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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1965
Page
3
The Lilac Garden Club of Hope will meet Wednesday April 21 at 2 p.m. in the home of Mrs. Roy Taylor 1514 Pecan with Mrs. Curtis Urrey as co host. Members are to bring trial flower show arrangements.
Mrs. Bobbye Murphy will visit Hope Chapter 328 Eastern Star on April 22 at 7 30 pm with two new members to be initiated. Parsonettes of the Hope District Methodist Church meet at 10 am in the Dr and Mrs Arthur Terry home. Ladies luncheon at Hope Country Club at 12 noon hosted by four ladies. V F W Auxiliary holds special call meeting at 7 30 pm with District 10 president Betty Brown from Magnolia urged to attend.
The Ann Wollerman Circle of the First Baptist Church will meet Monday night at 7 30 at the church for the Royal Service program. All members are urged to be present.
The Friday Music Club gathers at 3 30 p m on April 23 in Mrs Jewel Moore Jr s home on Rocky Mound Road with Mrs Clarence Geist as co hostess.
A shower honoring Leon Willis for a home lost to a recent fire is set for Monday April 26 at the old home place in the McCaskill and Friendship communities. All friends are invited to attend.
A list of relatives from Hope and surrounding areas including Longview Springhill El Dorado and Texarkana. Names include Orwell Greene Kathy Norman A L Caudle Cherry Randy Allen Dugger Gilmer McClure Don Easterling Donna Nalen Clark Rickey Elizabeth Crider Jim Crider Pat Janice Easterling and others.
A bridal shower for Peggy Lou Samuel of DeAnn bride elect of Ralph Edward Sikes of Springhill La was hosted at the Burke home by Mrs J C Burke Mrs Jewel Burke Mrs Jimmy Arnold and Mrs James Burke. Attendees included Mrs Carlton Samuel and Mrs Allen Thomas Sikes with 50 guests served punch and cake.
Mrs Bennie Downing of Hut to Texas received a pink and blue shower on Friday night April 16 hosted by Mrs Jerry Owen and Miss Sharon Fielding at the Owen home. Guests included out of town visitor Mrs John Stalnaker of Shreveport. The event featured Stork Bingo, cupcakes, nuts, and punch with Easter bunny decor.
Ewell Herbert Moore, 60, of Minturn was killed Tuesday when his pickup struck a tractor trailer on U.S. 67, about 17 miles north of Newport. The other driver, Willard T. Campbell, 60, of Pickneyville Illinois, was uninjured, state trooper Larry Pankey said.
Houston residents Weisenberger and Mrs. Birkett Wylie enjoyed a hostel reception featuring a strawberry dessert, nuts, mints, and cold drinks served to guests.
The Hope Duplicate Bridge Club held a Master Point Night at Hope Country Club on Monday April 19. Four tables played with Mary K Lehman and A K Holloway as top scorers, followed by Suttons of Texarkana in second, and Sidney Lee and Bill Brown of Texarkana in third. Fourth place tied between Lhloyd Spencer and R White and George Wright with R L Broach.
Mr. and Mrs. Jett Williams Jr and their son from Houston visited with their mothers Mrs Jett Williams and Mrs I F Russell during Easter.
Mrs Tara Wood spent the weekend with Miss Dove Knott in Dallas, sharing time and company in the city.
Mrs E M McWilliams and Suzie Booth visited in Dallas on Monday. Ted Bicknell and wife from Groves Texas returned home after a weekend with Thurman Ridling. They spent Saturday night in Little Rock visiting Johnny Sage and Sunday in Waldo with B G Winberry.
The hospital column lists multiple admissions and discharges across Hope and nearby towns. It notes Woodson Samuels and others admitted at Hope with several discharges including Mrs Dean Murphy and baby boy, plus Branch patients and staff. A birth announcement for Mr and Mrs Jim Blackwood reports a baby girl born April 19.
The article notes Hanes rejects 17 non aligned nations for unconditional talks. John Hightower, chief of API State Department staff, analyzes the latest blow to peace efforts and the likelihood of continued conflict in Vietnam.
An AP analysis reports peace prospects in Vietnam have collapsed with both sides’ gains uncertain. Hanoi rejects a nonaligned request for unconditional talks and UN mediation, while Moscow aligns with Hanoi and supports its four point program. Soviet involvement rises as US forces face withdrawal conditions.
U S Navy planes attacked communist truck convoys in North Viet Nam and in South Viet Nam against suspected Viet Cong concentrations. One plane was lost. Heaviest strikes hit Quang Tin Province while A4 Skyhawks from Hancock and Midway attacked several truck convoys with rockets and cannons.
Washington AP A grant of 6390 was approved by the Urban Renewal Administration to help Little Rock buy seven acres for a park site. The area worth an estimated total of 21300 will be known as South West Park.
The American Medical Association plans to oppose the Johnson administration health care-for-the-aged bill, saying it will testify before the Senate Finance Committee. AMA favors the eldercare bill, which it calls superior to medicare. The Medicare bill passed the House 313 to 615 and awaits Senate action.
U S and Vietnamese air forces targeted road and bridge sites across North Viet Nam. A pre dawn strike near Highway 1 south of Hanoi damaged a landslide and downed a Skyraider with the pilot killed. Communist China denounced U S policy as imperialist interference in Vietnam.
A reader advises harsh discipline to stop a three and a half year old arsonist behavior. The columnist recounts a prior case where a mother disciplined with a willow switch on the way home and claims the child stopped attempting fires. The tone urges strict punishment as the cure.
Hubert Tharp of Joiner Arkansas a service station attendant was fatally injured Tuesday when a tire he was repairing exploded the rim blasting off the wheel and striking him in the head.
The president criticized the House committee for tying a justified increase in Social Security cash retirement benefits to health care legislation and for ignoring the eldercare program. He warned the plan would centralize control in a federal medical bureaucracy and worsen care. The AMA spent nearly one million this year backing the eldercare bill which would fund hospital and medical care for those over 65 and extend Kerr Mills aid to all indigents.
A Dear Helen column excerpt discusses wives and husbands seeking divorces after calm periods in marriage. It critiques counselors’ blame on wives, calls for mutual effort to woo each other, and suggests reading full marriage manuals to foster compatibility.
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