Hope parking meters spark city debate and memory
The column recalls wartime humor and local politics, noting Hope's new parking meter system starting Monday. It urges revenue use for streets and strict enforcement, and comments on European unity views as reported from London. The piece also nods to a Wilkes-Barre courthouse graft incident and a father’s trial memory.
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America
London
Wall Street Journal
England
Europe
Warren H. Phillips
Imaginary El Dorado and the Inexhaustible Treasure Tale
A fictional South American country named Imaginary El Dorado is described as a land of vast wealth in gold and precious stones. The tale explains the origin of the term Inexhaustible treasure and its popular usage.
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el Dorado
South America
Substitution of Compressed Air in Ancient Glass Making
A fragment notes an early industrial modification in glass making using compressed air instead of lung power. The excerpt highlights the glass blower as an early innovator altering traditional technique and apparatus for shaping molten glass.
Gigantic Growth Oyster Story Narrates Ancient Lineage
A legendary oyster grows to immense size enduring generations, its shell remnants forming a vast heap described as many times larger than the earth, illustrating a mythic scale of life and time.
Meters for Car Parking Begin Monday in Hope
City police announced parking meters will operate in downtown Hope starting Monday December 4 in yellow lanes. Meters accept pennies or nickels with 12 minutes per penny and up to two hours for two nickels. Special meters near banks and post office take 12 minutes per penny only. Hours are 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, with free parking at night and Sundays. Violations can be voided by showing the ticket and depositing a nickel at police HQ within an hour.
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Hope
Hope Ives
City of
Path Clear for Profits Tax Increase
Washington reports clear path for near certain House approval of a 3.4 billion excess profits tax bill, with President Truman seeking four billion from this source. House Ways and Means and Rules committees approved. debate to start Monday, vote slated Tuesday, as Senate finance committee begins hearings. Prospects depend on faster finance drafting and defense needs. Senate may consider a larger tax return, while utilities and growth firms may blunt the yield.
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Washington
House
Truman
Ways and Means Committee
Rules Committee
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Finance Committee
Millikin R-Cole
White House
George D-Gay
Oil dealers rapped by governor in Arkansas
Governor McMath accused oil dealers of keeping gasoline taxes high and opposing highway construction funding. Oil Dealers Association denied the claim, saying they were surprised by the governor’s statements during a news conference on the state’s financial crisis.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
McMath
Oil Dealers Association of Arkansas
Congress Sets to Pump More Into Defense
Congress ready to add about 17.85 million dollars to national defense as the Truman administration pushes for a bigger budget. The House appropriations committee opened hearings amid warnings of higher taxes, with total defense funds approaching 42 billion for the year ending next June 30. The plan mostly funds the Army Navy Air Force and Marine Corps, with 1.05 billion for the atomic energy commission. Secretario Marshall and General Bradley testified, while committees map a timetable possibly by December 21.
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Washington
Det
Congress
Truman
Soviet Union
House Appropriations Committee
House
Army
Navy
Air Force
Marine Corps
Atomic Energy Commission
Senate Appropriations Committee
House Committee
Defense Marshall
Omar N. Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Mahon B-Tex
Cub Pack 90 Plans First Winter Meeting Tuesday
Cub Scout Pack 90 will hold its first winter pack meeting Tuesday December 3 at 7 30 p m at First Baptist Church. Dens led by Den Mathers Mrs James H Jones Mrs Olvar Adams Mrs Louis Fe Crain and Mrs Frank Douglas have met regularly. Den mothers will receive training certificates from Paul Griek Council Sout Executive. Twenty eight boys will earn 32 advancement awards. Parents expected and invited to attend.
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First Baptist Church
Hendrix Spraggins
Dens
den Mathers
James H. Jones
Olvar Adams
Louis Fe, Crain
Frank Douglas
Dape
Paul Griek
Council Sout
Cub Stouting
Athuid
Acheson and Austin Meet on Korean Situation in Talks
Secretary of State Acheson contacted Warren Austin from Lake Success for a conference on Korea. An army dispatch said General J Lawton Collins heads to the Far East to confer with General Douglas MacArthur, with Maj. Gen. Charles P Cabell and a Navy liaison. The talks at Lake Success continue as the United States coordinates with U N members to confront the Communist threat in Korea.
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Acheson
Warren Austin
U. S
United Nations
Lake Success
Army
J. Lawton Coblins
Far East
Douglas MacArthur
State Department
Askes
Austin
U.N
Korea
Air Force
Navy
Collins
Army Department
MacArthur
Tokyo
Pentagon
Pyongyang
Highth
Songchon
Changjin
Hagaru Hakalwoo
U. N
Farmers to Vaccinate for Bangs Disease in 1940s Arkansas
About 127 Hempstead County farmers request replacement heifers to be vaccinated for Bangs disease as the county agent Oliver L Adams coordinates a cattle vaccination drive starting Monday. Joe Hamilton of the Bureau of Animal Industry and the State Veterinarian will visit farms. owners will receive mail notices with visit times. The program, begun in August 1940, has vaccinated 1338 calves on 257 farms. Vaccination starts at Roy Fry ranch west of Hope with 58 heifers, then Paul Cornelius Hereford herd at Fulton, then Nathan Hendrix near Fulton, then Inc J Wilson north of Columbus, Horace Dillard, and Clow area with Ira Harris coordinating(implied).
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Hempstead
Oliver l L. Adams
Joe Hamilton
Bureau of Animal Industry
Hamilton
Roy Fry Ranch
Hope
Paul Cornelius
Fulton
Nathan Hendrix
Red River
Inc
J. Wilson
Columbus
Horace Dillard
Clow
Cooperatin
Ira Harris
Clow Training School
The Confusion of a General Retreat Brings Trouble for War Correspondents
War reporters in northwest Korea chase front lines as UN troops withdraw. Posts shift overnight, roadblocks spring up, and messengers must improvise under dust, wind, and cold. Correspondents recall being misled about front locations, with towns already fallen and lines moved.
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Don Huth
Hal Boyle
U. S .Eighth Army
Korea
United Nations
Associated Press
Tom Lambert
U.S. Second Division
CP Pefnre
Threats Rise as MacArthur Faces Korea Crisis
Washington dispatch reports Gen. Douglas MacArthur's position in Korea remains perilous with Chinese forces pressing toward Pyongyang and a potential shift in bombing policy tied to U.N. strategy. President Truman seeks new manpower and supplies as talks with Britain unfold.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Manchuria
Truman
Attlee
Great Britain
Congress
Korea
Wuld
U. S
Europe
Asia
Talent Night Features Original Play at Hope High School
Hope High School PTA presents a talent program Friday at 7 30 p m featuring the original play Whe Loves of Rosita by Sydney McMath Jr with Ann Houston as Rosita and Nolen Stanford as Jose Hidalgo James Russell as Rosita's husband and Jo Anne Shields as Dolores Other club members appear in back ground English introduction by Nancy Hays stage manager Marilyn Shiver assistant director Nannette Williams music by Roberta Howard and Bobby Bishop Mrs Hyatt accompanies Ted Jones glee clubs and solos perform Parents and teachers join in skits acts a 20 minute tricks segment by T C Thornton proceeds support PTA school projects Admission 50 and 2 cents.
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Rosita
Sydney McMath Jr
Hope High School
W. A. Williams
Ann Houston
Nolen Stanford
Jose, Hidalgo
James Russell
Dolores
Jo Anne Shields
Carlos
Richard Duffle
Nancy Hays
Marilyn Shiver
Nannette Williams
Roberta Howard
Bobby Bishop
T. C. Thornton
Ted Jones
B. Co. Hyatt
PTA
Tom McLarty Improves at Memphis Clinic
Friends of Tom McLarty, undergoing knee injury treatment at Campbell's Clinic in Memphis, are pleased by his steady recovery. A separate note mentions a near miss involving Charles and a plane incident at Peoria, Illinois, in 1936.
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Tom McLarty
Memphis Clinic
Campbell's Clinic
Memphis
Will Bel
Charles Prea
Peoria
Crisis era tensions loom over tomorrow's politics
A fragmentary note references crisis and Communist themes ahead of an upcoming tomorrow. Details are unclear, but the excerpt hints at political tension and ideological competition in a historical context.
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