Thunderstorms Expected Across State
The service forecasts continued thunderstorms statewide with likely heavy downpours and possible localized flooding. Weather teams warn residents to monitor alerts and seek shelter during storm activity.
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1977
Page
2
The service forecasts continued thunderstorms statewide with likely heavy downpours and possible localized flooding. Weather teams warn residents to monitor alerts and seek shelter during storm activity.
A cold front moving eastward toward the state is expected to trigger precipitation Sunday and Monday. Highs will be in the 80s with overnight lows ranging from the mid 80s to the low 60s. Extended outlook shows highs in the low to mid 80s and a cooling trend into Tuesday.
A Jonesboro man Charlie H. Gray, 38, was killed and three others injured in a collision at a Jonesboro intersection involving two trucks of gravel. Injured were Cecil A. Williamson, 63, of Paragould Alvis Blackburn 68 and Viva Blackburn 3, both of Jonesboro.
Hope High School FFA held its spring banquet with John Walker noting sponsor support. Johnny Kramer received proficiency and secretary awards, Tim Arnold placed second in district speaking, and the chapter earned the Building Our American Community Award for a hay hauler project. New officers and hall inductees were announced.
Daniel Cardwell and Craig Hansen win 2000 scholarships for 1977-78. Cardwell of Hope High School will study pre veterinary medicine at Southern Arkansas University while Hansen of Rogers High School majors in business administration accounting at the University of Arkansas. Both are sons of Hudson Foods employees with at least one year of service.
William Bayles Porterfield 73 of McCaskill died at home. Survived by son W D Porterfield Nashville and daughter Mrs Arthur Willis Jacksonville Ark. Also brothers Guy Porterfield North Little Rock Jessie Porterfield Malvern Dilvy Porterfield Trashwood Ark sister Mrs Hattie Furnatter Nashville six grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. Funeral 10:30 p m Saturday Latimer Funeral Home Nashville with Rev Jerry Roberts and Rev John Rushing. Burial Restland Memorial Park Nashville. Otho Lockett 72 Prescott nursing home death. Survived by five daughters Etta Catherine Hall Rose Madlay Barbara Gordon Dorothy Mae Dayton Ohio two sons Roy Lee Dayton Arthur Lockett Louisiana six sisters five brothers 17 grandchildren 10 great grandchildren. Funeral 1 p m Saturday Wheeling Springs Church of God in Christ Rev T Robinson officiating. Burial Spring Hill cemetery Jones Funeral Home Texarkana. Charles Stotts 2 of Rockwall Texas died in Phoenix Ariz from May 1 accident. Mother Jimmie Medlin Rockwall sisters and brother and many cousins survive. Graveside 2 p m Saturday Liberty cemetery near Mineral Springs East Funeral Home Texarkana. Henry Stallworth 2 died Tuesday in Prescott hospital after long illness. Funeral 2 p m Friday Marlbrook Baptist Church Rev Paul Choate officiating. Burial Marlbrook cemetery Cornish Funeral Home Texarkana.
In a taped interview Richard Nixon portrays himself as coolly in charge of foreign policy. He claims overtures to China and bold moves against the Soviet Union during the 1973 Middle East crisis. Nixon praises Kissinger as a genius and recalls Mao and Khrushchev with vivid, mixed judgments while noting his Watergate-era unease.
Hempstead County Heart Association president Mrs George Wright Sr announces members will compete for cash awards in the Pickup Cleanup Campaign on May 14 and 21. She urges volunteers without groups to help pick up and clean up for the Heart Fund with free trash bags distributed at the courthouse on Saturday.
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