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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1961
Page
2
A concise notice promotes want ads as inexpensive and powerful and urges readers to call the number 7 3431. The rest of the text is garbled with corrupted phrases and disjointed lines about accounts payable and deception.
An exuberant New York AP report describes the Metropolitan Opera opening after a labor dispute nearly canceled the season. Arthur Goldberg orchestrated a settlement, elevating him among opera patrons. Prominent attendees included Mrs. Hugh Auchinloss, Mrs. Stevenson, Dr. Bunche, and Allen Dulles. The piece links Puccini to an earlier Broadway crossover in The Girl of the Golden West.
Former President Dwight D Eisenhower denounces Kennedy fiscal policy as confusing and predicts inflation risks while blasting the Peace Corps as a juvenile experiment. He speaks at a fund raising dinner for State Attorney General Lefkowitz in New York, criticizing Washington more than local leaders and noting a large dinner proceeds.
The page explains John Alden Knight’s Solunar Tables with Major periods lasting about two hours and forty minutes plus four and a half hours shown in bold. Minor periods are shorter and printed in regular type. The schedule lists daily times for major and minor periods across days of the week with specific start and end times.
The Southwest District Singing Convention Division B convenes at Rising Star Baptist Church on Sunday October 29 with Sunday School at 9 30 am. Reve J M Stewart will preach the morning sermon as St Paul Choir provides music. Afternoon program starts 1 30 featuring a panel on What Is Singing and related topics. Verger High School Homecoming activities include a 2 pm downtown parade and a 5 pm football game against Washington High School of Idabel at Hammons Stadium. Alice Marie Shaw a senior at AM N College Pine Bluff practicing teaching at Shover Elementary. Mrs Bessie Evans attended AM N College homecoming with husband Willie Evans.
New York fashion coverage shows designer Bill Blass presenting a boyish look using men s wear fabrics and a girl like high fashion with cascading ruffles and flounces. In Moscow Yuri Gagarin recovers from illness attends the Communist party congress and cancels planned trips to Genoa and New Delhi due to health.
NewYork AP Mary Todd Lincoln faces a costly White House refurnishing episode. The First Lady exceeded the 1961 congressional budget by 6700 dollars while shopping in New York and Philadelphia with sister. She sought presidential approval after fearing public cost. The tale appears in Conversations with Lincoln by Charles M Segal.
AP reports a thief in New York purloined two .38 revolvers and handcuffs from patrolman lockers at East 35th Street station. Meanwhile in Miami a gambling parlor owner lacked only a back door, with a probe noting a hidden peephole and a linked bag of security concerns.
In the crash zone a burned Lynch and injured Laura cling to survival as Beecher and others tend the wounded aboard a C-47. Don Willie dies amid the wreck while Bruno perishes with a broken skull as the party struggles through lava fields and shifting sands.
A young wife, Cora Dupuy, 19, crashed her car into a utility pole in Tampa on Monday. The impact snapped the pole, brought down transmission lines, and shorted four utility sub stations, causing the city’s largest power failure since Hurricane Donna. She was admitted to a hospital in good condition.
The Hope School District No 1 A Hempstead County will hold a school election on Tuesday December 5 1961 from 8 00 a m to 6 30 p m. Voters will approve a 40 mill school tax for debt service and general fund. One Post 1 and one Post 2 board member for three years each, and one County Board of Education member at large for five years. Polling places unchanged. Signed by Secretary Mrs. Frank King on Oct 25 and Nov 1 8 1966.
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