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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1961
Page
2
Classified notice outlines advance payment for want ads and telephone acceptance with accommodations for accounts payable upon statement, listing dialing and billing instructions for advertisers. The notice emphasizes prepayment and credit terms for running ads.
A letter from a Texas group grateful for hospitality in Hope Arkansas praises local hosts and regional press coverage. It lauds the joke that boosted Arkansas Texas goodwill and notes appreciation for newspapers radio and TV coverage. The writer closes with best wishes and personal regards.
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower hosted a gathering of cabinet members and aides at his Gettysburg offices to discuss world conditions and strengthening the Republican party. Notable attendees included Lewis I. Strauss on his right and Charles E. Wilson on his left as former defense chief.
CLARKSVILLE, Ark. AP Sale of the weekly Johnson County Graphic to Mrs. Mary C. Clark was disclosed Wednesday by Dick Mayo Graphic editor and general manager. Terms not disclosed. Mrs. Clark will assume control in June and has edited the Booster and Arkansas Poultry News. Mayo has edited the Graphic since 1949 after buying it from Mrs. Effie Giacomini, widow of founder T. P. Giacomini, who will continue with the paper.
Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard Jr. received an extra 14.38 for his 15 minute space flight from Cape Canaveral, earning one sixteenth of May flight pay. While aging duty commander, he is entitled to 230 monthly and four hours of flight monthly, with no special astronaut pay.
Washington AP reports the House approved a bill by voice vote to allow gifts of money or property to reduce the national debt. Proceeds would fund a special account for retiring government obligations. The measure moves to the Senate, where a similar bill died last year.
The Arkansas & Ozark Railroad, out of business since a 1960 track washout, faced new flood damage over the weekend. Manager Lon Holder said a flash flood wrecked a trestle on Crooked Creek and destroyed four more bridges around Eureka Springs. The line, 71 miles from Harrison to Seligman, had only recently won ICC approval to abandon service.
Johnson reports Ngô Đình Diệm warns the Vietnam war in the delta near Saigon is grave with 150000 government troops facing about 10000 Vietcong irregulars. Terrain and a porous border with Cambodia complicate operations as guerrillas use hit and run tactics in canals, swamps, and jungle.
LITTLE ROCK AP The city of Calico Rock can spend 700 left in a bond fund to build a meeting place for the City Council, the attorney general's office ruled today. Recorder E E McCormick asked if the city could use money from a bond issue intended for fire equipment to house the council, after giving up its current meeting place for the fire truck. The opinion also outlines how to compute bid preference for Arkansas contractors on public contracts, deducting 5 percent of the lowest Arkansas bid from the bid to adjust it against out of state bids.
Prescott area notes show Circle 1 of the Women of the Presbyterian Church meeting at Mrs Lloyd Cummings home with thirteen members, circle leaders presiding, Bible study on Living In Christ That I May Know Him, and Church Extension emphasis. Refreshments served. minutes and reports shared.
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