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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1961
Page
2
Classified notice offering sale of farm produce poultry and meats with payables by account. Includes a table of rates across days and quantities, listing charges for telephone and account facilities and varying prices per unit.
The City Park Commission will sponsor the Four States Beauty Contest and Swim Meet at City Park Friday. Activities begin at 10 a.m. with baseball and other games. swim meet at 5 p.m.. beauty contest at 8 p.m. Contestants come from Arkansas Texas Louisiana and Oklahoma. Admission 25 and 50 cents all-day. Roscoe Smith and C. B. Smith lead the event. A B McQueary invites football players to Harris Gym Monday.
A city wrecking crew demolishes the first of shanties along the river as progress goals are pursued. The mayor and committee confront a reluctant 75 year old recluse, Hirbley, whom they force from his home to clear the site. Beneath the cellar, two skeletons reveal a 30 year old tragedy.
United Auto Workers leaders ask the 24 member Executive board to authorize a strike vote against General Motors. Local leaders in Detroit Flint and Saginaw voted unanimously to urge a strike vote among GM's 200,000 UAW represented production workers as contract talks continue. No immediate report from 17 other cities.
Baseball standings from the American and National Leagues with team records and games, plus results from Saturday and Monday games. Notable lines show New York, Detroit, Cleveland and Boston standings, and Los Angeles, Cincinnati, San Francisco and Milwaukee in the National League. Also includes Southern Association results and upcoming schedule notes.
Five juvenile escapees were jailed in Bentonville after a two state pursuit from Missouri into Arkansas. Four had fled from a Missouri boys home and stole two cars as well as three guns, robbing a service station near the Arkansas-Missouri line. Three were wounded by police fire and one injured fleeing a barbed wire fence. all were treated and held. Names were not released due to their ages.
Negotiators report tensions as contracts at GM Ford Motor Co and Chrysler Corp expire August 31. Talks resume with GM and Ford today while the UAH and American Motors agreement ends September 7. Weekend strategy meetings by local leaders are noted as part of the bargaining context.
Western scientists in London and Paris eye the moon as the Soviets aim to land a man between 1966 and 1967 following Titov’s Vostok I orbit. Gatland predicts a dog mission, while officials greet Titov’s return but fear possible military use of space prowess. Global reactions pour in from Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, and East Berlin as China and the Communist world cheer.
In New York General Sessions Court Judge Joseph A. Sarafite sentenced 18 year old Twyward Vogt to life in prison for the 40 cent robbery murder of 14 year old Christmas tree delivery boy Robert Gitttari Dee. Jurors had found Vogt guilty of first degree murder after he admitted stabbing the boy during a struggle for money.
The column presents the Solunar schedule from John Alden Knight's tables. It urges planning days to fish or hunt during major periods lasting about two hours and a half, plus shorter minor periods, with emphasis on fishing in good territory and hunting in good cover each day.
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