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Newspaper

Hope Star

Location

Hope, Arkansas, United States of America

Date

Dec 19, 1949

Page

5

Southern pine newsprint mill opens in Alabama and Prescott link

Our Daily Bread notes Editor & Publisher report that Coosa River Newsprint Co. in Coosa Pines Alabama began production December 1. The $32 million plant aims 100000 tons yearly, supplying bleached pulp to Kimberly-Clark and shipping newsprint to the Lufkin Texas mill for content. Dr. Charles Herty’s work underpins Southern paper industry growth with local job potential in Alabama.

Arkansas Prescott Organ Daily Publishing Business Southern Pine Coosa River Coosa Pines Ala Memphis Kimberly-Clark Lufkin Texas The Star Southland Paper Mills, Inc Houston Alabama South Charles He Herty Savannah Great Lakes Canada Hetty Georgia America Dr. Herty Ques Miles

Tiny USIC Event Sparks Local Interest

A fragmented clipping notes a small concert or musical gathering labeled as USIC. Readable fragments mention Haliy and S1as with ANS and Gu in attendance. Details are sparse but suggest a community cultural moment with unknown date and venue.

City Prepares for Visit From Santa

City children ready for Santa Claus visit on December 22. Parents urged to prepare trees and decorations, and to help those less fortunate spread the Christmas spirit.

Christias Ivy Represents Ruleiness of These

Fragmentary note shows a decorative phrase about Christias ivy symbolizing ruleiness of these ideas. No clear event, date, person, or organization is readable. The text lacks concrete context to form a proper news item card.

Christias Hese

Weather Forecast for Arkansas

Partly cloudy and mild conditions expected in Arkansas. Tonight and Tuesday remain mild with limited wind and no precipitation likely.

Arkansas

Britain U S Canada Plan Standardize Arms Training

London reports Britain the United States and Canada agreed on standardizing arms and military training to ease future joint operations. Experts have studied key weapons and pilots and officers have exchanged roles to align equipment and tactics across the three powers.

London Britain United States Canada British Ministry of Defense Soviet Russia Ministry of Defense

Airliner crashes at Chicago airport injuring none aboard

A four engine TWA constellation veered through two wire fences and struck a light pole and pillar near Municipal airport in Chicago. It halted on Cicero avenue after an 8 am arrival from San Francisco with 24 passengers and five crew. Pilot Capt Kasper blamed braking failure for the mishap. The aircraft sustained heavy damage. Christmas holly remark appears at end with no connection to the event.

Chicago Municipal Cicero Avenue San Francisco Stanley M. Kasper TWA

Truman Prepares to End Florida Vacation in Washington Trip

President Truman, in Key West, packs his beachwear and looks to return to cold Washington politics. He plans a cabinet meeting Thursday and a Christmas visit at Independence, Missouri, after leaving Boca Chica.

Key West Fla Truman South Florida Washington Capital Boca Chica Naval Airfield Independence Ipis

Gazette Circulation Workers Join Editorial Department Strike

Little Rock paper shows widespread labor action as Gazette circulation staff join the editorial department walkout. Guild members voted to strike two weeks earlier over union recognition and disciplinary authority, disrupting distribution in Greater Little Rock and prompting a skeleton staff at the newspaper.

Little Rosk Acekansas Gazette American Newspaper Guild CIO Little Rocks Gazette Little Rock Vauild

Housing Program on Truman's Legislative List

Washington reports a bread program to spur housing cost 8500 to 10000 dollars and gain high priority on President Truman's legislative list for Congress next session. An FHA official said middle income families are in need and rental housing should rise. he noted record home building this year but gaps remain for non veterans in middle income brackets.

Washington Truman Congress Federal Housing Administration Naign

Pressure for 5 Day Coal Week Mounts

Pittsburgh dispatch reports rising pressure on President Truman and Congress to compel United Mine Workers leader John L. Lewis to return to a five day work week. Industry leaders urge invoking Taft Hartley to end walkouts and the three day week, as coal stocks decline and steel mills conserve reserves amid a CIO United Steelworkers strike aftermath. UMW contracts cover only a portion of miners. operators bargaining with 80,000 workers must sign broader pacts. Hartley criticizes Lewis as a major air burner salesman amid calls to restore five day operation.

Pittsburgh Truman Congress m4 John L. Lewis United Mine Workers Lewis United Mine CIO United Steelworkers Jantheag Fs UMW Viewey Pred’ Hartley Atlantic City N. J Hartley

Ward in Japan for Talk With MacArthur

Angus Ward former Mukden U S consul general arrived in Yokohama and accepted a chance to brief Gen Douglas MacArthur at lunch on Communist China. Ward and most of his party sail home aboard the President Wilson next Tuesday, as the Akaland Victory docks with an army band.

Yokohama Japan Uup Angus Ward Amuticuto Mukda Ward U. S

Packing Plant Death Toll Mounts to 20

Sioux City Iowa reports the death toll from the Swift & Co packing plant explosion now at 20. Alice Hammond a 38 year old Sioux City bookkeeper died in hospital from injuries suffered in the blast last Wednesday. Thirty eight injured remain hospitalized.

Sioux City Alice Hammond Swift & Co

Cotton Policy Dispute to Be Campaign Issue

Washington December 18 a pro glesis from the cotton belt threatens to intensify public disagreement between Secretary of Agriculture Brannan and Senator Anderson D NM Sharp differences between these key Democratic spokesmen on farm programs may complicate next year's campaign One result stems from reduced plantings and incomes for cotton farmers mainly in the older belt Anderson who once led agriculture under Truman sponsored a new acreage law Brannan blamed the instalkes in the law and said his department resisted at the time Senator Sparkman Alabama said Congress will be forced to act next session He urged more flexible allotments to suit the secretary, farmer committees and local county boards The cotton control law aims to cut production to avoid price depressing surpluses Next year acreage to about 21 million from 27 million Last year Alabama growers get 31 percent of prior crop land A farmer with 1000 acres who previously planted 900 to cotton now gets 810 acres A neighbor who planted little or no cotton gets the same allotment Despite complaints, cotton growers narrowly voted for rigid planting and marketing controls for next year Most quoted Sparkman said many who complained will accept the controls and that they are right

Washington Proglesis Cotton Belt Brannan Anderson D-Nm Bratman Truman Sparkman Alabama Collan Colton Colton Hrowel

Five Bethway children die in Emmett house fire

Five children from the Bethway family perished in a two story Emmett farmhouse fire. Parents Clarence and Irene Bethway escaped with five other children via downstairs windows. Delia Bethway 12 avoided the tragedy by staying with maternal grandparents. Two injured children were rushed to Port Huron hospital. The fire started near a heating stave, trapping upstairs bedrooms.

Emmett, Mich Emmett Clarence Bethwey Irene Mr. Bethway Delia Freddie Bethway Beverly Ann David Billy Tj Thomas Joe Mary Lou Port Huron Mid) General Hospital Louis Bethway

Temperatures Return to Normal Across Nation

The Associated Press reports most areas show normal temperatures with Montana recording 12 below zero at Cal Bank and Lewiston at 8 below. Southern California sees rain with Los Angeles getting 1.03 inches, lifting the season total to 4.80 inches. Light snow and drizzle noted in the Northern Plains Plateau and Northern Rockies as rain lingers in the Northeast.

Associated Press Montana Cal Bank Lewiston California Los Angeles Iit Plains Plateau States Eekies

Hempstead Woman to Be Buried Tuesday

A Hempstead Negro woman who died last week will be buried Tuesday at 2 pm at Be Bee Memorial Methodist Church. The Rev A Marpasta will officiate. Sue is survived by two brothers a daughter and a son.

Hempstead Snowle Nalive Hope Bebee Memorial Methodist A. Marpasta Sue

Hungarian Arrest of U S Charity Director Shocks Budapest

Israel Jacobson, director of the American Joint Distribution Committee in Hungary, was arrested by Hungarian police upon returning to Budapest after a six week U.S. visit. Harald Trabe of the AJDC said no charges were specified. Jacobson, formerly of Rochester, N Y, and now based in Vienna, had recently obtained a Hungarian visa with ease and was taken from the AUstria Hungarian border to Budapest to face unknown charges.

Vienna Israel Jacobson American Joint Distribtion Committee Hungary Harald Trabe American Joint Distribution Committee Jacobson Budapest United States Trabe Rochester N. Y Chicago Florence Federation of Jewish Charities Trobe Thursda AJDC Jegalion

Wall Street Beffingon Inflation Ahead

Wall Street observers and Washington report inflationary pressure as money pours into stocks while bonds lag. Deficit budgeting and easy money persist, with steel price rises signaling higher production costs. Auto prices may fall, but overall costs to consumers appear likely to rise as demand strengthens.

iBy Sam Dawson New York Wall Street Washington Plaree YaPla Stream Treasury Federal-Reserve Pittsburgh Prosa

Life of a Farmer Earns $10 Hour on Modern Farm

New York columnist HAL Boyle profiles Russell Sears of Cumberland Massachusetts who won $300 first prize in the National Younger Vegetable Growers Association contest in Washington. On one-and-a-half acres he earned about $1,400 by careful planning, selling directly to grocery stores, and keeping long work hours. Sears plans to modernize his family farm to attract tourists, reduce dairy cattle, and emphasize potatoes chickens and tourism as the main future crops. He argues farm life offers independence and the ability to be one's own boss, with continues focus on soil conservation and efficient farming.

Hal Boyle New York Russell F Cunsmington Mass Lion Washington University of Massachusetts Sears New England Go City

Coley Held for Grand Jury Action

William R. Coley, charged involuntary manslaughter in a auto truck collision Dec 5 in which two persons were killed, waived preliminary hearing in Hope Municipal this morning and held for jury action. Bond was $3500. Other names include T. Wallace, John Lewis Lively, and Dow Lively, with multiple injuries and a likely Hempstead Circuit Court docket first week in April 1850.

William R. Coley Hope Municipal T. Wallace Dow Lively John Lewis Lively Hempstead Circuit Co Ley Robert Hargett Koi James Easter Keith I. N. Yates Willie West Frank Jones H.W. Griffin James Knight Dry County Ies H. P. Cannon Peni Utah Henry William Sherman Hargett Gra

Five Die Violently in Arkansas Week End Tragedies

Across Arkansas during the first two days of the week at least five people died violently. A 41 year old woman Mea Pace was shot in her Yellville home by estranged husband Leonard Hutt. Sheriff Pace reported her body sprawled on a bed and a .32 pistol nearby. Hutt then killed himself with a self inflicted gunshot wound in the trailer. A coroner's jury ruled the death a homicide. Traffic crashes claimed two Black residents Ellis Chattway and Maude Chattway near Marianna. A 71 year old pedestrian James F Havorka died after being struck near Sheridan and later released from a hospital.

Associated Press Arkans Yellville Ark Mea Pace Marion Coty Jack Pace Vic Sherif Pace Acros Leonard Earnest Hutt Traer Nebery Pace Huff Ellis James F. Havorka Sheridan Havorka University Hospital Little Roc

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