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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1938
Page
2
The Friday Music club directed by Mrs. J. C. Carlton performed The Messiah with organist Mrs. B. C. Hyatt and reader Rev. Kenneth L. Spore at First Methodist. Audience rose for the Allelujah Chorus as the city’s music lovers gathered.
The Hope Bobcats will start the basketball season Monday night at home against Prescott at 7 30 in the Hope High School gym. Admission is 10 and 25 cents. Prescott has played two games, losing to Laneburg and defeating Gordon. Probable Hope lineup includes forwards Green and Purtle, guards Baker and Eason, center Jones.
The Schoolmasters club of Hempstead county will meet at 7 40 oclock Monday night at Capital hotel. All members are urged to attend. School directors and other friends of education are welcome to attend.
Arkansas Farm Bureau officials report that the rural electrification program will bring power to 33 of 75 counties across more than 7,000 miles of lines. Officials praised REA cooperation and noted projected lines totaling 5,000 to 6,000 miles at roughly 36 million dollars, with strong state collaboration and praise from REA directors.
Washington reports show cotton farming backed marketing quotas by a two thirds margin while rice and tobacco producers rejected marketing controls. Secretary Wallace hailed the cotton victory as solid proof of the New Deal farm program, with tobacco and rice voting against imposed limits.
Gray Al bright of the state police said an indefinite extension of the deadline for testing of motor vehicles will be granted. He estimated about 100,000 of the 225,000 vehicles in the state had been tested and noted there would be a final extension after a forthcoming review.
The region rich with phosphate, iron, zinc, and marble along the Medjerda flows and the Sahet coast highlights Tunisias extensive production. France, Britain, and Italy seek concessions and railway links while labor tensions rise as Italian and Arab workers compete. The 1881 protectorate accelerates development with Italy and France negotiating schooling and nationality, and regional powers eye Libya and Ethiopia for expansion.
Royce Weisenberger and Mrs. Kline Snyder present final Red Cross drive report showing $1 072 49 raised in 1958 versus $963 90 in 1957. They thank all contributors and list numerous supporters including George R Wolff W H Bryant Bingen School Bob McClure Mrs Frank R Johnson and others.
D. C. Wingfield, a Hope negro, was charged with murder after Sterling Maxwell, another local black man, died from head injuries sustained when attacked December 2 with a hammer in the southern town area. Wingfield arraigned before Municipal Judge Lomsey and held for Hempstead circuit court without bond. other local court notes include several guilty pleas and fines for drunkenness, a bigamy acquittal, and a civil action in replevin.
Seventy five years of progress of Negroes of America celebrated with a program Tuesday night at Yorger school building. The event features a 100 voice choir and is under auspices of the Negro PTA. Faculty, clergy, and local leaders from Helena and Gordon High School will perform and speak, with mayor Albert Graves among principal speakers and Myrtle Yerger introducing the program.
Washington dispatch reports that the U S Supreme Court ruled the University of Missouri Law School must admit Lloyd L Gaines, a Black student from St Louis, contending his earlier rejection violated the equal protection clause of the federal constitution. The ruling compels enrollment in the law school.
During a holiday many delegates traveled along the new highway to Huara to honor the liberator San Martin who proclaimed Peruvian independence from a small house. The drive highlighted plans for a Pan American highway intended to connect North and South America along a 10,000 mile route.
In a stylish resort scene Sally uses charm to nudge Corey toward balance with Dan Reynolds. Corey presses for a ski lesson at six, while Sally eyes the Olympics and Dan keeps his distance, plotting a plan amid flirtation and tension.
A fragmentary report discusses tax disputes across states, noting the Pennsylvania and New Jersey cases, a shift in taxpayer-State relations since 1940, and references to Colonel Edward H R Green’s estate and reciprocal tax laws in states like California. Dean Goodrich comments on evolving inter-state tax enforcement and the need to heed this legal shift.
State of Arkansas Hempstead County certify that the attached list of district residents and property assessments was filed December 1, 1948, with details listing Brown Buddie and many others across Centerville Chestnut Hill Nazarine and other districts, including assessments and names of heirs and landholders, recorded by Ray E. McDowell, Clerk of the County Court.
John T. Flynn questions whether electricity is a mature force or merely an infant, noting it is only beginning to show potential. Dr White remarks electricity will do much in the future, but warns society struggles to manage the flow of inventions as it does tax policy.
An English speaker was assaulted as German victory signals appeared in Kaunas. He faced punches and insults including anti Jewish slurs, with his face bruised and one eye swollen. The American minister in Kaunas was notified of the incident.
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