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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1938
Page
4
A festive column reflects on Christmas spirit amid social tensions and notes on local events. Mentions Mrs. J. M. Houston and family traveling for a funeral in Mississippi, a city auditorium event with a school review, and visits from Raleigh community members. The piece closes with a sermon urging universal love and active neighborly work to counter hatred and oppression.
The lesson urges love and Christ's commandment amid world enmity and persecution. It contrasts persecution in Europe and elsewhere with threats to democracy at home, calling for tolerance and mutual recognition among races languages and beliefs.
Pastor Kenneth L. Spore will deliver the sermon titled The Character of Jesus at the mora ling service at 7 50 p m with special choir music led by Mrs B C Hyatt. A White Christmas program follows at 5 30 p m with a pageant written by the pastor and directed by Mrs Routon and Mrs Ward assisted by Mrs.
Three student leaders at Blevins High School have not yet submitted pledges for the Minister's Annuity Fund. The plan, intended to place them in the offering Sunday morning, aims to ease the campaign. The Women's Auxiliary monthly meeting is set for Monday at p.m. and a midweek prayer service for Wednesday at 7 30 p.m. Washington report notes that the Agriculture Department will not fund a reduced-price farm distribution program for low-income groups before the new Congress due to practical difficulties.
A community program features Archer Dunk and Miss Nannie Parkins with vocal solos by Miss Martha Houston Paul O Neal Belly Ann Benson Mrs Hollis Luck and Marla Spore. Ralph Routon to play clarinet. A male chorus and a children's choir perform. Many participants listed including John Paul Sanders Vernon Simpson Jimmy Walters J C Turner Clifford Franks Jr Shepherds Barbara LaGrone Angel Joan Dunham Nannette Williams Carolyn Hamilton and others.
The First Pentecostal Church under Pastor Nichols at Fourth and Ferguson St invites friends to join for growing Sunday school and prayer meetings. Bible study Tuesday afternoon 2 30, Young People's Service Tuesday night, services Sunday at 11 and 7 30 with Sunday school at 9 45.
Morning Bible classes at Wa m and preaching at 11 am. Evening Young People's Bible Class at 6 30 pm and preaching at 7 30 pm. Next Sunday morning Copeland will speak on The Mission of the Church and Sunday night on The Lord's Looking-Glass. All are invited.
Unity Baptist schedules Sunday school at 9 a.m. Bro R L Byers delivers a lecture on the "2th Week of Daniel" in the morning. Young People's meeting at 6:30 p.m. Preaching at 7:30 p.m. Eld A D Taulbee presides. Prayer service at 7 p.m. Wednesday evening invites all to worship.
Rev. Thomas Brewster leads a Christmas program filled day at First Presbyterian Church. Sunday school begins at 9 45 morning service at 10 55 features the There Was No Room pageant at 5 00 Vesper hour and Joy Gift Offering. Loose change offering supports local Christmas Charity. Contributions received via Mrs Carson Lewis.
Sally Blair and Dan Reynolds share a charged ascent on a steep ski trail. After a heated exchange over trust and courage she skis away, hearts racing, then loses control near a sheer drop and a barbed wire fence as Dan cries her name.
W Bird of Fayetteville won the Prescott city hall contract with a bid of 21 172 dollars. Seven bids were submitted. The city plans 17 000 dollars in bonds and a public works administration grant to cover the rest, with construction possible before January 1 pending PWA approval.
The Southeastern Railroad Presidents conference on Friday voted to establish a basic passenger coach fare of 1½ cents per mile as soon as possible. The railroads represented by these executives operate across the entire South.
The two major leagues reached a rare middle ground on ball type and night baseball. They adopted a revised ball with raised stitching and allowed night play in the National and American Leagues starting next season, with Indians and A’s to install arc lighting and cost outlays around sixty to one hundred thousand dollars.
Attorney General Jack Holt ruled that Governor Bailey could withhold the commission of a county judge elect who defaulted in accounts while serving another office. The issue arose in a north Arkansas county where the sheriff and collector had been elected county judge. The Comptroller’s office showed the sheriff owed about $400 to the state from the November election.
Representatives from 41 towns and cities across the state voted to sponsor a measure to raise the gasoline tax from three quarters of a cent to one cent per gallon. The extra revenue would go to cities and towns while county funds and turnback would remain untouched. Speakers urged united support and hoped county judges would back the plan to ease municipal financial distress. The quotation about a man with money appears as a stray citation from Tony Palazolo, San Francisco, a fight promoter.
Washington committee on un-America activity plans a five point program to control subversive influences in the United States. The committee, controversial since its start, concluded four months of hearings Thursday.
Fragmentary OCR note mentions Kenneth Perry of Detroit and a red coated whiskered fellow at a station in protective custody. The Duke of Windsor is described as possibly the world’s greatest, with additional garbled phrases referencing Elsa Maxwell.
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