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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1974
Page
2
By The Associated Press, early morning thaw worsened conditions as an icy film coated roadways in Arkansas. State Police warned drivers of slick surfaces, and the National Weather Service urged motorists to travel with caution as more ice is expected tonight and Thursday.
Officials canceled class resumption in Bryant Hazen and Pulaski County due to dangerous driving conditions. North Arkansas schools largely delayed or opened with limited attendance as glaze covered roads. several five county areas reported only a few open. Overnight lows ranged from 12 to 32 degrees with mixed precipitation reported in Little Rock and Memphis.
Anaheim man Roger Sweitzer and about 50 others dismantled his 1972 Pinto on Ford Motor Co property in PICO Rivera. They used hammers and crowbars amid complaints over repeated mechanical failures. Deputies dispersed the crowd after about 40 minutes. Sweitzer plans to buy a bicycle with the collected $1 swings.
Three people died in a traffic accident in Poinssett County near Lepanto when a car driven by Thomas A. Jordan 33 of Nashville Tennessee went off a wooden bridge into the Little River. The incident is part of Arkansas holiday toll totaling seven deaths through Tuesday.
The Rocky Mountain storm sweeps into Kansas and Missouri with up to four inches of new snow and arctic temperatures. Overnight lows fall to minus 20 in Topeka and near zero in Wichita. The blizzard causes multiple deaths and widespread school closures as vitally affected transit and heating cripple the region.
Arkansas bids open January 23 for eight highway projects totaling about 5.56 million dollars. The largest job covers paving 3.47 miles of U.S. 63 in Crittenden County with a 120 foot bridge at an estimated 1.28 million dollars. Other bids include U.S. 71 pavement in Benton County 1.25 million, a weigh station and treatment facility 200 thousand, U.S. 82 repaving from Magnolia to near El Dorado 355 thousand, Arkansas 27 near Mineral Springs 260 thousand, I-30 area pavement including a 276 foot bridge 1.15 million, Sebastian County roads 71 53 29 36 179 thousand, and Arkansas 10 near Little Rock 888 thousand.
Obituary notices list Mrs Fay Morris 63 with funeral at Whites Chapel Church 2 p m burial Union Cemetery in Nevada County dying in Dallas hospital. Winnie Lee Francis 77 graveside 2 p m at Rose Hill Cemetery former Hope resident died at home in Huntington Park Calif. Jerry Coy Betts 5 funeral 2 30 p m Herndon Funeral Home Chapel burial Anderson Cemetery south of Spring Hill Ark. C L Puryear Prescott native died in Texarkana Texas survived by wife June four sisters three brothers five grandchildren and more. funeral 10 a m Friday Rose Hill Church of Christ Texarkana burial Memorial Gardens.
More than 900 passengers on four Amtrak trains faced unscheduled stops during New Year’s travel. A Chicago to Denver streamliner carrying 400 passengers paused over 13 hours in Galesburg Illinois after water mixed with diesel froze in fuel lines. A Turboliner near Normal Illinois waited five miles north of town as crews blamed running engines to prevent freezing. Another Missouri trip from Kansas City to New York stalled over 12 hours as Missouri Pacific locomotives ran out of fuel due to a leak.
Regional forecast summaries show travel advisories in effect for southern two thirds of Arkansas with mostly cloudy skies and cold conditions. Snow in the northwest and sleet or freezing rain elsewhere today and tonight, followed by lingering cloudiness and continued cold Thursday with mixed precipitation north and rain elsewhere.
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