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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1961
Page
2
A physician recounts fleeing East Berlin as the border closed on a August morning. With tanks, police, and armed guards at the Brandenburg Gate, he decides to risk a dash to West Berlin to save his family and dog, racing past startled soldiers after pleading for an escape with official business.
Senate rackets investigators seek to show how the underworld uses trickery and modern electronics to promote big time gambling. Testimony has suggested corruption of some law enforcement officials as a method, though no official graft has been pinned yet. Witness Elum Bill is among those called.
Homecoming services at Shorter Chapel AME Church in Blevins on Sunday Aug 27 led by Rev L MW Dixon with dinner on the grounds. Southwest District Congress Chorus also to perform. Shover Street 4 H Club picnic Aug 28 at Texarkana Dam. bus departs Hicks Funeral Home 8:30 am and Neighborhood Grocery 9 am. Fare $1. City Wide Sing splintered event Aug 20 at Lonoke Baptist Church with officers elected and Griffin crowned with 16.50. Sept 17 Singspiration to meet at Bes Bee Memorial CME Church. Obituary: Henry White of Nevada County died Aug 24 in Hope. survivors listed. Hicks Funeral Home to announce arrangements.
Richard E. Gerstein, Dade County state attorney, labeled Caudell an artist at stealing racing data and feeding it to clandestine wire networks serving U S and Canadian bookmaking firms. The subcommittee weighs new federal laws to curb race wires, illegal under Florida rules before and after races. He described hidden transmitters, hand signals, and relay networks used by bookies and their agents.
In Wonderful, objections arise to a plan to hold Indian dances twice weekly as a tourist draw. Mayor Rainbolt and attorney Wattlesby clash with Belinda Snoddy over deed records while council members weigh the impact on park property and local taxpayers. The debate ends with deferral and a next meeting date. The story shifts to Ute job talks and ongoing civic wrangling as the scene closes with a promise to continue.
A witness recounts escaping a danger stall and crossing to West Berlin. He slips past a standstill, reaches safety among traffic, and finds help from friends. The family plans to join a Hamburg hospital staff, starting anew with almost nothing but hope for a better life.
In Jackson Mississippi a 12 man all white jury convicted Henry Thomas of St Augustine Florida on a breach of peace charge in the first appeal trial of a convicted Freedom Rider. The jury deliberated 45 minutes. Thomas, a Negro student at Howard University, had appealed his earlier conviction in City Court and received a $9 fine and four month jail term.
Air Force Col. William M Banks was acquitted by court martial of negligence in the Texas radar tower collapse that killed 28. Banks, 46, declared his innocence as he wrapped up the trial in Newburgh New York. He had led the radar tower unit aboard Stewart Air Force Base and faced the Atlantic storm setback off the New Jersey coast. He returns to duty as assistant to the director of material management for San Antonio air bases.
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