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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1973
Page
1
The National Weather Service reports a high pressure system east of Arkansas driving southerly winds and a warm spell. Daytime highs will stay in the 70s with early morning readings in the 60s to low 80s through Wednesday.
The Hope Star reports Monday afternoon temperatures across the state with Texarkana at 74 degrees the high, Fort Smith 73, Little Rock 71, El Dorado 71, Harrison 70, Pine Bluff 70, Fayetteville 69, Memphis and Jonesboro 68, and a low of 42 at Little Rock the following morning. Forecast calls for partly cloudy mild weather through Wednesday with highs in the 70s and lows in the 60s. Experiment station shows 72 high and 48 low for the 24 hours ending 7 am Tuesday.
In memoriam note for Paul H Jones Managing Editor 1929 72 appears. Advertising representatives for multiple cities listed with addresses. Subscription rates shown for Hope hempstead Nevada Lafayette Howard Pike Clark counties Hempstead area and Arkansas mail rates. College student bargain noted. M missing T track trailing text.
Funeral services were held for Nancy Ann Nix 00 at Horne Chapel Gordon with burial Hurts Chapel Cemetery. Surviving husband James E. Nix Sr. and three sons, a daughter, siblings, 14 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren. Also listed are John Ames 76, John P Schoen 83, Hazel Jefferies 75, John Hendrix 74, Melton C Bullington 40 years resident of Mandeville, with details of survivors and service plans.
Dr William R Orton announced a NSF funded graduate course Mathematics 4913 for 12 teachers from Hope Ashdown Blevins Fouke Prescott with three credit hours. Robert W Simmons will instruct at Hope January 1974, under University of Arkansas Mathematics Department supervision. Local coordinator is Dele Franks.
Two teenagers died in a two car crash about three miles south of Camden Arkansas on Highway 7. Debra Mae McElroy 19 of near Camden and Theresa Earline Marks 14 of Camden were identified by State Police as victims. McElroy’s car crossed the highway and was struck on the side by a second vehicle.
The Ouachita Baptist University School of Music presents pianist Sue Aran and soprano Harriet Lambert in a junior recital at 9 p.m. Thursday November 15 in Mitchell Hall Auditorium. Lambert, daughter of Mr and Mrs Lynn Hickles of Hope, studies under Frances Scott and is active in the Association of Women Students OBU Choir and the Black American Student Society.
Two Arkansans Connie Milum of Nashville and Cliff Lane of Grannis will take over operation of Central Soya poultry. The plant’s future depended on securing a new processing site after a contract wasn’t renewed. Under new ownership processing can move to Moun Measant Tex Idabel Okla or Granais in Polk County. Germans constitute the third largest ethnic group in Canada after British and French stock.
Members and guests will attend the annual stewardship emphasis dinner at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the church. A children's party for eight and under will be held with Roy and Mrs. Taylor in charge. Rev. Jim Tillman will speak, youth choir will sing, and Bob Willis will give a testimony. The dinner location is Fair Park Coliseum. Next Sunday the projected budget for 1974 will be discussed.
Hempstead County Farmers Home Administration treasurer Theodore Eldridge announced funds remain available for farmers to buy or enlarge farms. Loans cover home and farm buildings, wells, water systems, and debt refinancing at five percent interest with up to 40 years to repay. Applications through county FHA office in Hope open 8 am to 5 pm, weekdays.
A state official said insurance will likely cover rebuilding of the Queen Wilhelmina Hotel after Saturday’s fire. William E. Henderson of the Parks and Tourism Department noted the Commission on Parks and Tourism will decide, weighing higher costs and the hotel’s popularity. Loss estimated at about 750000 with no injuries. The inn, part of Wilhelmina State Park since 1956, reopened year round in 1972 after a 1960s rebuild.
Poland seeks formal relations with the Vatican amid historic talks with Pope Paul VI. Stefan Olszowski called the Vatican visit an historic step, the first by a Warsaw government figure to the Holy See, signaling potential normalization after years of Church-state tension. Copper and silver were first discovered in Canada in 1604.
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