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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1951
Page
3
A Labor Relations Board order set a bargaining election at a Pine plant to determine representation by CIO United Gas Coke and Chemical Workers of America. The date and specifics were to be fixed. The text notes general labor needs and population figures.
A Sunday School piece by William Eb Gilroy discusses Paul’s injunction to rightly divide the word of truth and apply Christian principles to earning a living. It emphasizes that Christians should support one another, the strong aiding the weak, and that work is virtuous, while condemning exploitation. The author recalls Toronto bread lines and Brantford’s charitable clothing efforts to illustrate need and communal duty.
A fragmentary page shows a church solicitation line urging parishioners to attend and support the church. Included are scattered names of local businesses and institutions such as W. Shanhouse Sons, Citizens National Bank, Saenger & Rialto Theatres, and Gulf refining products, suggesting a community notice mixed with ads.
Church listings from Catholic, Hope Church of Christ, and First Methodist outline Mass times, sermons, Bible study, and youth activities. Hubert Roach evangelist series through August 15. First Methodist schedules include Sunday school, worship, MYF groups, and several circle picnics at Fair Park and church venues.
A pasted church column lists weekly worship times across First Baptist First Christian First Pentecostal and other congregations. It notes sermons by visiting pastors from Louisville, Ky and local ministers, Sunday schools at 9 45 and 10 50, youth services, choir rehearsals, and church events including a soup kitchen nearby and a Fair Park watermelon feast for the Laymen's League.
U S Rubber and CIO United Rubber Workers reach a contract covering 35 000 employees. Wage increase 13 cents an hour with part immediate, rest pending National Wage Stabilization Board. union shop and triple time on six holidays. Agreement must be ratified by union members. Plants across 19 locations including Chicago Detroit Philadelphia and Los Angeles.
Department store sales in the eighth federal reserve district for the week ending July 28 declined about one fourth from the same week in 1980. The St. Louis area fell 23 percent, Louisville and Memphis 25 percent, Little Rock 24 percent, with other cities down 20 percent. For four weeks to July 28, district sales were 18 percent below the year-ago period, while year to date cumulative sales were about two percent higher than 1950.
The column lists graduations and placements for James H. Lloyd from Mendham New Jersey with future district executive work in Poplar Bluff Missouri. It also notes visits by Helen Miller from Los Angeles Leola Yerger Johnson from Dallas and many others, plus church events including revival and Baptist church services at Garrety Chapel Rising Star BeeBee Memorial and Church of God in Christ, with schedules and pastors.
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