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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1933
Page
2
The Star's Platform urges using municipal power plant revenues to develop Hope's industrial and social resources while improving streets and sanitation in 1933. It backs the Chamber of Commerce and Hempstead County highway plans and promotes farmer cooperation and state budget reforms.
Francis M. Pottenger of Monrovia argues long life can be a curse as longevity raises unemployment among older workers. He notes progress in science and transport creates new demands while aging citizens struggle. He urges using advances to abolish poverty and make old age serene and productive.
A Kansas state senate committee weighs a bill requiring pedestrians on country roads to carry red lanterns at night or face traffic danger. The writer argues sidewalks along main country roads would reduce mishaps and cites prior urban experience with street walking.
A commentary argues that gun sales are too lax after a shooting in Miami. It says the incident should push Hoover and the future president to tighten laws on revolver sales and deportation of foreign radicals.
Senator Arthur Robinson blasts prohibition repeal propaganda funded by a group of up to 75 millionaires, accusing them of shifting burden to beer drinkers. Norman Kingsley, a British educator, predicts only a few will starve after the next world war.
James McLarty and Warren Finley drew about a hundred students to the front of the school to watch a flagpole climb during the fourth period lunch hour. Warren went nearly to the top and James reached about halfway, while teachers hope no further stunts disrupt class focus.
Individual names and snippets appear without clear events. Mentions Elizabeth Evans Wirta Dorothy Inez Coffman and Hope High School with gaps around Dur ham and French lessons. The passage reads as a loose collage rather than a coherent news item.
A motorist says he stopped to let a passerby cross the street and the policeman fainted. the report notes the incident with a joking reply captured by the Passing Show.
Janet Hill, secretary to BROCE HAMILTON, and Rolf Carlyle, Atlas Advertising Co employee, face money pressure and social temptations as Janet suspects a hotel encounter and a restless weekend. A new roomer Grant causes awkward moments while Rolf flirts with a town friend and misses planned dinners.
Dillard Breeding won the runoff with 229 votes becoming the first president of Hope High School’s student council. Eleven more representatives join from 13 homerooms to total 27 members as the council began organizing, with Minneanna Padgett elected vice president and Ellen Lou Bowden secretary.
Helen King Cannon president and secretary treasurer of the Future Homemakers Club of Hope High School attended the State Home Economics Department meeting in Little Rock on Saturday February 18. Other club executives were present to discuss plans for the annual Fayetteville meeting on April 8.
Friday events at Miss Hudson's home room included a chili supper at 6:30 pm at the Baptist parsonage. Guest Miss Whitfield Cannon joined the gathering as games were played and ice cream served.
The item lists Hope High School published weekly on Tuesdays with Student editors including Elle Diane Fritz Frances Eason Lou Bowden and others serving as Editor-in-Chief Assistant Editor and Business Manager.
Editorial cheers Dillard Breeding as the first Bobcat student council president elect. It notes the challenge of high expectations and promises of independence from influence, predicting a conscientious tenure and urging cautious support from opponents.
Sophomores hosted a Monday home room program celebrating George Washington's birthday. Short talks covered his youth and manhood, surveying, war service, leadership, citizenship, and presidency to death, with performances by a barbershop quartet and a girls trio.
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