Our Daily Bread Sliced Thin By The Editor
Alex H. Washburn presents Our Daily Bread in a concise column offering reflective insights and succinct commentary on daily life and moral matters.
11 Apr 1977
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1977
Page
1
Alex H. Washburn presents Our Daily Bread in a concise column offering reflective insights and succinct commentary on daily life and moral matters.
The Star announces a new weekly feature titled Makin Things starting April 13 with two editions that week and each Monday thereafter. It will run under a partnership with Register & Tribune Syndicate and include 250 copies of the 1977 AP Sports Almanac. The feature is by Ed and Stevie Baldwin, known from Tulsa World and Enid Morning News. Also notes the do it yourself market growth and upcoming television projects. Weather: fair and mild tonight, increasing cloudiness and warm Tuesday with scattered western showers. Lows tonight in the Ws.
A westbound Frisco freight hitting an oil tanker at a private crossing in Terlton Oklahoma injured three people and caused about 2 million dollars in damage. Firefighters from multiple towns battled a spreading oil fire as 17 freight cars and three engines derailed.
Arkansas Supreme Court upheld that public bodies may meet in private to collect and consider facts related to personnel matters. The ruling narrows the FOI statute by allowing deliberations in private, while dissent warns it could shield non related topics from public scrutiny.
The Hope City Board of Directors meets Tuesday night with new city manager John Swift. They will consider a contract with the Hope Housing Authority to secure right-of-way for the wastewater project, award work on Hervey Street and Avenue B, set just compensation for Highway 174 right-of-way, and discuss employee health insurance and meeting date ordnance. The meeting starts at 7 p.m.
The Housing Authority of Hope will conduct a housing survey on elderly rentals. A project is planned at Sixth and Laurel Streets and residents 62 or older who can pay 25 percent of income for rent may visit the Housing Office at 728 Texas Street to fill out a non binding form.
Ford Dawson 52 of Gulfport fired a shot in the First Baptist Church during Easter services then killed his dog and himself on live television. He spoke briefly from the pulpit before shooting and later died after brain surgery. the dog survived.
Hershel Edward Laminack and Billy Von Williams of Morehouse Missouri are jailed in Hempstead County for theft of two horses a horse trailer three saddles two bridles and two horse blankets. A horse and trailer were recovered from Eddie Fry after a Dec 3 1976 theft. Arrests were made in Sikeston Missouri and the recovered property returned to Hempstead County. Police say the case remains under investigation.
The Hope Board of Education will hold a regular monthly meeting in the administration building at 7 p.m. Items include officer elections, student expulsions, and Fulton school matters. An executive session will discuss bus driver employment and personnel for 1977 78.
Two Soviet ships faced enforcement action off the U S coast as the Taras Shevchenko docked at Boston with a crew of 93 after exceeding river herring quotas. The Antanas Snechkus was moved toward Boston from east southeast of Nantucket. authorities seized cargo on the second vessel. President Carter commented on the enforcement.
President Carter finishes a weekend in Calhoun Georgia with Easter services and a sunrise family event. Back in Washington he plans a news conference to reveal a wage and price monitoring plan with labor management committees and a strengthened Wage and Price Stability Council while outlining Latin American policy to the Organization of American States.
Easter 1970 saw Pope Paul VI greeting millions in 14 languages as crowds flocked to St. Peter's Square while tensions rose with anarchist interruptions at Notre Dame Paris. In the U S Carter family held a sunrise service in Georgia and Easter parades filled New York and Atlantic City. Moscow advertised graveside observances as state media aired Western entertainment. IRA factions staged marches in Dublin and Belfast amid claimed bombings and shootings, with denials from the Provisionals.
Arkansas Attorney General Bill Clinton says more work release centers additional probation officers and a new prison are needed to ease the growing inmate population He plans to meet with Governor Pryor and corrections officials to discuss the overcrowding.
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