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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1975
Page
1
The editor Alex H. Washburn presents a concise slice of daily bread commentary. A brief reflection on simple nourishment, framed in a traditional editorial tone, tying ordinary meals to broader routines and values.
A Dallas Times Herald report warns that inflation driven costs forced the oldest private coeducational Dallas school into bankruptcy after 41 years, urging Arkansas to curb county college bond plans. The piece argues taxpayers should beware earmarking funds for new colleges amid tax pressures and unmet common school needs.
In Boston, classes resumed at the South Boston High complex with about 400 police present and metal detectors as 300 to 400 white pupils and 50 to 75 black children entered under security. The complex, closed since December 11 after a stabbing and ensuing violence, remains in a divided area with heavy police watch along routes to Roxbury and neighboring annexes.
The Southwest Criminal Justice Planning Council will meet January 16 to hear Arkansas Commission on Crime and Law Enforcement officials discuss 1975 funding programs for the Arkansas Criminal Justice System. The session will review grant applications for Hope, El Dorado, Dallas County, and others, seek local recommendations, and solicit comments on improving the 12 county area's criminal justice system. The meeting starts at noon with lunch at Trade Winds Motor Restaurant.
A suitcase bomb exploded inside a Cleveland frame house on the south side killing Maryanne Sigley 21 her 2 year old son Michael and Bur dell Offitt 26. Three others were critically injured including Steven Sigley 9 months Deborah Slepko 16 and John Slepko 21. Offitt died after telling police he found the suitcase on the porch and brought it inside.
Arkansas Attorney General Jim Guy Tucker said paying a justice of the peace $25 a year only if he agrees not to hold court could be an illegal exaction. The opinion, sought by State Rep. Larry S. Patterson, addressed whether a county quorum court may allocate funds to compensate JPs in townships without municipal courts, clarifying misdemeanor jurisdiction and compensation rules.
The six ship group led by the 85,000 ton carrier Enterprise sails from Subic Bay heading into the Indian Ocean on an operational mission. Long Beach destroyers and support vessels accompany it as U.S. officials state no Vietnam action is planned despite Kissinger warnings. Critics caution over oil route security while Congress limits actions in Indochina.
The Southwest Branch Experiment Station hosts 36 beef cattle breeders with bulls on test and invites visitors to learn about the cattle business. Dr L O Warren will speak from 10 30 a m to 12 noon with test procedures outlined by C J Brown and M L Ray. Breeders discuss bulls for sale as sixty bulls finish and sixty new ones arrive for another test. Breeds include Black Angus Red Angus Brahman Charolais Horned Herefords Polled Herefords Santa Gertrudis and crossbreds. Some bulls may be for sale by private treaty. all are invited.
The Hope City Board set a public hearing date of February 11 to discuss environmental impact studies for two new sewer plants and related lines. Plans and the engineers study are on file with the city clerk. The project is estimated at four million dollars, with EPA grants covering about three quarters and bonds needed for the remaining one million.
Three lawmakers Senator Olen Hendrix Representative Larry Patterson and Representative Chuck Honen will address the Hope Education Association meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the new Hope High School library. They will discuss the Arkansas Education Association legislative goal.
City subscribers are urged to call 777-3431 between 6 and 6 30 p m Saturday before or by 5 p m if they fail to receive their Star. A carrier will deliver promptly.
Arthur O Neil Wommack 56 of Ashdown Ark was killed instantly when a tree he was cutting kicked back pinning him three miles north of Ashdown. Ambulance crews arrived after 10 55 a m and coroner J T Honeycutt ruled death accidental at 12 55 p m. Funeral services set for Phillips Chapel with burial in Ashdown Cemetery. Wommack survived by wife Edna Sue, son Alton, three brothers, three sisters and one grandson. Born July 31 1918 in Nashville he was a World War II veteran and Oak Grove Baptist Church member.
Four Basotho and Xhosa clash at the Vaal Reefs gold complex near Klerksdorp leaves four dead and eight injured. Anglo American Corp reports order restored after Tuesday night fighting. about half of 21,500 black workers idle. Since Sunday eight total deaths and 30 hospitalizations reported.
The Boston Globe claimed Leonid Brezhnev would enter the Sidney Farber Cancer Center in Boston today while Moscow officials said he attended his mother’s funeral. Officials in Moscow denied confirming the Globe’s report, and U.S. officials offered no confirmation or denial. The tale followed prior tips of Brezhnev’s illness including leukemia and a canceled Cairo trip.
Charles R. Walther, 25, from Parkdale Ashley County was killed when his car stalled on a Missouri Pacific train crossing inside Parkdale city limits. Witnesses said Walther slumped in the seat as the train struck.
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