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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1943
Page
4
Daisy Heard edits social and personal column with phone contact. Calendar items include a Brownsville Baptist church study for men, a women auxiliary meeting at the high school, and a baby/engagement notice. Attendees and hosts listed with names and local addresses.
A flurry of weekend visits includes Nell Louise Broyles from Anderson State Teachers College arriving with her family, Mrs Al Park visiting from Dorado, and Mrs Truman Trumphries with daughter Barbara June from Shreveport. George W. Robison travels from Quonset Point for a six day stay with Mrs Robison. Parker Rogers heads to Sik Reels to be at his brother Jack Rogers’ bedside in Trinity hospital. Olin Jones of Jerome, Arkansas, visits the city. Mrs Clyde Jendrickson and son Marshall David return from Poping Bros Mo after ten days with relatives. Nancy Robins of the University of Arkansas Fayetteville will spend Easter with her parents, the Lea Robins. Mrs Sim McGill and Mrs Ross Bales visit relatives in Paris Texas. Della Ine Marlur remains hospitalized for an appendectomy. Births: Paul Dickson and wife announce a daughter Donna Jeans Dickson born April 22 at Josephine hospital. Mr and Mrs O T Lloyd are parents of a daughter born April 23 at Julia Chester Hospital. Communiques: Juanita Clark of Prescott sworn into the WAC on April 21 in Little Rock. brother Corporal Cloyce C Clark serves in Alaska.
Hope's first Adult Vocational Education School offering shorthand and typewriting closed on April 24 1943. Housed in Hope High School, it operated under the State Department of Vocational Education with director Irma Dean and Wyble Whoberly. James H. Jones supervised as High School Superintendent. Attendance included men and women seeking business skills and workers returning to stenography after a refresher course, plus wives of service members.
The Associated Press reports Major League Baseball will resume using a revitalized official ball this season after concerns over a cement binding and wartime substitutes. The new ball, with adjusted cement and a pellet, is expected to match the 1942 ball in agility, with the second group of balls ready within two weeks and immediate use upon arrival by the leagues. The Phillies and Braves prepare for belated openers as spring play resumes.
Sports roundup by Hugh Fullerton Jr highlights Philadelphia area media chatter on Beau Jack versus Bol Montgomery, notes on Ernest Lombardi and Lynn C Doyle, Penn track nostalgia, and baseball and militaryBits including M P meaning in the Army, Pete Fox scoring once in a Red Sox opener, and Phil Rizzuto driving a Norfolk bus with a squad aboard.
Today a year ago Jack Black burn trainer for Joe Louis died of pneumonia and heart attack. Three years ago Joe Jacobs fight manager died of heart attack. Five years ago Chieng Spare ta Club defeated St. Marys Celtics of Brooklyn 3 2 for United States Soccer Title.
Yesterday's Stars Russ Christopher and Lyman Harris lead Athletics Cheetker in a 4-0 victory as six scattered hits power the game while a quip about human traits notes the thumb as a distinctively human feature.
In the jungle estancia Renaldo directs a busy operation boiling latex into hard blocks for shipment to Puerto Barrios while Barry and Allison discuss war aid and Renaldo’s rise from poverty. Barry contemplates a dangerous solo mission aided by Renaldo’s alliance as Allison teases his stubborn plans.
Atlanta April 24 The Birmingham Barons and Little Rock Travelers opened the Southern Association season with wins as warm weather and crowds failed to fully materialize. Buck Fausett's Travs rallied in the sixth to beat Memphis 10 4 while Birmingham topped the Pelicans 5 1 with Everett Livyely limiting New Orleans to five hits.
Washington reports American forces have occupied the Ellice Islands in the south Pacific after a Japanese bombing raid caused limited damage. Funafuti, the largest island, hosts palm cover and a lagoon village. occupation date not disclosed and deemed unopposed by naval spokesmen.
Yerger High School sponsors a Victory Farm Volunteer US Crop Corps mobilization day in Hempstead and nearby counties. The April 30 program features a Founders Day address by President Lawrence B. Davis, contests for Yerger and other high schools, a Rural Life Problem conference with speakers Floyd Brown and panelists, a health parade and athletic contests, a musical program, and the crowning of the May Queen in the high school auditorium.
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Louisville reporters say Derbytown braces for a wartime Kentucky Derby, with crowds estimated near 50,000 as soldiers and civilians flood the city. The town’s population has surged, but the famed event proceeds in working clothes amid shortages and wartime constraints.
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