Community Letter Presses for Youth Baseball Coverage
Nancy Morrison denounces lack of star coverage of youth baseball in Fulton Arkansas. She celebrates coaches, mothers in concessions, and district tournament in Hope while criticising The Star for ignoring games and scores. The editor explains municipal funding limits and reporter constraints on playground score reporting. Also notes a wildlife refuge reservoir contract in Arkansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ditor
America
K Park
Oreder
Nancy Morrison
Municipal Parks & Playgrounds Department
Paul H. Jones
The
Star
Arkansas Gazette
Caravan Visit to Blevins Promotes Regional Ties
The Hope organization’s caravan, led by Sheriff Jimmie Griffin and Chamber president W L Tate, arrived in downtown Blevins on Main Street. Photos show the group with Jess Tinsley, singing, and a Little League Mothers cooked meal, funded for the league. The visit featured campaign appeal talks by local candidates and aimed to strengthen neighboring-area relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Holt
Star Camera Chamber of Commerce
W. L. Tate
Blevins
Jess Tinsley
Blevins Committee
Sherriff Jimmie Griffin
Trade Development Association
Main Street
Little League
Hope Organization
Frisco Freight Cars Derailed
Seven cars of a Frisco freight derailed at the east end of the Little River bridge near McNab on Sunday. No trainmen were injured and traffic resumed after the track was cleared. The derailment was blamed on a rail distorted by extreme heat. In Fordyce Arkansas a Calhoun County man Theodore Roy 26 of Thornton was killed after being struck by a train five miles south of town on Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little River Bridge
McNab
Fordyce
Ark
Calhoun County
Theodore Roy
Thornton
Here
Roy
Washington Students Reassigned to Lincoln High School
Washington School District informs families that students will not attend Hope High School next year and will be assigned to Lincoln High School. Ten seniors from Hope High hail from Washington, and under a federal ruling they cannot graduate with their class unless families move to the Hope District.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hope High School
Lincoln High School
Hope
Thurston Hulsey
Washington School Board
Auto Program to Start Third Youth Meeting
The third Youth Automotive Program meeting will be Tuesday night July 19 at 7 30 in the county courthouse large court room. Duffie Booth will discuss Automobile Insurance, Don Griscom will give a short lecture and film, and a stopping demonstration with a detonator device will mark stopping distance. A prize of 10 gallons of premium gasoline will be awarded. The program is for youths 14 through 18 with no fee. Kenneth Sulcer was invited to exit the gubernatorial race to join Sam Boyce, a move Sulcer dismissed as a joke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calvin Caldwell
Caldwell
Duffie Booth
Noy Anderson Insurance Company of Hope
Don Griscom
Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation
Boyce
Sulcer
Suspected Slayer of 8 Nurses in Chicago Jail
Richard Speck, 15 hours the nation’s most wanted, lies in a prison hospital charged with eight nurse murders. Police traced him before his home as rioting subsides in Chicago, while National Guard patrols a quiet Negro neighborhood after last week’s violence. Elsewhere, Gemini 10 and Sino-Viet Nam notes color this digest with space flight, protests, and political drama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AP News Digest
Richard Speck
Chicago
West Side
Illinois National Guard
Nashville
Virginia Woolf
Set
Fred Cobb
Young
Collins
Space
Earth
Man Found Bleeding on Skid Row
Richard Speck, 25, the nation’s most wanted man for 15 hours, lay in a prison hospital charged with murder as police tied the case to the massacre of eight student nurses. He was found bleeding on skid row after a drinking binge and was taken to Cook County Hospital where a tattoo helped identify him. He faces murder charges and possible grand jury action. a suspect in the nurses’ deaths, Speck remained under guard as investigators piece together the events leading to Thursday’s killings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Dill
Chicago
Richard Speck
Speck
Atty
Daniel Ward
Gloria Jean Davy
Ward
Cook County Hospital
John Mitchell
Robert Gerrard
Skid Row
Mitchell
Gerrald
Leroy Smith
Starr Hotel
B. Brain
Emegency
Harding College Dean List and local notices summary
All Around Town lists Harding College Dean’s List honorees from Saratoga and McCaskill with freshmen and upperclass GPA thresholds. It notes Hope Auto Co winning Ford’s Distinguished Achievement Award in Memphis and Frank McLarty presenting it, plus members of Whitfield Masonic Lodge No 299 meeting July 19. Also mentions Hope students at Arkansas music camp, NACD meeting in Houston with Monroe Samuel as vice-president, and Navy Boatswain’s First Class Walter Johnson Jr. returning to the US aboard USS Orlock with Long Beach home port.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope Auto Co
Ford Motor Company
Memphis
Frank McLarty
L. T. Warriner
Ford Division
National Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts
Rice Hotel
Houston
Arkansas
Lousiana
Oklahoma
Texas
Monroe Samuel of
Hope
NACD
Samuel
Crystal Ballroom
Walter Johnson Jr
USN
Mattie Johnson
Prescott
U.S
Orlock
Yokosuka
Japan
Pacific
Long Beach
Calif
U.S. First Fleet
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Alex. H. Washburn
Ethe Sports Public
Fulton, Ark
Little Rock
White River National Wildlife Refuge
S@maty
S. J. Cohen Co
Blytheville
White River
Army Engineers
Frisco
Ralph Smith
Aubrey Bailey
Third and
Elm
Jessie Brown
McClellan
Fee
Clinton, Ark
APJ
Foster Johnson
John L. McClellan
Congress
Johnson
Kenneth Sulcer
Sam Boyce
Osceola
John Roderick Tokyo
North Viet Nam
Red China
Fatherland
Ho Chi Minh
South
South Viet Nam
17Th Parallel
West Crossett
Viet Nam
Strong, Ark
George Shelby
Robert Jacobs
Fish Trap Lake
Strong
Union County Coroner’s Office
Taylor
Reagan
Hollywood
Robert Taylor
Ronald Reagan
Death Valley
Philadelphia
I. M. Levitt
Moscow
Leningrad
Russia
Levitt
Franklin Institute
Fels Planetarium
Tucson
Ariz
Jack Gilbert
Arizona
David Peebles
M. H. Peebles
Saratoga
Amanda Earline Jester
Earl Jester
McCaskill
Harding College
Whitfield Masonic Lodge No. 299
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville
Elaine Gilley
Linda Sue
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