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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1961
Page
3
Help wanted notice seeking an experienced wartress to apply in person at Idea Care on December 29.4497 W APRONS in stores. No charge for material to Gill orders. address listed as Adco Mfg. Co. Basthrop Louisiana with terse place markers and garbled details.
The document lists church and club notices including a Missionary Joann Hardaway event for the Church of God in Christ under Elder L Washington, the Anna PB Strong Club monthly meeting at Mrs COW Teds home, Rutherford presidency, a Catutt Chapel Baptist gathering with Rev Wood and Ree 1 Sefford officiating, Zorah Chapter No 4 ORS regular meeting at the Community Counter with Royal Matron Fannie Alusant.
United States and Cuba exchange sharp statements as Castro announces measures against the Guantanamo Bay installation while Washington asserts its right to defend the base. President Kennedy remains silent on the diplomatic leak as Cuban relations take a dramatic turn, with old ties strained and new tensions rising amid air rounds and naval movements. Local club notes and obituaries fill the rest of the page, including community meetings and funeral arrangements in Prescott and Hope.
Congress maneuvers to shape party policy as Sen. Mansfield aims to settle issues this week while Speaker Rasburn leads Democratic forces. A party caucus proposal for direct election of policy committee members stalls due to no vacancies after Hennings death and Green retirement. Johnson moves into vice presidency, leaving Gore’s plan without footing as GOP debates leadership and campaign chairs.
The Castro regime demanded the removal of all but 11 of U S diplomats from Cuba within 43 hours triggering a mass exodus. The State Department said the action affected the Cuban Embassy in Washington and 10 of 14 Cuban consulates. Swiss mission to handle future Cuban affairs was named as a workaround.
In New Orleans the number of white pupils at the city’s two integrated public schools rose as the Legislature met in Baton Rouge to push a proposal to raise the state sales tax for funding to support segregation. Gov. Jimmie Davis aims to win approval for the tax plan, which had fallen short by three votes earlier. The report notes 13 white students attended William Frantz and three white students attended MacDonogh No. 14, amid ongoing white boycotts since integration began. The legislature may also address teacher pay issues. about 3,500 New Orleans teachers and other staff did not receive September pay, totaling roughly $1.4 million, tied to desegregation disputes with parish boards.
Incoherent OCR snippet hints at a political dispute with references to Guldwater, liberals, and a blocked move in the Senate. The text suggests a struggle over remaining duties, indicating a stalled process and contested leadership without clear outcomes or dates.
Secretary of State confirms Hall d an illness may keep him from swearing in next Tuesday Arkansas officials including Gav, Ry, Poubis, and alter etested officials are slated to form the oath ceremony while doctors advise rest for severe bursitis.
Congressman Dale Alford D Ark asks the House committee to investigate a screening of the film Operation Abolition in Arkansas. He cites a Vanity Fair report and a local American Legion group’s interest, amid claims the film portrays anti Communist protests in San Francisco as Communist inspired.
Monsanto Chemical Co will build a vast petrochemical complex on a 1000 acre site in southeast Texas near Alvin. President Charles H. Sommer said the plant will employ about 400 people with a $30 million annual payroll. Estimated cost cited by experts ranges from 20 to 100 million dollars. The facility aims to produce 500 million pounds of Ethylene per year for plastics and synthetic rubber.
In Bataville Arkansas an anonymous well-wisher strode into the Independence County sheriff’s office and, after conveying greetings, was jailed on a charge arising from a public inebriation incident aboard a barge. Sheriff John Davis oversaw the brief confinement.
Garvis Buddy Nichols, 14, is to be arraigned January 23 in Marion on charges of slaving two young playmates. Deputy Prosecutor Julian Fortean says he will be taken before Circuit Judge G. Partlow as the court session opens. The youth was returned to jail after a sanity examination at the state facility.
A Tuesday night blast at the National Reactor Testing Station near Idaho Falls killed three military personnel. Radiological teams in protective gear surveyed the site as authorities said the reactor building was not a danger to surrounding areas. Officials noted two bodies remained inside the building hours after the explosion and that the incident may have been a chemical explosion rather than atomic, with wind carrying radiation away from populated zones.
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