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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1972
Page
7
Alex H. Washburn offers a concise editorial on daily bread practices and frugal living, emphasizing simple sustenance, mindful spending, and community alternatives to wasteful consumption.
Seven Star staffers returned from the Atkinssas Press Association convention at Hot Springs Arlington Hotel. The upbeat trend in Arkansas journalism aligns with national business signals for 1972, though some notes on mail and postage rates hint at deteriorating service. Conference chatter focused on positive reports, while concerns about the Postal Service and small papers lingered unspoken.
Five ENCOR clients aged 17 to 22 and a staff member drowned when a Missouri River outing at Indian Cave State Park near Falls City, Nebraska turned deadly. A sixth ENCOR client was hospitalized in shock. The group of 15 campers had planned to return to Omaha after camping the prior day.
In Washington a suit seeks a restraining order to seat the revised California delegation at the Miami Beach convention opening July 10. The Credentials Committee had overruled California’s winner take all primary, allocating 151 of 271 votes to Humphrey Wallace and others. McGovern pledges possible compromise and plans to meet with AFL CIO President Meany as battles over delegates continue.
Nine men are under arrest in a $465,000 munitions smuggling scheme stretching from New York to Louisiana Texas and Mexico. The operation involved 13 500 pounds of C-4 plastic explosives and planned flights to Mexico for eventual shipment to Cuba. The case names Murray Kessler Adler Seal Richmond Harper and Marion Hegler among those charged with conspiring to smuggle weapons to a third country.
Hempstead County offices close Tuesday per announcement. The Star will not publish July 4 and will observe three holidays including Thanksgiving and Christmas. James H. Jones Jr. elected president of the Little Rock Sigma Delta Chi chapter. he has served as VP and joined Arkansas Gazette in 1965 after Texatana Gazette and Northwest Arkansas Times. Hope Roundup Club July 4 trail ride at Lee Norton proving grounds. Elmer Hampton and Pug Goodner invite participants. G.D. Formby listed in court docket not Gary Don Formby of Patmos. Sam Dameron of Hope caught a 342-pound blue marlin off Hatteras Island, spending 3 hours 530 minutes to land it.
Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Bhutto reached a first peace accord after five days of talks in Simla promising future negotiations on Kashmir and Pakistani POWs. The pact calls for withdrawal of forces from seized territories within 30 days after ratification and resumption of communications, trade, air links, and cultural exchanges.
In Reykjavik the International Chess Federation postponed the Fischer Kasparov world championship series after Bobby Fischer failed to arrive in Iceland by the weekend. Fischer remained in New York and faced a potential forfeit if not present by noon Tuesday. He and Spassky had agreed to a $125,000 purse with five eighths to the winner and 30 percent shares of film and TV rights, while Fischer pressed for an extra 30 percent of gate receipts.
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