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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1977
Page
2
A brief Associated Press forecast notes clear skies and remaining warm temperatures across Kansas. The period ahead favors mild weather with limited precipitation and steady warmth dominating the state’s outlook.
The Hope Star reports daily weather across Arkansas with highs near 70 in the south and mid 60s elsewhere, cool nights with lows in the 20s to 40s, little rain, and a potential Pacific front late week. Overnight temperatures for cities like Little Rock 31, Fort Smith 27, Fayetteville 25, Harrison 30, Jonesboro 26, Texarkana 40, Memphis 41. The piece includes staff credits, circulation stats, AP and press associations, and subscription rates indicating a weekday print edition with advertising and mail options.
Obituary items report 17 year old David C Poindexter of Hope died in a Little Rock hospital and services were held at Bodcaw No 1 Baptist Church. Andrea Edwards 18 of Houston died in a Houston hospital with multiple survivors listed. Verta Kessie Latham 71 of Hope died in a local hospital with two sons a daughter and siblings. Additional notices include Mrs Moudia Pearl Taylor of Rosston funeral arrangements and OT Beck of Washington Ark noted as a retired educator with service in Durant Oklahoma. Theera Hamblett of Oxford Miss described as a shy Mississippi school teacher whose works joined famed collections.
Arkansas Supreme Court upholds the death penalty for Albert Collins after the U S Supreme Court sent the case back for action. Collins was convicted of hiring to kill his employer and attacking the employer's wife to obtain a gun. The ruling finds the law constitutionally valid and death by electrocution not cruel.
Five senators led by Edward Kennedy and Alan Cranston introduced a bill to extend public financing to Senate campaigns and later House races. The measure cites presidential financing as a model and sets spending rules including 20 cents per registered voter or 300,000 dollars minimum, plus 35 thousand dollars of personal funds allowed per candidate.
Voters in Patmos Spring Hill and Saratoga will decide on a 55 mill and 40 mill school tax respectively plus four and eleven mill allocations for maintenance and bond retirement. Ballots also include county at large director races and five year terms for board seats as part of the county school election продолжает front page coverage.
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