This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 9 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1963
Page
5
A nostalgic meditation on individual freedom contrasts with a local July sale at Raley's Style Shoppe Hope's House of Fashion. The ad proclaims a pre inventory reduction on summer dresses and suits with broad appeal to shoppers.
The Hope Nursing Home sponsors an old time picnic and covered dish luncheon at 5 pm on Thursday July 4 with the public invited. Hope Country Club also hosts a picnic at 8 36 pm. Hostesses include multiple local residents and families.
A string of Hope area residents undertake travel or visits. Dr and Mrs J W Branch depart for Colorado and Wyoming meetings while Mrs Branch joins Fort Sam Houston auxiliaries in San Antonio. Denver to Arkansas relatives, navy family in San Francisco, and Krebs of Dallas to Germany for three years. local families entertain and host guests including Miss Laseler visiting from Kirkwood and Mrs Becherer arriving from Aberdeen to see Stewart family.
Nancy Malone nineteen has completed a year at Marjorie Webster Junior College in Washington DC earning a grade point average for the year of 3.72. Parents Col and Mrs Frank Malone report the achievement along with relatives in Hope Texas and Tennessee. The family plans to join Malone in Germany after another year at the Washington college.
In Virginia two federal courts issued opinions invalidating segregation provisions. A special three judge panel found state seating laws unconstitutional, while the Fourth Circuit barred Powhatan County from closing public schools to avoid integration. A separate ruling struck down key provisions of Lynchburg's desegregation plan, with Powhatan enjoined against school closings except for the County Board of Supervisors.
Miss Donna Jeanne Keith of Alexandria, daughter of the late Phillip Keith and Joyce Keith, will depart New Orleans July 11 with a group to the Baptist Youth World Conference in Beirut Lebanon, July 14 to 19. They leave Idlewild Airport New York July 8 by jet to London, touring overseas sites, returning July 28 under Dr. Udell-Smith of Louisiana State University.
The note discusses closing Powhatan schools rather than bow to a federal court order, noting Powhatan is two counties from Prince de Ward where schools have been closed since 1959 to avoid integration. It mentions the Lynchburg case where the appeals court upheld a plan with grade-a-year desegregation and a racial minority transfer provision.
Little Rock AP says Gov. Orval Faubus proclaimed July 4 to be a state holiday, closing the Capitol Thursday and Friday. Public offices will observe the Fourth of July closure.
The Alexandria suit filed by two Negro women who last November tried to buy tickets to the Jefferson Theater in Fairfax County and the Globe Theater in Arlington challenged Virginia’s segregated seating. The court voided two sections of the Virginia code, one forcing racial separation in theaters and the other making it a misdemeanor to sit in a seat assigned to bias.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.