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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1967
Page
2
Clear to partly cloudy and mild conditions extend into Saturday across Arkansas. Tonight will be in the 50s with a low around the mid fiftys. Friday's outlook features a high near 89 with a low around 61 and precipitation about .10 of an inch.
Rep. Edmondson of Oklahoma is slated to speak at a joint Arkansas Basin Association meeting with the regional American Waterway Operators section. Robert Nabholz of Conway says discussions will cover progress on the Arkansas River navigation project and a possible user tax on river shipping. The Arkansas is expected navigable from the Mississippi River to Pine Bluff and Little Rock by 1968 and to Tulsa by 1970.
Interstate work spreads from Memphis to the Oklahoma line with multiple segments under paving grading and re routing. The Arkansas Highway Department estimates total interstate cost at 485 million, funded by a 9 to 1 federal to state ratio. Separately, Farmers Home Administration approves a 70000 loan for Louann Ouachita County to develop a water supply well and renovate a 1924 distribution system.
AP analyst James Marlow surveys a perilous path from Hiroshima to the mid-1970s, detailing rapid Chinese Soviet United States nuclear advances, ABM plans, and the race to deter or deterred by evolving missile delivery systems. He warns of a layered threat if China and the Soviet Union align against U.S. defenses, and the paradox of an arms race that could culminate in antiaim defense against antiaim systems.
The House approved the Education TV bill 265 to 91, paving eventual enactment this year. It creates a federal funded public corporation to subsidize noncommercial radio and TV, with initial 39 million for setup and 38 million for construction over three years. House-Senate differences include one-year scope and board party mix.
North Little Rock AP report says Municipal Judge Milton McLees fined Indiana carnival worker Thomas B. Layer Jr. 28, of Anderson, for possession of a fraudulent Arkansas driver's license. Layer's license, tied to a Hot Springs address and issued by Van Buren official Virginia Robinson, was used as ID when arrested. The case follows a Revenue Department probe that uncovered thousands of fake licenses sold through offices at Van Buren Walnut Ridge and Hot Springs. Prairie dogs are mentioned in passing.
Congress faces pressure over a proposed tax hike with a 3 percent inflation offset that could add about 285 dollars in impact. Fowler urged lawmakers to consider potential voter backlash and economic signals beyond current mail. Republicans Ford and Dirksen warned nothing is dead, while the House Post Office Committee advanced a measure granting 46 percent postal raises and 4 1/2 percent raises for other federal workers, plus higher mailing costs, risking a presidential veto.
Minnie James Hendrix 92 lifelong resident of the area died Friday in a nursing home. She leaves a son Hy Hendrix of Arkadelphia and three daughters Freda Bailey Rosston and Norma Husskey Arp Texas and J E Kennedy Rosston. Services at 3 p.m. Saturday at Oakcrest Funeral Chapel with Rev Gordon Renshaw. burial Marlbrooks Cemetery.
Severe floods threaten coastal Texas as highways south of San Antonio remain impassable. In a broad arc from Matagorda to San Antonio and Laredo, officials report widespread evacuations with 10,000 refugees in San Antonio. National Guard trucks move to the Lower Rio Grande Valley as Victoria braces for rising Guadalupe River levels.
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