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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1961
Page
1
A dense list of church schedules and events across Hope Arkansas and surrounding areas. Details include weekly services, Sunday schools, cantatas, choir practices, Bible classes, prayer meetings, and radio broadcasts at multiple churches such as First Methodist, First Baptist, Unity Baptist, St Marks Episcopal, Catholic, Church of Christ, and more, with dates, times, and leaders or pastors named for each.
Bethelame Church schedules 11 am morning worship 6 30 pm ACE League 7 20 pm Stewardess Board and Missionary Society 7 30 pm Official Board, 7 30 pm Choir rehearsal. Ing G ebee Memorial CME lists 9 30 am church school 10 45 am morning worship 6 30 pm evening evangelistic services with various circles and boards. Church of God in Christ lists 10:30 am Sunday School 12 7 pm worship 7 pm prayer services. Rising Star Missionary notes BTU, evening worship, youth choir and multiple meetings. Crammed church listings cover numerous churches with service times and auxiliary groups.
Easter plans spread across Arkansas with sunrise services in diverse outdoor settings from mountain tops to lakesides. Notable events include Hot Springs Mountain service at 5 55 a.m. and the 24th annual Capitol steps sunrise in Little Rock. Other observances occur at Lake Fort Smith Blytheville Air Force Base Hope Ouachita Baptist campus Stuttgart Conway and more.
AP reports Jerusalem hosts a Way of the Cross procession with Chicago visitors and a Mount Gerizim Passover rite led by a high Samaritan priest. The piece contrasts Easter devotion and Samaritan ritual, noting the tiny community's 345 members and their strict observance, as Passover coincided with Good Friday.
Evening service at 8 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Missionary Society led by Mrs Lula Muldrow. Youth Choir Rehearsal at 5 p.m. Morning worship at 1 a.m. First and Third Sunday services. Pastor Rav H A Davis and Supervisor Mrs Siela Smith mentioned. Odessa Campbell noted in program.
The Hope Star lists subscription rates by carrier mail and city delivery, with weekly and yearly options. Advertising represents Arkense Daily Inc. and other national reps, noting Associated Press rights and distribution across several states and cities.
The Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis reports that department store sales in the Eighth District for the week ended March 25 were two percent below the same week in 1960. Louisville rose eight percent while St Louis, Memphis, and Little Rock fell. Seven smaller cities saw four percent decline. For the four weeks ending March 25 sales were 17 percent above last year and year to date sales were four percent above last year.
New York AP reports two men posing as detectives robbed a deli owner John Williams and his wife, forcing entry to an apartment safe and stealing 5000 dollars in cash and 1000 dollars in jewelry. The incident follows a record note as immigration to Australia reaches nearly ten million since World War II.
Pilgrims and tourists gathered in Jerusalem for religious rites marking God Friday and Jesus death with the Way of the Cross. Mass crowds followed the Cross through the old city ending at Calvary and the tomb, amid medieval streets and Crusades-era ambience.
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