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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1941
Page
4
An Arkansas legislative push to tax natural gas and electricity faces sharp criticism as discriminatory against rural residents. The column argues utilities pass taxes to consumers, warns against taxing basic heating and lighting, touts broader access to utilities for all, and urges humility toward tax policy.
Pulaski chancery court decreed a reduction in the tuberculosis sanitarium building fund surplus from 462000 to 97394.16. A mandamus directed the treasurer to allocate funds to the cancer control and sales tax unappropriated accounts, revealing shares for the state hospital construction health welfare cancer control and unpledged remainder. The legislature sent a bill to equalize the surplus among welfare, and other departments.
Memphis report recounts Clovis Higgins of Colt Arkansas going berserk in Baptist hospital, overpowering five people, injuring a pallor man with an iron bar, and being shot in the boiler room by engineer W R Byram in self defense after Higgins felled Officer Byran. Higgins died from the shooting.
The stag banquet honoring Lloyd Spencer, set for Tuesday February 25, was postponed because Governor Homer M. Adkins cannot attend. Chamber officials said over 90 tickets had been sold, with 125-person attendance limits, and tickets remain available before week’s end. The Bermuda base distance to New York was noted as 780 miles.
The British Middle East command says troops crossed the Juba River in Italian Somaliland driving northeast toward Mogadishu and capturing the port of Chisimaio on the east bank. Italians counterattacked were repulsed as RAF dive assaults cleared the way. The advance followed a week of fighting and the occupation of 10,000 square miles up to the river. In Kenya the Ethiopian garrison capitulated at Mega and South African forces captured 600 missionaries with arms. air strikes hit Yavello near Moyale.
London and Swansea faced the German air raid on Wednesday night with heavy bombings. A direct hit damaged a London municipal hospital, killing several patients and a nurse. Rescue teams worked by flashlight as debris were cleared and wounded evacuated.
A truck and a car collided late Wednesday afternoon at the end of South Main Street causing considerable damage. RR L Douglas of Nevada County drove the truck while Kathryn Sterling of Hope was the sole occupant of the car. Sterling sustained minor bruises.
Five slogans once popular in U S history are listed for reader challenge. Slogans include Too proud to fight Remember the Alamo and a cross of gold reference. Readers are invited to match each slogan to its era and context on the comic page.
Belgrade and Sofia reported Thursday night that Romania ordered nearly one million reservists to report for active duty by March 14. Troops would be sent to the Russian frontier, with German withdrawal seen as allowing Rome to defend the line while Nazi forces move toward Greece and the Mediterranean. Observers also considered possible Romanian concessions to Russia. The mobilization comes as peasants are needed for spring planting.
The second auto mechanics national defense class for Hope starts this week at Hopewell school building. Frank Walters leads the program with 7 to 10 nightly sessions five days a week. Training covers cars, trucks and tractors for men aged 17 to 25, with or without experience. A limited number of trainees are selected by the Advisory Communities from applicants, and chosen students may attend up to 12 weeks. For more information contact Frank Walters or R. B. Jackson. The boomerang first was used by Australian aborigines.
Edwin Ward was named manager of the Temple Cotton Oil Co. on Thursday succeeding the late B. L. Kaufman. Since 1925 Ward has worked for the local company with general offices in Texarkana, after earlier cotton business in Hope where his father was a pioneer citizen.
The Adkins administration urged the legislature to propose a constitutional amendment ratifying provisions of the 1941 refunding act. The measure mirrors the Wilkinson amendment proposed by Adkins forces and defeated in the 1940 general election. The report notes Finland's cost of living rose 28 percent since last July.
Istanbul controlled papers report Bulgaria will not join the Axis and will deny German access through Thrace. Vakit notes the pledge blocks German advance toward Greece, while Tan downplays it as not aiding Berlin and Sinan asserts Turkey remains open to Greece and Britain.
Horace and James Smith present a compact meditation on the three black graces Law Physic and Divinity within a historical pamphlet style. The excerpt foregrounds legal medical and religious themes through a moral lens and reflects early American discourse on professional authority.
A compact advice piece on filing income tax returns correctly. It stresses clear legible names, avoid pencil, use pen or typewriter, print names in block letters, and sign in your own handwriting. Do not mail money with the return. use separate checks or money orders, and keep canceled payment stubs as receipts. It notes risks of misrouting when funds are sent with others and advises separate checks for joint filers.
Reports from Shanghai indicate Japanese army contingents moving toward Hainan and possibly toward Singapore or the Dutch East Indies. London sources cite a Domei broadcast on a meeting of Japan’s war services and cabinet. Reinforcements to the Pacific reportedly planned by General Marshall without specifics. British residents in Thailand warned to evacuate women and children. the U. S. legation denied issuing such advice.
Syd McMath cashier of First National Bank of Hope was elected vice chairman of group four of the Arkansas Bankers Association at the annual meeting in Camden. H. T. Patton of Camden became chairman and Wren j Leon of Prescott was secretary and treasurer. other speakers included Louis E. Hurley and Eugene McElyaney. The 1942 meeting is planned for Magnolía A & M College at Magnolya.
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