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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1950
Page
2
A cluttered timetable lists daily radio programs and times, including music blocks, mystery shows, news, and special broadcasts. Notable entries mention Mystery Bank, Gabriel Heatter, I Love a Mystery, and The Hidden Truth with various hosts, plus event and audience engagement segments across the day.
ICY listing of NBC CBS ABC schedules shows The One Man's Family and It Pays to Be Ignorant on NBC. CBS airs Gabriel Heatter and Robert Q. Lewis segments while ABC features Kate Smith and The Breakfast. Tigers game noted as game of the day.
Natchez defeats Hot Springs 5 1 to move into a third place tie with the Bathers as Roy Jayne limits the Bathers to four hits. Clarksdale bats explode for 19 safeties in a 14 10 win over El Dorado. Monroe shells Pine Bluff 10 3 in a big first inning. Greenville tops Greenwood in 11 innings 6 3. Tonight’s games Pine Bluff at Monroe El Dorado at Greenwood Greenville at Clarksdale Ho Springs at Natchez.
The Arkansas American Legion convention elected Cal Ray M. O Day professor of military science at the University of Arkansas as commander, a World War II veteran and Battha death march survivor, over Cay Cross and Madrid Lofton. The department also backed refiring Commander Lee Ward for national post. auxiliary leaders were chosen without opposition.
Johnny Dundee watched Sandy Saddler prepare for his third featherweight title bid against Willie Pep as he recalled his own camp. He described long hours training in a yard at West Grange, noting Saddler’s sharp form and his own past height advantage and fights with legends like Rose, Robinson, and Charles. Saddler, early in his career, sought willing opponents amid limited options, with manager Charley Johnston revealing the touring and brawling nature of their era.
The weekly crop bulletin notes weevil control difficulties due to poor weather and heavy rainfall affecting corn prospects in the state’s cultivation areas. Insects may be managed by Sept 1, but worm damage raises late yield concerns. anthracosis mentioned as a miner’s lung disease.
Editor notes this is the second of a series on the major Social Security changes voted by Congress. They cannot become law without presidential approval, which seems likely, so the changes are treated as if enacted. Readers are advised to save each installment for reference.
Washington explains how Social Security tax and taxable earnings will rise. Beginning Jan 1 1951 the taxable wage base increases from 3000 to 3600 dollars, with 1 1/2 percent each for employee and employer, totaling 3 percent. self-employed pay 2 1/4 percent. The schedule shows further rises through 1954 and beyond, with self-employed always paying 1 1/2 times the employee-employer rate. The article notes coverage expansion to 19000? million workers and outlines refunds for overpayment.
The Mineral Springs Flyers beat Hope Legionnaires 4 1 at Mineral Springs behind Bob White seven hit pitching. Hi Dorado withdrawal from the Nation Semi Pro Tournament shifted standings, moving Hope into fourth place. Tonight Hope Legionnaires meet Okay Cementers at Legion Field at 8:00 under uncertain starting pitcher conditions.
In Dover England Aug 23 four more swimmers started the English Channel crossing shortly after seven others completed a mass attempt. 18-year-old Philip Mickman began from near Dover for a second crossing, aiming after a 23 hour 48 minute France to England run. Francophone swimmer Fernand Du Moulin started from Cap Gris Nez toward Dover, planning a quick return after a 1 ½ minute rest. Georges Alfonsi and Joseph Van Waal also started from Cap Gris Nez. Yesterday Hassan Abd El Rehim won the race from Cap Gris Nez to Dover in record time, closing with a strong sprint to overtake Roger Le Morvan.
The article outlines varying tax rates for employees, employers, and self employed from 1980 to 1969 with scheduled increases. It notes congress recently decided to adjust the social security program and may postpone future tax rises, as it has done before.
The Brookhaven National Laboratory began operations on the first postwar atomic reactor at 1:20 am CST. The 90000-brick heart reactor sits in a boxed concrete shield and aims to produce heat for a village while advancing peacetime science and future atomic progress.
The Hempstead County Arkansas Chancery Court issues a warning order. Defendant Leola Faulks must appear within 30 days to answer the plaintiff’s complaint. Attorneys Clark John L. Wilson Jr and James T. West ad litem. August 2, 9, 16, 24.
The annual school election for 1950 in Hempstead County Arkansas takes place on Tuesday September 26. Polls open 8:00 AM close 6:30 PM at precincts including City Hall Fulton Blevins District 2B Colum bus Patmos Spring Hill Saratoga Washington Guernsey Nashville and Box Wolf s Store. Proclamation signed August 14 1950 by Sheriff Claud H Sutton and County School Supervisor E R Brown.
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