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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1953
Page
4
FBI and local authorities pursue leads in the Bobbie Greenlease kidnapping and ransom case involving $295,000 missing. Investigators examine a St Joseph Missouri home and Las Vegas connections as the hunt for 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 bounty intensifies. The suspect Robert CL Greenlease Sr is linked to the boy’s abduction.
The Prescott News covers church activities, anniversary celebrations, engagements, and social notices. Highlights include the Presbyterian Men’s Bible Class anniversary, Morgan-Ward engagement for Lat Verne Morgan and William Curtis Ward, a dinner honoring Willian Curtis Ward and Lat Verne Morgan, and a top-three finish for Miss Margaret Vieter Scott in the Rodeo Queen contest with TV exposure. Local social gatherings feature many families and guests in Prescott and surrounding areas.
US Army reports Pvt. Olen Mowdy, listed as AWOL after escaping a train in Arkansas, was tracked across Kentucky and Oklahoma. He was later found in Oklahoma City posing as a Coast Guard lookout and later attempted to flee again, leading to a renewed effort to return him to Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
Farmers across Arkansas report a solid harvest week with progress on corn soybeans and rice though rainfall and drought stress persist. The Federal-State Crop Service notes half of the corn is picked with soybeans and rice in early harvest stages while some fields face withered stands and low prices impacting cattle feeding and fall vegetable prospects.
Gov Fran cis Cherry of Arkansas described a open competitive bidding system at the Association of Purchasing Agents meeting in Jackson Mississippi. He pitched a program to curb wasteful state spending by contracting for large purchases rather than piecemeal buying and asserted Arkansas has moved past past Civil War era constraints toward prosperity. He noted a trip to Portland to visit his mother and said she turned him in.
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