Hope Star Celebrates 70 Years With Microfilm Archives
William Forrest writes from Dillard Oregon praising Hope Star coverage and promising industrial improvements. The piece explains Hope Star history from 1899 as the Star of Hope to a daily, details the shift to microfilm storage, and notes the paper’s publishing lineage and ownership.
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Hope, Ark
Crit Stuart
Hope
Forrest Industries, Ltd
Wynnewood
Permaneer Corp
William, F. Forrest, SR
P.O. Box
Dillard
Ore
Lodge Surprised by Private Talks Proposal in Vietnam Talks
U S Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge said in Paris that the other side proposed direct private talks with the PRG Viet Cong delegates. He noted the plan would involve all participants on both sides, calling the move a surprise after the 38th plenary session.
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Morris Rosenberg
Associated Press
PARIS
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Vietnam
PRG
Provisional Revolutionary Government
Viet Cong
Lodge
Nixon
Nobel Prize Trio Honored for Physiology Medicine
The 1969 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine was awarded to Max Delbrueck Alfred Hershey and Salvador Luria. The prize carries a record cash amount of 75000 dollars. Arkansas officials and visitors noted the event during a state commission meeting in Hot Springs.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Max Delbrueck
Californnia Institute of Technology
Alfred D. Hershey
Carnegie Institute
Salvador E. Laria
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Carnes
Commission
Hayes McClerkin
Miller County
John Stroud
Texarkana Chamber of Commerce
George Peck
Texarkana
Southwest Arkansas Water District
Hope Chamber
B. N. Holt
Frank Key
Leaders vow second demonstration in massive antiwar protests
AP News Digest reports hundreds of thousands joined the largest antiwar display in U.S. history with marches, rallies, and candlelight events across states. Nixon aides claimed broad public support for policy while Moratorium organizers warned of continued pressure if Vietnam policy did not shift.
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Associated Press
America
Vietnam
Nixon
Washington
Herbert G. Klein
Sam Brown
Welding test in space ends Soyuz 6 mission
Russia reports Soyuz 6 and two cosmonauts returned safely after testing experimental welding techniques in space. The lone surviving craft landed at 12:52 p.m. EDT near Karaganda, as two other ships and five cosmonauts remain in orbit. Welding aimed to assess methods for assembling permanent space stations. The crew experienced no injuries.
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Moscow
Earth
Radio Moscow
Karaganda
Tass
Obituary Hoax Triggers Mother’s Fatal Heart Attack
In Wombourn England an obituary declaring Gertrude Thomas dead caused her mother Alice McDermott to suffer a heart attack and die three days later. The notice proved false and Gertrude survived. Detectives traced the hoax to a caller who asked billing be sent to the Thomas family. The item highlights the danger and tragedy of a cruel misreport.
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Wombourn
England
Gertrude Thomas
Alice McDermott
Moratorium Won't Affect US Policy
Washington report on the October Vietnam Moratorium Day shows large but peaceful demonstrations at the White House and nationwide. Sam Brown, who conceived the event, warns of a possible November resurgence if policy isn’t changed, while Herbert Klein emphasizes broad public support for Nixon.
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Washington
Bones
Joseph &. Mohbat
Associated Press
Richard Nixon
White House
Herbert G. Klein
Nixon
Sam Brown
Herb Klein
Washington Monument
America
Brown
Lawsuits at Conway Total 701000
Two suits filed in Conway Circuit Court seek 701000 from Hall's Aero Spraying Corp for harming livestock and pastures of Greenbrier farmers Robert and Merrell Ralston and T. D. Johnson and Georgia Johnson. Plaintiffs own 218 acres of beef cattle and 355 acres of dairy land about 10 miles north of Greenbrier. Defendants include B. D. Henry Myrtle Henry Claude F. Hall and Leland and Gertrude King. Accused May 18 or 19 spray damaged due to a hormone-type herbicide high in arsenic.
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Conway, Ark
Greenbrier
Robert Ralston
Merrell] Ralston
T. D. Johnson
Georgia Johnson
B. D. Henry
Myrtle Henry
Jacksonville
Claude F. Hall
Leland
Gertrude King
Hall
Aero Spraying Corp
Henrys
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Alex
Washburn Wynnewood
Hope Star
Dallas
Microfilm
Star of Hope
Claude McCorkle
Ed, McCorkle
D.A. Gean
Morning Daily Press
Evening Daily Hope Star
C.E. Palmer
Star Publishing Co
Arkansas Industrial Development Commission
Charles L. Wilkins
Magnolia
Dick Duvall
Little Rock
Ber
J.W. Bellamy
Pine Bluff
J. Herbert Graves
Louis Hurley
el Dorado
Guy Moseley
Batesville
James 5S
Hot Springs
Ark
Ode Maddox
Oden
Ray Smith Jr
Lewisville
C. C. Carlton
Pike
Howard Counties
Gladys Martin Oglesby
Lafayette County
George Frazier
Hope and Hempstead Chamber
Back Ruw
Bill Holliday
Nashville
Charles Trammell
Ashdown Chamber
Lewis Davis
Ashdown
al Bacus
Arkansas Industrial Commission
AIDC
Grou
Hope Country Club
Red River Vocational
Binder
Martin Eisele
Cass Hough
Rogers
Herbert McAdams
Jonesboro
Bers
Adrian Williamson
Nolan Fleming
Don Cassi
Karin Dunn
Vincent Foster
Ray Turner
Harold Eakley
Melace Samuels
Autrey Wilson
Fred Ellis
Vic Thrash
Ray Lawrence
Tom Ed Hays, Jr
B.N. Holt
Russia
Ets
Saigon
George P. Shultz
Congress
House
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Vacaville
Calif
California
The
Star
Hempstead County
Avery’s Chapel
Harold Duke
Henrik Ibsen
Henderson State College
Speech and Literature Department
Jo Ellen Houser
Blevins
Regina
Bill McClendon
Aetna Life and Casualty
Hartford Hilton Hotel
Hartford
Conn
McClendon
Corps of Regionnaires
Jackson Lake Lodge
Jackson Hole
Wyoming
Alton Sheppard
Augusta
Giles Foster
Jack Beaty
Dale Franks
Curtis H. Pharr
Blevins Schoo
Thurston Hulsey
State Department of Education
John William Polk
Carl Polk
Emmet
Evangel College
Springfield
Hope High School
Evangel
National College
the Assemblies of God Churches
Conway
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