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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1949
Page
5
Social and Personal notices list meetings for the Gates Auxiliary VFW and the American Legion Auxiliary, dinner and bridge invitations, birthday party hosts, and an August 16 18 schedule. Reunions and church activities include Goodlett family gathering, Methodist school opening August 21, and W S C S study group meeting with speakers and refreshments.
Local society notes list dozens of visitors visiting families in Russton La and Waldo Ark. Among names are Mr. and Mrs. Jack Crank in Russton and Mrs. Floyd Crank, Marion Head of Minneapolis, and many others from Fort Worth Little Rock Camden Conway Texarkana and Shreveport. The note also mentions a two week vacation by Mary Low and Ruby Sue Cornelius to Virginia Maryland Tennessee Kentucky and Washington DC. A vacation trip for Herbert Stephens and wife to Tiavinna Cuba is also cited.
A county club meeting led by Mrs. Lu Byrd at 2 40 pm on a Sunday discussed visitor turnout and committee work. Members planned exhibits for a fair, arranged windows for a community house, and postponed a August meeting in favor of an August 19 program at the community house with refreshments served by hostesses.
U S Ambassador Alan G. Kirk met with Joseph Stalin for about 45 minutes in the Kremlin. The talks were described as courteous and pleasant with both leaders seated at a long table. Kirk called the visit a courtesy call and said it covered general subjects.
Lorraine Blackwood demonstrated making baskets and aluminum trays at the Green Lander home demonstration club meeting held Friday evening July 22 at the home of Mrs. Ernest Cobb with co hosts Mrs. Herbert Hartsfield and Mrs. Odell Luck. The meeting opened with the creed and song America. Devotional and roll call noted plans to exhibit at the Fair. Garden report given by Mrs. Bearden. Recreation period directed by Mrs. William Buller. prize to Mrs. Ernest Cobb. Refreshments served to 11 members and one visitor Miss Jimmie Sutton. August meeting set for Pines swimming pool August 26.
Dorothy Dix advocates husbands helping with chores to reduce divorces. She explains wives value gestures and shared tasks, urges vacations for housewives, and notes praise and budget help boost good housekeeping. Readers ask Dix about late curfews, makeup, and travel with the Magland royal party.
Gaynor Teare, a once wealthy Winder, faces pressure to marry Barry Bain divides a millionaire. She meets a non millionaire, while her sister Emily joins a Little Ynen tary movement. Melvin Mus hy directs a Great Play with tense backstage dynamics and comic missteps as the cast rehearses the final act.
Victorious conservative leaders in western Germany began plans for a coalition excluding the left as CDU led by Adenauer emerged with 139 seats while the Social Democrats held 131. US ambassador Kirk met Stalin in Moscow for a courtesy call. Greece reports border clashes as government forces push guerrillas north. Oil firms move from Canton amid nationalist concerns as China faces retreat of forces toward Nian-King.
Birth of Gomie Wishington in Pebriery 1782 predates calendar reform. his birthday now commonly falls on the 22nd after the calendar revision.
The Associated Press reports six people killed in a series of violent incidents near Arkansas. Four deaths occurred Monday in the Lavgudalphin region while six miles south of Arka Jdelpnta. Named victims include Mildred Ghulys Perry, 27, and Lee Sturdyvaul, a Little Rock railroad boss. A Jonesboro wife died Sunday from burns after her clothing caught fire.
A scrambled report recounts Lionel Barrymore at a luncheon for sister Ethel Barrymore, noting his muted response to birthday tributes from President and other dignitaries. The piece juxtaposes the public praise with his remark that his mother has passed and reflects on the Barrymore family’s public stature.
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