Our Daily Bread Sliced Thin by The Editor
A brief satirical column by editor Alex H. Washburn reflecting on daily bread and editorial perspectives, presented in a concise commentary format.
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1975
Page
5
A brief satirical column by editor Alex H. Washburn reflecting on daily bread and editorial perspectives, presented in a concise commentary format.
A tear sheet from Beaumont Journal July 1 quotes a Texas Employers Insurance Association member on wind power over Washington. The note recalls Memphis editor Charles Patrick Joseph Mooney, his 1926 letter on well-edited papers, and plans to frame copies for Hope High School and Star Building offices. Mooney, a famed editor and tough manager, is praised as a model.
In Paris a prisoner on trial for armed holdup opened fire wounding two guards and taking the court president M. Cozette and a prosecutor hostage. A woman disguised as a lawyer entered with a grenade and handed a pistol to the prisoner before he fled the Palace of Justice. The court attempted to intervene as Willoquet and the hostages escaped. one officer was gravely wounded and a guard lieutenant sustained facial injuries.
A tornado ripped through Arden near Ashdown Arkansas around 5:30 p.m. Monday injuring Richard Bowman and Mrs. Joe Jewell inside a Fine Service Station and grocery. The storm lifted the roof, blew in the back wall, scattered food, damaged barns and sheds, a chicken house, and a building under construction, with debris 50 feet away in a field.
U S intelligence cites about 3000 Soviet specialists in Somalia amid a growing military complex near Berbera. Evidence includes a missile handling facility, underground complexes, fuel storage near Berbera, a new airfield west of Berbera, and a communications station north of Mogadishu serving the Indian Ocean fleet.
Arkansas truckers protest Col. Doug Harp order banning CB radios in troopers’ patrol cars. They say CBs aid communication and事故 reporting at truck stops and accident scenes. Harp says troopers should rely on the official radio system. about 100 of 522 vehicles had CB units. Petitions circulate statewide to repeal the ban.
President Ford announced from the Oval Office his bid for reelection in 1976 vowing an open campaign and to serve all the people. He named Robert C. Moot as campaign treasurer and said four aides would lead the nominating effort with Callaway Packard and Burch among them.
About 200 demonstrators from the Nehru Brigade staged a sit down in front of the U S Information Service building in New Delhi denouncing the CIA while police allowed the protest under the emergency rule bans. Police later raided Jawaharlal Nehru University dormitories, detaining about 50 students for interrogation. Meanwhile Mrs Gandhi pressed industry leaders to cooperate, pledging to punish production blockers while keeping tight credit and supplying power and raw materials as she uses emergency powers to energize the economy. Arkansas weather update noted with warm humid conditions and a chance of showers.
Mrs. John W. Rushing is named Chairman in Blevins for the Breath of Life Campaign to be held in September. Mrs. Becky Hume Ross, State Chairman for the Arkansas Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, made the announcement. Rushing will join volunteers in Hempstead County to raise funds for CF research care and education benefiting children with lung disease.
The Ford administration is finalizing gun control legislation including mandatory sentences for gun crimes, tighter controls on dealers, and federal checks for handgun buyers. A treasury official said the bill mirrors recommendations from April, with a possible waiting period for handgun purchases and new dealer licensing.
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