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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1961
Page
2
City Park offers a weekly all night program every Wednesday featuring baseball boxing pony league baseball and a variety of recreational activities. Roscoe Smith supervisor of recreation invites everyone to attend at 7 30 p m for entertainment and community recreation.
Clarksville Arkansas opens Johnson County Peach Festival with a two day event featuring beauty pageants. Three Clarksville girls enter the Queen Elberta XX contest and the Miss Arkansas Valley pageant. Competitors include Jayne Branting Karen Reynolds and Diane Cater daughters of local residents Elmo Cater and the Reynolds family.
Fifteen riders rest in New Orleans before pushing on to Jackson Mississippi to test segregation in bus terminals. They expect possible jail time in Mississippi, while in New Orleans they meet a CORE official and arrange rest before the next leg. Police presence noted, no segregation actions occurred in the New Orleans terminal.
HOLLYWOOD AP Jeff Chandler died at 42 after a weeks long grave illness from a generalized blood infection complicated by pneumonia following minor surgery May 13 to fix a slipped spinal disc. He suffered internal hemorrhages and infections despite a blood transfusion and a second hemorrhage led to his final decline Friday. Funeral services were to be held at Temple Isaiah with private burial at Hillside Memorial Park. Chandler, tall and respected, had starred in The Marauders and was once part of Rock Hudsons Universal stock company. He was divorced from Marjorie Hoshelle in 1959 and left two daughters Jamie 14 and Dana 11.
Summary of Sundays results shows Birmingham defeated Little Rock 2 0 and Mobile drew 4 4 with Chattanooga 2 2 while Nashville beat Atlanta 9 4 2 5 and Macon at Shreveport was postponed due to rain with the match marked as postponed.
A summary of American and National League standings, recent games, and leading players. Notable details include Detroit leading the American League with Cash batting .360 and Mantle of New York driving runs, plus results from Monday and Saturday games across leagues and minor circuits.
The season summary lists Ford and Pascual with strikeout and run totals for New York and Minnesota, and Pinson Mays Cepeda and Clemente among the top hitters. It notes Whitey Ford’s three hit shutout of Detroit and Whitey Ford’s pitching crown aided by Luis Arroyo, plus scattered minor facts and an unrelated line on Arkansas snowfall.
Hope Star issue page lists staff roles at The Star Building Hope Arkansas with editor publisher B. Washburn and departments including advertising circulation and mechanical supervision. It notes postal entry and Associated Press affiliation and ends with a trivia line about octopuses having three hearts and a keen brain.
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