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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1962
Page
2
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Providence Community Cemetery Assn. and Cotillion Club held February sessions at private homes with ten attendees and upcoming host changes. Hempstead County HOD Council opened the year at the Community Center with new officers elected and plans for a March training session and Home Management meeting.
Washington AP The McNamara led plan asks Congress to fund a federal incentive payment up to 25 per shelter space for public fallout shelters. Estimated first year cost 450 million for 20 million spaces, with 10 million more in existing structures. Private and home shelters receive no aid while nonprofit institutions may gain subsidies for shelters housing 250 or more people.
Hilda meets cousin Matthew Russell who hints Roseanne married Adam Thorne in Boston after leaving New York. Roseanne and Adam later travel to New Hampshire. Jerry dies from consumption and the family collapses financially. Hilda confronts Miss Maggy over Addie’s confinement and a planned release, as Addie pleads through a keyhole.
Texas Tech throttled Baylor 81-62 to stay tied for first with Texas A&M and Southern Methodist as the chase tightens with one week left. Rice upset Arkansas 83-82, dropping Rice and Arkansas to fifth, while Texas Christian sits seventh and Baylor remains last.
Mary Lincoln Beckwith, 63, says she will mark no celebration for the 153rd anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth while living on a 1000 acre dairy farm in Manchester, Vermont. Neighbors note she pays little heed to her Lincoln lineage, though she is proud to belong to the family. Her grandfather Robert Todd Lincoln built the farm, and her cousin Lincoln Isham preserves Lincolniana now donated to the Smithsonian.
Frederic Pryor, 28, returned home from a Soviet prison amid hopes to forget the episode. His mother Mrs. Millard Pryor and father welcomed him after East German authorities released him following detention since last Aug 25. Pryor, a Free University student in West Berlin, said he learned of the swap involving Francis Gary Powers and Rudolf Abel in the same period and described the charge as economic espionage. He denied any military nature to the materials he carried for his doctoral thesis and claimed no warrants or indictments were shown.
In Fayetteville Arkansas defeated Texas Christian 980 in Southwest Conference action. Boyer scored 33 points and Carlton 24 while Wofford sparked a late run with three straight field goals at 8 09 remaining. Arkansas held the edge at the line 28 free throws to 18.
In Jonesboro Arkansas State defeated Nicholls State College 94 to 73 as Gaylon Ward led with 25 points Warren Moore added 22 and Jerry Rook 21. Jack Barton led Nicholls State with 22 points. Three Indian players scored in double figures for Arkansas State.
The AP notes, in London Ulverston-born William Norman Birkett, 78, a Nürnberg trials judge and famed British lawyer, died after abdominal surgery. In Warsaw 65-year-old Broniewski, a leading Communist poet, died. In Cambridge Walter Spalding, 56, called father of Harvard’s master department, passed away. In Asheville Georges McCoy, 61, longtime editor and Western NC history authority, died. In New York Arthur Foley, 64, NY Journal American feature editor, died.
Billy Graham preached to about 15,000 Peruvians in a bull ring Sunday night and hundreds came forward after the sermon. The event was part of a goodwill mission involving 25 business leaders and officials from Graham’s home town Stanford Brookshire of Charlotte, North Carolina.
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