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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1950
Page
3
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Arkansas highway commission announces bids due Aud 25 for six federal aid projects totaling about 31.8 miles. Projects cover Cross County Hickory Ridge Tilton road, Drew County Dermo Colling road, Chicot County Highway 159, White County Highway 67, and Crittenden County sections on county road west of Clarksdale, with several FAP designations.
North Little Rock school system named C Leslie Nations principal of Park Hill with his son Charles joining as Fort Smith quarterback last fall. Nations is a former University of Arkansas player and ex Fayetteville Fort Smith coach. DROWNS IN POND Eddie Leathers Jr 13 of Ben Lomond drowned while swimming in a stock pond near Fall's Chapel community yesterday afternoon.
The review praises a whimsical musical film featuring Esther Williams in mirrored pool sequences and a baton routine with Van Johnson singing Choo Choo Choo to Idaho and You Cant Do Wrong Doin Right while Lena Horne’s nightclub number Baby Come Out of the Clouds dazzles. Eleanor Powell performs a swift tap routine as Clinton Sundberg plays a condescending valet and Mel Torme appears as a singing bellhop alongside Amanda Blake, Tommy Farrell, Sid Arno, Dick Simmons, and The Jubalaires in a Robert Z. Leonard direction noted as one of the year’s most delightful escapist treats.
James Marlow reports from Washington that President Truman signaled no revived OPA but warned that if inflation and shortages recur, price and wage controls or rationing may be needed. He suggested regular agencies could handle such emergencies, noting OPA's unpopularity and coordination challenges during WWII.
In a Kingsley hotel a dealer Pharol is found murdered after entrusting a sale to Dominico and a second salesman. Pat Pharol, Dominico, and Teresa Jordan are linked through a tense web of diamonds, bribes, and secrets as the detective narrator investigates how entry was gained and who will face the police.
The piece warns that dividing price and rationing powers among agencies could create overlap and confusion. It questions assigning wage controls to the labor department and notes Tobin's possible supremacy if a separate war labor board is formed, while contrasting wartime impartiality with a postwar czar. A child’s opera anecdote underscores confusion over authority.
Washington Aug 11 Senators Mundt and Ferguson joined forces with Senator McCarran to back a broad internal security bill aimed at tightening controls over foreign trained saboteurs and spies. Lucas indicated an administration bill would be introduced soon, while Brewster warned advisers favor rights over national danger. Mundt Ferguson and McCarran pledged full support, noting McCarran had largely absorbed their proposals.
Fifty Arkansas cadets of the civil air patrol will go to Tinker air force base in Oklahoma City Sunday for two weeks training. Cadets hail from Jonesboro Blytheville Fine Bluff and Little Rock with Col Marvin W Melton of Jonesboro commanding the Arkansas wing. The piece notes the first western irrigation project built by the U S Bureau of Reclamation was completed in 1906.
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