12 Feb 1962
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1962
Page
1
Public notice from Hope Star announces subscription rates and billing terms for Hope and nearby towns. Includes weekly, monthly, and yearly options with advance payment, and lists advertising representatives and office locations across several states. Mentions Associated Press rights and publication details.
USMLE ROCK AP reports fifty doctors and dentists break ground for an 891.5 million eight story medical complex on University Ave Little Rock. Lille Rock Land Co. forms to oversee construction with Pickney Price Construction Co. as earth mover. Completion targeted by end of 1969 with 60 doctors and dentists offices, drive in bank, radiology and shops. A 300 car parking area surrounds the building.
Weather forecast notes day 74 with clouds northeast and fair mild conditions. Most regions remain mostly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with showers late Tuesday. Temperatures range with highs 50 to 70s and lows around 40s to 50s across areas.
Severe downpours lash Southern California triggering flash floods in Hollywood Hills. A Beachwood Drive home torn from its foundation. rainwater floods streets and drains. Dozens reported dead, with dams overflowing and evacuations ordered as mountains and canyons face record rainfall in a historic storm.
Rescue teams found the burned wreckage of a Vietnamese military C47 transport plane 80 miles northeast of Saigon. Eight Americans and two Vietnamese were aboard on a leaflet dropping mission Sunday. nine bodies were found with the wreckage and all Americans were U.S. Army or Air Force personnel. Parachute reports could not confirm survival. Names were withheld.
AP notes former President Dwight D. Eisenhower told Republicans he will not campaign for older candidates this year. At 71 he pressed for young nominees for governor, Senate and House seats, urging a youth movement while signaling mixed support for Pennsylvania tickets involving Woodside and Van Zandt. He also backed younger figures in other states and helped shape Nixon and Romney decisions. A stray item mentions cannibalism tribes in Netherlands New Guinea.
Dam water roared five feet deep through Big Tejon Wash in the San Fernando Valley cutting the only exit road for 25 hillside families as coursing water flooded homes.
On this day in 1809 Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Hardin County Kentucky. In 1554 Lady Jane Grey and her husband were beheaded for treason. In 1799 James Oglethorpe and 34 families founded the colony of Georgia. In 1832 Ecuador claimed the Galapagos. In 1936 the Macon blimp sank off California with 81 rescued. In 1945 Nazi policy drafted women 16 to 60. Ten years ago bank talks with Mossadegh on oil nationalization. Five years ago east coast sports segment from Portland to Maine.
In Hampton Roads Virginia a claim of an attack involves 45 000 members of the International Longshoremen s Association. Separately the Soviet Union announced a launch of a satellite from an orbiting craft several hours earlier.
If you were born after 1881 you can still apply for a $1,000 life insurance policy issued up to age 80. The policy remains with you for life to help cover final expenses. No calls, mail-only transaction with Old American Insurance Co. Send name, address, and year of birth to Old American, 4900 Oak Dept. L203B, Kansas City 12, MA. No obligation.
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