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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1975
Page
2
The National Weather Service forecasts a low pressure system centered over the central Rockies. A cold front should form Friday morning and move through the Oklahoma Texas panhandles into southwest Texas, reaching Arkansas by Friday afternoon.
The Hope Star for January 16 1975 lists a cloudy cool forecast with a warming trend into the weekend from Kansas and surrounding areas. It includes temperatures highs in the upper 40s to upper 50s and lows mid 20s to mid 30s with no precipitation expected Saturday through Monday and regional overnight temperature readings for Little Rock Pine Bluff El Dorado Texarkana Fort Smith Fayetteville Harrison Jonesboro and Memphis. The page also notes circulation affiliations and advertising representatives.
AP reports two strong quakes centered beneath the sea off Messina and Reggio Calabria caused light damage but killed two elderly men in Messina by heart attacks. Residents fled outdoors, with Messina’s 200,000 and Reggio Calabria’s 250,000 spending the night outside.
Joe D. Scott chairman addressed the Kiwanis Club, reviewing the commission’s progress since 1968. He noted seven to fourteen enforcement districts, new warden selection criteria, land and water conservation efforts, 22 game management areas, three hatcheries, and introduction of Sea Bass Walleye and Pike. He urged support for a license fee rise to 7.50 annually. Inductions and guest attendees were noted at the meeting.
Ruby Richardson of 614 Walker Street not the one in the Hope Star docket. The University of Arkansas conducts a math in service class for Hope teachers with Robert W. Simmons as instructor starting Tuesday. This is the third year for the program here. Spring course is Math 3763 Special Topics in Algebra. Bill Mitchell praised for Christian leadership in Van Buren schools, cited by a Van Buren Courier parent. Pete Tippitt not the docketed individual. Weather-related school closures will be announced on KXAR before 7 a.m. Rotary Club guest speaker Dr Martin Garrison of Henderson State College. New Rotary officers for 1975-76 listed. New York Philharmonic to tour Europe next summer with IBM grant, performing in Edinburgh Berlin Lucerne Ghent Brussels and Paris festivals.
Several local obituaries list James Lawrence Key, 74, of 221 Pritchard St., Hope, a retired city employee and First Pentecostal Church member, with a large family and funeral plans at Herndon Funeral Home. Elia Frazier Coulter, 86, dies in Dallas nursing home with daughter Joella Stokes and granddaughter Judy Amour Manning noted. burial later. Mrs Charlie Mae Clark, 54, of 107 S Ferguson, Hope, dies. services at Garrett Chapel Baptist Church with burial in Cave Hill cemetery. Rev Charles E Messer Sr., 73, former minister, died in a DeQueen nursing home. survivors include three brothers and three sisters.
Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz told the National Association of Wheat Growers in Amarillo that a 1975 record harvest of about two billion bushels and relatively small U.S. reserves through mid-1975 point to limited declines in major wheat prices. He warned that rising world demand for food grain will prevent surpluses and require sustained growth, with exports expanding only if the federal government avoids export curbs and restraints. he noted two thirds of U.S. wheat production in the past three seasons went to export.
Washington AP Rep. Pill Alexander of Arkansas introduced a resolution to ease inflation’s impact on Americans relying on Social Security and federally aided payments. He would amend the Social Security Act to raise the annual outside earnings cap to 10,000 while preserving maximum benefits, up from the current 2,250. Shop in Hope.
As of January 15 men in Hope and vicinity may enter a beard and moustache contest. Entry forms are through Centennial Beaux Travis Mitchell at Cox Drug Company, who chairs the event and will collect entries, appoint judges, and award prizes. Contest ends April 7 1975 with winners announced at the queen's contest after August 21.
The Hempstead County Rescue Unit held its first 1975 meeting with a pot luck supper at the Presbyterian Fellowship Hall. Guests included Judge and Mrs Bohan and James Vess and Larry Moses, representing the Hempstead County Ambulance Service. Thirty people attended, with the next meeting set for January 28 at 7 30 p m in the High School agr classroom.
The Fed reports December industrial output fell 2.8 percent, the largest monthly drop in 16 years, with auto assemblies down about 25 percent and inventories near record highs. Wholesale prices slipped for the first time in 14 months, while unemployment claims rose to 3,923,700 for Christmas week. Ford and other automakers posted sharp early January sales declines.
Dolly Finley, 62, of DeWitt, was found by the roadside about one mile northwest of Lodge Corner in Arkansas County. Sheriff Gene Garrison said exposure caused her death and no foul play is suspected. Lodge Corner lies about 15 miles south of Stuttgart.
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