12 Dec 1975
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1975
Page
1
The Associated Press notes scattered thundershowers may occur in Arkansas through Saturday. Precipitation is likely in the afternoon and evening with a 20 percent chance today tonight and Saturday in the northwest. Elsewhere the chance is 40 percent today tonight and 30 percent Saturday.
The Hope Star reports a cold front moving through the state with warm and cold sides showing differing skies and temperatures. Extended outlook calls for occasional rain Sunday and showers Tuesday with little overall temperature change. Rainfall expected under half an inch. 24 hour Experiment Station high 72 low 45. Subscription and circulation details listed for Hope and surrounding counties.
Santa Claus appears at Hope's Centennial Plaza Saturday with sessions from 10 a.m. to 12 noon and 1 to 3 p.m. The event is sponsored by local merchants Radio Station KXAR and the Hope Jaycees. Children may visit Santa during the event.
Letter writer Alan Radeliff denounces the city’s stray dog culling as inhumane and compares it to Hitler's final solution. He argues stray animals pose little threat compared to highway deaths and criminals, urging Hope to abandon burning and killing as solutions.
In Brussels NATO allies propose withdrawing 1000 American nuclear warheads from Europe along with some F4 fighters and Pershing missiles if the Soviet Union moves its tank army. West German officials say the plan will be presented Tuesday in Vienna during two-year reduction negotiations. Kissinger has pressed the proposal as NATO ministers conclude meetings. The group notes East West force disparities in central Europe as the region’s most destabilizing factor.
Four Irish gunmen who held a man and wife hostage in a London apartment for nearly six days surrendered to police. A 53-year-old housewife, Sheila Matthews, was released by the captors on a balcony while her husband, 54, postal inspector John Matthews, remained captive. Scotland Yard said they refused safe conduct to Dublin and tied to recent bombings and shootings in London.
The retired Dallas FBI head J Gordon Shanklin told a House subcommittee he does not recall a threatening Oswald letter to an FBI receptionist or ordering it destroyed after Kennedy's assassination. Other agents confirmed or disputed his account while recounting testimony from Dallas receptionist Nanny Fenner who described Oswald's tense delivery and the letter referring to stopping talking to Mrs Oswald.
Secretary of Labor John Dunlop says President Ford faces heavy political pressure to veto a controversial construction site picketing bill. Senate conservatives will vote after House approval 229 to 189. Republicans see the bill as Ford's main headache, amid a Gallup poll showing Reagan leading Ford 40 to 32 among Republicans.
Mrs Macil Cromer 64 died Thursday in a local hospital survived by husband Jack Cromer of Blevins two sons Harold Cromer of Hope and Wayne Cromer of Los Angeles one daughter Billie Jean Burke of Waterloo her mother Lillian Sutton of Blevins one brother Edgar Sutton of Gordon one sister Dorene Chamlee of Texarkana five grandchildren and one great grandchild Funeral services 2 p.m. Saturday at Bells Chapel Church Blevins burial Marlbrook cemetery under Herndon Funeral Home. Floy D Deaton 80 died Thursday morning in a Texarkana hospital native of Hempstead County longtime Bradley resident retired farmer former Walnut Hill cemetery caretaker member of Church of Christ survivors wife Janie Deaton of Bradley son F Q O Deaton Jr of Texarkana brother Don Hoyt Davis of Shreveport sister Mrs Johnnie Womble of Albuquerque three grandchildren Rick, Mark, and Paul Deaton of Texarkana and many nieces and nephews Funeral 2 p.m. Saturday Smith Funeral Chapel Bradley burial Walnut Hill cemetery.
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