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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1941
Page
3
Our Daily Bread laments local government questions facing Hope a municipal airport purchase and a food stamp relief program. The editorial defends airport plans as essential for transportation development while criticizing food stamp operations and federal influence on local markets, urging thorough debate and workable local solutions.
In London, Foreign Secretary Eden told the House of Commons Britain would aid Emperor Haile Selassie and support temporary military guidance as Ethiopian forces push Italians from the country. Britain seeks an international arrangement for an independent Ethiopian state with outside economic guidance. In the same reports, Libyan coast clashes and British advances near Bengasi were described as part of a broader wartime push in East Africa.
Mel Johnson of Detroit Falla, a golf instructor at Hot Syo iwiws country club, was detained after a car he drove struck a Beyear-old boy named Ihany Williamson east of Hope on Highway 67. State Policeman Heath Porterfield said the boy ran onto the pavement and the accident was unavoidable. Williamson suffered a broken leg and minor injuries. Johnson took him to a hospital and was en route to San Antonio, Texas for the Texas Open.
Rumors claim Hope Arkadelphia Presvolt may bid to host the state police district headquarters. Officials note new state police appropriations will require a 1000 watt radio station for the four districts, with the current station in Little Rock. California led census growth in 1940, while New York reached about 800,000.
Hope council prepared to decide on two major items at its first meeting of the month. An airport land purchase faces final action with surveys and maps ready for CAA and WPA approval. four runways aim to cover 85 percent of winds, meeting CAA targets. The food stamp plan, proposed by local merchants, would replace the Surplus Commodities warehouse with store redemption throughout the county, requiring about 5 000 dollars sponsor funds to initiate.
A large Denver and Rio Grande Western locomotive exploded while being pushed into the south western industrial yards, injuring at least 22 people, several seriously. Witnesses say motorists at 13th Street and Osie Avenue were struck as the boiler and cab were hurled 60 feet into the air and toppled onto an empty express car.
Little Rock votes to authorize Mayor Satterfield to take action to acquire the existing gas distribution system to obtain cheaper gas and reduce rates while retaining profits. Alderman Emerson chairs the Utilities Committee, noting the plan mirrors the water department’s revenue model. Consumers currently buy gas from Ark-La-Louisiana Gas Company. city acquisition aims to cut costs.
Robert Wilson will be principal speaker at the Wednesday noon meeting of Hope Kiwanis Club at Hotel Barlow. Wilson will speak on postal service and related topics. Lawrence Martin has charge of the program.
Texarkana report: Joes William Miller, 42, an ex Arkansan, is found guilty by a federal jury of kidnapping his 19 year old stepdaughter Dorothy Crawford Garner near De Queen. Miller’s wife Attilla was acquitted. Judge Lemley will sentence Miller on Thursday as other defendants await verdicts.
A brief religious reflection stresses praising God and placing trust in divine guidance, declaring fearlessness before threats of mortal harm and seeking steadfast faith rather than worldly assurances.
Singapore a tremendous war boom hits the Malay East Indies rubber area. Laborers on hundreds of estates work overtime to meet U S demand for plantation rubber. Output is fixed at 100 percent until U S demand is met. British growers push to profit and secure dollars for arms. The piece traces Malaya rubber’s growth, price swings, and the 1934 international restriction scheme shaping production and pricing.
In Arkansas, the anti-fox bloc secured final legislative victory with a senate bill declaring a state wide open season on fox. The vote ended 62 to 18 as Governor potential action looms. open season would run December and January. The House also approved a tuberculosis fund amendment and raised minimum marriage ages in a separate measure.
The Star notes the 20th in a weekly series of advertisements from newspaper publishers in America, linking a free press to representative government. It mentions that Providence New Mexico California Nevada Idaho had the largest population increases in the 1949 Census, with the District of Columbia surpassing them.
London reports a shipping official describing a 500 shipbuilding plan as vital to democracy and U S protection. He says Britain will contribute to a larger U S backed program while stressing the need to bolster the merchant fleet amid a shrinking replacement pool.
Reader challenge recalls famous Mother Goose rhymes asking who stole a pig what ran up the clock and what chased the farmer's wife who lived on the river Dee what are little boys made of who found plums in pie and who found blackbirds in one. Answers appear on the Comic Page.
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