Blue jean president leads Klipsch growth to eight million
Bob Moers, once a plant worker, is now president of Klipsch and Associates, a Hope Arkansas speaker company that has grown from 60 000 annual sales in 1961 to about 7 940 000 yearly. He works from a room that looks like a living room above the Klipsch plant on Highway 32. The firm remains a speaker maker and is known for Klipschorn loudspeakers.
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Billy Burton
Thoreau
Bob Moers
Hope
Paul Klipsch
Moers
Klipsch
Paul
Klipsch and Associates
Oakhaven
Highway 32
Moer
Kilpsch and Associates
Hope group protests underpass rebuilding in Hope
Northside residents from Hope and nearby towns gathered at a town forum to oppose a $1.2 million plan to widen and stabilize the Missouri-Pacific underpass on Hervey Street. They fear the Hazel Street crossing is a bigger safety and traffic problem and threaten legal action if funds are spent. A November 8 meeting with the city board and highway department is planned, with protests to hire counsel.
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Missouri-Pacific Railroad
Hervey Street
Hope
Hervey
City Park
Hazel Street
Oakhaven
Blevins
DeAnn
Dean Murphy
Arthur Strech
Strech
Highway Department
City Board of Directors
Fair Park Coliseum
Northside
Murphy, Streeh
W.T. Keys
Roland Ballard
Hazel
Third Street
Hazel-29
Murphy
Charles “Buckey’ Sharpe
Wa “T
James Branyan
Southwest Arkansas Highway Commission
Hopewell
Mel Thrash
Coliseum
Skeleton Hoffa Case Draws State Dental Checks
Medical examiners in two states began comparing dental records to confirm if a thickly wooded, decomposed skeleton found near Honesdale Pennsylvania is Jimmy Hoffa. Coroner Robert Jennings said Hoffa’s son James Hoffa was excited by age height and hair color details reported by investigators.
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New York
Pennsylvania
Teamsters
Jimmy Hoffa
Hoffa
Honesdale
Robert Jennings
Wayne County
Hones
Dale
James P. Hoffa
Jennings
Driver Testing at SP Station in Hemipstead County
Starting November 3 driver testing for Hemip stead County will be conducted at the Arkansas State Police headquarters on Highway 29 North. Testing times are 9 am and 1 pm on Thursdays. Applicants must use the rear entrance and the south parking lot. Those under 18 require a parent with them and a birth certificate is required for all applicants.
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Hemipstead
Arkansas State Police
Clocks Set Back as Daylight Saving Ends This Weekend
Washington reports daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday except in Arizona, Hawaii, and parts of Indiana. Most will reset clocks Saturday night, gaining an hour of sleep but losing evening daylight. The phrase Spring forward fall back helps recall the change.
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Washington
Arizona
Hawaii
Indiana
Benjamin Franklin
Congress
Dutch businessman kidnapped in Amsterdam by Red Army Faction
Maurits Caransa, a 61 year old Dutch hotel and club owner, was seized outside Continental Club after a club visit. Witnesses say five men forced him into a car as a R A F claim was called in. Dutch police hold Knut Folkerts on murder charges after a 29 shotout at Utrecht.
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
West Germany
Red Army
Maurits Caransa
Continental Club
Caransa
Holland
Ensslin
Jan-Carl Raspe
Hans- Jochen Vogel
Het Parool
Knut Folkerts
Utrer
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Ark
Hope Group
SP Station
Times
Milan
Rome
Lisbon
Europe
Andreas Baader
Gudrun
Bois D’arc Lake Levy
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
Bois D’arc Lake
Hempstead County
Jack Wilcox
Arkadelphia
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