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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1957
Page
4
A reflective saying notes that judgments resemble watches. no two are identical yet each person believes their own. Attributed to Pope, the aphorism emphasizes subjective certainty and personal bias in judgment.
Union AME Church to hold dedicatory services Sunday June 23 with Bishop H. Thomas Primm presiding and Rev Joseph B. Shumpert delivering the 7 30 p m message. Dr Z Z Dryver announces a long running building program and notes the church history dating back 49 years with many notable past members. A separate program Sunday June 30 features Dr H Ralph Jackson and the St Andrew AME Church Memphis as guest speaker.
The Lake Village Water Carnival is called off this year due to lack of local interest. Representatives from civic groups that sponsored the event previously cited weak community engagement as the reason for cancellation. The annual celebration had been a main summer event in the southwest part of Arkansas.
New York columnist Charles Merger surveys behind the scenes of television in summer, noting how most programs switch to film and how interview habits vary by role. He observes press agents, executives, writers, musicians, actresses, producers, directors, and technicians, highlighting who speaks on the record and who remains reticent.
The Star in Hope Arkansas installs a leased Fairchild engraving machine to reproduce photographs from family files dating to the 1890s. The system uses a Speed Graphic camera and high contrast paper to create engravings, offering prints superior to faded originals and returning originals to owners.
Health officials report three new polio cases in Caddo Parish bringing the year total to 26, with two Negro and one white victim all non paralytic and none having the Salk vaccine. Six of the 26 are paralytic and investigators are looking into several other potential cases.
A downtown Magnolia fire gutted a two-story building causing $350,000 in damage and toppled walls onto a neighboring structure. Firemen battled the eight-hour blaze as bricks collapsed onto the Woodward Building roof, destroying stock at Southern Hardware. no injuries were reported and Groves estimated store losses between $40,000 and $50,000.
LITTLE ROCK UP A 42 year old termite exterminator Gerald P Scates died yesterday after being trapped beneath a house. Firemen using oxygen equipment rescued him but he died, coroner Dr. Howard Dishough tentatively ruled death a heart attack. A companion found him and called the rescue unit. no burns suggesting electrocution were found. Scates is survived by his wife and two sons.
About 130 leftist Japanese students tried to storm the U S embassy in Tokyo guarded by 400 police. A scuffle left two students arrested for slugging officers as a five member delegation met inside the embassy to demand that the United States quit nuclear testing, return Okinawa to Japan, and allow Japan to try GI William S. Girard and officials in the U S mission heard the group before demonstrators moved on without further incident.
An alliance of flood associations in Missouri and Kansas joins forces to coordinate management and response efforts. The group, led by regional executives, aims to pool resources, share strategies, and bolster community protection across affected areas near the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.
Boston leads Kansas City 4 3 New York 4 Chicago 2 Washington 6 Cleveland 3 Baltimore 6 Detroit 5 Chicago at New York Detroit at Baltimore Cleveland at Washington Kansas City at Boston
Yesterday results show Little Rock 5 over Atlanta 3 Birmingham 1, Memphis 4, Chattanooga 8 to New Orleans 3, Nashville 5 over Mobile 3. Today's scheduled games list Atlanta at Little Rock, Birmingham at Memphis, Nashville at Mobile, Chattanooga at New Orleans.
Scores from yesterday show New York 12 Chicago 10 in 10 innings, St Louis 2 Brooklyn 0, Philadelphia 4 Milwaukee, Pittsburgh 8 Cincinnati 2. The schedule lists New York at Chicago, Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, Philadelphia at Milwaukee, Brooklyn at St. Louis.
In Angola Louisiana two Black men James Bush 26 and Joseph Washington 34 are scheduled for execution in the electric chair for the 1954 killing of a Shreveport city hall custodian with his own revolver. They were moved to the state penitentiary under heavy guard as deputies say a third accomplice Donald Edwards 22 plotted to storm the jail and free them.
Ordinance 768 establishes a five member Water and Light Commission with fixed terms for B W Edwards Lloyd Spencer Albert Graves Robert LaGrone and Roy Anderson to govern the Hope Water and Light Plant. The measure sets powers, term limits, removal for cause, auditing, quarterly reports, and authority to borrow, with emergency enactment dated June 18 1957 and attested June 22 1957.
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