19 Feb 1975
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1975
Page
1
A brief feature by editor Alex H. Washburn reflects on daily bread as a metaphor for sustenance and simplicity, urging readers to value modest nourishment and mindful consumption in modern life.
An Arkansas Audubon Newsletter advance notes Millwood Lake as one of three Arkansas lakes likely to host bald eagles along with Holla Bend and Lake Georgia Pacific. Christmas counts found 27 eagles, signaling a positive trend as eagles increasingly use Millwood as a habitat.
Gov George Busbee will fly by helicopter from Atlanta to Fort Valley to inspect the tornado wreckage that destroyed part of the business district and housing area. Officials report one fatality named Joe Mullis and 35 to 100 injured with power outages and disrupted services.
Secretary of State Kissinger and President Giscard d Estaing met over breakfast in Paris to review peace prospects in the Middle East and plans for the preparatory conference among oil producers and consumers. The Shah of Iran, touring with Kissinger, pledged continued oil sales to Israel while noting Iran would supply oil if Abu Rudeis fields are restored to Egypt. He warned that inflation could push oil prices higher, and US officials signaled a possible withdrawal assurances tied to Israel.
Rep. Wilbur D. Mills of Arkansas is back in Bethesda Naval Medical Center for further diagnostic procedures. The former Ways and Means chair previously spent weeks in hospital and disclosed he is an alcoholic, though confident he can cope. He has not returned to the Capitol.
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, hospitalized for seven weeks, has not blocked his dissenting voice in recent rulings. He filed one dissent in three of six decisions and joined two others, while not participating in a sixth case argued earlier. The court also accepted cases for next term and reviewed matters on warrants, medical dispensing penalties, and state aid to private colleges.
Gov. Pryor's housing finance bill failed 49 to 32 as the House rejected the Arkansas Residential Finance Agency plan to issue up to 25 million in revenue bonds for low income and elderly housing. Supporters cited housing need while opponents warned of state backing if loans default. The session may revisit the measure amid a Senate counterpart.
Cambodian government reports ongoing Khmer Rouge attacks on Neak Luong naval base southeast of Phnom Penh amid fighting to retake Mong Russei, a rice depot town 150 miles northwest. Rebels control river blockade halting South Vietnamese supply traffic. Neak Luong houses about 50,000 refugees facing rice shortages.
Gov. David Pryor asked for capital improvements funds for four sites. Crater of Diamonds State Park would receive 416,050 dollars, Kemp Logoly State Park 210,000 dollars, Old Washington State Park 127,000 dollars, and Millwood Lake 98,000 dollars.
Washington AP two Democratic senators after a White House breakfast with President Ford expressed hope for a compromise on energy policy within two weeks. The session followed a tense stand against Ford’s energy plan as Congress and the White House push for a Democratic alternative.
BEIRUT Lebanon AP Tapline the American owned pipeline that brings Saudi Arabian oil to the Mediterranean is the latest casualty of the international oil surplus The Trans-Arabian Pipeline Co announced today that it stopped pumping Saudi crude oil to its terminal at Zahrani 35 miles south of Beirut Feb 9 because it has no contracts to ship from there for the next six months Tanker shipping from the Persian Gulf is a barrel lower than Mediterranean shipping costs a company spokesman said and there is not even enough demands to keep all the tanker fleets operating The 30 inch pipeline normally carries an average of 450000 barrels a day the spokesman said but by early February only 50000 barrels a day was being pumped He said 35 million barrels of crude oil are in the storage tanks at Zahrani This will provide a six month supply of crude oil for the Tapline refinery at Zahrani which supplies 35 40 per cent of the petroleum products Lebanon needs We hope the situation will change in the next six months and Tapline will resume normal operations the spokesman said Tapline is owned by Standard Oil of California Exxon Texaco and Mobil the parent companies of the Arabian American Oil Co Aramco which handles 95 per cent of Saudi Arabia's production Tapline's 1000 mile pipeline crosses Jordan Syria and Lebanon The company has been paying each government 89 million a year in transit fees
Raymond Moley, a founder of the Roosevelt brain trust and adviser to every president from Roosevelt to Nixon, dies at 88 after a long illness. A Columbia professor turned journalist, Moley helped shape the New Deal, authored major works, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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