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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1951
Page
4
Our Daily Bread series by The Editor Alex H Washburn notes a summer hazard. The column discusses risks of heat and sun exposure and urges readers to take precautions during hot months. It emphasizes practical steps for personal safety and wellbeing.
A Star editorial recalls drownings at Narrows lake and a pond near Rocky Mound, urging caution around water. It praises Fair Park’s municipal pool to teach swimming, notes many interior Americans cannot swim, and warns that risk lurks on water just as on roads. Every reader is reminded of the danger.
Memphis high school rumors about a supposed non-virgins sex club prompt a Shelby County grand jury probe at the request of the Memphis Board of Education. Teacher Mrs. Maurine D. Hayslip cites student reports of a member rule requiring 13 boys, while school officials deny any club exists and a Sunday school superintendent calls the claim a joke.
Rain and fog limited action to small patrol clashes on the central front around Kumsong where UN forces repelled five Communist probing attacks. On the east central front Reds fired mortars at UN positions while light troop contact occurred near the Hwachon reservoir. An 8th Army communique noted light to moderate resistance to patrols and that Allied artillery dispersed platoon-sized Red forces on the western and central fronts. The UN had extended its hold east and northeast of the area as of closing.
Wheat positions for Sep Dec Mar show slight shifts with Sep around 2.38 and Dec near 2.40 while Corn trades in the 1.72 to 1.63 range across months Oats see Sep at 0.79 and Dec around 0.82 with March near 0.81 This brief market update from New York remains dated as of 2 p.m. with Catton H. noted as the source.
Washington August 6 7 a record 56062405890 peacetime military budget approved by the house appropriations committee is 1542608500 less than the president requested and excludes 4500000000 for public works and Korea funding to be handled in later measures Mahon longtime subcommittee chair denounces wasteful manpower and procurement practices the bill covers the defense department for the year ending next June 30 and emphasizes hardware purchases including tanks planes guns rockets and other supplies for a 3500 manpower force Continued on Page Two
Miss Kelly Marlar of Hope placed second in the 1951 watermelon festival at Atlanta Texas Saturday night as 2,000 people watched Miss Ann Chipman of Mt. Pleasant be crowned. The three day event drew 1,600 melons consumed with Miss Ann Salmon and Miss Kitty Field tying for talent. Second place went to Miss Jane Grizzard of Murfreesboro after her earlier third in the SWAHA contest.
John Suttle a 21 year old Fayetteville student who contracted polio in Mexico City is returning to Arkansas to continue geological studies. He spent 24 days at an American British hospital in Mexico City and is convalescing at St. Vincent's Infirmary in Little Rock. He plans to resume studies in Fayetteville in September after special exercises over the coming year.
Guardsmen of the Louisiana Arkansas National Guard begin a two week summer encampment at Camp Polk Louisiana. Units arrived yesterday and will ready for strenuous training including an air support demonstration with jet planes using explosive rounds rockets and strafing. Brigadier General Joseph Redding of Shreveport oversees the exercise in Maj. Gen. Raymond Fleming’s absence while he serves as acting chief of the National Guard Bureau in Washington.
Kansas City stockyards reopen after flood damage. A truckload of 21 shorthorns leads three thousand cattle and two thousand hogs expected today, with sales projected near one million dollars versus normal eight million. Yard silt two feet deep, dock reached by a long dirt road. Normal operations hoped by Sept 1. Waters hit four districts in Missouri and Kansas last month.
General Matthew Ridgway was expected to announce today that the armistice talks in Kaesong would resume, though the next meeting likely won’t be held until Wednesday as Vice Admiral Turner Joy meets with Ridgway in Tokyo. The front remains quiet with light patrols and B 29s hitting targets amid cloudy skies.
Rocky Mound Baptist Church invites all residents of Rope and nearby areas to register for vacation Bible school on Friday, August 10 at 2 40 p m. Sessions run for ages 4 through 18 with no registration fee. Closing exercises are open to the general public on Friday, August 11 per Pastor Clyde Leslie.
In Dallas on August 6 18-year-old John Michael Hawkins admitted shooting his father Walace FE Hawkins 56 within their fashionable residence after a dispute over curfew. He cannot be charged with murder and will face juvenile court proceedings. The youth graduated from Jesuit High and said he and his father disagreed about future plans. Hawkins held stock trading profits and his father served on Texas Mid-Continent Oil Association committees and received a distinguished service award in 1947.
Arkansas broadcasters gather in Hot Springs for the annual Arkansas broadcasters association meeting. Ninety members, sales staffs, and radio industry representatives attend the event, which features the first sales clinic and a business session. The group approved making the clinic a regular feature of future summer ABA meetings.
New York columnist Relman Morin reports the upstate mayor proposed a law barring reporters who fail an intelligence test from hiring. The piece mocks the plan and notes the absence of tests for editors or business staff, while suggesting politicians also deserve scrutiny tests.
A New York mother, Mrs. Philomene Kirkwood, was held in Cherbourg jail denying her ex husband George Kreisler's kidnapping charges. He alleges she planned to take their son to Australia occupied Germany to raise him as a Communist. She says she only planned a two month visit to her mother in West Berlin and notes she has full custody.
Two Negro women were wounded in separate fights reported Saturday. Ida Carter was slashed on the left arm and right hand by her husband Anderson Carter during an alteration in the A and P food store and treated by Dr. R C Lewis. The other incident occurred at the Black Diamond Café where Sam Wilmington wounded Trances ijenery with no knife.
T G Bland 20 drowned about 2 p m Sunday while swimming with three other Black men in a pond on the T O Bright farm near Shower Springs east of Hope Bland employed at the Checkered cafe in Hope swam with his brother Sidney Bland H Hall and Herman Burton. His body was recovered by Farms ury the Hope fire department and Sheriff Claud Sutton late Sunday. Dr Jim McKenzie said death due to water in the lungs making artificial respiration impossible.
A St Louis man, Kenneth Eugene Gibbons of 421 Mabart Street, found a 1.05 carat diamond on May 27 during his first visit and a 0.61 carat flawless white gem on August 4 during his fifth visit at the Diamond Preserve near Murfreesboro. He was questioned by a reporter at his Murfreesboro hotel, and his wife quoted General MacArthur, I shall return.
Clyde McWilliams 33 of Texarkana is presumed drowned after his boat capsized near Chimney Rock two miles north of the Narrows Dam during a Saturday boating outing. Rescue teams recovered no body by Monday afternoon as divers and equipment searched 140 feet deep near Murfreesboro. McWilliams left Magnolia for Texarkana and was employed by Denson Plumbing. he is survived by his wife, a son, and his parents.
Arkansas bound weekly death list reports 23 total fatalities including seven traffic deaths, five drownings, and a six year old child death. Notable cases include Nancy Pounds of Morriston injured in a three vehicle crash near Morrilton, and Columbus Thornton, a Negro prisoner, dying in Litt Le Roy jail amid high annual counts. Clyde McWilliams of Texarkana died in a Lake Narrows boating accident. Charles Davis of Newport found dead at home from suspected gunshot injuries.
The Hope Civile Traprovenent association urges further donations to raise 5000 for the new park improvement program. Public appeals have been made through churches, newspapers, and radio station KXAR. Donors are asked to mail contributions to Hope Stay ver Radio Station or call 1457-W to volunteer collectors. several have already given a second donation.
In Kentucky a tight GOP gubernatorial primary delayed a clear winner as lay preacher Magence Siler and Monde led in early returns with Wetherby and Vincent unsettled for the Democrat side. Ballots from 4,123 precincts counted. Siler led rural and Jefferson county outcomes shifted, while Wetherby pursued a four-year term and Vincent trailed.
The American Legion holds an election meeting in Hove Chamber on Tuesday, August 7. An additional note mentions a mop of the Legion, with party plans and details for the upcoming years.
A four year old wild boar with tusks four inches long was killed after hounds and a Quintira lite pursuit near Standiny on the BIN Stroud area north of Hope. Farmers on the former Southwestern Proving Ground report a running battle as wild boars ravaged cornfields. Rural mail carrier Johnson described 49 to 80 fierce hogs roaming woods and fields. four were penned, but the rest escaped. The Sunday hunt ended with the slaughter of the pack leader and a total of 22 killed.
Washington reports Fulbright declined to reopen the Boyle case. He signaled no new inquiry and urged the proper subcommittee to handle any future investigation. The matter, tied to a larger ethics review, prompted calls for accountability within the administration.
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