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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1956
Page
2
Mixed prices for cattle and hogs noted at National Stockyards with bids near unchanged to slightly higher. There is steady demand for feeders and some livestock items show firm action while others drift, as traders monitor July futures and price levels.
Helen McBride recounts a family of six living at home when a shooting occurred upstairs. Capt. Tom McBride Jr. serves in the U S Army Medical Corps in California. other children include Robbins, Maria age 13, and Mike. The piece notes the four children were upstairs during the event and lists unrelated agricultural market figures and a miscellaneous advertisement fragment.
The forecast covers Central and Northeast Arkansas and parts of Southwest Arkansas with mild conditions and partly cloudy skies this afternoon. Highs mid 80s in central areas, upper 80s to low 80s in northeast, lower 80s in southwest, and lows tonight 40s to mid 50s. Southeast Arkansas sees mild conditions with scattered thundershowers tonight and cooler highs Friday. Northwest and East Texas expect partly cloudy, widely scattered showers and cooler nights, with cooler portions Friday. Louisiana nationwide partly cloudy and warmer with scattered thundershowers mainly west and north tonight and Friday.
LITTLE ROCK A 19 year old truck driver Emmett Earl Leggett will seek a not guilty and insanity plea in the murder of a Jacksonville schoolboy. Prosecutor Frank Holt will push for the death penalty while Leggett faces charges of murder two rapes and a wape of two sisters. State Hospital psychiatrists reportedly found Leggett sane after a 30 day examination drawing criticism from defense counsel John W. Bailey.
Washington reports over two million workers receive a pay rise as the federal minimum wage increases from 75 cents to $1 per hour. Congress enacted the raise last year, effective today, with about 24 million covered by the act though only roughly 2.16 million earned below the new minimum.
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