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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1970
Page
3
Community calendar notes a New Years Eve dance at the Hope Country Club on Thursday December 31 at 9 p.m. Host couples listed include Mr and Mrs Monty Monts and Mr and Mrs Tommy Crouch with breakfast served.
CBS and NBC aired filmed interviews with two Navy pilots held in North Vietnam and identified seven Americans. NBC’s Edwin Newman and CBS’s Charles Collingwood labeled the broadcasts as propaganda filmed under North Vietnamese supervision by a Canadian Broadcasting Corp reporter and a three man Japanese crew. The programs interrupted regular schedules to feature Cmdrs Walter E Wilber and Robert J Schweitzer amid Christmas lights.
A Christmas period social record lists Mr. and Mrs. Lance Jones of Fayetteville with relatives in Haskell Jones circles, Mr. and Mrs. Ron Sorenson in San Francisco visiting Joe Hawkins, and numerous other households from Blytheville to Texarkana and Dallas. Hope's Bates mark their 50th wedding anniversary on January 1, 1971, noting their 1921 Washington Arkansas marriage by Rev. L C Gatlin.
A televised interview from North Vietnam featuring two American prisoners, Cmdr. Robert J. Schweitzer and Cmdr. Walter E. Wilber, drew family suspicions of staging. Their relatives in the United States questioned the authenticity while five other prisoners were shown but not interviewed during NBC and CBS broadcasts. Schweitzer and Wilber criticized the war and called for troop withdrawal as their Christmas Day appearance drew mixed reactions from families across the country.
Dear Helen reports office parties without mates remain. brass rules favor single women organizers and male bosses. Older women distrust workplace romances, while couples often avoid conflicts by hosting separate celebrations. husbands may attend with wives for extra funds, claims a good marriage survives such events despite gossip.
A collection of breezy exchanges and opinions touches on marriage strains, a fireman’s quip about shaving, and views from editors and governors. Readers weigh in on relationships, aging, and trust, while public figures and figures in politics surface in brief remarks.
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