Social Calendar Highlights Set for Friday August 27
Misses Nannie and Marie Parkins host a buffet supper honoring Miss Edith Boyett at 7:30. Mrs A E Shisser hosts Pat Cleburn chapter UDC at 3. Mrs Frank Howson opens J D Barlow home at 304 South Pine 6 to 7 for Edith Boyett engagement. Thursday Evening Contract Club enjoyed pastel decor and a dessert course with prizes for Mr Lawrence Martin and Syd McMath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I Friay
Nannie
Marie Parkins
Edith Boyett
Frank Howson
J. D. Barlow
South Pine Street
Ofrank Howson, Jr
Lawrence Martin
Syd McMath
Kelly Bryant
Terrell Cornelius
Jett Black
Shreveport
P. D. Smith
Dallas
R. A. Boyett
Frank Howson, Jr
Social notes recount visits and travel across several states
Mrs. David Davis visits Oklahoma City with sister Miss Florence Weisiger. Jett Black of Shreveport stays with Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Hanegan on his way home from a weekend with Mrs. Black in Arkal delphia. Captain Richards now at Lone Star Ordnance Plant follows Proving Ground. Nancy Hill returns from University of Arkansas summer school for a brief home visit before fall term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Davis
Oklahoma City
Florence Weisiger
Jett Black
Shreveport
Hamilton Hanegan
Mr. Black
Arkadelphia
Mrs. Black
Roscoe Richards
Texarkana
Southwestern Proving Ground
Captain Richards
The
Proving Ground
Lone Star Ordnance Plant
Nancy Hill
University of Arkansas
Cooker Care Is Wartime Necessity
Miss Mary Claude Fletcher, Hempstead County home demonstration agent, urges careful upkeep of pressure cookers as a wartime necessity. She details cleaning for aluminum and enamel coated units, warns against scratches or rust, and recommends drying and protective fat coats for stored tins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Claude Fletcher
Hempstead
Merchant Held for Slaying of Farmer
E Patterson, a 320 acre Turrell area farmer, was shot outside Jim Tacker's Heafer store. Tacker, a Heafer merchant, is jailed on a murder charge after four eyewitnesses said he fired as Patterson tried to enter the shop. Sheriff Goodwin reported Tacker refused to comment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Arkansas
Heafer
Ark
Crittenden County
Cecil V. Goodwin
E. Patterson
Turrell
Jim Tacker
Tacker
Patterson
Goodwin
Death Writes the Last Edition. Chapter XI Octave
Dave Elson returns to Elm Street to seek support for buying the Express after Myra Rose announces her plan to sell. Aunt Sarah Harrington reacts with quiet emotion and hints that Joe Parker would approve of the move.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat
Dave
Myra Rose
Elm Street
Joe Parker
Mrs. Harrington
Sarah
Dave Elson
Davey
the Express
Public Enemy Arrives as Tense Evening Unfolds
In Blair family circles tension rises when a police escort arrives and George Rand seeks Sam Blair. Pat grows uneasy as Mary and Dave watch Sam Blair closely, hinting at hidden danger linked to Parker's study and the Express purchase. (To be continued)
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blair
Mr. Blair
Dave
Pat
Mary Evans
Mary
Mrs. Evans
Sam Blair
the Express
George Rand
Parker
Churches News and Revival at Hope Tabernacle
Local church listings feature Rev F T Dollarton with Mass Sunday worship at Our Lady of Good Hope and schedule details for First Baptist First Methodist Garrett Memorial Unity and Hope Gospel Tabernacle. Evangelist Ward preaches Sunday night with revival on Oglesby School yard drawing large crowds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Our Lady OF Good Hope Catholic Church
F. T. Dollarton
First Baptist Church
Third
Main Streets
W. R. Hamilton
God
Training Union
General Assembly
First Methodist Church
Pine
Robert B. Moore
Unity Baptist Church
J. T. Gilmore
House of the Lord
Hope Gospel Tabernacle North Main
Avenue
Paul R. Gaston
Guy E. Basye
Hell
Wm. A. Ward
the Tabernacle
Oglesby School
Rephan's Manager Returns From Buying Trip
Rephan's department store manager returns home after a 10 day buying trip to St. Louis with a side trip to Nashville Tennessee. He and Ed S Rephan toured the Jarmen shoe factory led by the General Shoe corporation vice president. The factory employs 7000 people and makes 48000 pairs of shoes daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar Greenberg
Rephan
St. Louis
Nashville
Tenn
Ed S. Rephan
Jarmen Shoe Factory
General Shoe Corporation
Fire Chief Warns Public on Dangers of Grass Fires
Fire Chief James Embree cautions residents to take extreme care when burning trash as a single spark can ignite grass and spread quickly. He notes several cases of extensive damage and cites a recent blaze that destroyed a Pine Bluff Casket Co. facility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope
James Embree
Pine Bluff
Soldier Solves Gas Mask Leak Problem
Sgt. Carmelo Papperlardo of Lawrence Massachusetts at Drew Field, Tampa, hears World War I veterans describe gas mask leaks and decides to take action to fix the issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tampa
Fla
Carmelo Papperlardo
Lawrence
Mass
Drew Field
Mrs Roosevelt Arrives in New Zealand on Longest Journey Yet
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt lands in Auckland New Zealand completing the longest trip of her White House years since 1933. She is greeted by Governor General Sir Cyril Newall and officials and plans visits to American hospital and Red Cross centers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auckland
N. Z
Franklin D. Roosevelt
White House
Roosevelt
United States
Great Britain
King George
Queen Elizabeth
Buckingham Palace
Oil and Gas Deeds Filed in LaFayette County Arkansas
Royalty and mineral deeds recorded in August 1943 involve Charley McClendon and wife to Susie L. Wadley for 1/32nd of 20 royalty acres, R. E. Stevens and wife to Walter Keith for 1/48th of 10 royalty acres, and J. B. Moore and wife to H. G. Ford for 1/8th of 8th interest all in sections 34 11 and 6 of two townships in LaFayette County Arkansas with preparation by Mrs Eunice Tritt Lett of Lewisville Arkansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LaFayette County
Ark
Eunice Triplett
Lewisville
Charley McClendon
Susie L. Wadley
R. E. Stevens
Walter Keith
J. B. Moore
H.G. Ford
Soldier's compact repair kit aids individual gas defense
A proposed compact repair kit conceived by Sgt Papperlardo is designed for individual soldiers. It includes several adhesive patches for quick field repairs under gas attack. The kit was sent to Army Air Force headquarters in Washington for approval, as existing chemical warfare service repair kits are platoon issued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army Air Force
Washington
Papperlardo
Chemical Warfare Service
Italians Flock to Rome Despite Open City Order
Madrid reports a surge of provincial Italians moving into Rome aided by an open city declaration. About 500000 more people crowd parks and plazas seeking shelter or political aims, raising fears of peace demonstrations against Badoglio. Some Romans also fled to Ostia showing concern over Allied landing plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles S. Foltz
Madrid
Pietro Badoglio
Rome
Italy
Sicily
Esape
Badoglio
Mussolini
Germany
Ostia
Bomber Sinks Five Jap Ships in Burma Raid
A lone American B-25 Mitchell bomber destroyed five vessels on the Irrawaddy in ten minutes during a raid over Burma. Pilot Thomas J. Smith Jr of Magazine Arkansas and co pilot R D Moore of Findlay Ohio reported hits on three river steamers and two large barges plus a probable sunk fourth steamer. The aircraft was damaged by Japanese fire eight times with a wing hole the size of a baseball on return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. 10Th Aaf
India
Irrawaddy
Burma
Thomas J. Smith, Jr
Magazine
Ark
R.D. Moore
Findlay, O
Two Arkansans Earn Bravery Medals in War Rescue
Allied Officers and enlisted men of Fifth Air Force awarded the Soldier Medal for heroism at a crash site in Australia last December. Cpl. Robert Hill of Prairie Grove Ark PFC John J Cazaux Festus Mo and Paschal C Lusby Junction City Ark were cited for entering the burning bomber wreckage amid exploding ammunition to reach and aid injured crew members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwest Pacific
Nin
Fifth Air Force
Cpl
Robert Hill
Prairie Grove
Ark
John J. Cazaux
Festus
Paschal C. Lusby
Junction City
Australia
Lost Travelers Misread A Cemetery Gravestone Joke
Two travelers in Ireland return home late and misread a gravestone they cannot identify. One quips about a name read as Miles from Dublin while the other notes the deceased appeared to have lived to a ripe old age of 175.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
Dublin
Death of Kearney Couch heir to Arkansas Power founder
Six year old Kearney Couch grandson of late Harvey C. Couch died this afternoon of leukemia at his parents home in Little Rock. He is survived by his parents two brothers and a sister. his father is a prominent local banker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kearney Couch
Harvey C. Couch
The
Arkansas Power and Light Co
Harvey Couch
Little Rock
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A. E. Shisser
Pat Cleburn
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Hamilton Hanegans
NEW Saenger
Joan Davis
Jinx Falkenburg An
the Three
Tom Tyler
Bob Steele
Jimmie Dodd
Roy Allison
Mrs
R. M. Burton
G. E. Cannon
Rochester, Minn
Mayo Clinic
Herbert Voss
Margaret Ann
Belton, Texas
F. E. Bentley
Zwolle, la
Millard W. Baggett
Mr. Baggett
C. D. Lauterbach
Leo Perdue
Logan
Walter E. Lock
Houston
City
Doyle Reaves
Carlton King
Homer
Mrs Macsuley
Lata Ec Una
Saroyan
Frank Morgan
James Craig
Vmarsha Hunt
Fay Bainter
van Johnson
Donna Reed
Jackie Jenkins
Willie Grogan
Marcus
Ulysses
Rialto
Paramount News
Fopardel
Dennis O'Keefe
Kan Groves - Mareo
Cpl. King
Vhulling
Llu Saroyan
PT Ta
Jimmy Lydon
Henry Aldrich
With John King
David Sharpe
Max Terhune
Death
Clem
Jerry
Sarah Harrington
Champ
Elinor
Rod Thomas
Rod
Patricia
Sam
By Adeline McElfresh
News of the Churches
Evangelist Ward
Church OF Christ
Fifth
Grady Streets
Fred H. Williamson
KCMC
Garrett Memorial Baptist Church
D. O. Silvey
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Oriana Ament Boyett
South Main St
Mrs. Roosevelt
New Zealand
Oil and
Ward & Son
Arkansans
National Bureau of Standards
Hope Star
Aldershot
England
Phyllis Ellen Fry
Olie
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