Sells & Gray Circus drawn by crowd disappointment at Hope
Reader letter laments that the Sells and Gray Circus felt like a selling show with animals confined to a separate tent, noting disappointment among hundreds of children and urging sponsors to preview performances. Also included are thanks for Hempstead County fair float support and local weather and delivery notices.
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Sells & Gray Circus
the Star
Hempstead County
First National Bank and Replians
Collier Furniture
Spates
Emilie Prescott
Spears Carpet Mills
Hope Chapter
FFA
Hope Optimist Club
Hempstead
Rufus Herndon
Howard Buffington
Hope, Ark
Millwood Realtors urge water pipeline plan for Southwest Arkansas
At a Sheraton Motor Inn meeting in Hope, Millwood Board of Realtors backed a resolution urging cities and counties in the Southwest Arkansas Water District to intensify push for a Millwood Lake water pipeline. Vincent W. Foster and Pat Honeycutt warned of drought risks to poultry and agri‑business, noting a 60 percent federal grant and 40 percent local match. New officers were elected: Dorsey McRae president, J C Dyer vice president, Yancey Reynolds secretary‑treasurer.
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Millwood Board of Realtors
Sheraton Motor Inn
Hope
Southwest Arkansas Water District
Millwood Lake
Vincent W. Foster
Pat Honeycutt
Nashville
Millwood Realtors
Hempstead
Howard
Nevada
Southwest
Arkansas Water District
Miller
Little River
LaFayette
Columbia
Foster
The
Water District
Dorsey McRae
J.C. Dyer
Yancey Reynolds
Public TV show canceled dealers will display game at their showrooms
The Arkansas Texas game plan at City Hall was canceled and viewers may watch at local TV dealers showrooms with open house events. Channel 7 Little Rock will air the game. rural viewers on Prescott and Hope circuits may partially receive it. Channel 3 Shreveport was tied to Grambling Mississippi Valley due to ABC regional commitments.
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Star
City Hall
The
Hope Community Tv, Inc
Little Rock
Hope
Prescott
Channel 3
Shreveport
Arkansas
ABC
Fayetteville
Channel 7
Nevada
Rail strike by clerks halts travel across six states
In San Francisco, nearly 8,000 railway clerks in six Western states walked off over work rules with Southern Pacific. Amtrak reported 720 passengers stranded on four trains as engineers refused to cross picket lines. SP spokesman Andy Anderson said talks collapsed over reassignments and a court injunction may be sought. clerks’ union spokesman Ron Stewart defended the strike as fully sanctioned.
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San Francisco
Southern Pacific
Amtrak
Andy Anderson
Anderson
Ron Stewart
International Brotherhood of Railway
Morocco plans desert invasion by unarmed march into Spanish Sahara
Rabat says 350,000 Moroccan civilians will march into the Spanish Sahara to reinforce territorial claims and phosphate deposits. King Hassan II leads the plan, calling it peaceful and nonviolent though troops stand ready. The International Court of Justice rejected sovereignty claims, urging self-determination for the territory’s 80,000 inhabitants. Morocco and Mauritania dispute the desert’s fate while Spain backs a referendum.
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Rabat
Morocco
Spanish Sahara
Hassan II
Hassan
International Court of Justice
Mauritania
Spain
Algeria
New York City Nearing Financial Collapse Over Pension Row
New York City teetered on default as a $453 million debt payment loomed with virtually empty treasuries. The crisis centered on the United Federation of Teachers拒 funding its pension funds, despite pleas from Gov. Carey and Mayor Beame. Felx Rohatyn warned of likely default and possible furloughs.
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New York
New York City
Federal Reserve System
Ford Administration
Ali Leads March for Rubin Carter Release in Trenton
Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali led about 2000 demonstrators calling for Rubin Carter's release from Trenton State Prison. Ali likened the conviction to lynching days as organizers shifted plans to the State House after prison violence left one dead and six wounded. Carter seeks a new trial amid longstanding appeals and police reports of inmate power struggles at the facility.
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Trenton
N.J
Muhammad Ali
Carter
Ali
Trenton State Prison
State House
Brendan T. Byrne
Paterson
Nixon
George Lois
New York
Jeremiah Shabazz
Philadelphia
Nation of Islam
New World of Islam
James McGregor Shabazz
Newark
Cleophecus Mayres
Hillside
Shabazz
St. Francis
Mayres
Robert Mulcahy
Hope School District adopts discrimination policy
At the regular monthly meeting the Hope School District 1-a Board adopted a policy prohibiting sex discrimination in education programs and activities and appointed Pat Roach as Title IX coordinator to ensure compliance and hear sex discrimination complaints. The policy aligns with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
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Board of Education
Hope School District 1-A
Hope School District 1- A
Pat Roach
Two boys who once owned some bike get together
Wayne Morgan, once a neighbor and later a California resident, asks Hope police about a 1929 theft of a big red Indian bicycle that belonged to Jack Turner. Morgan resolves to restitution after decades of guilt and the Hope Star helps locate the original owner.
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Brad Bailey
Jack Turner
Memphis
Wayne Morgan
Turner
Morgan
Hope Area
Beauty and the Bullets
Sini Turner
Chicago
Bighh Chico
Prescoil
Ark
Turper
Prescoll
el Dorado
Three Sense
Hope Police
Harvey Fullerton
Fullerton
Hope Star
Star
Watsonville
Calif
Gule
The
Mack Turner
Jack
Hope
Big Brother
Tyne
Margen
Correction on Fortner wife relation misreported
Wednesday report corrected the relation stating Pagla Fortner is not the wife of Hareld Fortner and that Hareld Fortner who escaped Monday from his ex wife had not yet been recaptured according to the source partial.
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Pagla Fortner
Hareld Fortner
Fortner
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