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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1977
Page
2
A brief taste of spring gives way to a blast of winter as a high pressure system clears skies across the state bringing fair conditions. The forecast hints at rapid changes and unsettled patterns ahead.
The Hope Star reports warmer temperatures now with a northward cold air mass forecast to push in by late Wednesday and arrive in Arkansas by Thursday. Temperatures will drop into the teens or below in parts of the state with overnight lows in the north and south dipping to near or below freezing.
Mondale pressed allies during a swing through Europe to press for fulfillment of contractual obligations with Brazil while Germany explored a face-saving exit from selling a reprocessing plant. The talks followed his stops in Brussels with NATO and EC officials and a visit to Belgian Premier Tindemans. The report notes France bans future exports of reprocessing technology and Brazil and Pakistan deals remain unresolved.
Senate leaders from both parties forecast Griffin Bell will be confirmed as attorney general by a substantial margin despite a lengthy debate. The full Senate set aside up to eight hours to debate Carter's nomination. Bell, a moderate, pledged vigorous enforcement of civil rights and noted his record of desegregating many school districts.
Thirty nine Hope High School musicians earned regional honors in Asttowa with members named to first and second region bands. The first band includes Kay McHenry Molly Streeh Susan Tolleson Marilyn Parker and others while the second band features Terri Kauble Karen Hartsfield and more. An alternates list names Mike Ross Betty Reese and Marty Smith. Concert set for Saturday Jan 29 at Malvern High School at 7 p.m. Robert Gibson conducts the second band and Dr Joe Barry Mullins conducts the first.
The Hope Public Schools bands will perform Thursday Jan 27 at 7 30 p m in the high school auditorium. Rutherford Campus Junior High and high school bands join the concert with pieces including Chuck and Bill Shortenin Bread Gaslight Gaeties Welsh Folk Suite An Occasional Suite Holiday Tune Valdres a concert march Spiritual first movement of Incidental Suite and Symphonic Jubilee.
In Madrid demonstrations erupted after the fatal shooting of 19 year old Arturo Ruiz Garcia during protests for amnesty. Police arrested a 49 year old immigrant extreme rightist for the killing. the Guerrillas are suspected. Students rallied on the University campus and Gran Via.
The Supreme Court 6-3 rejects a federal court plan to bus about 10,000 black students across Indianapolis districts to achieve integration. It sends the case back to the 7th Circuit for reconsideration in light of new rulings on proving discriminatory intent.
Obituaries record Walter Jewel May 87 of Eastland Texas after a heart attack with survivors including two sons and a daughter. Burial at Union cemetery. services at Central Baptist Church Prescott. Additional notices cover Walter Rowe Sr. 102 of Emerson Arkansas and other local deaths, including Foster and Montgomery family members, with funeral details and church affiliations.
The Hope Star invites all to a Community Coffee on Wednesday morning at the Chamber of Commerce office from 9 30 to 11. A cake reception and friendly visit is planned. The Hempstead County Quorum Court meeting is moved to Monday January 31. Cindy Schneiker makes UCA Dean’s List in music education with a 3 5 GPA. Millwood Lake ranks seventh in Tulsa District recreation with 2 295 400 visitors in 1976, Texoma leads with 11 046 100. The Hope Melonaires begin square dancing lessons February 3 at 7 30 p m at Hope Community Building. Dennis Ross teaches. NAAC P installation for new Hope Hempstead branch officers February 13 at 3 p m Beebe C M E Church. New officers include Rev W T Keys president Rev W G Wynn vice president Rev W M Martin second vice president Charly Cooper secretary Mrs Gertrud Williamson assistant secretary Robert White treasurer. A basic welding course starts February 1 at 6 30 p m at Hope High School agricultural building limited to 10 with a 10 fee ending late May. topics include safety arc beads welds metals and heat settings.
State Senator Olen Hendrix of Antoine will travel to Washington DC February 3 and 4 to meet with members of Congress and federal energy officials from the Carter administration. He will join the Southwest Regional Energy Council, have breakfast at the Rayburn Building, then six hours of agency appointments before returning to Arkansas that evening.
George McGovern returns to the classroom for a Columbia University course on American foreign policy. About 450 students attend as he splits the two hour session between lectures and a no holds barred Q and A, with grading on at least one question. He notes modest pay for the gig and makes a dig at Nixon while discussing Vietnam and Carter's pardon of draft evaders.
Carter was absent for portions of the previous week due to a natural gas shortage affecting operations and routine activities.
Coast Guard crews in Memphis stay long hours from sunup to sunset to restore navigation aids on the Mississippi. Buoy tenders Kanawha and Muskingum faced ice cover since Thursday, with one boat damaged after hitting ice as it left port. Ice chunks drifted, displacing buoys and threatening channel marks.
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