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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1963
Page
4
A 1963 Arkansas Senate bill by Sens. Clarence Bell and W. K. Ingram aims to ease voluntary school district consolidation by creating County School Study Commissions that draft an overhaul plan. The plan requires state board approval and a majority in each affected district to take effect.
The Phillips Van Heusen Corp. opened a new 225000 dollar plant in Augusta with formal dedication on Thursday. Attending were Seymour Phillips and Steward Green of New York, Arkansas regional manager Charles Myers, Augusta plant manager Charles Cooper, and Governor Orval E Faubus who attended the luncheon and ribbon cutting.
The ultramodern freighter Shirley Sykes sails under Red Cross flag toward Havana with 7,000 tons of ransom supplies for Fidel Castro. A Pan Am plane will carry 10,000 pounds to Cuba and return with Cuban-Americans. Cargo totals push toward the Bay of Pigs ransom deal while dangers of permission linger for evacuations.
George Dewey McClellan aged 62 of Aliquippa Pennsylvania died Thursday morning. A Hempstead County native and Mt Nebo Baptist Church member he is survived by his wife Viola three daughters Paulette and Mrs Willie Ruth Byrne of Aliquippa and Mary Jean of Washington DC four sons Howard in Anchorage Alaska Adron in Swickley Pa Kenneth in Beaver Pa and Lloyd in Hope Pa seven brothers and five sisters. Funeral services will be held at 2 pm Monday at Mt Nebo Baptist Church with Rev W E Thomason. Burial will follow in Mt Nebo Cemetery at Herndon Cornelius will oversee arrangements.
Partly cloudy to cloudy conditions across Arkansas with a cold wave bringing scattered snow flurries in the north tonight while the south stays milder. Nighttime lows near 20 north to 30 south, highs Saturday from 20 north to 80 south. Louisiana mostly cloudy with scattered southern showers, colder conditions in the far north tonight into Saturday, lows 26 to 34 north and 40s elsewhere, highs Saturday 20s north to 50s coastward.
President Kennedy will undertake an informal visit to West Germany after touring Italy, with only those two stops planned in Europe. Mrs. Kennedy will accompany him to Italy. Bonn visit arranged by Chancellor Adenauer, possible final official meeting due to his impending relinquishment of the chancellorship.
President Kennedy recommended to Congress an appropriation of 74.86 million dollars for flood control on the lower Mississippi River and its tributaries for the coming fiscal year, up from 73.304 million last year. The plan covers construction on the Mississippi below Cape Girardeau Missouri channel improvements maintenance and surveys and extends to Arkansas linked projects including St. Francis Basin Lower White Cache and Lower Arkansas River.
In repeated incidents a building once more robbed, this time taking 450 dollars from a safe at the Fraternal Order of Police headquarters.
Appleton, 72 of Paris, was killed Thursday when struck by a milk truck delivering along State Highway 22 about a half mile west of Paris. Police said Greg Pleiter of Paris reported the incident.
At Cape Canaveral the Pershing missile, jolted off course by simulated blast winds, was guided back onto its target. Harris announced a total of 88 successful tests and a $130,000 grant for the Quachila National Forest watershed project covering 40,000 acres in three counties with a estimated cost of 1.7 million dollars. The grant will aid employment and accelerate completion in 1964 while planning funds for the Canal 18 Watershed project are provided to help sponsors develop work plans.
LITTLE ROCK AP Arkansas State College will not seek university status this legislative session. Sen. Doug Bradley said supporters will not press a name change now, citing timing and pending statewide educational needs study by the new state colleges and University of Arkansas coordinating board.
An installation service will occur during Morning Worship at the Presbyterian church this Sunday. Newly elected deacons from the recent Congregational Meeting will be installed, including Dorsey McRae Jr, Will Ed Waller, Fred C. Ellis, Thomas F. Hays, Comer C. Boyett, Joseph K. Keesey, Mack Stuart, William M. Duckell, De C. Lynn Harris and Emory A. Thompson. Four elders will serve as ushers to help deacons sit together.
Dr. R Manton Wilson of Richmond Virginia retired medical missionary who worked 45 years among lepers in Korea is named Man of the South for 1962 by Dixie Business Magazine. Wilson born in Columbus is brother of Charlie Hope and Joe Wilson and Mrs E Jackson of Columbus. Community notes: Hope Civitan Club hosts members’ wives. Temple Children’s Home at Yokarkaita to be discussed. new Hope Ministerial Alliance officers named. Bradford family fire aid drive planned with local pickup for clothing and furniture follow-up.
At a Berlin East German party congress, Wu Halu ehuan faced jeers from 2,500 delegates as he attacked Khrushchev's coexistence policy. Khrushchev, absent, earlier toured a TV factory while Chinese delegates clashed over Marxist unity and Titoist critics.
A cloud bank covered southern Arkansas while the north stayed clear this morning. Overnight lows ranged from the high 30s to the high 40s in the south and the low 20s to low 30s in the north. Light rain was possible in the south with colder conditions forecast for the north. Saturday will be partly cloudy and very cold with highs 50 to 60 and Lows around 24 north to 10 south. A cold air mass from the east is expected to push in tonight and linger through mid next week. Traces of pain were reported at Little Rock, Camden, Morrilton, and Wynne during the 24 hour period.
The Little Rock VA regional office says Arkansas 1962 home loans totaled about 18 million. Conventional lenders issued 1,035 loans worth 12,970,730 while the VA made 471 direct loans totaling 4,871,095. Direct loans reached rural areas lacking conventional financing.
Paul Klipsch of Hope will be made a fellow of the Arkansas section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers tonight in Little Rock for contributions to electrical reproduction of sound. His firm Klipsch and Associates makes the Klipschorn in Hope. He moved to Hope as head of the instrumental division at Southwestern Proving Grounds during World War I, served as a major, and later stayed in private business. He is a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve.
Washington AP reports the Supreme Court took under advisement the Georgia county unit primary case after Atty. Gen. Kennedy argued federal courts may intervene when state machinery dilutes votes. Kennedy urged upholding the three-judge panel ruling that the system is constitutional, while Georgia officials defended its legitimacy and legislative power.
Four hundred children in the Alvord School District south of Riverside Calif were stricken by food poisoning. Hospitals are jammed with patients including 40 children bedded in a corridor at one facility. Authorities suspect turkey dressing from the district central kitchen as the source and will inspect the kitchen before reopening.
A snowstorm and deep cold swept Montana and the northern Midwest, repeating a pattern from a week earlier. Blowing snow halted traffic in central and southeastern Montana, with up to half a foot of accumulation in western mountains. Subzero reads spread from the Dakotas into Minnesota and Nebraska, while widespread cold loomed across the continental center and Far West had near normal to slightly below normal temperatures. Agricultural losses in California reached into millions, the heaviest since 1948.
A coastal ferry Yun ho capsized off Korea’s southwest coast during a 15 mile run from Hainam to Mokpo. Nine bodies recovered. one man rescued. Police say strong gales struck noon, the vessel sank four miles southwest of Mokpo, about 200 miles south of Seoul.
Services for T. L. Rhodes, a former Hope resident who died January 7, were held in Mot Springs. Survivors include his wife Grace Rhodes and three daughters Jane Lyimoury of St. Louis, Carolyn Cullbert of Reno, Nevada, and Lane Tunell of Dallas.
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