This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 18 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1964
Page
7
Willie Mays socked his sixth homer in six games and drove in three as the Giants crushed Cincinnati 13-6. His three hits lifted his average to .391, marking the hottest start of his 1951 era with SF. Dodgers meanwhile dropped their fifth straight.
The Associated Press reports Toronto defeated Detroit 4 to 2 in Saturday action. The Best-of-7 Stanley Cup Finals is now tied at two games apiece as Toronto gains ground against the Red Wings in a pivotal matchup.
SEARCY Ark AP Oklahoma City University captured 49 points to win the college division of the Harding College invitational track meet Benton won the high school division with 53 points Seven records fell in each division Mississippi College was second with 32 points followed by Arkansas State Teachers College 28 Hendrix 17 Harding 17 John Brown University 193 Henderson 11 Ouachita 10 Southeast Missouri State and Fort Worth Christian College 3 Conway second in high school with 32 Harding Academy 18 Searcy 14 DeWitt 10 Lonoke 9 Judsonia 5 Hazen 4 Des Are 4 Wynne 3 Beebe 3 Bryant 2
Donna deVarona dominated the 1964 national AAU Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships at Pitt, sweeping the 200 and 400 individual medleys and the 200 butterfly, plus 100 butterfly runner up. She scored 26 points and helped both winning relays as the youth-heavy field set American records in all 14 events over four days. Barbara Talmage won platform diving.
Toronto st Detroit appear in a fragmented note showing schedule references with no clear outcome or full context. The item lists three game labels including Sundays results and a reference to today and Tuesday games, lacking full details for a coherent report.
Advertisement extols the Jeep Universal as a durable work vehicle built to haul push tow climb and endure years of use. It touts availability with half or full cabs or convertible top. Three power take-off options and wheelbase choices of 80 81 or 101 inches.
Texas Christian University defeated Arkansas 4-2 in a Southwest Conference golf meet at Fayetteville. Medalist was TCU’s Dave Turner with 67. Individual results saw TCU’s Ed Smith and John Lawson fall to Arkansas survivors, with Ty Dickinson and Bill Turner rallying in key matches.
Los Angeles Dodgers, 10th in the standings, suffer a five game losing streak after a 12 inning 3-2 defeat to the Milwaukee Braves. Manager Walter Alston faces questions as the team produces just two runs in 26 innings while being shut out in the final five innings of Friday’s game. Frank Howard’s late infield hit marks the only Dodgers hit in the ninth.
EL DORADO Ark AP The Pine Bluff Zebras won the Oil Belt Relays with 50 points setting four records led by Johnny Hearnburger of Fordyce who daymarked three marks in 100 yard dash 10.0 440 yard dash 50.3 and 20 yard dash 22.6 Jim Hunt of Pine Bluff set a broad jump record 20 feet 11 inches while Jim Barnes of Pine Bluff broke the discuss record 160 feet 43 inches Gordon Norwood of Pine Bluff matched his Oil Belt hurdle mark 14.9 in the 120 yard. Other winners included Cathy Ferguson and Terri Stickles in swimming and Santa Clara in team scoring with 18042 points.
Phillies rookie Richie Allen, 22, homered twice and added a single as Philadelphia beat Chicago 8 1. The first baseman is hitting .429 with three homers, seven RBIs and 19 total bases, drawing praise from manager Gene Mauch who compares him to Ted Williams in style. Allen says he’s just a late starter who keeps swinging.
The standings show multiple teams across the American and National Leagues with wins, losses, and games back. Saturday results include Kansas City at Cleveland with rain, Detroit beating Los Angeles, Minnesota over Washington in 10 innings, and Chicago defeating Boston 9 to 3. Track meet records include David Cooper’s shot put 43 feet 1 inch, Wayne Robert’s 88-yard dash 1 58.5, Mike Condit’s mile 4 36.4, and a Stamps mile relay time of 3 22.9.
Pine Mountain Ga AP Billy Spencer a world champion at 13 paced a Walter ski team victory. The Sarasota Fla youth, now 14, won the individual title in the United States versus World Tournament as U.S. skiers defeated foreign challengers 22,726 to 19,632 points. Both Spencer and the U.S. team repeated last year’s world championship wins in Vichy France.
Scores show New York 6 Pittsburgh 0. Philadelphia 8 Chicago 1. Milwaukee 3 Los Angeles 2 in 12 innings. San Francisco 13 Cincinnati 6. St. Louis 6 Houston 1. Matchups: Philadelphia at New York. Cincinnati at San Francisco. St. Louis at Houston. Milwaukee at Los Angeles. Pittsburgh at Chicago. Cincinnati at Houston. N
The Eastern Division shows Salt Lake City and Dallas with mixed results and several teams at 2 2 or 3 2 records. Western Division lists Seattle Spokane Portland Fortland Tacoma San Diego Hawaii Arkansas and Oklahoma City with varying scores and percentages. Upcoming matchups include Salt Lake at San Diego and Portland at Indianapolis with several other cross-division games noted.
Yogi Berra's club ends three straight extra inning defeats with a 5-3 win over Baltimore as Kansas City topples Washington 5-1. Hints of crowding on the field lead Ci Hodges to replace Chuck Hinton with Ken Hunt after a baserunning mix up. Minnesota splits with Detroit while Chicago blanked Boston 6-0 and Milwaukee beat Los Angeles 9-2. Philadelphia also routed its opponent as the league slate continued.
Ed Renfrow of Arkansas took second place in the 120 yard high hurdles at the Kansas meet in Lawrence. The article also notes Chicago’s 8-1 victory and St. Louis’ 6-1 over Houston, plus other baseball and spring training items including Hodges’ comments on mental mistakes and Comings with Joe DiMaggio.
Boston holds a 108 to 98 win over San Francisco to lead the best of seven series. Celtics players anticipate a tougher second game against Wilt Chamberlain and the Warriors as they aim to repeat their title run.
Bobby May of Rice wins the sprint event in Lawrence Kansas with a 14 second flat time at the Kansas Relays. The meet in Kaw County featured notable performances from collegiate sprinters.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.