10 Aug 1961
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1961
Page
1
President Kennedy was expected to reply at a midmorning news conference to Khrushchev’s latest attack on the West over the Berlin dispute. Officials indicated he would be prepared to respond to the Soviet premier’s remarks.
Denver area notice for Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society led by Denver Hornaday at 518 W Fourth, phone 7-2317, promoting membership and fraternal benefits to readers.
In a major speech Khrushchev accuses Western powers of threatening the Soviet Union and reiterates plans for a separate East German peace treaty while warning of a super nuclear weapon delivery by rocket. He seeks to frighten the West into yielding and portrays NATO as aggressors. Dean Rusk returns from European talks.
In a Arkansas case Arkla Gas faced questions over tax deductions used for rate making vs accounting profits. Flanders defended the practice noting deductions relate to gas production and property removal from the rate base. Spencer cited a 1955 transcript and questioned Arkla income credits from gas sales to other utilities amid a statewide race context.
The conference audience watched Ernesto Guevara press claims that Latin America is a single family and Cuba should share in development aid, while the United States resists Cuban participation in a Latin American program tied to countering revolution. He portrayed U S policy as blind to regional realities and warned of socialist revolution as new governments form. The event accompanied discussions of a proposed $20 billion Alliance for Progress to lift Latin America's poor, illiterate, and impoverished while critics question Cuba's role and influence.
The brief notes discuss continued weather concerns and fear of upheaval as the city searches for ways to avert destruction amid revolutionary tensions on Page One.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad bought 14 percent of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad for about 1.5 million dollars. The package includes 210,000 in convertible bonds, 248,000 in income debentures, 22,600 Class A shares, and 48,604 common shares.
Benjamin Franklin Page, 69, of Little Rock, died after his taxi cab collided with another car. His wife Zora Page, 75, was injured in the same crash and hospitalized.
Police reported a cab driver Coy Andrews age 36 from Little Rock and Mrs John FE Funk age 30 from Little Rock unharmed after a two vehicle collision. The item appears in the Hope Star edition dated January 18 1929 with staff and publishing details listed.
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