Microfilmed records replace large bound volumes at Star office
Our Daily Bread Sliced Thin by The Editor Alex 4 describes Star's switch from four bound volumes per year to a microfilm system for archiving issues from 1899 daily to 1920. The piece notes cost savings, faster access, and storage efficiency, while acknowledging color photos are not preserved in microfilm. It also mentions a new viewing setup and public access, plus a related AP report on Canada’s Order of Canada and East Texas State University’s new president.
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Alex
Washburn
Star
Hope Star
Micro-film Service & Sales Co
Dalelas
Lands in Arms of the Police
Ronald Williams stole lead from a roof in Pockport and slid down a drainpipe into the arms of police officer Joan Wallace in turquoise pajamas. The 24 year old pleaded guilty and received six months in jail. The officer quipped about the odd arrest as she testified in court.
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Pockport
Dugland
Ronald Williams
Joan Walelace
Williams
Miss Wallace
Senate Vote Lowers Social Security Retirement Age to 60
The Senate approved lowering the retirement age to 60 for workers who trade five years of full benefits for early leisure. The Byrd amendment grants about 10 percent of 65-year benefits for those retiring at 60. Debate ties to a broader tax bill with $4 billion yearly Social Security increases and campaign finance clashes.
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Senate
Joe Hall
Washington
Robert C. Byrd
D-W
Byrd
Russell B. Long
DeLa
Senate House Conference Committee
House
Senate Ethics Committee
Thomas J. Dodd
Episcopals to Dedicate Service Book and Altar Gear
At St. Mark's Episcopal Church a parish service on Sunday April 23 will dedicate a new altar service book and audio visual equipment in memory of Kenneth Lyle Bilyeu. Also to be consecrated are a chalice and paten a green dossal and altar frontal and eucharist vestments. The dossal and frontal are a gift from the Women of St. Mark's fashioned by Mrs. Gordon Tyer. Vestments were made for Father Hancock in England for use at major feasts and Nuptial Eucharists.
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Fred Hancock
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Kenneth Lyle Bilyeu
Helen Barlow
Hancock
St. Mark's
Gordon Tyer
Father Hanscock
England
Hope High School Senior Play The Magic Touch
The Hope High School Senior Play The Magic Touch will be presented in April 2021 at three performances. Times include Thursday and Friday matinees and a Friday night show at 8 p.m. The production features set team Mike Atkins Larry Moses Rosnie McCorkle and George Garrett along with a tomboy heroine, her social climbing mother, and a style show with many pretty dresses.
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Hope High School
Mike Atkins
Larry Moses
Ronsie McCorkle
George Garrett
Rock Tossing in Housing March in Ky
About 125 proponents of open housing marched through Louisville's all white south side for 24 hours defying an injunction against night marches. Two Negroes were struck by rocks, police rounded up 18 hecklers, and several arrests were made. Negro leadership seeks to dissolve the injunction in U S District Court, arguing constitutional rights of assembly and petition.
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C. M. Gilmour JR
Louisville, Ky
Louisville
Eugene Alvey
U.S. District Court
A. D. Williams King
Martin Luther King
King
Rockefeller Faubus skirmishes amid 1968 politics and trade debate
Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller and former Gov. Orval Faubus trade barbs over 1968 ambitions in Arkansas while national issues unfold. Sen. Dirksen cites a China Soviet accord as shifting East West trade and Vietnam policy, prompting opposition to trade liberalization amid war. Cotton deputies oppose trade expansion until Vietnam hostilities end.
International tensions and political clashes ripple worldwide
AP News Digest reports on South Arabia's nationalist push toward an anti-British and anti-American Arab state, explosive incidents in Haiti amid regime rivalries, and East West dynamics as the Soviet Union axes with Red China to aid North Vietnam. In U.S. politics, Dirksen cites new war material flows to Vietnam, Dodd faces possible censure, and constitutional convention talk grows in state legislatures. Space progress includes Surveyor 3 reboot and Apollo confidence. Civil rights visuals flare as Louisville marches despite a restraining order.
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Hattian
Francois Duvalier
Duvalier
Vietna
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Everett Dirksen
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Red China
North Vietnam
Surveyor 3
Moon
Louisville
American Society of Girl Watchers
Cattlemen to Meet Thursday in Hempstead County
Hempstead County Cattlemen will hold its annual meeting and barbecue at the Southwest Branch Experiment Station Thursday night April 20 starting at 7 00 p m Burgess Garrett president urges association members and families to attend Barbecue is donated by Dorsey White Ned Purtle and committee with Leo Ray to prepare vegetables Each family should bring a salad and dessert If rain forces change the meeting will relocate to the Third District Livestock Show Coliseum.
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Southwest Branch Experiment Station
Burgess Garrett
Cattlemen's Association
Dorsey White
Ned Purtle
Leo Ray
Colliseum
Guidelines Issued for the American Society of Girl Watchers
New York AP report outlines rules for the American Society of Girl Watchers, urging members to avoid ogling, staring, whistling, or pursuing overt acts. Founder Sauers recalls inspiration from bird watchers and notes the society now spans 45 states with offices on 38th Street.
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American Society of Girl Watchers
Will Grimsley
New York
Don Sayers
Eastchester
N.Y
Vermont
Miami
Los Angeles
Searson
Fifth Avenue
42Nd Street
Central Park
Paradise
Sauers
Sauer
Madison Avenue
Auduc Bon Society
38Th Street
Park Avenue
Sayers
The
Elks
Professional Sports Manageement Corp
Ray Baur
Westport
Conn
Scholarship Offered for Arts Colony by Arkansas Music Clubs
The Southwest District of the Arkansas Federation of Music Clubs offers a full scholarship to Inspi ration Fine Arts Colony for one student aged 15 to 18 residing in the district. Auditions on April 29 at 10 a.m. in Dolph Camp Fine Arts Building, Southern State College. Entrants perform two numbers, pay a $5 fee, supply an accompanist, and register by 10 a.m. The winner, announced the same day, will have the scholarship sent to Inspiration Point and receive a certificate. The 18th Fine Arts Colony runs June 19 to July 29 with 6 weeks of training under 20 staff and a small 125-student limit, plus performance opportunities.
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Arkansas Federation of Music Clubs
Inspiration Fine Arts Colony
Sam Strong
Friday Music Club
Hope
Dolph Camp Fine Arts
Southern State College
Inspiration Point
Fine Arts Colony
Ving
Jane Ann Jaytoe Enrolls Early at OCU
Oklahoma City University admissions clerk explains a coed cannot enroll early for September. The student, Jane Ann Jaytoe Miss America 1967, had permission due to her heavy schedule from appearances nationwide, and the early enrollment was completed quickly.
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Oklahoma City
Francis Kirby
Oklahoma City University
All Around Town list of PTA and local notices
All Around Town covers PTA meetings at Hope Junior-Senior High and an executive session, plus Mothers of Doctors and Little and Babe Ruth leagues invited to attend an April 20 meeting at the Youth Center. Also nurses meet at Hempstead Memorial Hospital with guests, and local civic notes on training, awards, a fire call, a missing child found, and student choir tours.
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Hope
PTA
Mothers of Doctors
Newcomeers
Hempstead Memorial Hospital
EF. Rogers
Heckler and Marcher Mixup Leads to Peace Talks Offer
In Saigon a new peace proposal from South Vietnam sought talks with North Vietnam and a pullback from the demilitarized zone. U S officials welcomed the move as fighting continued in Mekong Delta Hue and across coastal areas with Korean and Saigon units engaging Viet Cong forces.
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Mekong Delta
U.S
Hellicopter
Hue
Imperial
Mekong
Song Cau
White Horse
Tuy Hoa
Qui Nhon
Tan Lam
Foreign Ministry
Canada
Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
International Control Commission
Republic of Vietnam
Hanoi
North
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
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