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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1940
Page
4
A local citizen warns that shrubbery planted to street intersections blocks drivers’ view and risks accidents. The writer suggests tiered planting with tall shrubs near the house and smaller plants toward the street, noting arbor vitae as a solution and joking that a motorist who cannot see over a spreader may be drunk.
A six county Boy Scout rally in Hope featured a parade from the business district to the University of Arkansas Experiment Station ending with a watermelon feast. Scouts from Stamps, Lewisville, DeQueen, Ashdown, Prescott, Washington, Nashville and Hope competed in dress and undress, fire by Friction, first aid, tying and other events, with Troop 66 from Hope and Troop 69 from Louisville earning top honors.
The Chamber of Commerce ships a 106 pound melon for display at the National Letter Carriers Association meeting in St. Louis next week. Mr. Petty will exhibit the melon at the Jefferson Hotel where the conference is headquartered. More than six thousand carriers from every congressional district are expected to attend. Seven cities impose municipal cigarette taxes.
The House approved the National Guard mobilization bill 342 to 33, rejecting an effort to confine militiamen and reserve officers to the continental United States. The measure moves to the Senate as debate continues on the peace-time draft. It would exempt dependents but require other militiamen and reserves to serve a year anywhere in the Western Hemisphere, American possessions, or the Philippine Islands.
J Lester Booker of Hempstead notes Otis Page will likely win the State Land Commissioner race in the Arkansas primary. He writes from Prescott on August 15, 1940 praising Page and pledging full support for Page’s term. The letter was addressed to Otis Page in Little Rock.
Ranger De Lyle Stevens reports about 800 bears at large in Yellowstone National Park during the summer of 1940. Tourists from Minnesota said a bow was loose as dust swirled. Stevens notes grizzlies present and warns driving through the park risks encounters with numerous bears.
In a multi-part NEA Service piece, Bruce Catton outlines the Huey Long era's collapse from the rise of editor Brizzzled Jim Crown to the University of Louisiana scandal. The narrative links Crown's investigations, the McLachlan house VIP, and Dr. James Monroe Smith's half million shortfall, culminating as State Senator Jimmy Noe moves.
Elwood Indiana readies for Wendell Willkie visit on August 17 with 200000 expected guests. A 50 volunteer HQ directs plans including police borrowed from multiple cities, 100 ushers, parking on 180 acres of farmland, a 60 acre Callaway Park venue, 30,000 folding chairs, a six court food tent, 100 concession stands, 60 refrigerated trucks, and handling 70 special trains on single tracks.
C D Dickinson 45, longtime Ritchie Grocer employee since 1920, collapsed and died while writing an order in the White & Co store at Fulton about 9 am Friday. Fulton doctor could not determine cause. Survived by wife, two daughters Mary Jo and Mrs Aubrey Green of Hope, three brothers Will of California J P and J L Prescott, three sisters Mrs Jim Arnold Prescott Mrs Bird Culp and Mrs Dick Bennett Gordon. Funeral at Herndon-Cornelius at 3:30 pm Sunday with Rose Hill Cemetery burial.
Deputy Sheriff Tom Middlebrooks said Kelly Mayton, one of three men arrested in a liquor raid eight miles south of Springhill August 9, was exonerated in a federal hearing in Texarkana on Thursday. Fred Aaron and Carl Curtis were bound for action before a federal grand jury in Fort Smith in September on charges of possessing a still and making illegal liquor. A 50-gallon still and six barrels of mash were seized in the raid.
Five Bible questions test knowledge about characters and lineage. Questions cover a short book figure from Uzi land Esther’s predecessor queen Isiah’s father Noah’s three sons and a famous quote about Absalom attributed to a station voice. Answers on Page Two.
The Hempstead County central committee canvassed Tuesday's preferential primary returns at Hope city hall and expects official tabulation to be published Saturday. The Associated Press said a new tabulation would be prepared for the Seventh district by the AP based on official canvass after Wade Kitchens questioned the unofficial Harris lead. Kitchens alleged irregularities in absentee ballots in Union County, which the county clerk denied.
R E Jackson director of Hope High School, Blaine Ellington manager of the Arkansas Employment Service, and R P Bowen secretary of the Chamber of Commerce spent Thursday in Little Rock. They pursued a national defense training program for Hempstead County and studied securing an appropriation for a vocational guidance coordinator for Hope Public Schools. The defense training program would be run by Hope High School under R B Jackson. The committee held a satisfactory conference with Fred A Smith, state director for vocational education in Arkansas.
In Tulsa a boy aiming to earn extra money took on a lawn mowing task from a man who gave him an address. He started after noon, returned next morning to finish, only to be told by the woman that the job was not authorized and that fifty cents would be charged for storing the tools in her garage overnight.
The Hope Basket company received a United States flag Thursday for a perfect safety record in May, June and July. The plant logged 73 138 men hours without an accident as Blaine Ellington presented the flag to Ted Hendrix in front of the workers. The Hoe Industrial Safety Council, formed six months ago, helped cut accidents with only nine minor incidents in the last three months across six plants.
The Hempstead County Fair Association and Martha Jean Robinson direct a September 10 11 12 staging of America on Parade produced by John B Rogers Production Co of Fostoria Ohio. A 300 local cast will portray the founding of America with rehearsals at city hall auditorium Mondays at 7 30 pm. The fair group invites local residents to join at the first planning meeting Monday night.
Cotton for December opened at 9.25 and closed at 9.38, with Middling spot price reported at 9.92. The session showed modest gains as market activity shifted into near-month contracts.
A dramatic Associated Press dispatch reports a vast German air assault on London, with 2500 planes described as raining bombs on outlying suburbs and clashing with British fighters. The Berlin agency notes widespread fires, smoke, and heavy bombardment across the capital from Scotland to Cornwall, amid claims of massive aerial battles over London and the southeast coast.
A. W. Stubbeman of Hope sent a 130 pound watermelon to Polk County friend Boyd B. Laflin in Mena. Laflin shipped the melon to Elwood Indiana for Wendell Willkie at his formal acceptance of the Republican presidential nomination in Philadelphia.
The Men's Fellowship of the Hope Gospel Tabernacle will meet at Fair Park Friday night. Rev J E Hamill will preach Jesus The Fisher of Men. A watermelon cutting precedes the service at 7 30 PM with the Tabernacle Men singers to follow. All men of the congregation urged to attend.
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