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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1956
Page
2
An unclear excerpt discusses social behavior around smoking, noting hostesses and polite men. The text hints at cigarettes and a discreet action of extinguishing a cigarette and slipping it away, but it remains fragmentary and lacks coherent facts.
A humorous monologue laments cigarette smoke and habit. The speaker claims expertise on tobacco effects and mocks social shaming of cigar lovers. He jokes about airline restrictions and childhood thumb sucking as substitutes for adult satisfaction.
Hollywood reports the death of Edward Arnold at age 66 after a cerebral hemorrhage. The longtime actor and radio television figure died at 2:30 am in his home in the San Fernando Valley. He leaves a son-in-law Dr William Orlando and previously lived in New York. Arnold had a storied stage and screen career, including Broadway and stock theatre, with marriages to Harriet Marshall and Oliver Emerson and four marriages total. he leaves children Elizabeth William and Dorothy Jane.
A mixed local item list describes a guest speaker at BeBee Memorial Church Mrs Albert Graves guest speaker at a BeeBee Memorial C M I church event A pep rally at the Hicks home and a Bible Institute at Common Hill Baptist Church plus notices of Hooded events and school drama thanks to supporters The text includes a wartime memorial poppy sale note and several church community items with names and places across a small town notice page.
In Minneapolis Methodist bishops debate practical steps to eradicate racial discrimination within the church. They consider forming a special commission to study the issue and report back at the 1960 conference while preserving United Church unity.
Senate investigators subpoenaed Murray Chotiner, Nixon's campaign adviser, to testify about a $5,000 legal fee paid by Herman Kravitz, a blacklisted uniform maker. The hearing in Los Angeles sought details on possible Justice Department influence in 1953 Kravitz misappropriation charges and conviction.
Hope Municipal Court serves the area and DeRoan Township currently has seven justices of the peace. Other townships could gain more seats if checked. Emphasis on assessments and taxation in recent years has boosted the quorum's importance and a capable panel is needed.
A 35-year-old Atlanta clothing firm executive paid $5,000 to hire Chotiner to inspect potential Los Angeles area plants for relocation from New Jersey. Kravitz invoked the Fifth Amendment when asked why he kept Chotiner amid seven other attorneys in the hast.
A car crashed into a bridge abutment between Heber Springs and Quilipa yesterday, killing two youths identified as Paul Caldwell, 20, of Higden, Ark., and Lucille Cooper, 14, a Heber Springs High School junior. Sheriff Roy Carden cautioned interest in serving on the court and urged more citizens to consider public service.
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