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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1961
Page
2
The Gospelaires of Hope will appear at Betavl AME Church Sunday August 6 at 7 30 p.m. The event is sponsored by WEN WOMEN with a $20 daily sale by Miss Helen Shaughter for huminous nameplates, with proceeds to building fund. Reverend R N Tha Reeves Co Attleboro Mass mae, pastor.
The PGA championship at Olympia Fields opens with Palmer favored to win as players note the unusual flying grass on the North Course. Defending champ Herbert, Gary Player, and others grapple with bent grass that refuses to hold balls, complicating chipping and approach shots. Palmer’s 26 yard chip on the previous hole misfired, prompting his quip about the outcome.
Boston report says a guide dog owned by Mr and Mrs Frank McArty cornered 32 year old maid Joan Perkins in a hotel room. The dog backed her against a wall for over an hour until police, wary of startling the animal, escorted her out unharmed.
Madden, reportedly under federal gambling probe in MGT Springs, Arkansas, flatly denied any links to gambling operations. In a Tuesday interview he stated he is not engaged in gambling and rejected the insinuations as unfounded while preparing to testify before the Senate Rackets Committee led by Sen John L. McClellan.
Richard Montgomery of Tulsa Oklahoma announces a $4 million Riverside Estates project on the White River near Mountain Home. The plan includes a one story apartment building for retirees and 90 units in two story buildings, with Carpenter Construction Co. of Oklahoma City contracted. Land clearing started and completion targeted within two years. The site sits on a 40 foot bluff about nine miles from Mountain Home and two miles from Cotter.
The Arkansas Public Service Commission authorized Prairie Grove Telephone Co. to borrow 150000 dollars to finance expansion and refinance short term loans. The company serves Washington County communities including Prairie Grove Lincoln Farmington Morrow and Dutch Mills.
The Arkansas Public Service Commission was urged to approve river crossings by Tennessee Gas Transmission and MidSouth Gas under a 1961 law granting authority over pipelines crossing navigable waters. Tennessee Gas already has crossings in Chicot County, MidSouth has none in Crittenden County.
Central and northeast regions stay clear to partly cloudy and warm through Friday with widely scattered thundershowers this afternoon or evening. Temperatures rise from mid 40s in central areas to low 70s in the northeast overnight, then highs reach mid 90s to 80s regionwide. Louisiana expects partly cloudy warmth through Friday with scattered thundershowers and nightly lows around 70 to 76. Missouri remains partly cloudy and warm with scattered storms, highs near 90 to 95 in the northwest and mid 80s elsewhere, lows around 65 to 75 in most areas.
Rep Dale Alford a Democrat from Arkansas told the Pine Bluff Rotary Club that foreign aid should end. He called it a senseless giveaway and urged spending on national defense or returning funds to taxpayers.
Apparent low bid for the Flat Creek earthen dam project comes from H N Rodgers & Sons of Memphis with a bid of 237934 dollars. The Walnut Ridge Arkansas AP report notes the submission details for the dam construction work.
White robed priests climbed Japan's largest Buddha image in southern Honshu city and scraped off 20 buckets of grime. The 60 foot statue, 1,200 years old, has not had a cleaning in a decade.
Earl Berry director of the Arkansas Public Service Commission utility tax division will join the Southwest Power Administration at Tolka Oklahoma. Berry has led the division for six years and will depart the Arkansas post August 1. The utility tax division handles property assessments for utilities airlines water carriers and pipelines operating in the state.
In the Probate Court of Hempstead County Arkansas the estate of W M Edwards deceased seeks authority to sell real lands described as 49 5 acres in the SW quarter of the SW quarter and SE quarter of Sec 16 T1S R24W for debts and estate winding up. The hearing is set for 1 am on August 40 1961 at the Hempstead County Courthouse Hope Arkansas. All heirs and interested parties must appear if they wish to be heard.
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