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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1968
Page
2
Mostly cloudy conditions with showers and thunderstorms ending tonight. High around 75, low near 66. Precipitation 3.29 inches. Continued mild with northwest to south temperatures in the low 70s. Forecast covers Arkansas with showers fading overnight and unsettled conditions through Thursday.
Administration sources say Washington may pledge to keep current European troop levels with NATO as a response to the Soviet threat. The pledge would likely appear in a joint statement following a National Security Council meeting on policies to counter Soviet moves in Czechoslovakia. President Johnson met with top aides after returning from Texas.
A publisher in Chicas promotes a self training method to improve memory for business and social success. The new booklet Adventures to Memory promises simple rules and is mailed free to anyone who sends name, address, and ZIP code to Memory Studies, 835 nee oe Bbells.
Go Winthrop Rockefeller released a 15 point debate plan addressing utilities regulation gambling education financing highway programs and state reforms. He proposed a television format with three one hour programs and a panel of journalists to probe topics agreed beforehand. Crank had previously held a PR post at Arkansas Cement Corp.
The Shah and Empress of Iran visited northeast Iran to survey quake devastation that killed about 11,000 and left 100,000 homeless. Turkish officials reported deaths and relief efforts reached the hardest hit towns east of Istanbul. Aid from Britain, the United States, and international groups poured in, with tents and supplies ferried to the stricken region.
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey cuts short a rest campaign plan to join a National Security Council session in Washington. He will fly from Minneapolis for a late afternoon meeting and attend a Cabinet session the same day with more strategy talks set for Friday and Saturday.
A replica of a POUND puffball mushroom found by Henry C. Wichers of the Denver Museum of Natural History will be preserved. He made a plaster cast before slicing for eating on the Uncompahgre Plateau 40 miles southwest of Grand Junction. The mushroom is valued at 7.57 at 0.89 per pound.
Three gunmen aboard a speedboat named Cheetah fled police on Long Island Sound after allegedly stealing up to 90 000 from a City Island bank. The heist involved two armed intruders forcing tellers to surrender cash while a guard was disarmed. A bank tellers’ alarm and cameras were triggered, and the robbers escaped to a stolen yellow panel truck then to the boat. Police, a helicopter, nine launches, and Coast Guard units hunted blue and white boats before identifying the craft as red and white. The vessel was found moored offshore in Weir Creek near Throgs Neck Bridge hours later.
Board chair Jol Haley warns money shortages may force Tucker Prison Farm to run under an honor system. The board eyes Tucker and Cummins Prison Farms, planning decisions by midmonth, with potential staff cuts and reduced food quality if funds fail to improve. Haley blames the legislature for the crisis and warns he may resign if finances do not improve.
Fragmentary notes show Haley discussing funding in regular session in January. Mentions minimum standards of decency and a budget possibly described as trillions, with uncertain figures and garbled wording. No clear event, date, or place established.
Fort Worth, AP. Air Force chief Gen John McConnell announced the F111A fighter bomber is ready to resume combat missions in Southeast Asia after grounding due to three crashes. Investigators blamed a faulty actuator rod in the tail assembly for at least one crash, a defect now corrected. The remarks accompanied the turnover of the first F111 to Australia.
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