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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1961
Page
5
A short humor piece describes a traveler’s language mix ups in a town bakery and cafe. A stranger struggles to order items such as doughnuts and Danish, while regional terms for meals and titles vary. The piece notes locals misinterpret phrases like hotcakes and supper vs dinner and Miss vs Mam.
Springfield, Ti AP Ed ward A. Epping, accomplice of former State Auditor Orville Hodge in a 815 million theft of state funds, was granted parole today. Hodge and Epping, once office manager, were sent to prison in 1946. Epping serves 1 to 2 year term for larceny, confidence game and embezzlement. Hodge remains 12 to 1 year. A banker testified Epping, then 36, received cash for fictitious warrants totaling 134 000. The Modge scandal broke in August 1956 stunning the state.
In Leopoldville and two eastern Congo cities mutinying Congolese troops challenge UN authority. About 100 soldiers at Kindu refused to hand over 13 Italian airmen. in Albertville troops looted, arrested people, and erected roadblocks while UN forces pondered intervention. Gizenga-linked tensions and uncertain causes loom over the unrest.
Ars Muriel B Christison director of the Arkansas Arts Center since August 1 has submitted her resignation to the Board of Directors. A board spokesman confirmed the step on Tuesday noting the letter gave no reason for resigning.
On this day in 1794 the revolutionary Jean Baptiste Carrier was guillotined for massacres including prisoners drowned in the Loire. In 1777 the British Army won. 1807 New Jersey restricted suffrage. 1918 Hungary proclaimed a republic. 1954 Enrico Fermi won a physics award. ten years ago a U.S. energy plan aimed to cut deficits.
Utica police report Johnny Mathis missed outfits were taken from a tour bus parked opposite the police station during a Tuesday appearance at the Utica Municipal Auditorium. Agent John Negus said the bagged wardrobe included hand uniforms and other clothing.
Washington reports say Hans Kroll’s future as West Germany’s ambassador to Moscow rests with Chancellor Adenauer. Officials criticize his Berlin crisis diplomacy with Khrushchev but will not speculate on a new assignment. Tass claimed Bonn would sacrifice Kroll to please Washington, yet U.S. sources see no certainty on East German operations or Berlin’s status. Kroll’s Bonn recall followed his Berlin settlement proposals described as his own ideas, not government authorized.
United States Peace Corps will hold entrance examinations at the Federal Building in Little Rock on November 28 and 29 at 9:20 am. Soldiers of opportunity and service call for qualified applicants across the region.
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