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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1957
Page
4
Arkansas lawmakers near the midpoint of a 60 day session focus on how to spend a projected 22 million dollars in extra tax revenue. Proposals include boosting municipal street aid by two million and funding higher teacher salaries while education and welfare budgets draw major scrutiny. Continued on Page Three.
Folking Faubus and Fort Smith leaders debate a bill to end border city sales tax exemptions. The plan would set a 1 percent variance limit with adjoining states, potentially forcing Fort Smith to align with Oklahoma and affecting regional merchants and cross border trade. Arkansas tax changes go into effect Friday.
Washington reports the Post Office Department asks Congress to require a 5 cent stamp on letter mail to avoid a potential deficit nearing a billion dollars in the year. Deputy postmaster general Mauree H. Stans testified before the House Appropriations Committee that the Eisenhower administration will push for a 5 cent stamp. He warned the agency cannot face the deficit without it.
President Eisenhower urged Congress to support gradual tariff reductions as beneficial to national security domestic prosperity and world trade. He defended the policy in a special message with the first annual report on the trade agreements program and called for U S membership in the Organization for Trade Cooperation. Exports and imports were cited as vital to economic strength and peace.
Rev. William E. Harris, pastor of the First Christian Church in Hope, explains that a Sunday funeral ban resolution was drafted by him and signed by several ministers and alliances. He notes funeral homes oppose linking their names to the plan and urges scheduling funerals on days other than Sunday.
The Arkansas Supreme Court reduced a $125000 to $90000 verdict for V M Miller of West Helena in a Missouri Pacific bus and truck wreck on November 16, 1955. The high court trimmed the Miller spouses loss of consortium claim to $15000 and affirmed other reductions in related cases, with dissents challenging the consortium award and the broader reductions.
London reports Queen will join the Duke of Edinburgh aboard the royal yacht Britannia for a two day private stay in Portuguese waters near Setubal 20 miles south of Lisbon. Buckingham Palace confirms the plan as a state visit waits. The Daily Mirror urges Prince Philip to return from Gibraltar for a family reunion.
The Crippled Children's Diagnostic and Check Up Clinic will be held at the Miller County Health Unit in Texarkana on February 24, 1957. Invited children from Hempstead County may register from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Transportation help is available via Hempstead County Welfare or Health Department for those without means to attend. NAW TO HAWAII WAILUKU Maui T H UP Hawaiians over the weekend a taste of winter. An amazing tradewind brought an igasha ym to Mt Haleakala high levels and tied up television facilities with a three inch layer of ice.
In the Andros Bahamas a legend speaks of buried treasure from Sir Henry Morgan and Spanish Main days. Some say the real wealth lies in prime Bahamian real estate and climate, attracting financiers pouring capital into development. The piece weighs romantic treasure legends against modern investment in a sunlit island setting.
Sen Fulbright of Arkansas warns the plan would yield blanket transfer of war-declaration powers to the president. Sen O Mahoney says it breaches checks and balances as hearings resume on military economic powers to counter Communist expansion in the Middle East. House vote already 355 81. debate could start Friday. Knowland notes final drafting begins.
KXAR adds a three minute Farm Hour segment with University of Arkansas Extension Service experts. Airs 11 15 each Monday Tuesday and Wednesday with topics on silage, soil testing, pest controls, plow pan, crop varieties, credit for farming people and forest products marketing.
Jerry Ballard, 45, a poor swimmer, jumped into a Little Rock lake yesterday to rescue his three children from a running car. He smashed a window to reach them, dragging all to safety before the vehicle sank. Bystanders aided the family after the car began to submerge near Triple Lakes on the guts Copallasd on Payo Two.
Heavy weekend rains swelled creeks and rivers, flooding wide areas in parts of West Virginia Ohio and Pennsylvania. No deaths were reported but roads bridges and small towns along the Ohio River and its tributaries suffered extensive damage. The Weather Bureau in Cincinnati forecast the Ohio River would approach flood stage by midweek with more rain expected tomorrow night.
LYTLE HOCK reports today on several state supreme court decisions. Cases include Smith v State affirmed on appeal from Dallas, Mistouth Pacific v Miller and wife modified and affirmed, Williams v All Co reversed, Ward Body Works v Smallwood modified and affirmed, and Kinendeva v Co operative Corp from Littletown modified and affirmed. Other rulings include Adama v Pulaski Circuit Judge denied writ of prohibition and Edwards v Pooling affirmed.
Washington reported that government farm price supports have produced a net loss of about 2.804 billion dollars over four years under the Bigenthower era. The Commodity Credit Corp notes large deficits from surpluses, with dairy products and potatoes among the biggest losses since 1933, while new figures show ongoing costs and possible further losses.
A minor collision occurred at West 71 and Washington at about 830 this morning. Mike McMurrough driving north on Washington and LH Dean turning left off Washington collided. Dean was charged with failing to give a hand signal and McMurrough with passing at an intersection and lacking a driver's license.
U N Secretary General Hammarskjold warned that United Nations moves to punish Israel now could complicate the Middle East situation. He told the General Assembly he had made progress urging Israel to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and Egypt, but offered no guidance beyond avoiding sanctions and questioned if such actions would fuel conflict. The Asian African bloc planned a meeting to consider economic military and financial restrictions while the Assembly prepared to debate his report and possible actions dependent on Israel's withdrawal and clarity of intent.
S. D. Beckham aged 83 longtime Bodeaw resident died February 7 at her home in Sligala. She was a Methodist Church member. Survivors include nine children Dad Beckham Lester Beckham Garland Dallas Crayton Carter Hurley Publea Virgie and one sister Mrs Olaf Cook of Hope. Funeral services were held in Louisiana.
Partly cloudy with little temperature change. Central Oklahoma sees substantial cloudiness this afternoon and tonight, with cooler conditions Tuesday. Arkansas pans through tonight and Tuesday, Panhandle excluded, with low 40s to high 70s and total February precipitation at 6.61 inches.
A bronze plaque at Hendrix College honors Mr. and Mrs. O A Graves of Hope and the late Mr. and Mrs. J B Boyd of Emmet for leading a $65,000 dorm modernization. Arkansas Information Committee workers met 29 times in 1957. H K Wheeler of El Dorado announced word of the program. A dinner in Hope is set for February 14 at Hotel Barlow. The Henderson State Teachers College event featured The Raa Fob tuaty Mdpe with BIL Thomason Hope as stage staff. Kenneth Gilliam Hope assisted with costumes and makeup and joined the construction crew, while plans proceed for the Military Ball. Kay Kent Hope will read the grand march with the gagdet battalion. Prescott’s Big Painter and Donald Avery of Prescott serve on committees. Lynn Rhoderick and Janette Barr Rhoderick of Hope tied for second on the dean’s list at Wayland Baptist College.
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