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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1955
Page
2
Central and other regions report fair conditions this afternoon and tonight with a warming trend into Friday. Highs range from the 50s to near 50s while lows dip into the 20s to 30s across Northeast, Southeast and Northwest Arkansas.
Arkansas Education Association leaders moved to study a proposed constitutional change capping local school taxes at 30 mills. The council endorsed studying the amendment and would later issue the AEA position after a special meeting. Reported during the association’s convention opening.
Afternoon and Friday forecast for Southwest Arkansas shows fair skies with temperatures in the mid to upper 50s this afternoon. Tonight cools to the high 20s to low 30s with varying overnight chill.
Nagging backache and sleepless nights tied to stress or overexertion may cause bladder irritation and discomfort. Doan's Pills provide pain relief and a soothing diuretic effect to ease urinary symptoms and kidney discomfort, promising relief used by millions for over 60 years.
Northwest market firm for broilers and fryers with most at 22 and 21-22 in Arkansas. New York stocks rise with several issues up 1 to 2 points as buyers push shares. butter and eggs mixed with steady to slightly lower wholesale prices and varied egg classes.
Live poultry steady while caponettes weaken. Receipts in coops 875 yesterday 1,115. Paying prices unchanged to 1 cent lower. Heavy hens 21.5 to 25.5 cents. Light hens 18 to 19.5 cents. Broilers or fryers 20.5 to 22 cents. Old roosters noted in market report.
Carr told a dinner of school administrators that educators channel parental energy into contests drives collections and exhibits. He contrasted American parents who stay involved with another country’s view and defended Americans’ role in shaping education to meet societal needs.
New York cotton futures edged higher as trade and commission house buying supported values. Declines on Wednesday prompted short covering with late afternoon prices up 25 cents to 1.55 a bale. December 133.49, March 32.35, May 31.31.
Chicago futures drifted after an early sell-off with grains attempting to recover. Wheat closed 14 cents lower to 14 cents higher around 2.05 a bushel for December, corn unchanged to 3% lower near 1.29 to 1.30, oats 0.5 to 1? higher, December 0.0? to 0.0? for oats, rye little change to 1% higher around 2.37.
At St Louis National Stockyards totals show hogs around 190 to 240 pounds and heavier runs trading mostly in the 13.00 to 14.50 range with some higher prices for U S No 1 to 3 grades. Cattle and calves moved slowly with average to good calf prices 13.00 to 16.00 and cows mostly 10.00 to 12.00 while bulls and dealers posted 11.00 to 13.50. Sheep activity remained light and lambs were scarce with ewes trading 3.00 to 5.00.
A Royal Air Force Hastings transport, initially reported missing, landed safely on Bali Indonesia. Authorities said no casualties. The flight carried scientists and technicians to a secret testing ground in the region.
Police discounted the confession of Ed Kline a 30 year old truck driver who admitted murdering Robert Peterson 13 Jon a Schuessler 13 and Anton 11. Kline was picked up in a Wisconsin farm house while Charles Driscoll 19 was also detained in Ladysmith Wisconsin on disorderly conduct charges.
A spectacular fire at Riverport near Birmingham ends in three deaths as three men shut valves to gasoline tanks and halt spread. The blaze sent flames over 100 feet high, with fumes triggering explosions shortly before control was lost.
Police say no connection found with the murders as a three week manhunt stalls. The three boys disappeared on Oct 16 in Chicago's northwest side and were found two days later naked and mutilated in a forest preserve ditch. Two strangled and one beaten to death. Dozens of suspects questioned and about 1,000 clues checked with no result.
A blast and fire at Tri alge Refineries in Birmingham killed plant superintendent Thrasher and left his daughter Tina May and Ojsen K. Dodd missing after fumes seeped into the Thrasher apartment during dinner. The blaze started from escaping gasoline vapors, exploded in the apartment, and spread to loading docks. two bodies were found in the debris as officials assessed damage.
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