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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1966
Page
2
Page Two Weather report for 24 hours ending 7 am Tuesday shows Arkansas with clear to partly cloudy skies and little temperature change. lows 54 to 64 and highs in the 80s through Wednesday. Louisiana expects partly cloudy conditions with isolated thunderstorms this afternoon and evening. lows 64 to 72 and highs in the mid 80s to 90.
In Bogalusa Louisiana about 200 Negroes at a Civic and Voters League meeting voted to defy a city ordinance and hold a protest march that night. League president A Z Young quoted urging money be spent on a gun and declared war on the Ku Klux Klan amid complaints by Bogalusa Junior High School pupils of harassment by white students.
President Johnson vetoed a 900 million increase in government employee life and health benefits citing inflation and restraint in federal spending. House Republicans planned further Budget hearings as administration officials defended budget cuts and anti inflation measures. The veto marks the sixth of his presidency and follows prior cost of living increase proposals.
President Johnson praised the voter participation in South Vietnam while avoiding specifics on the ballot. Senators Kuchel Dirksen and Gruening offered sharp takes on the poll, with state department noting guarded progress toward constitutional governance amid insurgent threats. A related notice covers the Biscayne National Monument bill and a stamp honoring jurist John Bassett Moore.
Emmet native Pvt J N Sanders son of Mr and Mrs Cecil White of Emmet recently completed eight weeks of recruit training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego California The ceremony marked his advancement and readiness for further Marine service within the corps.
In Atlanta a tense Negro area again erupted in rocks and fire bombs after a church meeting with SCLC and SNCC leaders. Police cleared streets as youths shouted black power, while MLK Jr and Mayor Allen met earlier. Stokely Carmichael remained jailed on a bond for prior violence. Contained by midnight, the riot followed the fatal shooting of Herbert Warner, a local teen, blamed as the spark.
Marvell School board denounces the 1966 guidelines as unreasonable and unworkable and declines compliance pledges after previously following 1965 rules. Parents of 65 Black children have sued in U.S. District Court seeking court-ordered compliance and admission to white schools. A boycott by Negro students has disrupted the district as the board works on a desegregation plan. Elsewhere Penn State and Maryland football schedules were set for five years, and Red River Vocational-Technical School added Charles St Jordan to staff to teach math and drafting across departments.
Lula M. Whitten 89 of Bodcaw dies after brief illness in Hope hospital. Survived by five sons Vernon Earl Delma Chester Whitten Bodcaw, two daughters, three brothers, 25 grandchildren, 44 great grandchildren. Funeral 2 p.m. Bodcaw Baptist Church. Burial Union Cemetery Smith Funeral Home. Otto Sisson 59 retired farmer and Hope resident dies. Survived by parents, four brothers, two sisters. Service 2:30 p.m. Laneburg Chapel, burial Laneburg Cemetery.
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