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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1965
Page
3
The Rose Garden Club meets June 4 at 11 a.m. at the Experiment Station Clubhouse with a sack lunch and a pilgrimage after. WSCS and WMS circles of First Methodist and First Baptist church groups plan gatherings June 7 and June 8 with various hostesses and topics.
The Ann Wollerman Circle of the First Baptist Church will not meet on Monday June 7 as previously announced.
A wedding notice reports the marriage of James A Pur and his partner in a Puryear Hart exchange ceremony. The item notes the couple’s names and their new union status in a brief society notice.
The year of Hope reports the engagement and vows of Joyce Ann Hart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hart of Little Rock, to James Hart of Little Rock, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Hart. They wed Wednesday June 2 in Little Rock and will reside there. Joyce works at Bell Telephone Co. and James at Meyers Bakery. The Golden Age Club met June 3 at the Youthcenter with fourteen members, one guest, and one new member. Mrs. T. L. Smith led prayer, minutes were read and approved, and a craft demonstration on grapes was given by Mrs. Yeager. Door prize went to Mrs. Mary Ann Snell. The Duplicate Bridge Club was hosted by Mrs. J. M. Duffie with pink daisies and bells of Ireland as decor. Mrs. Taylor Stuart won high and Mrs. Paul Lewis was second.
Out of town relatives and friends attended the funeral for Odin F. Ruggles. Names listed include Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Edwards and many Ruggles relatives from Illinois Kansas Oklahoma Arkansas Texas California and beyond.
Jack Bedwell of Downey California visits the Ross Copeland family. Mrs Terrell Cornelius and Mrs Harold Doyle of Springfield Missouri have been visiting their brother Gilbert Grant and family in Orangefield.
Central Arkansas remains partly to mostly cloudy with warm temperatures and showers likely on Saturday, high in the 90s. Northwest to northeast regions show variable cloud cover with scattered showers, thundershowers, and cooler highs around 80s to 90. Southeast and southwest areas expect light to moderate shower coverage, little temperature change, and nightly lows around 66 to 76 with highs in the 80s to low 90s across the state and into Louisiana.
Tex went to a Houston Astrodome baseball game then took a short Gulf trip before Mrs. Doyle returned home Thursday. Several families travel for visits and conventions across Texas and nearby states, with relatives in Shreveport Tyler Dimmitt Little Rock Sparkman Hope Baytown Malvern and Dallas.
Mr. and Mrs. John Woodrow Maxwell of Little Rock announce the engagement of their daughter Mary Lou to Wendell Huron Light son of Mrs. William Light of Hope and the late Mr. Light. Miss Maxwell is a Henderson State Teachers College senior set to graduate next January with a BSE in home economics. Mr. Light earned a forestry degree from Arkansas A&M College in May. The wedding is scheduled for 2 30 p.m. August 21 at St. Paul Methodist Church Little Rock.
Worried Neighbor laments a mother two sizes bigger squeezing into her daughter's clothes. The daughter pays her share but looks shabby as the mother attends events in ill fitting, youthfully styled outfits. The note suggests neighbors should quietly disapprove and avoid intruding in family matters.
In this 1965 Hope Star column Helen Bottel addresses domestic concerns and money matters. She jokes about wages and pants wearing by housewives and suggests practical steps for unresolved debt like sending a bill via registered mail or pursuing small claims court.
A reader questions a Colonel restricting women in hair curlers and pants at Portland Air Base exchange and commissary. The letter argues such rules hurt business and warns the policy could spread to other bases. The exchange of opinions suggests women should decide what they wear in public spaces.
AP writer Bob Thomas reports 20th Century Fox is spending six million dollars on Fantastic Voyage a story of six actors shrunk to microbe size to journey through a scientist injected into his own bloodstream. The plot centers on a defector and foreign agents who threaten global security.
Bulletin reports Farmers State Bank of Big Springs Nebraska where the bank president, cashier, and a clerk were killed during a noon-time robbery. A fourth employee was wounded and transported to a Julesburg Colorado hospital roughly ten miles away.
A young Church of England order called the Community of the Glorious Ascension in Birmingham aims to revive faith in the industrial city. Led by Father Peter Ball, 33, the monks work outside retreat to engage youth venues while pooling earnings for the community. Their rule requires monks to hold outside jobs and live disciplined Christian vows.
Little Rock City Manager Ancil Douth says two public swimming pools will reopen in one to three weeks. The Board of Directors voted to reopen on an integrated basis after pools closed a year ago when Black residents challenged segregation at an all white facility.
Intrepid explorers including Raquel Welch wear rubber suits and breathe through devices while crawling on a plexiglass cave surface. Director Felischer explains they climb the eyeball and reveal cones and rods as the voyage nears its end after visiting the heart lungs and brain in large, accurate sets.
Mr and Mrs Don FE Faris announce the engagement of their daughter Sharon Kay to John Allen Wilson son of Mrs Dora Fenwick of Hope Sharon a 1965 graduate of Hope High School and employed by Southwestern Bell Telephone Co John a 1968 graduate of Hope High School and employed by Crow Bur lingame.
The excise tax cut won 401 to 6 in the House and Senate support is clear. The measure would lower prices on autos air conditioners cameras watches and more. It ends the telephone service levy and admissions tax on events while aiming to boost the economy despite fiscal concerns.
Dominican rebels demand restoration of the 1963 constitution and a new government before elections. Rebel leader Col. Francisco Caamaño De los Santos rejects the junta plan calling it a fable and insists elections occur under supervision of the Organization of American States.
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