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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1969
Page
2
The report notes cloudy conditions with a cold to warm shift. It mentions widely scattered showers in the western areas with temperatures ranging from the mid forties to mid fifties today. Tonight the low is expected to reach around 40s inland and around 40 near the coast.
Israeli warplanes attacked southern Suez Canal positions for a second time as artillery duels persisted nine hours after Egyptian shellfire began. The defense ministry said the 4 p.m. strike targeted artillery and military sites near Port Ibrahim and the canal’s southern end.
The Red Cross collected 174 pints this visit and 154 pints on August 29, totaling 308 pints toward a 665 pint quota. Donors include Sandra Sallee and Douglas Drake among many others. next visit is December 16. Volunteers from Presbyterian and Methodist churches, Red River students and local doctors aided staffing and canteen services.
A warming trend should begin in Western Arkansas tonight and spread eastward by Wednesday while remaining cool through Thursday. Cloudiness increases from the west with a chance of light rain spreading northeast into western sections by Wednesday afternoon. Highs Monday ranged from 66 at Texarkana to 61 at Harrison. overnight lows varied across cities including 27 at Fayetteville and 45 at Texarkana.
Hope Realty Company of Hope Arkansas becomes distributor for Interstate Homes. Manufactured homes arrive as two sections built in Dallas, then assembled on site on prepared foundations. FHA and VA financing approved. programs include owner lot builds, lot finding with local contractor, and resale via contractors. Union craftsmen handle assembly at Hope Realty 720 East Third.
Dialogue from a page one feature shows a parent scolding children Susie Jane and Christopher about study rules and television on school nights. The excerpt highlights family dynamics and conflicts over bedtime and homework while noting a late night curiosity about what happens after midnight.
Memphis AP report says 12 year old Steve Todd of Earle was found buried in cotton seed meal at the Swift Co Cotton Oil Mill in Memphis during weekend unloading. Authorities deem the death accidental after police learn the boy was playing on a truck being loaded.
Texarkana Arkansas School Board votes to keep Dixie as the high school fight song amid protests from some Negro residents. The eight minute meeting drew about 500 attendees as officers patrol the campus and a 15 point resolution outlines discipline, identifications, Negro history elective, and band reinstatement rules.
TEXARKANA Ark AP Citizens Councils of America will join Freedom Inc in opposing the federal Model Cities program. W D Lord Jr field worker for the Citizens Council announced at a news conference with Dr Mitchell Young national president of Freedom Inc present. Young organized the group to support freedom of choice to achieve school integration. Lord said his group would work with the Texarkana organization and read a resolution adopted Saturday urging Arkansas school boards to refuse compliance pledges or unlawful HEW dictates.
Quitman Arkansas Navy sailor Jesse Bateman aged 33 was fatally shot in a Saigon restaurant in Vietnam. Authorities ruled the shooting accidental as he faced discharge from the Navy in April. Bateman is listed as from Cleburne County.
California farmer Joel Hall, near La Grange on the Tuolumne River, pushes California grown Kiwi berries into U.S. markets. The fruit, native to China and exported by Australia and New Zealand, sells about 60 cents per pound. Hall describes the taste as similar to apple or slightly tart watermelon with hints of tangerine.
U S Headquarters logged two clashes with troops in the Saigon area about 27 miles north with five enemy killed in one fight and 14 in an early morning ambush. South Vietnamese forces reported 32 enemy killed in Mekong Delta battles 127 and 113 miles from Saigon. B52 strikes dropped hundreds of tons of bombs nearby as allied commanders eye a likely winter offensive around November 15. Government to release 24 former Viet Cong prisoners on humanitarian grounds.
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