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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1976
Page
2
The National Weather Service forecasts a cold damp weekend for Arkansans as a cold front from the west brings arctic air into the state. The front moves rapidly southward and is expected to end several days of mild dry conditions.
Hope Star reports unsettled weather with a cold front moving through Arkansas. Gusty winds accompany the front, no rain yet but thundershowers expected south of the state tonight into Saturday. Cooler air arrives northern Arkansas with highs near 70, others in upper 70s to low 80s. Saturday highs mostly in 60s. Overnight lows range from around 33 to the low 50s. extended outlook shows a chance of rain Monday and cooler temperatures midweek.
Funeral services for Mrs. Bennie Charles Ware will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the St. Paw Baptist Church in Emmet with the Rev. H. Spearman officiating. Burial will be in Snell cemetery under the direction of Hicks Funeral Home. If motor vehicle travel continues to rise, by 199 rotor vehicles would cover about two trillion miles annually, per the National Automobile Club.
Katherine Blanche Mitchell 76 native of Rosston died Thursday in North Little Rock. Survived by husband Earl Mitchell son Underwood Mitchell North Little Rock daughter Reed McConnell Hope list of siblings and seven grandchildren. Funeral 1 p.m. Saturday Highway Baptist Church North Little Rock burial Rest Hills. Toni Elizabeth Poor 80 died Tuesday in Hope. Services held 9:30 a.m. Friday Crestwood Oak chapel burial Freedom cemetery Chester Arkansas. Survived by one son three daughters one nephew 17 grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Senator Dale Bumpers told University of Arkansas Pine Bluff freshmen that he now believes Jimmy Carter is presidential timber and urged votes for Carter. He criticized the Ford administration, calling it lacking goals and predicting poor judgment. He noted Carter and he began in Arkansas and Georgia state houses and praised Carter as a New South politician. Dinosaurs from the Mesozoic era are described as lasting 155 million years across Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods.
Wall posters in Shanghai denounce Chiang Ching and three other senior Chinese radicals amid reports of their arrest for plotting a coup. Kyodo notes no official confirmation of the purge as demonstrations support Hua Kuo-feng, with pledges from army units and widespread rallies across major cities.
Pickens-Bond Construction Co. of Little Rock submitted the apparent low bid of 9.5 million dollars for a new state library archive and office building on the Capitol grounds. Ten bids were received, with architects estimating the project at 10 million. The Building Services Council will review bids October 29 as the project proceeds around the existing Game and Fish Building, which will be renovated under a separate contract.
Paw Williams of Hope has been nominated by the Arkansas FFA Association for the American Farmer Degree, the highest FFA honor. The nomination was approved by the National FFA Board in Alexandria, Virginia, with 747 nominees overall. Williams will be honored at a November 11 ceremony pending delegates' approval.
A seven week creative writing course taught by Mrs. Mitzi Madison meets Thursday mornings 10 to 12 with first session October 21. Fee is 12 dollars paid at the first class. To enroll call 777-6053 at the Hope Community Education Office. Citizens State Bank of Nashville opens a new building with a public open house and a prize drawing for about 300 dollars. Special guest Joyce McCormack Miss Arkansas attends. bank chartered in 1974.
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