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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1956
Page
3
A TV columnist critiques CBS Climax episode To Scream at Midnight noting weak plotting and sensational melodrama. A nurse heroine seeks release after jilting, a conniving husband, a bank robbery subplot, and a tense finale in rural New Hampshire.
Community notices announce a Day at St Paul Baptist Church with all day services on June 24 led by Rev W M Erth and Rising Star church members assisting. Guests from Antioch Sweet Home and Baptist churches invited. public urged to attend and participate in upcoming anniversary observances.
United Press cites Washington on the Cyprus bombing including a U S vice consul casualty and other remarks by Lincoln White. Moscow reports Yugoslavia’s Ka on West relations with no expected change. Hollywood notes Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin split comments. Truman reflects on atomic bombs in two world wars. Shepilov praises Russia to Arab nations. New York cites Pearson on a misheard whisper. Schoepel predicts Eisenhower’s next move. Khrushchev comments on Palmiro Togliatti’s critique with a sly remark.
Peru’s presidential contest shifts to a two man showdown as former president Manuel Prado leads Fernando Belaunde while Hernando Lavalle trails. Unofficial counts show Prado ahead with Belaunde and Lavalle far behind amid a large turnout and Aprista party influence shaping the result.
The article notes three delegates leaving Little Rock by train at 8 20 a m for Toledo arriving 8 30 a m on June 17 with Mrs Jackson Peake High School Arkadelphia guiding chaperone. Pinkie L White left recently to visit her mother while John Williamson resides in Wisconsin and stopped in Chicago en route.
Regular session in Prescott features Elis State program with Anthony Cummings linking LSU degree to his talk on Breeding of Better Livestock. Local haps include camp visit to Camp Pioneer near Mena, family reunions, visitors from Texas, and a student yearbook appointment at Southern State College.
Newcomer Willis A. Trafton from Auburn won the Maine Republican governorship primary, defeating state Sen. Philip Chapman Jr. and ex-Atty. Gen. Alexander LaFleuve. In the 1st District race, veteran Robert Hale sought a eighth term while Democrat James Oliver challenged him. Hale urged GOP unity for Eisenhower wins in September and November.
Tito said Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union may cooperate directly in the future. He noted groundwork was laid in Moscow talks, but another meeting is needed to fix a concrete formula. He stressed relations with the West would not change and that Cominform is over.
A New York consultant told the Governor's Advisory Committee on Education that state aid to public schools could rise by about 18 million dollars annually under a flexible funding formula. The plan uses a $114 per pupil minimum, with potential sales tax boosts and other sources.
Federal Judge Alexander Bicks dismissed a charge of conspiring to teach and advocate violent overthrow against Marion Bachrach, 57, a onetime party PR figure. Six others remain on trial. Bachrach’s indictment dates to 1951 with trial starting April 2 and government resting June 6.
Louisiana bill to outlaw athletic contests between Negroes and whites moves with an exemption for the Shreveport baseball team. Rep. Lawrence Gibbs agrees to shield the Texas League Class AA club for the season, allowing six months to “clean their house.” The Texas League president plans to oppose the measure before a Senate committee.
New York Thomas J. Watson 82, chairman of the board of the International Business Machines Corp, died of a heart attack today at Roosevelt Hospital. Geographic center of the North American continent is a few miles east of Devil's Lake in Pierce County South Dakota.
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