14 Dec 1973
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1973
Page
1
The National Weather Service expects a developing low in the western Gulf to raise precipitation chances and bring a potential snow event to the extreme northern Arkansas counties tonight and Saturday. The forecast calls for a wintry mix with possible snow accumulation in the far north.
The Hope Star reports mostly cloudy skies with increasing cloudiness and scattered rain in the northwest, ending from the west Saturday. Rain mixed with snow expected in extreme north tonight and Saturday. Cold tonight and Saturday with highs mostly mid 30s to mid 40s and lows in the 30s to low 40s. City lows listed for Pine Bluff El Dorado Texarkana Fayetteville Harrison Jonesboro Memphis Little Rock and Fort Smith.
The notice lists subscription prices payable in advance by carrier and mail in multiple counties including Hempstead Nevada Lafayette Howard Pike and Clark. Rates vary by region with monthly three month six month and annual options and a college student bargain offer for nine months.
Maryknoll Father Miguel d Escoto founded FUNDECI which bought land in Leon Nicaragua for El Paraiso a 70 acre community planned to include 1000 homes for 7000 people left homeless by the 1972 earthquake. Chilean INAP volunteers led by architect Jorge Gomez will design modular homes and amenities. Local and international supporters fund schools day care centers medical facilities playgrounds chapels and stores as a model for dignity and democracy in Latin America.
The First Assembly of God will hold a Christmas service at 7 p.m. Sunday December 16 with the theme Glory in the Highest. The church choir directed by Mrs. A A Calloway will perform old Christmas hymns with David Morris at the piano. A reception in the fellowship hall will follow, hosted by Pastor and Mrs. Calloway. On Wednesday children will present a Christmas program followed by a reception. The Sunday school will provide treats. Both services are open to the public.
Funeral services were held for W A Smithy 89 in Lewisville with burial in Marshall cemetery. He was a longtime grocer and a master mason. survivors include wife Mary and a sister. Isaac Ian Wilson 77, former Prescott resident, died in Texarkana. services held at Lighthouse Assembly of God with burial in Chapelwood Cemetery. Floyd W Brooks 74 of Blevins, died in Prescott. services scheduled at Bells Chapel Church with burial in Marlbrook Cemetery. survived by wife Altie, a son, two daughters, and siblings.
Seven carriers petition the Civil Aeronautics Board to discontinue all air service to 25 communities due to fuel shortages. Other firms request halting some routes while continuing others. The period sees rising layoffs, with Eastern and Pan Am announcing large staff cuts. Some pilots threaten a Christmas shutdown, though no coordinated action emerges. The impacted towns are mainly in the Northeast, with three in Oklahoma among them.
Britain braces for harsh austerity as Barber announces energy tightness measures to curb fuel use. A 2% or 3 day week and power restrictions threaten wages and jobs, with reports of up to 10 million unemployed and a harsher Christmas.
The Senate approved cutting military petroleum shipments to South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos as part of a $73.3 billion defense appropriation. Mansfield and Hatfield cast the only negative votes in an 89-2 tally. The measure also trims Nixon budget totals and preserves two weapons programs including ABM site defense and the Sanguine submarine communication system.
City Hall reports from Gerald Keith note four fire alarms in a few hours with no deaths but substantial property damage. The 1972 NFPA fire loss figures show 11,900 lives lost and three billion dollars in property damage.
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