The Weather Elsewhere Cost of Giving
A reflective piece by Joseph Salak musing on Christmas costs. The author notes that entertaining a child now costs more than educating his father once did, contrasting generosity with changing times.
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1966
Page
2
A reflective piece by Joseph Salak musing on Christmas costs. The author notes that entertaining a child now costs more than educating his father once did, contrasting generosity with changing times.
Weather report covers Arkansas Louisiana and national notes. Central Arkansas will be partly cloudy and warmer with highs near 60s and lows in the 40s through Thursday. North and Northeast regions see substantial cloudiness with highs mid‑50s to low 60s. Southwest Arkansas stays cloudy to partly cloudy with highs around 60. Southeast Arkansas also partly cloudy with warmer conditions. A Boston note notes Bell’s patent and global telephone counts. The closing line mentions a tense question about a wife packing to return home.
Gale gusts up to 63 mph lashed Cape Blanco with 7.26 inches of rain in 24 hours as Weather Bureau warned gale warnings along the Oregon Washington coast. Floodwaters isolated Newton Georgia after the Flint River surged, cutting the town off and drawing in state troopers. Dakota residents faced a calm day amid a four day blizzard that the Civil Defense office says killed tens of thousands of cattle and sheep, with rail lines blocked and possible use of dynamite to break snowdrifts. Deep sea divers signaled distress by four-finger signals or taps.
Hope Kansas municipal court records list numerous docket actions on March 8 1966 including vehicle violations no brakes no license and fictitious plates with bonds of 11.50 and 31.50 dollars. Drunkenness fines ranged 16.50 to 356.50 with suspensions and jail terms. Several driving while intoxicated guilty pleas carry $106.50 fines, one day jail and appeals noted. Civil matters include a garnishee action for 34.38 dollars and a judgment for plaintiff per precedent.
Postmaster R L Davis of Fountain Hill reported the theft of the Hamburg Arkansas Post Office 1000 pound safe. The building doors were broken and the safe, believed moved by truck, contained money order forms a stamping machine stamps post office records and some cash.
Executor Charles Edward Bridewell Jr files first and final settlement for Ruth Elizabeth Bridewell estate with 60 day filing window. Hempstead Chancery Court case involves George E Hamilton and Carrie Hamilton versus Willie Lee Simmons and Velda Simmons with a warning order to appear within thirty days.
A $9 000 planning advance for Arkadelphia to improve sewage facilities was awarded by Sen John L McClellan and is expected to help abate river pollution. Construction is set to begin in 1967. In San Francisco Archbishop Joseph McGucken, beaten and robbed Feb 26, was released from hospital and vowed not to walk alone again at night. In Tehran Arkansas Medal of Honor recipient James L Stone, now a lieutenant colonel and Army adviser, received the Silver Star Bronze Star Purple Heart and other medals.
Houston AP reports new Peace Corps director Jack Hood Vaughn expects volunteers to reach five or six more countries this year. He notes about one in four volunteers drops out during training and about one in ten leaves before completing the two year hitch.
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