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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1968
Page
2
Meager air pressure report for 24 hours ending 7 am shows high near 88 and low around 60 with .03 inch precipitation. Forecaster notes considerable cloudiness with no major temperature changes through Wednesday and scattered afternoon and evening thunder showers. Tonight’s low expected mainly in the lower 70s.
Arkansas justices grapple with third member rules on county election boards amid Democratic party dominance. The majority favors keeping third members aligned with the majority party, while dissents argue for independence to reflect broader governance.
Democratic nominee Marion Crank told about 6,000 at Rector Labor Day picnic that Arkansas had faltered under Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, while Rockefeller countered Arkansas was advancing economically and leading gains in hourly wages. He urged bids on bonds, casino talk, and justice via juries, criticizing Crank’s ties to special interests and promising a four year plan.
Two head on crashes 45 seconds apart in Union County kill four in Junction City and three in El Dorado, injuring several more. Victims include Nathaniel Toliver, 31, and his 3-year-old son Norman. others are Marseline Toliver, Nathlene, Nathanial, and Nicholas Toliver. In El Dorado, Billy Taunus, 15, Larry Ashbrook, 19, Sarah Silvertooth, 17, die. Jerry Ashrook, 27, and Brenda Post, 15, badly hurt. car driven by Ashbrook had Silvertooth as a passenger.
Tommie L. Carrigan son of Mrs Amlee Carrigan of Route 1 Washington Arkansas has completed basic training at Lackland AFB Texas and is assigned to the Air Force Technical Training Center at Keesler AFB Mississippi for specialized schooling as an administrative specialist He is a Lincoln High School graduate
Obituary notices report the deaths of Francis Ahmed 58 a founder of the Algerian independence movement and first finance minister of independent Algeria who died of heart ailments in Carmel California Ray Lovett 76 publisher of the Palo Alto News and Peninsula Newspapers Inc who died Monday Elwood G Lohela 61 longtime Ann Arbor News city editor and former Carroll College public relations man who died Monday of cancer in Ann Arbor Michigan
The extended Labor Day weekend ends with 666 deaths from traffic accidents, the highest toll for the holiday period. Compared to 518 nonholiday deaths, the figures show the danger of the long weekend. The worst crash involved eight North Dakota teens near Jamestown, while another Ark. crash killed five and injured eight. The NSC had projected 575 to 675 deaths. the prior Labor Day peak was 636 in 1966.
Reported tensions within the Czech liberal movement and Soviet reaction as Warsaw Pact troops invade. Sources say liberal weekly papers shift stance, with Prague residents urged to avoid large gatherings near St Wenceslas monument. Moscow signals possible troop withdrawal talks as others call for guiding dissident media.
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