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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1969
Page
2
Aged widow who battled the Navy to save her Suisun Bay town near Port Chicago California accepts a government check for more than $1 million. The 80 year old will move as the long legal and civic battles conclude. The town once housed 3350 people and the Navy condemned the remaining property.
Vacation Bible School at Calvary Baptist Church moves into its second week with sessions from 8 30 to 11 30. Attendance averages 153 as the program raises funds to establish similar VBS efforts in Oregon. Ages 5 to 16 participate and feedback is positive.
A homecoming and revival will be held at Providence Baptist Church ten miles south of Hope on Highway Sunday August 16 with daily services at 10 a.m. and 7 30 p.m. Evangelist Rev Gordon Renshaw will lead the meetings and Dwight Adom will direct singing Pastor Rev Chester Daniels leads the church. Mars radio panel expert Pimentel discussed Mariner 7 findings transmitted to Earth.
Pasadena Calif AP a scientist who studied data from Mariner 7 says life could exist on Mars while other experts report no evidence. Dr George C Pimentel UC chemist cited ammonia and methane detections near the south polar cap as possible signs of biological origin though volcanism could produce them too.
Washington columnist Jack Anderson reports that Senator Edward M. Kennedy asked cousin Joseph Gargan to take the rap for driving the car that submerged with a secretary. Gargan reportedly agreed to admit driving. Kennedy then filed a police statement. Gargan denies the story, citing sources and Kennedy’s invitation of a late night swim with Mary Jo Kopechne on Martha’s Vineyard.
Nixon withdrew John G. Hurd's nomination as ambassador to Venezuela after Hurd said he wished to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. Hurd cited public confidence concerns and noted he accepted the withdrawal request despite no real conflict in his oil ties. Senator Church had protested the appointment, calling it an oil protectionist move.
Rev Gerald W Trussell of First Baptist Hope will evangelize the Fulton revival beginning Monday night August 11 at Union Church Fulton. Services run each weeknight at 7 30 with First Baptist members assisting the music program. He will also preach Sunday afternoon at 2 30. The public is invited to attend all services.
A list of items never worn or used is described including ketchup a yo yo hula hoop four decked cards dice chess and checkers a broken vacuum cleaner two washing machines a broken lawnmower and a TV with a funay screen. Recording stars Elvis Presley the Beatles Julie Andrews and any opera by Enrico Caruso are mentioned. Also noted are a Christmas necktie cola grape soda ice cream soda sugar and a saccharine tablet. Other items include an illustrated sex manual a railroad timetable a mail order catalog a Jacqueline Susann novel and stories by John O Hara. Stolen towels soap and ashtrays from the Americana and New York Hilton hotels along with jokes by Coolidge Berle and Hope are cited. A visitor from space in a lunar museum might wonder why mankind endured wear and tear.
Moscow reports unmanned Zond 7 launched by powerful carrier rocket into Earth parking orbit and then to the moon to photograph and study lunar space. Tass says mission will test on board systems. past Zond tests include failures and partial successes. Flight time about 3 or 4 days. if on course, near the moon by Monday or Tuesday.
Police said Mrs. Bell Jones, 82, who lived three miles west of the Alred community northwest of Clinton, was found dead. The report mixes with a distant Space Race note about Zond 6 and unmanned Soviet probes and a 1965 spacewalk milestone by cosmonaut Alexei Leonov.
Nixon and West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger conclude two days of talks in Washington. A White House dinner featured a champagne toast emphasizing close U S German relations and the 20 year alliance. In a midn ight remark Kiesinger praised U S support and North Atlantic Alliance for peace and freedom. A separate crime note reports a body found under hay in a shed in Van Buren County and a suspect described as a man in his mid 20s with dark curly hair.
Hody W. Butler Sr 70 of Bogcott retired merchant and Rephan's Departmen t Store manager for years, member of First Baptist Church. Survived by Lula Dillard Butler wife and four Butler children. services held at First Baptist Peds cott, burial De Ann Cemetery. C. D. Lester 77 died in local hospital native of Lafayette County long resident of Hope retired merchant partner in White & Co. Survived by wife Mary son Edward Lester and brother John F. Lester. Funeral at Herndon Chapel with burial Rose Hill Cemetery.
Russ Morgan longtime big band leader and arranger dies at 65 from a cerebral hemorrhage in Las Vegas. He helped the Dor sey brothers begin, wrote hits like Your Nobody Till Somebody Loves You and Somebody New Is Taking My Place, and led the Russ Morgan Orchestra at the Dunes Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip.
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