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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1977
Page
2
The Associated Press reports more thundershowers were expected to continue today across Arkansas with rainfall amounts mostly light to moderate and localized heavier bursts possible.
A Hope Star weather summary reports a high pressure area over the Texas coast bringing extensive cloud cover and scattered rain across southeastern Arkansas. A stalled front along the northern state border continues to trigger showers with thunderstorms possible in the afternoons and evenings through Friday to Sunday.
Gertrude Shilling, famed for starting hats at Ascot for 17 years, was barred from the Royal Enclosure after arriving in a three-foot high, six-foot wide wire hat decorated with red, white and blue rosettes at the premier meeting on the English racing calendar.
SCAN coordinator Fran Millard Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Alice spoke at the Sheraton Inn Kiwanis meeting. Patti Manus was a guest. The speaker warned that more children die each year from abuse than from infectious diseases and leukemia and urged awareness of causes and prevention efforts.
Tom Byrum 75 of Wright City Oklahoma died Monday in an Idabel hospital. Survived by wife Minerva and five daughters, one son, siblings, and many grandchildren. Funeral 2 p.m. Friday at Freewill Baptist Church Idabel. Burial Holly Creek cemetery. Oliver Knox Hedrick 65 of Lockesburg Arkansas died Monday in a Texarkana hospital. Funeral held at Latimer Funeral Home Nashville with burial Bluff Springs. Survivors include wife Ruby and son Jody, siblings, and grandchildren.
Antoinette Slovik, widow of Pvt. Eddie Slovik the only American executed for desertion in World War II, fights for an $68,000 National Service Life Insurance payout plus interest. She submits her case to the Army Board for the Correction of Military Records, hoping to reopen her late husband’s file after 32 years.
Washington AP reports Ar nod Miller won a second term as president of the United Mine Workers. Har ry Patrick conceded with pessimism about Miller's leadership while Lee Roy Patterson did not acknowledge defeat. An unofficial ballot tabulation showed Miller in an insurmountable lead.
A special town council meeting is set for 8 p.m Thursday at Dean town hall. Mrs Marva Jo Dansby of Arkansas Rehabilitation Services in Hempstead County announced a schedule of visits on June 16 23 and 30 from 3 30 a.m. to 3 38 p.m. at the Hempstead County Social Services office in Hope.
Robert Snow testified that Lewis talked to Miss McCaster and shot her during the classroom shooting. Eleven of fifteen children identified as witnesses said they did not recognize the killer in the courtroom.
The combined volume of Earth's oceans ice fields and atmosphere amounts to roughly 326 million cubic miles of water. This vast quantity spans oceans glaciers and atmospheric moisture, underscoring the planet's total hydrologic inventory.
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