Our Daily Bread Sliced Thin by The Editor
A concise column by editor Alex H. Washburn offers commentary on daily bread issues and editorial perspective.
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1972
Page
6
A concise column by editor Alex H. Washburn offers commentary on daily bread issues and editorial perspective.
The Star announces a minimum daily page count of ten due to heavier advertising, with Saturday and Thursday issues expanding from six to eight pages and fourteen to sixteen pages respectively. News space shrinks as ads grow, while the four color press gains capacity and will run a so-called S wrap.
The Hoffa legal adviser says Henry Kissinger approved a plan for James Hoffa to travel to North Vietnam to seek the release of POWs. Taub said Kissinger was told July 5 in San Clemente that Hoffa was invited by the North Vietnamese trade union to Hanoi, but the trip should wait until after July 20. Rogers later revoked Hoffa’s passport validation citing procedural irregularities in the process.
In Little Rock AP dispatch, GOP candidate Len E. Blaylock accuses Gov. Dale Bumpers of shifting philosophies and secret cabinet meetings. Bumpers denies secrecy, offering to open his cabinet to reporters when the president does. Blaylock criticizes administration as shuffling funds and policies with little visible progress.
A large federal and local search with about 150 agents scours rugged hills near the Fountain Valley Golf Course in Christiansted St. Croix for five to seven gunmen who killed eight Americans in a golf resort holdup. Gov. Evans ordered flags at half staff and a $1,000 bounty issued for information leading to arrests. victims include four Miami tourists identified by an airline spokesman and three Fountain Valley employees.
Entries are open for the fair queen Little Miss Fair Queen and talent contests for Hempstead County with a Sept 25 event date. Applicants must be ages 16 to 21 and unmarried, with applications at Overturf's Shoe Store. Winners receive 100 75 and 50 dollars for first second and third.
Israeli air force planes struck at least seven bases and guerrilla headquarters in Syria and three in Lebanon amid retaliation signals after the Munich massacre. The raids reached near Damascus and into northern Lebanon, with reports of casualties at Nahar El Bared refugee camp near Tripoli.
An International Institute for Strategic Studies report notes Israel is numerically and financially weaker on paper than its Arab neighbors. Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria collectively outrun Israel in budgets and manpower, while Soviet advisers remain in the region and aid to Egypt, Syria, and Iraq persists.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports wholesale prices rose 0.6 percent in August, pushing the year from the start of Nixon’s wage price controls to a 4.4 percent gain. Farm products, some exempt from controls, drove the rise while industrial goods up 3 percent. Food and farm components largely steered the overall increase with fruits, grains, dairy, and meats varying month to month.
Superintendent James Jones reports 2,869 students enrolled as of Wednesday, up 25 from last spring’s 2,844. Grades 7-8 gained to 551, while grades 1-6 and high school totals show small declines. high school 885 and grades 1-6 total 1,433, with about 50 more expected to enroll in coming weeks.
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