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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1971
Page
4
An appreciation of forests notes trees renew environmental and economic benefits. Each acre yields oxygen for 18 people and four tons of wood yearly, highlighting trees as vital to air and industry.
Honolulu moves to cut rush hour traffic by 50 percent or more with a city run computerized car pooling plan. Mayor Frank Fasi announced a pilot with 7,000 city employees and a broader effort to recruit the work force, using a city computer to match riders sharing routes and times.
Prime Minister Edward Heath will meet Irish PM Jack Lynch to press for curbs on IRA cross border activity and halt border incursions into Northern Ireland. Lynch may seek proportional representation for Catholics in Belfast. Talks follow recent clashes, a Bishops clash, and heightened security as Britain accuses Dublin of sanctuary for IRA factions.
SANTA MONICA Calif AP Actress Raquel Welch 30 has filed for divorce from Patrick A Curtis 36 a press agent movie producer They married in Paris in 1967 and separated last March 12 Curtis who appeared in Gone With the Wind as a child was a Hollywood press agent when he met Miss Welch The couple has no children.
In San Diego the Navy tug Koka was decommissioned and presented to American Samoa as a gift of friendship. The ship renamed Tali tiga will serve salvage and rescue work in the South Pacific, with Maalona Elisara taking command after Lt. Timothy McGarvey saluted.
In FINILAND Oregon an AP report outlines a federally funded Alcohol Safety Action Project in Portland using the drug antibase to treat problem drinkers. About 50 offenders take daily doses. 75 cents a day is paid unless indigent. The program, begun after six months of planning, assigns problem drinkers to clinic evaluation with court recommendations, and coerced participants must comply or face probation terms.
FBI report ranks Charlotte Mecklenburg and Union counties with 24.7 murders per 100000 in 1970, repeating the high rate from 1969 and 1965. 101 people were killed in 1970 with 78 arrests. most victims were Black and knew their assailants. Local officials cite crime of passion and urge better jobs and living conditions.
Actor Edmond O'Brien, 55, hospitalized in San Bernardino after chest pains during filming for The Faith Healer, is reported recovering. A hospital spokesman cites a slight pulmonary condition and dust inhalation as possible factors.
President Nixon urged Americans to strive to be No. 1 in productivity and agriculture as he defended new economic policies aimed at prosperity without inflation or war. He spoke at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton and to 40,000 members of Associated Milk Producers Inc. in Chicago, urging sacrifices to fight inflation and promising fair shares for farmers. He planned a Labor Day radio address from Camp David after a two week western tour.
AP reports floods from the Ganges have displaced about 26 million people in West and East Bengal combined. Cholera outbreaks, high death tolls, and heavy crop losses worsen a regional crisis linked to a civil war and prior disasters. Official death counts run into dozens, with unofficial estimates much higher.
A 15 year old death row inmate in Cummins Prison Farm Ark reflects on the "good old days" while awaiting execution for the August 7 murder of Wynne farmer Jimmie Wampler. Born in 1955 in Globe Ariz, Joe Newton Kagebien moved across multiple states with his parents before settling in DeWitt Arkansas. He recalls family ties, religious faith, and a troubled path that led to his murder conviction and pending electric chair sentence for Wampler’s death.
House Democratic Leader Hale Boggs urged prompt action on trade policy as Congress reconvenes. He prioritized renewal of bargaining authority, Nixon’s tax package, and extending wage price controls, warning a 10 percent import duty could trigger a GATT violation and risk a broader trade war.
A 20 year old CuBan refugee Juan Miguel Borges Guerra attempted to hijack a Eastern Air Lines 727 from Chicago to St Thomas threatening stewardess Lana Dahlstrom with a screwdriver. Off duty crew and passengers overpowered him after a struggle leaving three officers with minor stab wounds and Dahlstrom with a wrist injury. He said his family was in Cuba and he planned to go there, and he was held on $500000 bond.
AP reports Pentagon leaders expect to win the fight for reducing Army divisions from 31 down toward as few as 11. Defense Secretary Laird backs the Army, while OMB officials push cutbacks. An Army general says the service is at rock bottom, ready for emergencies elsewhere. Final decision by President Nixon, likely January, with Army strength seen around 820,000 to 840,000 in the next budget.
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