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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1968
Page
3
Social notes from Hope detail a party for Lynnda Yeldell of Hot Springs, gifts and flowers, and plans for a August 31 wedding reception. Guests included Mrs. Teddy Jones Jr and the groom-elect’s sister.
Hollywood stars Sharon Tate Nancy Kwan and Ellie Sommer visit Tony Curtis’s four acre Los Angeles home for a Wrecking Crew scene. Tate and Kwan clash in a garden fight while Kwan worries about her architect father in Saigon and her son Bernie’s schooling. Tate boasts a Bruce Lee trained kung fu kick and plans to show a photo to Roman Polanski.
India Edwards, long a fixture in Democratic politics, is interim head of women’s activities for the 1968 Chicago convention. She has held top posts, aided youth employment, and believes women power in campaigns will grow, with Marge Wild and Dorothy O Brien planning events for delegates.
Democratic delegates and notable women leaders from Maine, Ohio, Conn, Missouri and beyond prepare for the Chicago convention. Faye Broderick and Ella Grasso, among others, discuss roles, party goals, and innovative fund raising while security measures and escorted travel add to a tense atmosphere.
Velda Seamans previews the weekend at local theaters with Bonnie and Clyde on the Dixie, Five Million Years to Earth at the Saenger, The Shakiest Gun in the West with Don Knotts, and Elvis Presley with Nancy Sinatra in Speedway. Enger showings feature Hombre with Paul Newman and Fathom as a second feature at the Dixie Drive In, plus upcoming fall engagements including Sand Pebbles and The Graduate with dates noted.
Mr and Mrs Mitchell Las Grohe welcomed their first daughter Tuesday morning August 27 at Wadley Hospital Texarkana. The baby weighed 6 pounds 4 ounces and joins three brothers. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Robert LaGrone and Mrs Arthur Kushling of Vicksburg Mississippi.
A 1967 Hope Star column presents readers’ teenage and family life questions. Topics include marriage insurance fantasies, visitation disputes, domestic chores versus efficiency, coworker money lent, advertising deception, and general home life humor. Helen offers practical, light hearted advice and urges readers to send questions to the column.
The Defense Department announced that Freddie L. Couch, a resident near Lonoke and son of Mrs. Annie M. Watkins, was killed in action in Vietnam.
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