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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1973
Page
1
President Nixon announces a 15 percent reduction in gasoline and home heating oil deliveries to curb looming fuel shortages and protect the economy. The plan will likely lower home temperatures by about six degrees to conserve energy.
President Nixon announced Sunday steps to curb oil use to ease a deepening energy crisis. Measures include Sunday gasoline sales ban at stations, 15 percent jet fuel cuts, 10 percent reduction in oil to industries, and 7 percent overall shortage after planned reductions. Consumer gasoline rationing possible, with heating oil cuts also mandated for households and businesses. Regulations to curb heating oil and later gasoline distribution are slated for December and January 1974.
Experiment station report covers 24 hours to 7 a.m. Saturday with high 74 and low 67 and 1.27 inches rain. 24 hours to 7 a.m. Sunday shows high 78 and low 48 with 56 inches rain. 24 hours to 7 a.m. Monday records high 69 and low 48 with 1.65 inches rain. Arkansas forecast calls for thunderstorms early tonight then clearing and cooler northwest late tonight. Lows in the 40s. Thunderstorms diminishing southeast and becoming fair and mild Tuesday with highs in the 60s.
Mrs. Pat Roach described modern India to the Hope Rotary Club with slides on Hindu temples and Ganges washing, noting poverty thresholds of 900 calories, 13 yards of cloth, and 200 square feet. She recalled food shortages for 500 million, rats, and the unforgettable country smell missing from the presentation.
New York columnist Hal Boyle offers a wry survey of social status, spoofing how people gauge prestige by listing absurd, allusive perks. The piece lampoons wealth, power, and conspicuous success with biting humor about a man who seems to have everything and a contrast of the precarious life of those less fortunate.
J R Gorham 87 died in a local hospital. Retired farmer and Avery Chapel Church member. Survived by wife Frances flea Gorham three sons C T Gorham Norman M Gorham Douglas Stephens three daughters Elsie York Elwanda Shipley and a brother J S Gorham. Funeral Tuesday 2 pm Avery Chapel Church near McCaskill burial Friendship Cemetery Herndon Funeral Home. Herbert L McCraven 27 died November 22 in Phoenix survived by parents four brothers three sisters and paternal grandmother Graveside Monday 2 pm Holly Grove Cemetery Rev L B Jordan El Dorado officiating Herndon Funeral Home in charge.
The Arkansas Lung Association designates Sunday December 2 as Christmas Seal Sunday. Mrs. Dee McMurrough urges churches to remind congregations to support the Christmas Seal drive for education and research on respiratory diseases. The Kennedy Center has published Quarto a 58 page arts review with 15 articles by notable critics.
British actor Laurence Harvey died at his London home after an 18 month illness. He was 49 and had just married fashion model Puwene Stone at year end, mother of his young daughter Domino.
Leaders of 17 Arab nations meet in Algiers to chart a unified response to a proposed Geneva peace conference with Israel. Egypt delays, Iraq and Libya boycott, and Jordan seeks to avoid Palestinian leader clashes as Foreign Ministers draft resolutions. Israel signals willingness to attend with a final decision after a formal invitation.
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