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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1961
Page
1
The Circle of W. M. S. at First Baptist plans a spill meet Monday night at 7 30 in the Fellowship Hall. Woller man Circle will oversee the program. All members are urged to attend.
In New York a Boston nurse says the Kennedy family exemplifies how an ordinary upbringing yields extraordinary achievement. Luella Hennessey, who cared for Pat Kennedy during surgery and accompanied the Kennedys abroad, treats service to the family as unpaid friendship. She aids the President's wife and relatives at births, missing only one of 19 due to illness, and notes the Kennedys’ gifts in gratitude.
AP reports two US 4H club representatives arrived in Formosa to tour Chinese farms. Miss Dorothy I. Bickerling, 22, of Greely, Colorado, and Charles L. Brown, 20, Wynne, Arkansas, participate in the Fivesonth tour.
Readable items show a fragmented list of bookmobile stops and times including homes and venues such as Brysom's Cafes, Norvell's home in Columbus Community, Cross Roads, Day's home, and Rob's racers. The schedule mixes names, places, and approximate times with unclear punctuation.
Washington sources say Senator J William Fulbright suspects a Pentagon leak of a confidential memorandum prepared by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The memo, sent to Defense Secretary McNamara and President Kennedy, summarized officer speeches at public strategy seminars in Arkansas. A Defense directive issued July 1 urged officers to avoid politics in public talks.
The writer questions Senator Kefauver's drug industry inquiry arguing it fails to show clear goals or results. They criticize focus on prices and labeling, recount perceived excesses of earlier underworld exposure, and defend private pharmaceutical research while noting cost concerns and potential dangers to public confidence.
Deputy Secretary Roswell Gilpatric at a July 11 news briefing said the Defense Department has been concerned since the start of the administration by public and congressional inquiries about efforts by Defense personnel to indoctrinate the public on nonmilitary matters. He said he did not know if there was any link between the Fulbright memo and the directive.
Readers letters spark discussion on loneliness and work in marriages. A fisherman’s wife describes happiness at home with two children while enduring separation at sea, and readers urge communication and effort to repair marital distance.
Beirut dispatch reports Iraqi Premier Abdel Karim Kassem faces a decision after June 25 claim to Kuwait. He could invade to seize the oil rich sheikhdom or pursue regional support to pressure Britain, but British troops’ swift arrival ended that hope.
The article notes a $5 billion GNP impact from a policy reversal in business inventories. Early year stockpiling fell by $4 billion, then rebuilt at $1 billion, boosting factory output and national income. Pay scales rose, work weeks lengthened, and government spending is expected to rise amid concerns over the federal deficit and inflation. Berlin crisis adds to defense outlays.
Robert Severs thirty died after a blaze gutted his four room home in Hot Springs Arkansas. Firemen said he ran from the building with his clothing on fire and died five hours later at a hospital. He is survived by his widow.
James Moore, age 1, of Dollar Way Community, drowned when a homemade heat sank in a six foot pond three miles north of Pine Bluff. The body was recovered.
Iraqi leader Kassem faces Arab and British opposition if troops move on Kuwait. While most Arab League states back Kuwait, Baghdadi opinion is divided as the army remains crucial for his hold. He plans to bide time, sustain propaganda, and cast Kuwait as a domestic grievance.
The piece analyzes the Kennedy Khrushchev exchange over Berlin and potential mobilization. It weighs Kennedy's firmness against Khrushchev's bluffing and the danger of both leaders talking themselves into an unreversible standoff, with the world watching their every move.
The Hope Star announces publication details for weekdays, listing Payable rates, carrier and mail options, and staff roles including E. Palmer as president, Ales HW Washburn as secretary and Treas., and editors Paul H M Jonas, Denil Parker, and advertising staff. It notes Associated Press membership and reprint rights.
The Board of Trustees of the State School for the Deaf in Little Rock will request 1.5 million dollars in emergency construction funding from the next legislature. Planned projects include nine new kitchen and dining facilities, a home economics room, an administration building, and a home for the superintendent, said Board Chairman T A Prewitt.
The state hospital superintendent warns that aging buildings could trigger mass deaths in a fire. Dr Granville L Jones says the hospital averages about 12 fire alarms annually and staff fear a major alarm. He urged needed financing, citing a $72 million requirement for restoration and repairs.
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