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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1976
Page
2
The Associated Press reports most of Arkansas enjoys clear and sunny weather as a large high pressure system pushes the prior rainfall out. A developing Colorado storm system is moving east and will bring additional clouds later.
News brief from Hope Star notes weather outlook for Wednesday with decreasing cloudiness and cool temperatures. It lists overnight lows across Arkansas regions and a station report showing a high of 59 and low of 38 with 63 inches of rain in two hours ending Tuesday dawn.
Dale Lynn Hunt 74 died Monday in a local hospital. He lived in Hope and Hempstead County and belonged to Garrett Memorial Baptist Church. Survived by two sons Richard Lynn Hunt Dallas and Travis Dale Hunt Tyler, two brothers Fred and Burl Hunt Hope, six grandchildren. Funeral 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Herndon chapel. Burial Memory Gardens. Herndon Funeral Home directed.
Los Angeles AP reports two more TV series canceled due to low ratings. ABC will end Bill Cosby's Sunday variety show with its final broadcast this Sunday. CBS will drop Spencer's Pilots its last regular Friday air on November 5. No replacement series chosen yet for either network. Also canceled are CBS’s Ball Four and Doc from its second season.
Horace Fuller announces Kiwanis in Hope will sell 18 ounce bags of Trick or Treat candy for 1.50 to raise funds for Kiwanis Youth Programs. The sale runs Tuesday October 26 as members visit Hope homes to collect support for Halloween and youth initiatives.
Chrysler Corp reports 76.2 million in July-September earnings, a 26-year high, with nine month profits totaling 303.4 million aided by 60 million in tax credits and 73 million from Britain. Ford says mid-October sales fell 30,000 due to a nationwide strike. UAW warns of possible strikes in Canada if no settlement by November 3.
Carter heads to South Carolina and Illinois on a final campaign swing from Plains Georgia. Ford argues Carter risks a Soviet alliance and oil embargo escalation while touting his Washington experience. Mondale and Dole campaign as polls show educated voters shifting toward Ford. Cuba noted as largest West Indies island at 44,217 square miles.
The Hope Optimist Club welcomed two new members at a noon meeting at Tradewinds. Revival services run October 26 to 31 at Bell's Chapel Church of the Nazarene with Rev Lawrence H. Jone as evangelist and nightly gospel music. A Democratic rally is set for the Nevada County Fair Grounds in Prescott from 6 to 7 pm. Spring Hill PTA hosts a Halloween Carnival October 2 at the School with coronation, ham drawing, auction by Verde Flowers and 13 booths. The Smith Brothers and other gospel singers perform October 30 at Macedonia Baptist Church in Columbus.
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