28 Oct 1967
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1967
Page
1
A long critique notes how public health groups FCC and FTC urge warnings and anti tobacco campaigns, while the Agriculture Department expands subsidies for tobacco production. It argues taxpayers fund mixed efforts while smoking rises. The piece also comments on a White House wedding scheduling clash and a Vietnam casualty report from Malvern Arkansas.
A Morriston Ark man Laurence Broussard 34 was found not guilty by a Knox County Criminal Court jury on charges of kidnapping and robbing Eugene Scott 42 of $36 at gunpoint last June. Co defendants from Morriston pleaded guilty receiving prison terms 5 to 25 years.
Robert M. Millwee, executive director of the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission, said his $16,500 annual salary was supplemented by an AIDC foundation fund. He noted several other AIDC salaries could be augmented next January if the General Assembly does not raise them. The fund has been nearly depleted by recent months due to few contributions, though Millwee’s total compensation rose to about $24,500. He warned salaries may again be supplemented if needed for a February special session.
The October maps summarize Weather Bureau estimates of average temperatures and precipitation through November 15. Forecasters project regional trends, with deviations noted in rainfall and temperature patterns across stations, guiding seasonal planning for agriculture and utilities.
LONDON AP layley Mills 21 year old British actress is named in a divorce petition brought by Enid Boulting against her husband Roy Boulting film director Mills daughter began acting at 12 in Tiger Bay and gained notice in The Family Way. Washington AP items point to a new wave of tightened credit but lenders and borrowers expect delays before effects hit. Government officials say a tax-based cure could head off the squeeze if Congress acts on Johnson’s request for a 1 percent income tax surcharge.
Political figures defend antiwar demonstrations as constitutional expressions of free speech while acknowledging tensions with police. The argument centers on whether dissent functions as a legitimate constitutional check or a harmful disruption to public order and governance.
The Security Council splits over rival plans to send a UN representative to the Middle East to advance a lasting Arab Israeli peace. A six nation draft cites core principles including Israeli withdrawal from occupied Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian lands and Arab states ending belligerency, while Canada and Denmark propose a narrower plan.
Barry Suweid reports on Justice Thurgood Marshall’s early Supreme Court actions. He sided with liberal precedents in overturning Alabama murder convic tions due to jury exclusion and coerced confession concerns while joining Fortas and Douglas in criticizing a gas chamber deal testimony.
Methodist Youth Fellowship and other churches plan Trick or Treat for UNICEF October 29 from 2 to 5 pm. Local chairs Linda O Neal and Janey Seamans lead. Mrs Joe Watkins oversees. The appeal highlights UNICEF impact and invites contributions via orange cartons judged by UNICEF symbol mothers and children in Hope Arkansas.
On Theodore Roosevelt Island in the Potomac River a 17 foot high bronze statue of Teddy Roosevelt, created by Paul Manship, is unveiled under the presiding of Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall with Alice Roosevelt Longworth pulling the cord. The $1 million Theodore Roosevelt Memorial on the 8B acre island opens after years of design debates, with four granite slabs and a moat terrace, reachable by ferry or footbridge.
The SEC and Post Office issued a foreign postal fraud order against Simpson-McArthur Ltd for selling unregistered securities in the United States. Mail to a Freeport Bahamas post office box is stamped fraudulent and returned. The firm offered undivided royalties in an Australian concession and letters urged investments of 200 to 500 with maps and return envelopes.
Reporting from Vietnam details heavy action near Da Nang Tar Ky and Hoi An with 19 U S dead and 76 wounded as shelling rises at Con Thien. Air Cavalry battles near Hol An plus 900 U S troops clash with the North Vietnamese 2nd Division while pilots claim 27 MiGs destroyed or damaged this week.
AP News recalls James Wiley Alexander Wiley served 24 years in the U.S. Senate beginning in 1939. He opposed the 1940 draft and 1944 lend-lease before shifting toward internationalism, shaping postwar foreign policy alongside Arthur Vandenberg.
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