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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1962
Page
2
New York commentary describes the modern home as a fortress of medicines where a bathroom doubles as clinic and drugstore. It notes the rise of two medicine cabinets per household and the shift from curing to prevention, with people seeking pills for every ailment and even waking with a desire to swallow tranquilizers.
Washington reports Fort Smith and Magazine in Arkansas received Community Facilities Administration loans Monday. Fort Smith got 30000 dollars interest free to plan sewage facilities for an estimated 85 million dollar project. Magazine received 80000 dollars to fund construction of a water distribution system and a 41000 dollar well and storage facilities.
An ad claims a fast resolving treatment T F L 48 is back at Gibson Drug Co. It promises rapid drying and skin renewal with infected skin sloughing off and healthy skin forming.
John Thatcher, vice president of Sloan Guaranty Trust, asserts urgency to obtain information from three men in a locked room labeled Flight, Pilot, and Traffic. He proclaims his airline connections and demands the specific data, while others react with wary compliance as a tense scene unfolds aboard a flight-related setting.
Two teenage girls escaped from a Louisiana girls institution were bound over to circuit court in Little Rock on involuntary manslaughter charges after a high speed chase ended in a crash. Bettie Jean Childress and Carol Marie Pickett faced traffic violations and an escape misdemeanor. both held in jail on $1,000 bonds as officers pursued them after they allegedly stole three cars on April 10 and fled to headquarters where one sped away, crashing into a store front and killing A. P. Aroboy and injuring his wife during the incident.
The Associated Press reports three fatalities on Arkansas roads Wednesday. Two-year-old Virginia Williams died after running into a truck driven by Billy Ed Erhart in Lewisville. Claude Johnson, 79, was struck by Harold Pryor’s car near Goodwin on U.S. Highway 70. G. W. Sheldon, 61, died in Little Rock when his car hit a bridge abutment. Total fatalities for the week reach eight across traffic, drownings, and a burn death.
Air Cobra begins a week-long test of Southeast Asia alliance air power. Air Force and ground units launch the drill in Bangkok to evaluate readiness against a potential aggressor.
Captain Peter Self questions Jeannie Novak as relatives guard her, a bloody study scene unfolds with a baggage check linking Roy to a fatal fall. Jeannie recalls the plan to invite him for Christmas while her husband and father press for answers. To Be Continued
Federal Judge John E. Miller sentenced Hot Springs lawyer Fred Peppard to 18 months in prison for receiving concealing and disposing of 12500 dollars in stolen government bonds. Bonds were stolen March 5 1961 in Duncan Mississippi during a safe burglary at Fava Oil and Gas Distributing. Leon Easterling of Greenville Mississippi testified he and two others took part and handed the bonds to Peppard.
Arkansas lists ten or more scholars and several honorary scholars in the National Merit Scholarship program. Winners include David Daylor Clarksville Mary Campbell DeQueen Charles Born Daniel Pickering Frank Wilson El Dorado Carl Rutledge Fayetteville Retha Ellis Forrest City David Harris Hoxie Wesley Clark Clark Carolyn Gray Robert Wilkes Little Rock Hall Sherron Eberle David Matthew Little Rock Central Patricia Cox Magnolia George Porter Mountain Home George Byrd James McClure Nashville Bruce Tiberis Newport Vinetra Lafferty James Tyler North Little Rock.
The Appalachian Trail running Maine to Georgia sits within a half day’s drive for more than half the U S population. Mentioned residents include James Schwantz and William Shephard of Pine Bluff Dorothy Dortch of Scott and John Terrell of Walnut Ridge.
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