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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1962
Page
7
Civil Defense outlines shelter strategies for families and communities in a potential nuclear war. It covers shelter mass, location, construction tips, two week food and water stocks, ventilation, air filtration, and the need for ready emergency supplies amid limited government shelter programs.
The text outlines sanitation measures for shelters to prevent disease from human waste and pests, including metal pails with tight covers, plastic bags, and burying waste after two days. It recommends spraying with five percent insecticide solutions and ensuring independent power or light sources. It also notes Civil Defense broadcast frequencies for alerts and the need for a radiation detector to know when it is safe to emerge. The fragment then shifts to a brief, unrelated historical note about Abraham Lincolner? and a hawk Indian war reference.
MEMPHIS AP Three eastern Arkansas families were named trophy winners Wednesday in the Commercial Appeal's 1962 Plant to Foster contest in the Negro division. Mr. and Mrs. Spaniard Butler of Mara won first place in the landowner division. Top tenant winners were Mr. and Mrs. Luke McCoy of Forrest City. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Hampton of Lexa received the home improvement award. The Butlers and the McCoys advance to compete with state winners from Tennessee Mississippi and Missouri for larger prizes in December.
Washington AP reports 52 Congress members will be replaced when the new session opens next January. Octogenarians Brent Spence John Taber Clare Hoffman Noah Mason lead the retirements. Seventeen lawmakers plan to return to private life and nine seek Senate seats or higher offices.
A horse drawn hay wagon carrying Deptford Township High School pupils and chaperones was struck by a car on Williamstown Road in Gloucester Township. One girl was killed and at least 20 others injured. James J. Chase, driver of the car, was hospitalized in critical condition. Beatrice M. Rosenberger, 15, was treated for head cuts. Lois G. Pancoast, 14, was identified as the dead girl. The car crash occurred as the vehicle, traveling at speed, rammed the wagon and forced it off the road.
Castro declared no U N supervision on dismantling Soviet missile bases in Cuba and urged the United States to relinquish Guantanamo Bay. He said missiles were being removed while other weapons remain. Anastas Mikoyan met U N officials in New York amid efforts to resolve the crisis.
In Saigon three Americans died in Viet Nam related incidents. Two U.S. Air Force pilots were killed when a Vietnamese air force B26 fighter bomber was shot down by ground fire during a night strafing mission southwest of Saigon. A U.S. soldier died from a grenade explosion in a building vestibule in Catheho, where allied troops were billeted. Ground troops recovered the crash bodies and identified the casualties after family notification.
The Cuban leader reiterates demands for U S withdrawal from Guantanamo and halting attacks by Cuban exiles. He says without peace guarantees there can be no peaceful solution, while insisting on dignity in any accord and condemning North American planes and warships violations.
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