26 Apr 1956
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1956
Page
1
A garbled excerpt references the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a public transit issue. Names and specifics are unclear, but the text hints at a dispute or action involving segregation and local entities in Arkansas, with mentions of L. C. Bales and associated individuals.
USDA data indicate steady to higher receipts in live stock and meats with hogs at 15.25 to 16.00 for various weights, cattle mostly steady with yearlings and steers at around 20.00, calves strong to 26.00, and sheep about steady with spring lambs near 24.00. Butter and eggs show mixed wholesale buying, while milk and other farm products hold firm.
Gov. Orval Faubus flew to Jonesboro for a joint luncheon with three civic clubs and planned to address a women’s club meeting before returning to Little Rock. He had filed as a candidate for a second term Democratic nomination yesterday.
Murphy Corp of El Dorado Arkansas filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a registration statement for a public sale of 250000 shares of $1 par value common stock. The company, a family owned enterprise in oil and gas development with timber and farm lands, plans to use part proceeds to redeem uninsured 3 percent debentures and invest about 600000 for bromine project at Catesville Arkansas. Remnants of funds will go to general corporate expansion and other ventures via its subsidiary operations.
Fayetteville plans commencement exercises for about 650 degree recipients. The ceremony will be June 2 in Razorback Stadium with a rain contingency in the field house. President John T. Caldwell will deliver the commencement address. Dr. Monroe F. Swilley Jr. of Atlanta’s Second Ponce de Leon Baptist Church will give the baccalaureate sermon on June 1, after serving as pastor at First Baptist Church in Pine Bluff from 1943 to 1945.
Fayetteville physician Dr Fount Richardson was named president elect of the Arkansas Medical Society at its 80th annual convention in Little Rock. He automatically becomes president next year. Little Rock's Dr T Duel Brown was named president elect with Dr A H McDaniel of Tyronza retiring as president.
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