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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1950
Page
1
Fragmentary report notes discussion of a substitute for a bill to revise the law and liberalize the judiciary. The item mentions a 1948 enactment and references arguments by Graham and supporters in a parliamentary month.
Washington reports that the hydrogen bomb program shifts leadership at midnight from David E. Lilenthal to Sumter T. Pike on a temporary basis, with Lilenthal possibly returning as permanent chair later if Senate and President Truman approve. The AEC aims to accelerate development while pushing peaceful uses in power and medicine.
The article explains that Russia and China follow a pattern like Eastern Europe pacts targeting Japan and Germany, with defense clauses against allied enemy nations. Western officials say the agreements form a Communist system of alliances opposed to the United States and Western powers.
Truman Urgés leads a pre conference gathering with Norman Morrison and Denver mayor Quigg Newton as temporary chairman. Officials discuss a rumored territorial gambling syndicate split and planned advance reports under study for a joint federal and state crime conference.
Alice, Brent, and Muriel circulate in Tolliver as Muriel plans a New York move. Alice faces Brent’s reconciling advances and her own unease about trust and secrecy after a stormy night and a hidden whip incident. The chapter ends with tension over a possible boat plan and unspoken truths.
A columnist discusses two recent items: a New York State Council for Social Studies suggestion to focus more on current events than history, and Boston plans to cancel the Washington Lincoln birthday observance due to low turnout. The piece urges balancing current affairs with continued study of America’s history and its democracy as a model for others.
The speaker argued that state and federal authorities face constraints on curbing commercial gambling. He conceded that without new laws empowering the central government, federal action remains limited, awaiting congressional authorization.
The agriculture department said it stands ready to move surplus potatoes dried milk and dried eggs to accredited relief agencies under a new giveaway program. Public relief agencies in four states have been notified of availability and storage sites. In Missouri dried care is available at Kansas City Springfield and St. Louis. Dried milk is available at Carthage Kansas City Springfield St. Louis and Sikeston. Surplus potatoes are not available in Missouri.
New York February 15 film actor and radio commentator Robert Montgomery has asked U S authorities to revoke gambler Frank Costello’s citizenship alleging bootlegging fraud at his 1925 naturalization. Costello denies fraud and says probes are publicity stunts as he runs legal gambling enterprises.
Dallas February 15 markets weakened in the second week of February as large supplies slow domestic demand and few export outlets. Heavy rains stalled field work across Arkansas Louisiana and Texas delaying 1950 crop seeding. Much rough rice remained in miller hands or storage with insufficient sales to establish reliable quotations.
A concise call to uphold proven national principles and the importance of knowing full history. Emphasizes retaining core values while acknowledging lessons from the nation’s past.
Washington Feb 15 UP An immediate slash of about $3 009 000 000 in excise taxes five times larger than what President Truman has asked was proposed to Congress today by the National Committee for Repeal of Wartime Excise Taxes. The plan would wipe out the 20 percent retail sales tax on jewelry furs luggage and toilet preparations cut the 20 percent movie admission tax in half and reduce or eliminate other levies. The proposal aims to prompt price reductions and boost total output to 300 000 000 000 annually. The committee of private business people did not seek reductions in liquor tobacco or gasoline taxes. Leaders included Frank M Mayfield Leon Henderson Eric A Johnston Arde Bulova and Louis Ruthenburg. Johnston opposed wartime taxes in peacetime and rejected substituting other revenue sources. The admin recommended limiting cuts to 655 000 000 with various rate reductions on retail goods transportation tickets travel and long distance messages.
London reports Winston Churchill urged new East West talks at the highest level as a means to bridge Cold War tensions amid the British election campaign. He linked a hydrogen bomb issue to the vote and said US atomic power had kept peace, while warning of a far more terrible manifestation of this power.
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