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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1975
Page
4
A concise column by editor Alex H. Washburn examines daily bread themes and practical suggestions for frugal, mindful living through simple routines and steady habits.
A British physician predicts humans may reach age 150, outlining how senses decline with age from ten to beyond seventy five. He notes eye elasticity at ten, hearing decay at twenty, taste fade after fifty, and smell fading since sixty, concluding the final decades may demand easier lives.
Hempstead Quail Association will meet at Rodeway Restaurant on April 14 at 7 30 p.m. Officers from the State Game and Fish Commission will explain the quail habitat program with door prizes. Hempstead County Quorum Court calls a special meeting for April 21 at 9 a.m. in the county courthouse large courtroom. Dee McMurrough urges attendance. Also scheduled a Macedonia Baptist Church concert on April 20 at 2 30 p.m. featuring Charles Stuart and other singers. Marine PFC Tommy W. Adams of Route 3 Rosston Ark departs Camp Lejeune for six months of Mediterranean deployment with the 34th Marine Amphibious Unit. Chief Master Sergeant Wayburn D. Humphries receives the Meritorious Service Medal at Udorn Thai AFB with wife Joretta Wade noted.
City subscribers are urged to phone 777 8841 to request a missed Star paper delivery. Call times are weekdays 6 to 6 50 pm and Saturday 3 30 to 4 pm. A carrier will deliver the missing issue. Do not call outside these times.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger said he will visit Latin America in the coming weeks but faces pressure to restore momentum after repeated postponements. Argentina and Brazil are seen as key stops with possible brief stops in Uruguay. Chile and Peru may be dropped from the itinerary. Venezuela seeks stronger U S ties and energy talks are on the agenda.
Julius Drummond III of Hope was charged with first degree murder in the death of 33 year old Charles Edward Davis Jr. Davis was shot three times with a .22 caliber pistol Thursday at a Hope pool hall. Drummond was arrested later at a service station near the scene.
Sweepstakes winner is Rusty Hart for a mold display using common foods and a fungi poster. Grand prizes go to Jennifer Hicks and Stephen Drake for physics demonstrations. Numerous first second and third place winners named along with honorable mentions and poster placements.
Carolyn Dianne Zachry testified she was not involved in her husband’s death and had falsely told police she paid five thousand dollars to kill him to cover for her mother. She explained the money went to her mother who gave it to the alleged killer. She denied paying anyone to kill her husband and said the money to Texarkana man was to stop Bean’s pressure.
Louisiana agriculture experts say nearly 2.2 million acres will be planted to soybeans statewide in 1975, up from 1.8 million, as cotton acreage shrinks from 640000 to about 400000. DDT ban worsens pest pressures, with cotton farmers facing rising costs and low prices.
U S forces evacuate more than 180 Marines and evacuees from Phnom Penh aboard five helicopters under fire. The operation ends American embassy presence in Cambodia amid Khmer Rouge advances, with no injuries reported and evacuees taken to carriers Okinawa and Hancock at sea.
Gov. David Pryor vetoed portions of two state measures on Friday, striking edits from the State Building Services appropriation and a grants for public school programs bill. Act numbers 1003 and 1004 were formed with the vetoed parts removed. The building services bill sought 14.2 million of 28 million for office space, with the rest moved from funds to the Public Building Authority, now being phased out, and a garbled site description risked misplacing two blocks east of the Capitol. Four sections of the school program bill and a 100,000 line item per year for attorney-fee reimbursements to districts were also vetoed.
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