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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1971
Page
6
Detroit car makers have quietly deemphasized styling changes for years, with Ford noting cost control as a major reason. Despite fewer radical updates, rising auto sales show stability is popular with the public. The editor notes women’s fashion could follow this approach.
Senate Foreign Relations Chairman J W Fulbright warned that executive resistance to reasserting congressional authority could provoke a dangerous response on Capitol Hill. He spoke as Secretary Rogers prepared to address legislation by Javits Eagleton and Stennis to curb presidential command of U S troops. Fulbright urged cooperation to restore balance in war and peace decisions.
President Nixon sends a loan guarantee bill to Congress to save Lockheed Aircraft Corp with 250 million dollars in guarantees. Treasury Secretary Connally says prompt consideration is sought to keep the defense contractor solvent. loans carry top priority, five year terms with possible renewal, and government book inspection rights. Senator Proxmire labels the plan bad economics and policy while Connally says Lockheed would fail without the aid as Rolls-Royce troubles echo in.
The North Little Rock School Board adopts a desegregation plan for secondary schools. It calls for reopening Jones Junior High School with seventh graders all assigned to Jones while eighth and ninth graders attend Jefferson Davis Ridge Road Lakewood and Rose City junior highs. High school assignments remain unchanged.
Smithsonian officials seek pre World War I items such as an electric egg beater for a new hall of electricity display. A 1894 GE fan and a 1908 electric toaster were donated, with the oldest 10 inch six blade fan made to run on alternating current and 104 volts, now shown with a regulator.
In Tbilisi Brezhnev lauded Joseph Stalin alongside Lenin during a televised Georgia anniversary salute. He referenced overcoming the cult of personality and avoided pledging allegiance to Khrushchev’s 20th Congress reforms. The crowd cheered as the speech honored Stalin’s birthplace. The article also notes antique appliances from 1905 to 1926, including toasters, a waffle iron, and a vacuum cleaner.
New York AP columnist HAL BOYLE offers humorous coping ideas for rainy days. He jokes about brave versus cowardly responses and offers quirky suggestions such as revisiting youth memories, learning Moonlight Sonata on the zithern, shredding old issues, joking with colleagues, auctioning an Oscar, buying eggs to form a giant basket, and betting on strange bets to stay upbeat. The piece ends urging self improvement and staying bright.
Senators Magnuson and Staggers harshly criticize Amtrak's start up management. They urge swift policy changes and demand cost and service details, accusing the corporation of poor start up costs, press relations excess, and a paid profit mindset.
This morning at 7 a.m. two women drivers, Mrs. Mary Sinclair and Mrs. Carolyn Sue Butler, both of Hope, collided at the N Hazel St and Avenue D intersection. Minor damage reported. No charges filed by Officers Purtle and Clark.
The shakeup targets six ministers including defense chief Mohamed Fawzi and three Arab Socialist Union officials. Aziz Sidky urged national unity as Sadat positions army leaders to back his course amid tensions with Moscow and Israel.
Arkansas weather remains fair through Saturday with a slow warming trend as an eastward pressure system shifts in. Temperatures were unseasonably cool with Thursday highs in the 60s and a Little Rock record low of 44 for May 14. no rainfall reported in the 24 hours ending 7 am.
Virginia O Hanlon Douglas who asked at age eight if Santa exists inspired the famous Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus editorial. She died at 81 in a nursing home after a long teaching career in Manhattan and Brooklyn schools. She lived in North Chatham with her daughter Mrs. Robert Temple.
North Vietnamese engineers are building a new infiltration road from Laos into South Vietnam. U S air raids have halted activity, with B52 strikes and fighter bombers dropping thousands of tons of bombs near Khe Sanh. The project’s purpose remains uncertain, possibly a supply route or artillery movement.
Community notes report a First United Methodist fish fry tonight at 7 in the church classroom, Bob and wife and two daughters relocate to Hope with Bob taking over the Arkla Gas office, Larry Williams named Mt Olive Baptist youth and music minister in Crossett, neighborhood cemetery cleanup planned for May 22, recognition for Hope students at the Arkansas High School Press Assn convention and result highlights, including ratings for Hope Hi-Lights and various student works.
Lawernce L. Knutson reports the supersonic transport faces a Senate tug of war as backers estimate higher costs. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved $85 million in House action, while Sen. Ellender warns extra funding of 300 million to 1 billion may doom passage.
Secretary of State Rogers warned that Senate approval of a 50 percent cut in U S troop strength in Europe would be a historic mistake and end NATO. Brezhnev invited NATO talks on reducing forces in Central Europe while Mansfield presses a 150000 troop cut, amid partisan debate over how to curb presidential war powers.
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