The Negro Community The Negro Community Column
Ester Hicks writes a column titled The Negro Community. Contact numbers 777 4678 or 4474 are listed for reader engagement and community concerns.
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1970
Page
8
Ester Hicks writes a column titled The Negro Community. Contact numbers 777 4678 or 4474 are listed for reader engagement and community concerns.
Weather update covers 24 hours ending 7 am Tuesday with high 94 and low 66. Forecasts predict increasing cloudiness and showers across Arkansas with scattered storms north and south portions. Local club activities and meetings listed include Q E 5 near September 16, Anna P Strong Federated Club September 17, and Haynes Chapel Missionary Society program September 20, plus church notices and social notes. State police report an 85 year old woman died from injuries in a Boone County two car crash near Valley Springs.
Arkansas dispatch reports speculation that Date Bumpers of Charleston may back Atty. Gen. Joe Purcell for state Democratic chairman as party convention nears in Little Rock. Current chair Charles Matthews may step down, with Purcell unavailable for comment and Purcell’s ally Pinson noncommittal about the chair role.
Cairo accuses the United States of backing Israel and blocking Middle East peace efforts by countering Soviet arms to Egypt. Riad claims Washington broke a promise to withhold Phantom jets and other arms, while Meir and Nixon were to meet in Washington. U Thant urged U S and Soviet cooperation to end the conflict.
The First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Co. in Philadelphia cut its prime rate by half a point becoming the first large U S bank to implement a 7 42 per cent charge on loans to blue chip borrowers in 1970. The move, effective today, drew broad attention but no immediate follow I ng action from other banks.
U S District Judge Oren Harris in El Dorado denied the Watson Chapel School Districts motion to delay a ruling on its desegregation case. The district sought a delay pending Supreme Court guidance on a unitary school standard and busing for racial balance amid Civil Rights Act enforcement. The Justice Department suit names Watson Chapel among nine districts.
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