Hope voters to decide on Arterial Plan for eight streets
Hope residents face a $765,000 arterial street plan with eight streets from an original 12. Revenue methods to fund the project appear on the ballot, including bonds, automobile tax, or parking meter revenue. The Hope Rotary Club backs the plan, with City Manager Garland Medders and officials from Planning Commission in attendance.
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Mont Ateeate
Hope
Hope Rotary Club
Garland Medders
Clyde Fouse
Leonard Ellis
Donal Parker
Planning Commission
Arch Wylie
W.D. Flowers, Jr
E. P. Young, Jr
Robert Dennis
James Mc+ Larty
Ted Bonner
Little Rock
Delbert Copeland
Sequatchie
Tenn
T. C. Crawford
Tony McLarty
Vandenberg Afb
Calif
Parcelpost Schedule Now Six Days In Hope
Postmaster Brannan announced parcel post deliveries in Hope expanded from five to six days a week starting July 15. The move follows a directive tied to an $8.5 million Post Office appropriation to restore six day delivery, affecting nearly 5000 cities and correcting a service inequity between motorized and foot routes.
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Brannan
Hope
Lawrence F. O'Brien
Post Office Department
Johnson
Hope Postal
Hope Street paving sparks lighted mag scenes in Southland Heights
Curious reader asks about the Hope Street program as progressive residents in South Grady and California streets prepare for paving and curb gutter under city offers. Separate deals include asphalt paving and a 75 cent per foot option.
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Hope Street
Grady Street
Southland Heights
California
City Hall
Hodge claims denial of Bella Vista vacation stay
Alonzo Hodge of Shreveport, a Negro, says Bella Vista Village refused him admission after he won a three day expense paid vacation. He received welcome letters and confirmed July 10-12 reservations but was told to stay at a motel due to no vacancies and given $100 for expenses.
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Little Rock
Morton Gitelman
Fayetteville
Arkansas Advisory Committee
U.S. Commission On Civil Rights
Washington
Alonzo Hodge
Shreveport
Ia. Hodge
Bella Vista Village
Arkansas
Bella Vista
She's Still Just Sylvia Says Beauty Queen in Miami
Sylvia Hitchcock 21, Miss Universe, plans to return to the University of Alabama after her reign. Admirers credit her smile with winning over judges among 56 contestants. Former entrant in Miss Smile and teenage beauty contests, she was once a court member in school events and once delivered parcels on a five day a week post route on foot.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Sylvia Hitchcock
Sylvia
University of Alabama
Bomb raids across South Vietnam widen scope
Large scale B52 strikes hit five Communist concentrations from the Mekong Delta to near the DMZ. Two U S planes were lost but crews rescued. North Vietnamese torpedo boats sighted near Thanh Hoa. Operation Crockett near Khe Sanh reported 206 enemy killed and 52 Marines killed. A fire at a road camp eight miles east of Jay killed several workers.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Mekong Delta
Central Highlands
North
U.S
Hanoi
Thanh Hoa
North Vietnam
South Vietenam
Wat Zoe C
Con Thien
Khe Sanh
Skyhawk
Pairhandle
17Th
Cartier
Air Force
Thailand
Mu Gia Pass
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Whiting Field
Harvell Enfinger
Mayne
Enfinger
Jay
Three Die in Highway Accidents in Arkansas Weekend
Traffic accidents killed three people in Arkansas from Friday evening to Sunday midnight. Victims were Ethel Robinson 55 of Kilmichael Mississippi Linda Butts 9 of Chicago and Robert H. McLaughlin 54 of Little Rock. The car carrying the first three crashed after leaving Interstate 55 near Blytheville injuring several others. State Trooper reports the driver Arnold Robinson 22 of Chicago appeared to have fallen asleep.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
Ethel Robinson
Kilmichael
Linda Butts
Chicago
Robert H. McLaughlin
Little Roth
Gilbert Mann
Blytheville
Mann
Arnold Robinson
Robinson
James Robinson
Arlene Butts
Shed Butts
Carroll Gravett
McLaughlin
Obituaries From Hope Area July 17 1967 Johnson Bohannon Florence McClanahan
Johnson Bohannon 81 a retired farmer dies in local hospitalSurvivors include brother Henry Texarkana and several nieces and nephews Funeral services at Oakcrest Funeral Home Chapel with Elder Clyde Johnson officiating Interment Mineral Springs Cemetery under Oakcrest Funeral Home of Hope Florence McClanahan 85 longtime Hope resident dies in local hospital Funeral services held Herndon Chapel burial Rose Hill Cemetery under Hern don Funeral Home of Hope Michael Petray 17 North Little Rock Gravett reports truck crash on U S 67 187 Little Rock service road exit crushing him
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Johnson Bohannon
Broher
Henry
Texarkana
Neles
Oakcrest Funeral Home
Clyde Johnson
Mineral Springs
Oakcrest Funeral Home of Hope
Florence McClanahan
Hope
First Methodist Church
Dell McClanahan
H. Vance Crawford
Schenectady
New York
Herndon Chapel
Everett Vinson
Rose Hill Cemetery
Herndon Funeral Home of
Michael Petray
North Little Rock
Gravett
MccLaughlin
U.S. 67-187
Little Rock
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Hope High School
American Legion
Leslie Huddleston
Armory
Ladies Auxiliary
Wanda Cox
Selective Service Local Board No. 29
Memorial Hospital
Beddie Hopson
Grace Baxter
Selective Service
Ouachita Baptist University
Whitfield Masonic Lodge No
Masonic Hall
Sharon Ann
Atlantic City
Miss Evans
Bob Evans
Ouachita
Acapulco
Mexico
Evans
University of Arkansas
United Nations
International Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers
Beccause
EE Moore Bros
Moore Bros
Wread
Groat
Monrday
Uno
Holly Brand
Bacca
Duncan Hines
Kroger
Jane
the Kroger Co
ALL GR Folgers
Kroger Pork
Sugares JR
Sunkist
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