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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1973
Page
5
The piece presents a terse editorial note by Alex H. Washburn reflecting on daily bread, appetite for clarity, and a concise critique of contemporary habits. It emphasizes the value of straightforward living and measured consumption.
The Postal Service confirms service lag and missed targets amid December to January complaints, with Elmer T. Klassen expanding local authority and overtime use while automatic sorting machines roll out slowly. Some vitality shown but overall improvement remains uncertain as airline flight reductions strain mail movement. Census Bureau finds fewer Americans at home, 8am to 3pm vacancies main drop, amid working wives and multi-car families. A NAM call asks Americans to curb government spending and reassess priorities as debate over budget and inflation continues.
Ozark music scene preserves heritage at Fulton County Courthouse in Salem. Since 1964 the Ozark Mountain Music Makers bring three hours of folk and country tunes each Saturday night. The ninth annual String Band and Fiddlers Contest is set for March 17 at Salem High School Gym.
Fossilized foot bones found in August 1972 near Lockesburg Sevier County identified as dinosaur foot bones. Dr James Quinn of the University of Arkansas Geology Department compared them to Ornitolestes, dating to about 120 million years ago. The bones were found by Joe B Friday on a farm near Arkansas 24.
Two explosions tore at the outer edge of Phnom Penh's Presidential Palace area. A fire destroyed guards barracks and a nearby depot, leveling about a 100 yard square. A civilian woman reported flames and screams as villagers fled. The attacker’s identity remained unclear.
Former prisoners of war from Clark Air Base recount brutal torture by Communist captors. A pilot endured 20 days on a stool with vicious nose blows to force statements, while others kneel on concrete, endure rubber hose blows, and face ignored illnesses and withheld penicillin. Several died or remained scarred after release.
Nixon signaled a hard line and left open actions short of renewed North Vietnam bombing. Options include striking the Ho Chi Minh trail and southern Laos routes, targeting Laos passes, resuming air operations in South Vietnam, delaying troop withdrawals, and pressuring Hanoi over cease-fire terms while weighing diplomatic steps with the Soviet Union and China.
Royce Laverne Roberts, also known as the barbershop artist, paints in oils without lessons and lives in Houston. His landscape works impressed Gov Preston Smith’s guests at a December appreciation dinner, drawing praise from Mrs. Ben Durr of Port Arthur who gifted two Austin countryside paintings to the governor. Roberts, a Hempstead County native, served in the Navy in the 1940s and now runs a barber shop while painting during spare moments with an easel by his chair. His mother Ivory Roberts and wife Barbara Muncie admire his realistic style, seen in subjects from Indian chiefs to flowers. He has a son Charles, 20, who also shows artistic promise, though more modern in approach.
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