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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1974
Page
6
Alex H. Washburn presents Our Daily Bread Sliced Thin, a concise editorial note. The piece reflects on daily life and moral reflections in brief, poised lines.
The Star recounts a Thursday power outage that halted press and AP feed for hours, affecting overnight coverage and sports. It notes a midtown fire, a new staffer’s photo apprenticeship, and a year end inventory lesson on roll weights and counts for the newsprint stock.
President Nixon pushes energy conservation with year round daylight saving time set to begin Sunday in most states. Indiana and Hawaii exempt or delayed. several other states seek exemptions.
Ouachita Baptist University receives a $1 million Education Department grant to aid disadvantaged students. J. W. Fulbright and John L. McClellan, both D Ark, announced the award. Other items note Fulbright seeking a sixth term, Gov. Bumpers' plans, a fatal crash near Pine Bluff, delays in AMPI trial, and daylight saving time exemptions discussions.
Security police seized a second young American girl for questioning about arms smuggling and international terrorism. Scotland Yard called her a known associate of Allison Thompson, an 18 year old Santa Barbara waitress held with two male friends. The unnamed woman arrived from New York and was still being questioned at London Airport.
A Prescott man, Lawrence Collister, 64, was struck and killed by a westbound car while attempting to cross Arkansas Highway 19 within the city limits about 1 25 pm Wednesday. The driver, Dwllas Lindsey, 80, of near Rosston, Ark, remained at the scene and Collister died en route to a Prescott hospital.
In Minneapolis two near-death patients revived by internal warming via heart-lung machines. A 39-year-old woman and a 64-year-old man spent hours in a snowdrift. Both were heated from 72 and 75 degrees to 98 within 15 minutes, with the woman recovering quickly and released next day.
Below freezing rain glazed roads and buildings in Hope on Wednesday night and Thursday. An evergreen bush photograph by Walnut Street near the First National Bank shows a silvered fence post and barbed wire. At 8 am Friday downtown Hope was 25 degrees with no further ice. Frost and clouds expected with highs in the 40s and no rain today or Saturday.
Washington AP reports the unemployment rate rose from 4.7 to 4.9 percent in December, with 170,000 more out of work for 4.4 million total. Analysts cite economy slowdown and fuel shortages, noting data delays from the energy crisis and holidays.
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