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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1961
Page
3
Real estate listing notes a five room frame house with bath and washer connections at 1017 Foster. Contact after 5 pm at PR 7-206. Listing appears in the 12-5-1moc record.
A fragmented notice notes William Taylor and McKeown discuss boat gear, calling the trailer the most unappreciated boating accessory. The column hints at an end of season evaluation of trailer usefulness and related tips.
A calendar item notes a Christmas program at Mt Zion CME Church on Sunday Dec 24 at 7 pm. The piece emphasizes winter trailer upkeep for boats, listing checks on hitch bolts nuts spring and frame support pads tires bearings and lubrication and advising against neglecting trailer maintenance during storage.
A British Comet-4 jet airliner crashed after takeoff from Ankara, killing 27 of 34 aboard. Four Americans survived, all from the rear cabin. The London to Tel Aviv flight carried 34, survivors include Claude Goldman, Doris Freudenberger, and Arnold Holtzman. Survivors reported burns but good recovery prospects.
Shady Grove AME Emmet invites the public to a Pre Christmas Pageant on Sunday December 2 at 8 pm. Rising Star Missionary Baptist presents its Christmas program on Sunday December 24 at 7 30 pm themed Come To Bethlehem. Haynes Chapel Baptist hosts Christmas service on Monday December 25 at 1 pm with Rev E A Porchin of Camden preaching. Choirs include Gospel Chorus, Senion Choir, Junior Choir and Rileyetts under various directors.
Salem Arkansas residents will vote next Tuesday on buying the Hardy Telephone Co exchange making Salem the first municipally owned telephone system in the state. Calico Rock also plans a Saturday vote on purchasing the Arkansas Power & Light Co distribution system.
London reports on Elisabethville during the cease-fire era, detailing the tense calm as UN actions and Tshombe’s Katanga push pushed toward renewed conflict. The piece tracks events from late September cease-fires to the contested army actions, mutinies, and civilian peril in Katanga and the Congo.
In Stuttgart Arkansas Grover Cy Carnes longtime state senator and former Stuttgart mayor dies at 72 after a hospital stay in Little Rock Funeral set for Friday at First Christian Church Burial at Lone Tree Cemetery Carnes served in the 1930s and early 1950s and was in the Arkansas House at the time of his passing Survivors include his widow and two sisters
New York readers hope for a four day holiday with no crises as markets, politics, and world events pause. The piece notes calls for calm amid tariff battles, currency shifts, and international tensions, while banking and savings issues loom.
Marvin Atkinson a 34 year old Jonesboro resident died in a head on collision one mile north of Truman along U S 63. Billie G Burns age 25 from Trumann and his 2 year old wife Shelby were hospitalized following the crash officials said.
United Nations reported four house to house massacres of African tribal families in Elizabethville native quarter by Katanga gendarmes led by white mercenaries. The UN received a message at its headquarters requesting immediate punitive action against undisciplined troops, signed by four tribal officials.
In Washington the Senate subway, nearly silent after refurbishment, will soon carry senators to the new Senate Office Building. Engineers led by Walter Rubell replaced steel wheels with plastic-tired wheels after steel on steel proved noisy and worn, inspired by a Paris rubber-tread system.
Washington AP reports sixteen Arkansas counties designated by the Agriculture Department may receive emergency loans from the Farmers Home Administration due to substantial crop losses in cotton, soybeans, and river crops from adverse weather. Loans available through June 3. Counties listed include Ashley Chicot Conway Craighead Crittenden Crossed? Wait correct spelling: Endence? Jackson Lee Lincoln Monroe Phillips Poinsett Prairie St. Francis Woodville Yell.
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