of 400 East 13th Street in Hope Arkansas has been named to the Consumer Education Council by Attorney General Joe Purcell. She is one of 35 women from around the state serving to inform the public about consumer problems and legislation.
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