Our Daily Bread by The Editor Alex H Washburn
A compact column by editor Alex H. Washburn titled Our Daily Bread offers brief reflections and commentary on everyday life and moral themes.
20 Dec 1976
Page 1
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1976
Page
1
A compact column by editor Alex H. Washburn titled Our Daily Bread offers brief reflections and commentary on everyday life and moral themes.
The Hope Lions Club Christmas Auction raised a gross of just over ten thousand dollars, creating a new local record. Citizens of Hope Hempstead County Prescott and others contributed merchandise cash and publicity. Funds support Christmas baskets senior citizen dinners and other community projects.
Residents and visitors gathered at Old Washington’s Block-Catts House for a silver tea honoring Mrs. Georgia Delaughter Haynes who has lived there 19 years and shared the house’s history. She helped found the Pioneer Washington Foundation to restore the town which became a state park. The deteriorating foundation seeks funds while the state holds most property but not the house, a fact Haynes hopes to preserve in memory of earlier Washington families.
Robert Wilkinson, 27, jailed after a 1975 firebomb killed five, says he didn’t do it. Witnesses testified he did not throw the bomb and affidavits claim others lied. Wilkinson was released after nine hours of interrogation and a reduced bail, amid questions about police coercion and a prior confession.
In his annual message to cardinals, Pope Paul VI called for negotiated peace accords in the Middle East and Rhodesia while defending church policies. He announced John Neumann’s canonization date and welcomed the end of Lebanon’s war, urging goodwill for reconstruction.
Arkansas Supreme Court upholds a ruling that a meeting of four city aldermen and officials must be open to news media if foreseeable action will be taken. The ruling supports that FOI Act applies to informal discussions, not just formal sessions, in the El Dorado case involving KDMS reporter Carl Connerton.
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President elect Carter plans to name a black Newark mayor a Minnesota farmer and an Atlanta attorney to his cabinet, with two or three new members announced at a Sunday news conference. Griffin Bell would be attorney general, Juanita Kreps eyed for a secretary post, and Robert Bergland linked to agriculture.
Bill Butler, chairman of the Joint Selection Committee, said interviews with top candidates would begin immediately after the holidays. He noted fellow appointees Leonard Ellis, Bill Tolleson, and George Robison would join the committee, which will report its recommendation to the City Board after interviews.
Beginning February 1 Hope customers will see higher sewer bills. Residential charges depend on winter water use and stay level yearly, while commercial users pay monthly based on consumption. The increases fund two new EPA compliant plants, with completion planned in 1978, financed by bonds issued this year to cover construction and higher operating costs.
A Spring Hill school bus and a car collided on County Road 6n leaving no injuries. Loren Foutz of Hope was charged with leaving the scene and driving without a license. the bus driver was Dorthy Lee Louis of Hope.
Jerusalem reports say Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin likely to resign late today or Tuesday after breaking with National Religious party, risking a no confidence vote and elections. He aims to preserve initiative while seeking to meet President Carter after inauguration.
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