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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1975
Page
2
A cool front moves through Arkansas ending precipitation from the west tonight as high pressure over Georgia and a strong low in northwest Oklahoma drive a warm moist southerly flow from the Gulf. Drizzle and fog were widespread this morning due to the Gulf air.
The Weather Service predicted a warm day with showers and thunderstorms ahead of a cold front moving through the state this afternoon. Tonight will bring cooler temperatures and mostly cloudy skies. Wednesday expects partly cloudy and slightly cooler conditions with a chance of rain Saturday and a warming trend starting Thursday into the 60s.
Mrs. Clevie Ball Reese, 89, died Monday at a local hospital. Born February 15, 1885 in Hempstead County, she was a member of the Hope Church of Christ. Survived by son Pete Reese of Miami Oklahoma, daughter Mrs John Taylor of Hope, 12 grandchildren, 25 great grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral services at 2 p.m. Wednesday Latimer Funeral Chapel Nashville with M H Peebles officiating. Burial in Ozan Cemetery at Bingen, Latimer Funeral Service in charge.
Hempstead County Clerk Dee McMurrough reports more than 640 registered voters were removed from the registration list for not voting in any school, county, or general elections since January 1970. Notices were sent Friday and mail inundated the office with responses from movers or changed addresses. The county had about 10,647 registered voters after the pull, ahead of the upcoming school board election with a 20 day preelection registration rule and a 14th of this month deadline to register.
Arkansas Governor Pryor calls for federal action to bar major oil firms from taking over independently owned gas stations under contract. He warns without intervention, antitrust laws may be needed as majors could control product from field to pump. He meets Ford in Houston to discuss energy, backs a crude oil import moratorium, and opposes rationing or higher gasoline taxes. He supports five anti monopoly bills in Arkansas. In Chicago, suntan symbolism and psychology of sun exposure are discussed, noting suntans as status in some places and peasant sign in Japan. Dr. Lorincz favors baby powder to ease sunburn and cooling effect.
In Little Rock, the Arkansas Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Dr. Grant Cooper's appeal after a lower court cut his salary for being a self described Communist. The state defense argued the 1941 Act bans hiring Communists, while Cooper's side claimed it targets advocacy rather than action and violates constitutional rights.
A gathering of all retired teachers in Hempstead County is set for 3 p.m. Monday at city hall. James Jones, retired superintendent, urges attendance from all retirees to discuss association matters.
Frances Crit Stuart Sr. 76 died Tuesday in Hope. Survived by husband Crit Stuart Sr a son and a daughter and five grandchildren. Services Wednesday at 3 p.m. Presbyterian Church of Hope burial Memory Gardens Cemetery. Grippie Franklin Hollis 60 buried Patmos Cemetery after Patmos Church service. Anna Belle Turnage 97 died Saturday in Spring Hill Arkansas burial Sullivan Cemetery. She was a long time Shreveport resident survived by two sons two daughters three sisters and many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
The Arkansas Senate sent to the House three bills regulating major oil company operations. Sen. W. J. Moore Jr. of El Dorado was the sole opponent on all three votes. One bill would bar new company operated service stations, requiring future stations to run under franchise or lease agreements. A second bill sets in law certain rights for distributors dealing with the companies.
Houston AP oilmen pressed President Ford to detail incentives in his energy plan to lift domestic oil production. Leaders like George Mitchell and M A Wright critiqued the windfall profits tax and profit plowback provisions, while Exxon, Independent Petroleum Association, and Continental Oil officials urged clearer incentives and cautioned against harmful tax cuts.
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