Society notes from Hope area events and meetings
Community Room at First National Bank hosts Jr Auxiliaries meeting on Wednesday February 26 with an 9 a.m. executive and 10 a.m. general session. invitational Ladies Bridge Luncheon at Hope Country Club on February 27 with hostesses named and reservations due February 24. additional club activities include Friday Music Club February 28 and Wesley Choir February 29. Presbyterian potluck and play March 1. WSCS meeting March 2. 4-H Club meeting February 17. Miss Patricia Ann McKee honored at a gift tea February 13. Camellias program by A A Halbert February 20. Daffodil Garden Club planning a future style show.
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Hope Chapter Jr
First National Bank
the Hope Country Club
Thompson Evans, Jr
Duffie D. Booth
George Newbern
E. E. Wassell
Evans
Wassell
Ed Creasey
W. R. Huddleston
Vergie McKee
Carolyn Sue McKee
Calvin Hare
Ned Ray Purtle
A. A. Halbert
Daffodil Garden Club
Harold Brents
Oakhaven
Thomas EB. Hays, Jr
W. C. Bruner, Jr
Legion Auxiliary meeting at VFW Hut February 20
The Ramsey Cargile Post VFW Auxiliary held a business meeting at the VFW Hut on Thursday night February 20. President Mrs Jim Laughard led discussions on the Brownie Scout Troop the group sponsors cancer insurance fundraising projects and the mid winter conference in Little Rock. Mrs Laughard hosted the evening serving cookies and cold drinks.
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VFW
Jim Laughard
Little Rock
Laughard
Shrine Club plans circus in Hope this spring
The Millwood Shrine Club and their ladies met in Nashville on February 24. Plans were discussed for a Shrine sponsored circus in Hope this spring with H. M. Olsen presiding and acting as caller during games. Also notes from bridge club and various local club meetings are recorded.
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Millwood Shrine Club
Nashville
John’s Cafe
J. L. Oglesby
Little Rock
Divan
Scimitar Temple
Millwood Club
H. M. “Olie
Olsen
Hope
Coring and Going Visits and New Granddaughter
Mrs Kenneth Lestie Leta Jo and Kathy of Woodville Texas spend the week with Mr and Mrs C W Tarpley. Mr and Mrs Lester Huckabee announce the birth of their granddaughter Leann to Mr and Mrs John Corning of Yakima Washington. Paternal grandparents are Mr and Mrs Lowell Corning of Yakima.
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Kenneth Lestie
Leta Jo
Kathy
Woodville, Texas
C. W. Tarpley
Lester Huckabee
Leann
John Corning
Yakima, Washington
Lowell Corning
That City
Ex Governor Homer Adking Seriously Ill in Malvern
Ex governor Homer Adkins was listed in critical condition at a Malvern hospital today. Hospital officials reported Adkins remained under close observation with serious illness, reflecting a severe health event affecting the former Arkansas governor.
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Malvern, Ark
Arkansas
Homer Adking
Malvern
Adkins
Dear Dr Brothers and the short life of men
A reader questions why men die young while women live longer and whether gossip and talkativeness could improve male longevity. Dr. Altschulder suggests encouraging men to talk more to reduce stress. A separate letter asks when sexual urges fade, referencing a Duke study of people aged 60 to 93 with heart conditions. Tennessee plans a $30 million bridge over the Mississippi at Memphis I 40, with completion aimed at 1971 and bids opening soon.
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Dr. Brothers
Ashey Montague
Ira Altschulder
Detroit
Mr. X
Duke University
Memphis
Tennessee
Arkansas Highway Department
Mississippi River
U.S
Tennessee Highway
David Pack
Yoshida Meets Chiang Kai-shek Over China Japan Ties
AP reports former Japanese Premier Shigeru Yoshida met Chiang Kai-shek in Taipei to clear misunderstandings amid strains over Japanese trade with Red China and the deportation of a Chinese defector. The U.S. supplied Chiang’s air force with more than 30 F104G Starfighters, while Lords oppose renaming the British Admiralty to the Navy board.
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Associated Press
Taipei
Formosa
Shigeru Yoshida
Chiang Kai-shek
China
Japan
Chiang
Red China
Peking
United States
London
House of Lords
British Admiralty
Navy Board
Britain
Navy Department
House of Commons
Elderly adults may continue sex life into advanced age
Duke study finds many seniors in reasonably good health remain sexually active into their 60s 70s 80s and even 90s though interest varies by individual. Over half of couples report sex remains part of their lives while social disapproval and guilt are noted but unfounded given normal late life intimacy.
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Duke
Rowan Confirmed as USIA Chief
Senatorial approval named Carl T. Rowan director of the U S Information Agency after he pledged not to show a controversial film abroad without ambassadorial consent. The film March on Washington, linked to a 1963 demonstrat ion, sparked partisan criticism as a potential communist weapon.
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Washington
Carl T. Rowan
Senate
U.S. Information Agency
USIA
U.S
Rowan
J. William Fulbright
P Ark
Rockefeller Lead in Arkansas Gubernatorial Survey
A Claris County Republican survey found 51 percent of over 1,000 households would back Winthrop Rockefeller for governor. Warren Liebling said the poll, conducted by Young Republican Clubs at Henderson College and Ouachita Baptist College in Arkadelphia, shows 40 percent opposed and nine percent undecided.
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Little Rock
Claris County
Winthrop Rockefeller
Warren Liebling
Pine Bluff
Rockefeller
Henderson College
Ouachita Baptist College
Arkadelphia
Liebling
Liebiong
Blow on Head Fatal to Man in Hampton
Carl J. Byrd, 82, of near Hampton, died Saturday from a head blow police believe struck his forehead. Two men were arrested but not charged, and an autopsy was said to determine the cause as the investigation continues.
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Hampton, Ark
Carl J. Byrd
Hampton
Calhoun County
Doyle Duncan
Duncan
Austrian coalition talks amid Gorbach resignation
Dr Josef Klaus begins efforts to form a new Austrian coalition cabinet after Chancellor Alfons Gorbach’s resignation. Klaus leads the reformers within the Conservative People’s party who ousted Gorbach over factional disputes and perceived softness toward Socialist partners.
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Vienna
Austria
Josef Klaus
Alfons Gorbach
Klaus
Reformers
People's Party
Gorbach
Drop Old Fashioned Chamber Practices to Shape Progress
LITTLE ROCK AP Arkan sas Chamber of Commerce leaders were urged at their annual convention to discard old fashioned selfish provincial practices. Ed Toomey Yale and Towne Co Forrest City urged the chamber to align with modern business and community leadership, noting influence has shifted to city leaders and national groups. He cited Max Lerner on corporate policy and warned the chamber to stay aware of state national business agricultural and political trends.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Chamber of Commerce
Ed Toomey
Yale and Towne Co
Forrest City
Chamber of Commerce
Merchants Protective Association
Max Lerner
America
Toomey
Byrd Receives Blow On County Road Near Hampston
The man named Byrd apparently was struck on a county road southwest of Hampston on Wednesday night, but details of the incident were not known.
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Cated Byrd
Hampston
McClellan Receives Good Citizenship Medal in Philadelphia
Sen John L McClellan D Ark criticized President Johnsons pace on fiscal restraint dollar defense and warned on crime after Supreme Court allowed rackets boss Frank Costello to stay in the United States McClellan spoke at the Washingtons Birthday Luncheon of the Sons of the American Revolution Philadelphia chapter which awarded him its Gold Medal of Good Citizenship
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Philadelphia
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Lyndon B. Jotiason
Congress
McClellan
Johnson
Supreme Court
Frank Costello
United States
Costello
Continental Chapter
the Sons of the American Revolution
Instructor and Student Killed in Plane Crash Near Greenville
In Greenville Mississippi two men are killed when a light aircraft crashes in a wooded area between the Mississippi River and a lake about ten miles north of Greenville. James Holley seventeen of Dumas and James Lardry a Green ville flight instructor died in the Sunday crash. Police said they reached the scene after a long trek. The plane burned after the crash.
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Greenville
Miss
James Holley
Dumas
James Lardry
Mississippi River
Fulbright Sees 115 Million for Peace Corps
Senator J William Fulbright of Arkansas said the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will authorize about 115 million dollars for Peace Corps operations for the coming fiscal year beginning July 1. The AP report notes the funding covers agency activities and related costs planned for the period.
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Associated Press
Washington
William Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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Roy Stephenson
Wesley
First Methodist Church
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R.Y.F
WSCS
Norman Moore
Frank Walters
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The
Jenny Waters
Gina Smith
Carol Shepard
Bettie Duncan
Arnold Middlebrooks
Patmos School
Daffodil Club
Saenger
Ion
Storts
Legion - Auxiliary
Diane
W. Ind St
Rciss
Production Credit Association
Spain
Ark
Brs
Sybil Voss
Benny Coleman
John Lloyd
Millweod Shrine Club
Duplicate Bridge Club
Hope Duplicate Bridge Club
Mike Kelly
Tully Henry
A. K. Holloway
Mickey Williams
Tohoka
Tex
R. L. Broach
Tina Ambassador
Garrett Memorial Baptist Church
Lois Shirley
Mildred Ridghill
Lois Purtle
Mildred Morton
Norene Purtle
Ola Lloyd
FHA
Future Homemakers of America
Becky Waller
Becky
Sweet Home HD Club
Sweet Home Home Demonstration Club
C. A. Phillips
B. J. Warnken
Hazel Cummings
C. A. Brown
J. E. Ward
M. H. Montgomery
Maxil Lou Baye
Hodnett
Ernest Ridghill
Ralph Phillips
Friendship HD Club
Friendship Home Demonstration Club
BR. H. Wagner
N.A
Orval Taylor
Cadillac
OF. Pho
Texarkana
Res. Pho
iFace
New York
Inck
Dorothy DIX
DR. Joyce Brothers
Bell-McClure Syndicate
Admiralty
Defense Council
Rome
API
Giacomo Mancini
Ottawa
Lester B. Pearson
Jeader John Diefenbaker
Peace Corps
Kxar Kolumn
the Grand Ole Opry
KXAR
United Dollar Store
Baker’s Easy
Haynes Bros
J. A. West CO
Grand Ole Opry
Haskell Jones
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