Hope Star Letter Mentions Hope in 1899 Star Feature
Sydney McMath Jr sends 1974 correspondence noting Hope story on last page and a “Back Yard” feature by company president David R. Sargent. Mentions a press run of 52 700 and hint of future commentary on Hope as Watermelon Capital of the World, with a Worcester clean-up note.
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Star of Hope
Hope
Arkansas
Alex. H. Washburn
Hope Star Hope
Washburn
David R. Sargent
Sargent
the Star
Sydney McMath JR
Gunman is hospitalized after standoff in Little Rock
Police described the scene as a lengthy standoff when Shirley fired at a Missouri Pacific switch engine near 5:30 p.m. He surrendered after hours of negotiations from a discount store, telling officers he had fired on patrol cars but harmed no one. An ambulance driver, Marlin Shaddock, was treated for facial lacerations from a bullet near the ambulance window. Shirley was later identified as Hunt er B. Shirley of Jennings, Louisiana, admitted earlier to the North Little Rock VA Hospital in July and discharged in September.
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Little Rock
Marshall
Marlin Shaddock
Shirley
Weeks
Shirely
North Little Rock VA
Hunter B. Shirley
Jennings, Lai
Kaye
Vietnam fighting continues near Saigon and border
Saigon command reports a fourth straight day of heavy clashes in the southern half of South Vietnam and along the Cambodian border. Casualties exceed 2,600 with 248 government troops killed and 210 missing, while North Vietnamese and Viet Cong tolls reach about 1,180 as air and artillery strikes target Mekong Delta and Tay Ninh province.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Mekong
Tay Ninh
Obituary for Mrs. Ethel L Ellis in Nash ville
Funeral services were held Sunday at 2 p.m. in Latimer Funeral Home Chapel in Nashville. Rev. Horace Grogan officiated. Burial followed at St. Paul Cemetery near Oran. Mrs. Ellis, born October 13, 1894 in Gainesville Texas, widow of Garland Ellis, was a Methodist. Surviving are sons Lawson Ellis of Saratoga and Tully Ellis of Texarkana Ark, daughter Elizabeth Miller of Saratoga, eight grandchildren, fifteen great grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews.
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Ethel L. Ellis
Latimer Funeral Home
Nashville Hospital
Horace Grogan
St. Paul Cemetery
Oran
Latmer
Ellis
Gainesville
Tex
Garland Ellis
Lawson Ellis
Saratoga
Tully Ellis
Texarkana
Ark
Elizabeth Miller
Greeks vote to end monarchy. provisional president planned
Greece rejected the monarchy by over two to one in a plebiscite 69.2 percent in favor of a republic with 30.8 percent for restoration. Parliament likely to elect a provisional president this week with Panayiotis Kanellopoulos as leading candidate and Karamanlis to propose a new constitution clarifying presidential powers. The former king Constantine would need to renounce royal titles before any return. Caramanlis will push a constitution defining the presidency, aiming for strong or weak powers depending on the proposal. Constantine, in England with his family, urged a return but faces the plebiscite verdict and royal renunciation. The vote, while expected, surprised observers by its size. Greece had previously become a republic in 1924 and 1974.
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Athens
Greece
Panayiotis Canellopoulos
Constantine Caramanilis
Caramanlis
New Democracy
Constantine
England
Anne- Marie
Russians ready for space linkup next summer
Soviet experts say Soyuz 16 success clears the way for the July joint Apollo mission. Cosmonauts Anatoly Filipchenko and Nikolai rukavishnikov landed in Central Asia after six day flight. They report readiness, testing of docking gear and automatic systems for the Moscow Houston linkup.
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Alexei Yeliseyev
Vladimir Syromyatin
Soviet Union
Konstantin Bushuyev
Tass
U.S
Yeliseyev
Moscow-Houston
Soyuz
Apolo
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Hope Ministerial Alliance
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Larry Moses
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