Governor Adkins backs payroll tax cut in principle
Governor-Elect Homer Adkins indicated support for lowering the 3 percent unemployment payroll tax as soon as merit-rating allows, while noting no intent to change current state law that affects Arkansas employers competing with neighboring states. The Stay has published extended coverage including Eli Collins, state unemployment fund director, and our stance on Arkansas employers.
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Homer M. Adkins
Arkansas
Eli Collins
How Business Course Can Be Charted in 1944
The piece forecasts 1944 trends for retailers and investors amid wartime spending. It notes steady market growth for retailers as government pumps billions into wages, urges aligning sales with spending streams, warns against overstocking, and advises cautious investment without speculation. It stresses avoiding premature inventory cuts and following price trends while planners balance risk and opportunity.
Cranium Crackers Five War Quiz Questions
A year of war theme quizzes readers on Europe 1939 1940. Questions cover French government leaders during the year the blitz began in Belgium and Holland Allied command Winston Churchill and the 1940 war end plus the destroyer deal details. Answers appear on the comic page.
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Europe
France
Low Countries
Belgium
Holland
Winston Churchill
Grent
Britain
Arkansas employers seek federal aid over unemployment tax disparity
Hope business readers argue Arkansas and Texas employers paid the same payroll tax but Arkansas faces a year delay in merit rating relief due to legislative inaction. They urge Governor Elect Adkins to petition Washington to fix federal versus state timing inequities and prevent penalties for Arkansans earning a living across the border.
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Arkansas Press Association
Pribe Fishers
Stets Airesedy
Adkins
Arkansas
Lother States
Texas
Texarkana
Adking
Washington
Romania warns Russians to keep hands off territory
Belgrade dispatches report Bucharest arrests surge among railway workers amid alleged Communist activity. General Ton Antonescu says Romania is protected by the world’s strongest nation, signaling a warning to Russia as Romania guards the Danube mouth and Moldavia while German forces and war matériel push through Hungary. Russian forces concentrate in Bessarabia as Danube frontier movements occur.
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Belgrade
Bucharest
Ton Antonescu
Rumaniia
Natron
Runol
Danube
Moldavia
Rumania
Hungaria
Bessarabia
Parity payments for 1940 AAA end soon in Hempstead
All but three Hempstead county farmers filed parity payment applications by the December 1 deadline. Oliver L. Adams says three moved away with no address, while $9,235,470.12 has been paid state wide. Applications for 1940 conservation payments are under way, with March 31, 1941 deadlines for filing work sheets and forms. Farmers may receive up to $26 if requirements are met.
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Hempstead
Oliver L. Adams
March Muody
Another Year of Wonders New Year Editorial
Willis Thornton reflects on 1940 as a year of great global upheaval and peril. He notes free nations falling, a world war expanding from Chungking to Athens, and the lure of prophecy. The piece frames the new year with cautious hope, urging courage and gratitude.
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Willis Thornton
Dryden
England
London
Chungking
Athens
Hitler
Guard Program Is Complete
All American Legion members are asked to attend a patriotic program at city hall Thursday night honoring the local National Guard unit before its Friday morning federal camp departure. Circuit Judge DuVal Perkins will speak, E F McFaddin will preside, and the Hope High School Bank in uniform will participate under Thomas Cannon. Also involved are the United Daughters of the Confederacy and Spanish American War veterans. The roll lists many Guardsmen including Garrett, Scott, Barre, Davis, Weaver, Moberly, Richardson, Bowden, Pishow, Flesh, Blevins, Walker, Conway, Edwards, Presley, Cook, Gentry, Powell, Reynerson, Adams, Anderson, Blake, Littleton, Burk, Bowden, Dooley, Dooley, and others with more continued on page three.
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American Legion
National Guard
Goodby
Var the Stoup
DuVal Perkins
Wirtren
Hope
E. F. McFaddin
Hope High School Bank
Thomas
Cecil E. Weaver
Russel R. Moberly
Butler
Volanta
Preston W. Richardson
Paul B. Bowden
James F. Pish
Louis A. Flesh
Arthur A. Flesh
Tea W. Blevins
Charles
Walker
James S. Conway
Walter Edwards
Seca Cole
Presley Ollie Cook
James T. Gentry
Charles L. Powell
Alva G, Reynerson
Will Franklin Adams
Arwin Bryan Anderson
Edwin Littleton Blake
Auzzie Littleton Blevins
Earl Hewey Bowden
Charles Bresdlove
William Harris Brean
Arel Burk Chevier
Fred Franklin Collins
Cleburn Dalton
Jim Burton Bewees
Wilbur Buford DeWitt
Conger Willian
Dooley William Edom
Thought on Seeking the Lord Thy God
A compact devotional note cites Deuteronomy 4 29 urging that if one searches for the Lord with all heart and soul the divine will be found. This concise verse emphasizes earnest seeking and steadfast devotion as the path to divine presence.
Post Office to Observe New Year Holiday
Hope postmaster Robert Wilson announced that Wednesday January 1 will have only one city delivery and no rural delivery. Stump and general delivery windows open 9 to 11 a.m. Mall boxes will receive mail as usual. The two Hope banks will be closed all day. Dinosayy tracks the size of a bath tub are being reconstructed on the University of Texas campus.
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Robert Wilson
Hope
Dinosayy
University of Texas
Willie Harris Moves to D C to Join Oren Harris Staff
Willie Harris, former circuit clerk of Hempstead County, left Hope for Washington D C on Tuesday to join the secretarial staff of his brother Oren Harris, the Seventh district congressman from El Dorado.
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Willie Harris
Gircuit
Hempstead County
Washington, D.C
Oren Harris
el Dorado
Limited voyage to Tyspie of Cancer for sun overhead
The excerpt notes travel to a distant Tyspie near the southern reach close to Cuba to view the sun at its zenith, a phenomenon achievable only in the month of Jung, making the event rare and time-limited.
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Cuba
Jung
Vesey Heads Pension Group To Study Old-Age Pensions
Gov. Adkins announced a 12 member committee to study increasing old age pension revenues. John F. Vesey of Hope, former Hempstead county representative, named chairman. The group will seek additional revenue sources and better collection methods with members Everett Rogers Paragould Dr. H. B. Hardy Greenbrier and Ezra Garner Magnolia among appointees.
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Little Rock
Adkins
John FP. Vesey
Hope
Hempstead County
Everett Rogers
Paragould
H. B. Hardy
Greenbrier
Ezra Garner
Magnolia
Auto License Time Extended
Governor Bailey grants an extension for buying 41 motor vehicle licenses. The period lengthens beyond the planned deadline as 10,000 licenses remain uncued. Penalties would total over 49,000 dollars if the extended deadline is missed.
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Litele Rock
Eeu
Telephones In Hades Almost Reach Nashville Fire Scene
Firefighters carry a portable extension line through a blaze to divert fellow crews as a novel communication aid surfaces in Nashville. The improvised setup shows adapting telephone ideas to urgent rescue needs amid the fire.
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Nashville
Tom
Berlin Reactions Cool After Roosevelt Aid Push
German press and government spokesmen delivered restrained criticism of Roosevelt's plan to boost U S aid to Britain. Berlin signaled no provocation and urged reflection by Americans before any entanglement. Hitler denounced democracies in a New Year address and vowed 1941 would bring victory for Germany.
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Roosevelt
U.S
Britain
Germany
America
F. D
England
Hitler
United States
Dom
Fertilizer distributed under 1941 AAA program in Hempstead County
Oliver L. Adams reports 400 sacks of Triple Super phosphate received for Hempstead county farmers under the 1941 AAA program. Material is available at the county office for application with delivery immediate. Cost not over 1.90 per hundred pounds and deducted from the 1941 Agricultural Conservation payment.
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Hempstead
Oliver L. Adams
Lespedeza Meandows
Lespedera
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