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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1962
Page
1
The Hope Star publishes a 1919 rate card listing subscription prices by delivery method and area plus a standard Associated Press copyright notice. It notes circulation statements, advertising representatives, and general masthead details including editor and publisher names.
Mayor Frank Douglas proclaims January 24 26 1962 as Jaycee Week honoring the Hope Chamber of Commerce and Junior Chamber of Commerce for community service and the selection of a Distinguished Service Award recipient. Citizens urged to support the future endeavors of the Jaycee organization.
President Kennedy backs Pentagon requirement for advance civilian clearance of military speeches to ensure alignment with government policy. He supports Senate subcommittee probes into Pentagon censorship, calling the inquiry useful while endorsing the current policy’s aim of coordinated public statements. Civilian control and unified communication foreseen to project U S strength.
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP dispatch reports favorable weather for a planned Liberty Bell space mission as astronaut John Glenn prepares for a multi orbit sortie. The countdown spans about 500 minutes with final five hours reserved for contingency. If no problems arise the launch window targets 7 10 am Friday with Glenn 40 to fly between 7 30 am and 12 30 pm. A valve replacement caused a postponement from Wednesday.
An anonymous donor gave 15000 dollars split as 5000 dollars to each of Dardanelle Arkansas three churches Assembly of God Methodist and Presbyterian to retire debts or improve church buildings. The report also mentions Senate probe into Pentagon speech clearance and remarks by Kennedy Burke White and Lemnitzer on civilian military relations.
At the Inter-American Foreign Ministers Conference in Punta del Este, Secretary of State Dean Rusk urges a strong collective stand to quarantine Castro’s Cuba and shield the hemisphere from subversion. He pitches sanctions and suspension from OAS bodies, while facing opposition from Brazil and others wary of punitive actions.
AP reports one of the severest Mississippi River ice jams tying up about 300000 tons of cargo and halting traffic from St. Louis southward since January. The 14 mile gorge north of Cairo blocked river routes as subfreezing weather persisted with ice up to 25 feet thick. More than 200 barges lay tied below Cairo and 35 to 40 above the gorge between St. Louis and Cape Girardeau, with ongoing uncertainty from the Army Corps of Engineers.
Washington AP Admiral Burke testified at a Senate inquiry about a major speech text being censored before delivery. He said information leaks to the press suggested he aimed to hide censorship, which he denies. The hearing reviewed military speech review practices and past muzzling accusations. Construction of the Lincoln Memorial began in 1925.
Central Arkansas will be mostly cloudy and warmer with scattered rain and thunderstorms today into Friday. Highs near 60s, lows around 60, with Friday turning cooler and mainly cloudy. Northwest region records highs in the upper 80s Friday ahead of cooler Saturday.
Pulaski Chancellor Guy FE Williams heard a request to halt Gov Faubus from drawing on the emergency fund during a lawsuit over a 100000 appropriation. Faubus is named a defendant in challenges to the fund, Revenue Stabilization Act, Accounting Procedures Act, and highway and education fund laws. Williams weighs an injunction to stop highway and education spending until resolve.
The Rt. Rev. Robert R. Brown reported the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas gained 13 244 members in the past year at the 90th annual convention in Helena St John s Church 300 delegates attended He noted six parish houses and one classroom were built three rectories were built or acquired and three new facilities planned He urged faith beyond man made institutions to overcome communism warning that relying on ism s alone will not bring ultimate victory
Director F. R. Oliver announced on Tuesday that the Highway Department spent about $35,000 in overtime for crews clearing roads of snow and ice. He noted concern over damage from the freeze and referenced Episcopalians urged to uphold faith while fighting evil, with two weeks of activity proceeding pre-convention events.
Three inmates slipped away from Pulaski County Prison Farm on Wednesday. Don McNabb and Eugene Zgonic were quickly found in Maumelle Creek brush nearby, but Perry Justice remained at large. Justice, 21, was jailed on nine traffic convictions. McNabb, 21, faced traffic violations. Zgonic, 22, tied to contributing to a minor.
Jean Tschumi, a leading European architect aged 57, was found dead in his sleeping car compartment on a train arriving from Paris in Lausanne Switzerland. Police reported he apparently died of a heart attack.
Two men, H.K. Black and Billy Prather, died when a small plane crashed into Blakely Mountain near Hot Springs Arkansas in heavy fog. The victims, partners from Chicago to El Paso, were identified by state police via airport records.
AP report states Governor Orval Farbus was confined to bed at the Mansion with a cold, sore throat, and upset stomach. Dr. T J Raney ordered bed rest for a few days, with a likely return to office by Monday.
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