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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1967
Page
2
The administration's proposal for a federal rat extermination program faces delay as two congressmen seek to attach it to a $1 billion health aid bill. HUD would oversee a $40 million, two year program, a move opposed by most Republicans and Southern Democrats who favor using existing funds.
Five persons were injured and two killed in a headon two car crash on Interstate 30 about eight miles northeast of Benton Arkansas. Minnie Norris 72 of Mablevale died instantly. Geneva B Prock 59 of Santa Cruz Calif died about three hours later. Others injured include Mer Kelvey Rogers 40 Trashwood Ada 37 and Charmele 12 daughters of the Rogers family.
At Town and Country Restaurant the Rev Bill Lawrence spoke about Costa Rica where he and his wife studied language and will soon go to Mexico as Presbyterian Educational Missionaries. The address covered people, economy and attitudes toward the U.S., in a program with the Kiwanis Club.
Weather experiment station report for a 24 hour period ending 7 am Wednesday. High 74 and low 65 with .22 inches of precipitation. Forecast cloudy and cool tonight and Thursday with occasional rain mainly in south and east portions. Low tonight in the 60s.
State troopers widened a hunt for William T. McDonald a 54 year old Little Rock man wanted for first degree murder in a Little Rock police officer slaying as he remained at large from Mayflower to Carthage with 15 patrol units and bloodhounds from Cummins Prison Farm aiding the search in Faulkner and Dallas counties. Pope Paul VI recovers from a mild illness. Vatican says he is regaining.
The debate on Social Security payroll taxes examines employer costs and their potential ripple effects on prices and hiring. Experts note no clear consensus on whether the tax drives labor-saving buys, with the current rate at 4.4 percent on both sides and slated to rise to 5.9 percent by 1987, based on a wage base of 7600. The discussion comes as Medicare financing and proposed benefit increases push tax levels higher.
Forty survivors were reported in serious condition after a Czech Ayushin 18 turboprop crashed near Gander. The aircraft fate left 31 dead of 69 aboard, with two more deaths in hospital. Survivors included Czechs, Cubans, men, four boys and three girls. The plane was en route from Prague to Havana with stops in Ireland and Gander.
Polk County farmer Archie Cude, self proclaimed minister, faces renewed trouble as Mena schools refuse three of his children for lacking required vaccines under Arkansas 1967 law. Cude previously had two children removed in 1964 for refusing smallpox shots. the three youngsters now age 8 to 12 remain unvaccinated.
Mrs. Hattie Thornton, 80, lifelong resident of Hope, died Tuesday. She was a member of South Side Baptist Church. Surviving are her husband Earnest W. Thornton four brothers Russell of Waynesboro Texas four sisters Lula Browning Many Messimer Lexile Bradshaw, all of Waynesboro, Birdie Lyle of Alva Texas. Services will be Thursday at 1 p.m. at Herndon Chapel by Rev Gay Polk and Rev Charles Thornton. Burial will be in Memory Gardens by Hern don.
All major Northwest fires were reported controlled or near containment. In British Columbia four new 10,000 acre fires ignited on a steep Lumby mountainside, while the Shuswap Lake blaze of 45,000 acres slowed as temperatures fell up to 23 degrees, delaying progress for two weeks.
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