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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1948
Page
6
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City and chamber celebrate a conference with Missouri Pacific on widening the riverfront rail corridor and reducing grade crossings. Calls for an underpass to ease downtown traffic and a two hour downtown parking limit amid expansion, with concerns about future action and the impact on Hope’s business district. The editorial argues for urgent universal military training debates and warns of political delay.
Fragmentary OCR lists numerous clerks and candidates for a city election with garbled spellings. Names include Hoult Jewel Boswell Gosnell Gell tan Tenia Phupps Peylea Bader Williams Green Buiven Basen Cassidy Duddy Malone and Waller Willits injured in an auto incident.
Local chamber of commerce directors convene tonight to discuss cemetery board matters and related issues. Agenda includes several operational items and potential committee updates.
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Friday at 10 am Hope City sign petition to withdraw 33 000 acres from State claim for a park. Letter from Representative Talbot Feild Jr outlines reasons including War Department status of land and surface use restrictions. Notes 35 000 acres condemned for Southwestern Proving Ground, potential costs and agricultural classification issues.
Highways in District No 3 remain in poor condition with limited passability in places. Arkansas maintenance crews under A G Dives report ongoing efforts to improve fair conditions, detailing sections from Sermon Highway No 4 through multiple routes with open traffic only in several segments and ongoing repairs across the network.
Police question a Brooklyn can maker as his ex-chorus-girl companion Mrs Eleanor McCoy lies critically wounded on a fashionably crowded Miami Beach drive. The pair, calling themselves longtime friends, said two men in a black sedan attacked them after leaving the Copacabana club.
Field Marshal Wilhelm List and seven Nazi generals were convicted of war crimes by an American occupation court. List drew a life term. others received sentences from seven years to life, with two generals acquitted. The rulings addressed killings in Greece, Yugoslavia, and Albania and debated the legality of hostages under wartime occupation. The court condemned the world’s failure to outlaw such acts and noted many partisans did not meet war crime protections. Continued on Page Two.
Weather service reports colder Friday with partly cloudy skies and scattered showers. Temperatures yesterday reached 76 with a 51 degree low as mild conditions lingered. Fort Smith led the state with 77, while Bulehsbille Monticello and Hickson posted 74s.
A jagged report describes local Scouts patrolling streets against motorists and jaywalkers. It mentions a night scene near Weil Wurst Church with curious local figures, a storm, and a loosely connected sequence of events involving a public gathering and a timekeeping delay. The tone parallels a period newspaper whimsy rather than a clear incident.
Memphis February sees DNC Chairman McGrath say Southern governors visiting Washington cannot sway President Truman’s civil rights program. He warns the trip would be useless, while Arkansas Governor Laney and Mississippi Governor Wright react to the stance. The governors plan a cooling-off period as they discuss strategy amid a Caribbean trip by Truman.
Arkansas gaggle columnist Hardy Spider Newland has filed a corrupt practices pledge to run for governor. The move marks a bold bid with backing from local political circles and questions about campaign conduct.
In Little Rock the Democratic Jefferson Jackson day dinner faced backlash over President Truman’s civil rights plan. Officials expected 800 guests at the Hotel Marion with U. S. Attorney General Clark slated to speak, while some leaders threatened to withhold diner proceeds from the national party treasury. A preplanned interval would allow early departures before the president’s radio speech.
In Little Rock three men facing conspiracy to defraud charges were dismissed after the Right Circuit Court of Appeals reversed prior convictions for Buchanan Roberts and invalid evidence. Judge T Trimble, acting on the mandate, discharged the case.
A long narrative letter recalls Jim, Red, Frank, and Myank amid a brutal murder case. Jim blamed, then exonerated, wins a life sentence reversal after two decades of appeals. Frank’s relentless campaign and a volunteer lawyer secure Jim’s pardon and eventual prosperity while Myank remains crippled.
Washington reports that State Department officials floated expanding U S military aid to Greece to counter international communism. Loy Henderson warned that covert aggression could threaten world peace and suggested the United States might beyond dollars and advice consider strong action, potentially including troops, pending congressional action.
President Truman proposed a 570 million dollar economic aid plan for China amid congressional backlash arguing aid is too late. Senator Bridges urged military supplies to Chiang Kai shek to counter communists, linking Europe’s Marshall Plan costs to China. Hearings expected. foreign aid bills shift to March. Truman seeks 910 million for imports and 60 million for few reconstruction projects as debate continues.
Brisbane reports a Royal Australian Air Force Lincoln bomber crash at Amberley Queensland during a training flight from Laverton near Melbourne. Sixteen crewmen were killed in the incident tonight.
Bulgarian exile George M Dimitrov told a House Un-American Activities subcommittee that America is Communist target No 1 and urged scrutiny of American labor leaders for possible false pledges of non affiliation He described wartime Allied crimes and predicted a Western alliance under Communist pressure while outlining harsh repressions in Bulgaria and plans for Soviet influence in Europe
Kansas City observers seek explanation for a bright "ball of five" seen across Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Colorado. Meteor experts from Fort Worth and Denver offered meteor disintegration theories while Nebraska and other officials offered alternative views. Reports of flaming aircraft crashes followed the flash, with observers describing a large ball like fire and a white cloud lingering in the sky for about an hour.
AAP reports mixed commodity moves on February 19 with steel and grains rising modestly while lard and oils slip. Cotton and butter see irregular shifts as markets remain nervous amid weak stock activity and cautious storekeeping. Farmers respond to signals of low livestock supply and high feed costs, with cattle sales rising on favorable weather and market uncertainty.
A Sardis community meeting chaired by County Agent C. Oliver Adams advised stockmen to kill flies and vaccinate cattle for anthrax. Vaccination timing targets late April after grass reach two weeks, with trained personnel and proper handling to avoid spread. The group will use a spray truck and state veterinary support, with an Anthrax Committee led by Arnold, Julius Reid, Fulton Konnette, S. Robins, Iraq Harris. Farmers near affected areas urged to participate.
All Scoutmasters in Hemp district are urged to attend a round-table at Hope on Friday 20 at 8 pm to set up the mechanics for a wide scrap metal drive. The meeting aims to organize the Scrap Metal Drive and maintain efficient operations.
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