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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1977
Page
2
Skies will be mostly clear across Arkansas with warming temperatures expected today. Highs will be in the upper range as sunshine continues and no rain is forecast.
Hope Star reports a cold front moving through Arkansas with varying overnight lows across cities and a warm Wednesday ahead as Gulf moisture returns. Also included are circulation staff listings, advertising contacts, and postage rates for subscriptions and mail delivery.
Minnie Brewer died February 233 in a local hospital after a long illness. She was a Bethel A.M.E. Church steward on No. 1 for years. Survived by son Edward Bradford of Los Angeles and two stepdaughters in Gary and Texarkana, sisters Edna Burton Williams and Nadine Rogers, brother Clancey Trannel, all of Magnolia. Funeral 2 p.m. March 1 at Bethel A.M.E. Church, Rev. JS Morgan officiating. Burial Magnolia under Hicks Funeral Home.
INDEPENDENCE Missouri AP Allis Chalmers workers returned to their jobs after United Steelworkers Local 1 % approved a three year contract by a three to one margin. The wage plan includes a 3 cent an hour rise the first year and 2 cent increases in 1976 and 1979 with improved insurance and pension benefits. Wages ranged from 5.71 to 7.42 per hour in the expired contract.
Two Massachusetts researchers report that deaths from drug therapy in acutely ill hospitalized patients are far less common than earlier studies suggested. Their seven country study across 1971 to 1976 found 24 deaths among 2,624 patients, a rate of 0.9 per 1,000, with the U.S. at 1.2 per thousand and Israel and Italy at zero and 1.4 respectively.
State Police report a weekend fatality as 21 year old Robert J. Shirley of Blytheville Air Force Base died when his car ran off Interstate 55 about four miles south of Blytheville.
Don Keele of Klipsch and Associates spoke at the Hope Rotary Club about Paul W. Klipsch's loudspeaker systems. The talk reviewed the firm’s history since its Hope founding, showed plant slides, and noted the plant expansion and eight employees.
Funeral services for V C Brown, 79, were held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Oakcrest chapel with Rev. Ralph Hale and Rev. Joe Jones officiating. Burial followed in Sardis cemetery under Oakcrest Funeral Home. He died Friday at a local hospital and was a retired grocer and service-station operator. Survivors include his wife Annie Arnold Brown of Hope, two sons W Daniel Brown and W Donald Brown of Hope, two daughters Evelyn Godwin of Mt. Pleasant and Edna Griffith of Dallas, two brothers Mike E Brown of Hope and W C Brown of Arlington, three sisters Wollie Lawson of Hope Mae Riker and Ruth Trammell of Amarillo, seven grandchildren, two great grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.
Allied spokesman confirmed Rudolf Hess cut his left wrist elbow and foot with a table knife during an apparent suicide attempt last Tuesday. Hess's son Wolf Ruediger said the 82 year old prisoner depressed by health and isolation. Hess has lived in Spandau prison since 1946 after wartime confinement in Britain beginning 1941. He is serving a life sentence for war crimes.
Washington AP Carter adviser Hamilton Jordan told 48 of 50 state governors at a Washington conference that the White House wants governors to help reorganize the executive branch and reform programs affecting states. Florida Governor Reubin Askew, head of the National Governors Conference, urged that energy policy welfare and Medicaid reform be open to governors input for national policy validity.
The State Department authorized a humanitarian shipment of anti malaria medicines valued at 12000 dollars to Cambodia. The one ton shipment is organized by the American Friendship Service Committee as reported in the Indochina Spotlight newsletter. Earlier the embargo on Indo China was relaxed to allow 450000 dollars of DDT to Cambodia.
Southern Arkansas University will stage King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table on March 25 at 8 p.m. in Margaret Horton Theatre with Ken Stonecipher as Arthur and Garland Acker as Lancelot. Other items include ROTC honors for Augusta Williamson of Hope, Dean's List at Arkansas College for Kathryn Smith, Lori Smith enlisting in the Air Force, and upcoming arts festival May 13–15 in Nashville alongside a poultry festival.
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