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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1977
Page
2
The Weather section notes a warming trend in Arkanaas as west and southwest winds arrive. Abundant sunshine moderates the cold air, bringing clearer skies and milder temperatures for the day ahead.
Local Hope Star page offers family notices, staff credits, and rate card details. A weather roundup reports an intense low pressure system moving northeast from the Great Lakes, with warmer temperatures and scattered clouds expected, plus a chilly Arkansas night with teens to low 40s both tonight and Friday. Marilyn Weston McDonald, daughter of Melvin and Annie Weston, is named assistant supervisor in Abilene bank’s proof department, and her husband serves at Dyess AFB.
A string of obituaries from Hope area community members including Mrs Irma Thomas daughter Lotta Godwin and Lyndell Thomas. Also listed are Mrs Della Southward Vivian Davis Mrs Chlof Tollett Reba Hickson Herb Lamb and others with funeral details, family survivors, church affiliations, and burial plans in Pine Bluff Nashville and surrounding cemeteries. Burial and funeral directions note Herndon Oakcrest Latimer and Latimer Funeral Homes.
Rev. Ralph Hale spoke at the Kiwanis Club Christmas Ladies Night at the Sheraton Inn. He urged members to shift focus from personal stress to helping others, noting Christmas is both giving and receiving, and challenging them to assist someone in need before the holiday. Old Santa handed out gifts during the event as carols continued.
Roger Abercrombie, a Spring Hill High School freshman, has been nominated as a student delegate to the twelfth Arkansas Junior Science and Humanities Symposium at Arkansas Tech University from March 9 to 11, 1978. The event includes lectures, tours, research papers, and seminars under the Symposium staff.
Carter begins a full day of Christmas vacation walking from his Woodland Drive home to a family leased warehouse. With his son Chip he inspects the plant, strolls Main Street greet tourists, chats with cousin Hugh Carter the state senator, buys a hunting license at Plains Pharmacy, using his Plains address for ID.
Meredith Don Duncan 38, a Dallas surveyor and former Pike County resident, was killed Sunday night during a robbery at a Dallas tavern. Services were at Delight Church of Christ with burial in Delight cemetery. Survivors include wife Ruth Beard Duncan and two sons Kelley and Jeffery. A Dallas man faces charges in the shooting.
Community Bible services are planned with watch night at 8 p.m. December 31 at Okay Community Baptist Church led by Stacey Thrasher the pastor with devotional by Mr Cecil Furter and sermon by Rev. Sandford. Special services at Grace Baptist Church at 10 a.m. Saturday include 11 a.m. preaching and gifts for children. Garland School Cub Scouts donated three turkeys to Pinehope Nursing Home for Christmas dinner. City offices close for Christmas. garbage routes shift to next day. Edward J. Cooper feature on KXAR Monday. Donna Cox named 1978 Gamma Phi president at Ouachita Baptist University with officers Donna Sellers and others.
Missouri farmers continued picketing on Wednesday amid a nationwide protest over farm economy woes. A Kansas City Board of Trade official said the strike has little impact on grain prices, while a strike spokesman warned effects may come later. Missouri leaders plan further demonstrations and Governor Teasdale will meet with strike leaders Friday to discuss talks with Agriculture Secretary Bergland ahead of an upcoming meeting.
Tom Miller of the Arkansas Veterans Service Office in Little Rock announces the award of a Certificate of Knowledgeability of Veterans Benefits to Hempstead County veterans service officer Raymond F. Jones. The certificate, signed by Miller and Albert Collier, recognizes Jones’s expertise in passing the county veterans service officers certification test on October 13, 1977, and commits Hempstead County to continued professional veterans benefits assistance and Act 536 funding. The certificate will be displayed in Jones’s office at the county courthouse.
Armed with a .3 caliber revolver, the robber entered the Frost bank Tuesday afternoon and ordered the manager to call a Marine guard at the base gate. Marines, base security, Philippine soldiers, and local police cordoned the area as the gunman sought to speak with Rear Adm. Huntington Hardisty before asking for a helicopter and a getaway, without revealing a destination.
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