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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1942
Page
4
Myra Mack visits Ferdy Lorton as Nigel Monkhouse returns from overseas. The pair scheme a Laurentians weekend with Peggy Mack and other friends, while Myra resists past matchmaking and Michael Mack returns from service changed and grown.
The piece argues that freezing prices and wages to a base period halted inflation, contrasting the actions with Britain and Canada. It notes how households feel the impact as the real value of dollars falls, and cites the Dawinion decree limiting price and wage growth after December 1. The text compares the pre-war dollar to current value across the US, Canada, and Britain, and mentions January values and ongoing effects.
Friday calendar features Service Prayer Group at First Baptist, April 11. April 20 hosts Mission Study class at First Methodist, 2:30. April 21 Gardenia Garden Club hostesses at St. and Red Cross rooms open to enlist volunteers for production work aiding service members and civilians. County chairmen coordinate weekly groups. Desert Bridge at McMahon home highlights spring decor and prizes. Opal Cheek’s marriage to Fred E. Emory noted. Thursday Club meets at Olin Lewis with winners and a spring salad close.
Mrs. Leo Robing and daughter Sandra visit Miss Nancy Robins at Arkansas State Teachers College Conway on Thursday. William Duckett Jr. improving at Julia Chester hospital after appendicectomy. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Henry host weekend guests from Little Rock and Conway. Mrs. C C Spragins and Mrs. Hyatt depart for Dallas to hear Aida at Municipal auditorium. Mrs. J H Petcoe and Mrs. Peter Swhndek of Mansfield Ohio visit Mrs. Katherine Williams. Mrs. Kenneth West nee Janelle Vesey arrives in the United States from Pearl Harbor living with her mother Mrs. Robert Vesey in Tos Angeles. Julian Spillers and J W Franks return from Dallas after U S Army Aviation cadet exams and will report to Kelley Field Texas May 1. Mrs. H C Kyler attends district W S C S conference in Nashville.
Worried parents are advised on sugar rationing for children with tips from Mrs Alexander George World Food Editor. A survey suggests English children enjoy better general health after two years of sugar rationing. Reducing sugar means revamping menus and snacks.
Wartime rules halt new car purchases but dream of postwar autos persists. Sugars and fruits get tips for healthier diets. Auto designers study war tech, smaller engines under rear seats, air cooled and diesel options. Civilian Defense loses Youth Division. staff disperses. State barriers threaten small businesses in war production with heavy license costs. Ecuador's ambassador to Washington, West Point graduates, and other notes appear.
The article outlines supply routes from the United States to Africa and the Middle East. It contrasts fast air-transported cargo versus slow all water routes, detailing combined land sea and air paths via the Cape of Good Hope and Red Sea, with dangers from submarines and potential Axis control of Madagascar.
The piece notes that driver filings for guillability and property damage insurance are required while states waive carrier registration rules for pooled transport. It cites suspensions of federal anti trust limits under a DoJ and Office of Defense Transportation deal with Axis diplomats at Blue Ridge hotels, who are allowed one daily newspaper, yet may still steal papers abroad. Hotels apologize for Easter shopping disruption.
Two Hope youths are among Navy enlistments released from Little Rock Thursday. Names listed are Lawrence Joseph Cagle in Naval Reserve Construction Company and Robert Lynden-Brosius as Navy apprentice seaman.
Senator Lloyd Spencer will leave Hope aie Friday on his return trip to Washington after home business. Reconditioning and remodeling of existing dwellings in defense areas is urged as a means of utilizing all possible housing with expert technical service provided free by the Home Owners Loan Corporation. The program covers repairs on about 550 000 homes. Trincomalee Ceylon is a village yet harbors one of the six greatest natural harbors in the world.
Wiliam Drake, freshman of Pi, was elected by A. M. college students in Magnolia Arkansas to serve on the next year's council. Other freshmen elected include Wortham and Howard Bradié Magnolia Mary Evelyn Adams Cam den Virgie Patterson Camde and Helen Hale Prescott.
Washington reports a medium sized British merchantman torpedoed and sunk off the West Indies. Survivors were rescued and brought to port. The fragment notes the West Point opening on July 4, 1802 with ten cadets and cites military post history since 1778.
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