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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1962
Page
1
A thin, cloudy afternoon gives way to widely scattered thundershowers across Northwest and Southeast Arkansas. Highs reach 85 to 92 degrees with tonight’s lows between 65 and 74. Northeast regions see warm, dry spells with partial cloudiness and similar shower chances Wednesday.
Two members of the American Nazi party protested outside the Times Plewyune Building after a Newhouse bid to acquire 248 925 shares at 150 per share. The deal values the entire sale around 987 438 750 and marks the largest cash newspaper transaction to date, surpassing prior records set by the Chicago Sun Times purchase. Newhouse ownership would extend to several New Orleans and New York papers, with staff remaining and policies unchanged, while Conde Nast and several magazines would fall under the expanded empire.
Newhouse purchases 248,925 of 280,000 shares in Times-Picayune Publishing Co. paying about 7 million dollars for control of daily Times-Picayune and afternoon States-Item. He plans to buy remaining 31,075 shares for 42 million. Sale expands his coast-to-coast newspaper empire including St. Louis, Portland, and Birmingham papers.
On April 14 the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the British luxury liner Titanite was marked, as recorded in the 1962 Britanniga Book of the Year.
Jim Cathcart, 84, longtime Southwest coach, was named Monday head basketball coach at Little Rock Central High. A Central graduate and former all Southwest Conference star at the University of Arkansas, he succeeds W. E. Baker. Cathcart’s Southwest squad won the city title last year. Twelve applications were received for the job.
In Hyannis Massachusetts a Negro minister and his wife plan to take more reverse tycedam riders home from Boston to aid them in finding employment. Five of the 52 riders sent to Hyannis by southern segregationists have moved on to Boston where work is easier to obtain. Several riders, including Robert Gene Jackson William Ricks and Eugene Douglas, are already employed with two jobs each and working day and night.
LITTLE ROCK AP Local 940 of the Sheet Metals Workers representing Arkansas workers struck Monday after wage talks failed with the Arkansas Sheet Metal Contractors Association. The Greers Ferry Dam project near Heber Springs was the main public project affected. About 240 union members were involved, with 78 at Titan missiles sites and 10 at Little Rock Air Force Base not on strike.
A meeting is scheduled among state, federal and local officials with Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Donnelly to decide whether the Black residents housed at Cape Cod Community College in Hyannis can be moved to vacant barracks at Camp Edwards in Falmouth. Camp Edwards, used mainly as a National Guard training site, has many unused facilities and could accommodate the transfer.
Dillon said speculation inflated stock prices due to inflation fears but that belief has faded as the economy gains steam after a mid winter pause. He noted mass purchasing power remains strong and the recovery should endure despite current market weakness. He outlined proposals for tax credits on new investments and upcoming liberalized depreciation allowances to improve profits.
PARIS AP, violence mounted today that the pilot of the charted Air France Boeing 707 that crashed at Orly Airport killed 180. Capt. Roland Hyde, among Air France's most experienced, frantically tried to halt takeoff as wheels smoked and speed bled. Skid marks showed brakes on about 500 yards. throttles were found in reverse. Survivor Francoise Authie recalled engines slowing and sudden jolts as the jet tore apart. Atlanta cultural leaders among 121 American passengers, eight crew, and Air France's Atlanta agent were killed. identification for 105 remains pending.
The first family under Kennedy's refugee program reaches Chicago from Hong Kong. Lee Seng Eng 45 and wife Yung Sue-san, with three of four children, plan to run a Park Ridge restaurant started by Eng's father Frank Jing Eng. Elder Eng, ill in hospital, had not seen his son since 1950.
Lantans killed in the crash are transported home after arrangements. The chartered plane for a European tour nearing its end crashed. Mayor Allen arrived Monday to help with identifications and spent the day at five morgues where the victims lay.
The Hope Star lists subscription rates for carriers and mail in several counties. It notes The Associated Press rights and mentions an immigration related note about Red China and a brief about Eng, a former Taishan landowner, imprisoned by the Communists, who fled to Canton and later smuggled his family to Nong Kang before working as a salesman.
The 1790 census produced a compact 56 page booklet which foreshadowed the later expansion of federal population counting. Subsequent censuses expanded dramatically, with reports swelling to well over one hundred thousand pages as data collection increased and more details were required.
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