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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1963
Page
2
Hal Boyle offers humorous solutions to ending a lingering cocktail party. He notes wives host to ease social obligations while guests linger past midnight. The piece suggests lighthearted, exaggerated remedies from turning off lights to bribing with a hose, ending with leaving on vacation then attending another party elsewhere.
In Walnut Ridge Arkansas a drive to force an election on merging Lawrence County's two judicial districts and building a new courthouse gathers support. A 20 member steering committee will push the project led by Bill Wade. Officials say a new courthouse would cost 400000 to 500000 dollars and require a 14 mill tax levy for two years.
Arkansas farmers earned 34.4 million dollars from dairy products in 1962, down five percent from 1961. Cash receipts from milk and cream were 33.6 million, two percent lower, amid production declines and a lower price per hundred pounds, while the average herd size fell to 709,000 cows, three percent below 1961 though output per cow rose to 4,370 pounds.
Colorado’s late season frost on the Western Slope destroyed most of the state’s fruit crop, with losses over 6 million dollars. Agriculture Commissioner Paul W. Swisher said more than 1,100 families rely on peaches, cherries and apricots, noting extensive damage to the crop.
Network executives and advertisers push laughter as viewers’ preference shaping next season. Of 46 prime time shows, 26 are comedy, 17 dramatic anthologies, 15 variety programs, and seven horse operas. News/actuality efforts struggle. CBS Reports and Huntley Brinkley specials remain.
Regular sessions of the Arkansas General Assembly begin the second Monday in January in odd numbered years.
A Georgia grand jury added its sanction to a paddling administered by Taylorsville School principal LeRoy H. Farguson to a third grader on a moving bus. The jury returned a no bill on assault charges raised by the boy's parents, noting the incident occurred after the pupil moved from seat to seat and shoved other children. Farguson has been re-elected principal since the event.
Malone, N Y Twenty years after a wallet belonging to Al Fleury was stolen while he served at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri he received the wallet back with a note from a woman claiming her husband found it hidden in a wall during demolition at the Army post.
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