25 Feb 1956
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1956
Page
1
A community note lists a club gathering on February 28 at 7:00 PM at the Christian Church. Members, including Malloy, Cibele, and Mrs. Her, are invited to attend. confirmation and host details appear in a fragmented local notice.
Multiple clubs across Sweet Home and Rocky Mound met in February to discuss plans for 1950s membership drives and community service projects. Highlights include demonstrations on hot dish making from sualer sildks, quilt giveaway plans, and the Crippled Children’s Home fundraiser in Little Rock.
New York columnist reviews This Is Your Life on NEBC TV. He critiques tears and public emotion, questions the show’s impact, and defends Ralph Edwards as emotionally sincere, noting his program inspires both praise and controversy. He recalls personal nostalgia and argues the public display of memories is emotionally revealing rather than degrading.
Lima reports government troops massing at an unnamed Amazon River port within striking distance of Iquitos. General Merino’s Ind. Division seized Iquitos a week ago and American evacuees arrived in Lima aboard U.S. Air Force aircraft amid the tense border airlift and military buildup.
Mrs. Orie Byers led garden reminders and a Sunburst hot dish mat demo by Mrs. Lorraine B Wylie. A grab bag birthday shower for Mrs Barwick occurred during recreation. Refreshments served by members and visitors. The club meets in March at Mrs Byers home. 1956 project set for the community center.
Prescott area clubs reported February meetings with the Rose Garden Club at Mrs. W D Golden home hosting 15 members. Band Mothers Club and Garden Club events outlined. Guests included Mrs. Burke Shelton and new members welcomed at Chestnut Street Home Demonstration Club. Socials featured desserts and flower displays amid program talks on topics from annuals to birds.
Government spokesmen said the initial shots in the revolt were fired yesterday as air force reconnaissance planes over Iquilos met rifle and automatic fire. No damage was reported.
Hollywood notes why English performers succeed in the United States or fail. Gracie Fields cites dialect familiarity and audience rapport as key factors. She observes confidence matters when jokes fail to land and notes Brits may struggle adjusting to American tastes.
Secretary of State Dulles, criticized by Democrats for drift in policy, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee amid questions sparked by Life magazine’s praise and a separate Saudi Arabia arms shipment controversy. Dulles notes he first learned of the tank shipment upon returning from vacation in the Bahamas.
CALCUTTA India UP dockworkers surrounded the port commission offices demanding police abandon efforts to capture fugitive leaders. The mob camped outside all day vowing to imprison commissioners if demands were not met before police dispersed them at night. Manila Philippines Gen Jesus Vargas said he would recommend SEATO maneuvers be held in the Philippines. The SEATO council meets in Karachi Pakistan.
The Malayan capital rocked as Australian Lincoln Pemberton dropped 20 tons of bombs on a guerrilla infested jungle valley six miles away. It was the largest offensive since the war with Communist rebels began nearly eight years ago. The scene followed a night in which the city endured violent shaking and ongoing military action.
A reader seeks guidance on a troubled family scenario involving a controlling mother, a daughter facing divorce with a child, and the plan to move away or place the mother in a home. The columnist counsels ending support for the mother, addressing the divorce openly, and urges seeking church counsel. Another reader asks how to reconcile husbands' interests. the advisor suggests organizing shared activities to foster communication and mutual interests, starting with a small common ground and potentially connecting their hobbies.
A decades old Q A column excerpt discusses a sneaky husband asking for advice on fidelity versus income. A puzzled reader wonders why friends never return dinner invitations and whether to abandon the friendship. The Miss Dix responses suggest shyness or hostess comparison issues and encourage introspection.
Robert Morris Jr president of Fairbanks Morse Co says voting date for Illinois Fairbanks Morse stock extended to March 2 during a recess in a U S district court hearing on a Pen-Texas injunction suit. Pen-Texas seeks to block the swap of up to 169000 Fairbanks Morse shares for Canadian Locomotive Ltd shares. Extension allows Illinois voting to be counted at the March 28 board meeting.
Harold Frankel told a divorce judge he learned judo to defend himself from his wife. Mrs. Eileen Frankel was granted the divorce as she testified he twisted her farm, poured boiling water on her, and knocked her head on a concrete floor. Frankel, secretary of the local poetry society, said he never used judo on his wife. Coast Guardsmen man 74 light ships in U.S. waters.
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