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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1977
Page
1
A compact review or note on Our Daily Bread presented by editor Alex H Washhers, hinting at a concise slice of content. The piece frames the bread theme in a brief, editorial style.
After a ten year pause The Star resumes four color process printing in today’s edition using the Agfa-Gevaert T-42 automatic processor. The paper explains offset and S wrap methods and notes color staff Gene Allen Wendell House and a color film processor in Dallas failed to deliver azalea photos.
The Agriculture Department says world poultry meat and egg output should grow about 5 percent in 1977 over 1976. Egg production may rise 2.5 percent, with most gains in broiler and other chicken meat while turkey output remains near 1976 levels.
Deltic Farm and Timber Co. Inc, based in Dorado, announces its largest land purchase in 20 years. The deal covers 5000 acres across Ouachita Nevada and Clark counties sold by Allen Green of Chichester. Deltic owns or manages about 377,000 acres across Arkansas Louisiana and Texas with two Arkansas sawmills.
A House public works subcommittee voted to fund 21 million for the Richard B. Russell Dam project on the South Carolina border and provided conditional approval for 17 million for the Oahe Project in South Dakota. It rejected Carter’s calls to alter two other projects and endorsed funding for Auburn Dam in California pending safety studies.
White House energy adviser James R. Schlesinger told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee not to tamper with major provisions of President Carter's energy program. He said the plan distributes burdens equitably, with a five cent per gallon tax increase tied to gasoline use and potential mandatory conservation if incentives fail.
President Carter urged Congress to pass a comprehensive ethics bill to curb conflicts of interest and require public disclosure of income assets gifts and positions. He proposed a new Office of Government Ethics and supported a temporary special prosecutor for misconduct by high ranking officials with Senate confirmation of a director. The plan would bar former officials from informal contacts for two years and broaden restrictions on contacts with former agencies after leaving government.
Workers flocked to jobs across Northern Ireland as militant Protestants urged a general strike to pressure Britain into acting against the IRA. Belfast saw 80 to 90 percent of workers at work, Londonderry near total turnout, while about 60 percent joined the strike in Protestant districts amid intimidation reports. The walkout started at midnight with 200 Harland and Wolff workers striking in East Belfast.
The Ozarks Regional Commission approved a 250000 grant for water and sewer extensions and service improvements at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro Arkansas.
The Hempstead County Quorum Court spent over an hour in bickering and tabled the sole agenda item. Fulton Community Center officials did not appear to present plans for a new center replacing last year’s burned structure. The meeting also discussed constable gun training and a possible health center site decision.
In Grand Rapids Michigan the Garfield Park Reformed Church faces a crucial vote by its governing board on disciplining pastor Robert Bast who admitted sinning but pleaded innocent to soliciting a prostitute. Bast on 30 day leave awaits board decision amid a downtown prostitution crackdown that saw 22 arrests.
Thad M. Sandstrom, prominent broadcast executive, was shot to death at his northwest Topeka residence in an apparent homicide and attempted suicide case. His wife Milda Sandstrom was treated for an apparent pill overdose and listed in fair condition at a local hospital. Police reported a neighbor summoned authorities at 4:27 a.m. The couple, married January 1, 1983 at Tulsa Oklahoma, had no children. a Shawnee County district attorney petitioned for division of property amid a waning marriage.
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