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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1934
Page
3
An editorial laments Hope Arkansas missing airport funding despite CWA grants aimed at expanding air transportation. It notes Rosaglville and Arkadelphia also received allocations and urges locals to support building the airport, warning against relying on past debts. The piece accuses Senator Abington of pork barreling and criticizes highway bond refunds as tax burdens.
Roosevelt tells joint session Congress he will avoid detailed proposals now, urging support for recovery and reform. He praises past efforts, warns against predatory practices, and calls for stringent regulation while planning later specifics. Arkansas Valley Authority bill proposed to study river improvements and costs. Army engineers report proposes $548,000 in Arkansas river expenditures for FY 1935.
J L Rodgers of the federal commodity distribution office in Hope Hempstead County says a surplus of butter eggs meat sweet potatoes canned beef vegetables and women’s clothing should reach the needy but few communities cooperate. He urges local citizens to send trucks or wagons to Hope to deliver supplies, noting CWA rules prevent funding for transportation and volunteers are the main help so far.
Little Rock reports two CWA actions. A spring relief plan includes an intensive truck gardening program with seeds and canning equipment funded by the federal government. The RusSELLville airport improvement project was approved at a cost of 9,820 dollars.
The CWA program in Hemipstead county appointed four unemployed county health nurses to work under Miss Flora Cotton. The new staff includes Mrs. E. Monds, Miss Merle Rogers, Mrs. Daisy King, and Mrs. C. K. Wilson. They will assist private cases, schools, home hygiene classes, and student physicals, with a district meeting set for Friday at 9 a.m. in city hall to explain the program further. Mary Beauchamp and Eupha Hixson will outline the plan for about 35 attending nurses.
At a Tuesday night retreat session the city council approved a resolution reducing curb and gutter assessments for Districts One Seven and Eleven for the 1934 reflection period. District One fell to 3% from 4% and District Seven to 4% from 3%. District Eleven dropped to 9% from 5%. If needed, the council may order additional levy to meet obligations and build a reserve. Regular bills were paid. city debts excluding salaries for November totaled $212.65.
The Arkansas Senate voted 23 to 10 against McEhannon's resolution to fund highway debt at prices paid by current holders rather than face value. Abington and others refused to back the administration's refunding bill, saying it would take more money from taxpayers. Ten amendments were offered in both houses, and session adjourned until Thursday.
The Hamstead county medical society met at the city hall Tuesday afternoon and elected new officers for 1904. Dr G A Martindale was named president, with Dr J H Weaver as vice president, Dr A C G Kolb as secretary treasurer, Dr J B E Gentry of McCaskill as delegate to the state medical meeting, and Dr Don Smith as vice delegate.
An informal four week music school will open February 5 at First Baptist Church, Hope, led by C. C. Stafford with instructor WX Trigg. Announcement came from Thurman May, Emoud, and Ernest Steed of Hope. Stafford serves as principal, Trigg as instructor after conducting similar schools in Arkansas and nationwide.
Dakota outlaw Verne Sankey, fugitive accused in a June abduction case in Minnesota, is suspected by County Attorney M F Kinkead of possibly having ties to the Lindbergh baby case. Evidence from Sankey’s South Dakota ranch leads to theories of planned Kidnap attempts on Jack Dempsey and Babe Ruth. Washington DOJ officials say they want to question Sankey about both the Lindbergh kidnapping and the Denver Boettcher case.
This week’s Hempstead County Leylah unit meeting is postponed. Next Thursday night a full meeting will be held per post commander Dewey Hendrix. Several important items will be discussed prior to the tal meeting.
An advertisement announces the She Happy Kitchen cooking school event to run four days starting January 16 at the Senger theater. Mrs Martha McDonald leads lectures on culinary tricks and home economics, with local sponsors ensuring engaging, instructive sessions for women to modernize kitchen life.
Chicago, a bustling hub of rail, grain, and livestock commerce, shows signs of recovery six months into the NRA program. A downtown store executive links the upswing to the Great Slogan mixing 50 percent World’s Fair and 50 percent NRA. In August, Chicago’s fall market drew 25 000 merchants who bought goods totaling between 25 and 30 million dollars, far exceeding normal years.
The CWA funds put 2006 workers on projects in Sungeman County Illinois linked to Lincoln era sites and a local wholesale trade reports brisk mail orders and stock shortages while Chicago faces millinery and dress strikes. A major laundry price war halted within 42 hours by NRA action, and a Chicago compliance board of 17 volunteers resolved 3486 complaints through conciliation.
Miss Ethel Vio Camp 27 superintendent of nurses at Josephine hospital died Tuesday afternoon from pneumonia after nine days illness Funeral services were held Wednesday at First Baptist Church Hope with Rev Wallace R Rogers and Rev E Clifton Rule presiding Honorary pallbearers were local physicians and surgeons A cortege conveyed the body to Malvern for burial at Malvern cemetery
A year-old boy named Jilian Hill who lay unconscious for two days after a highway automobile accident near Hope Texarkana regained improvement on Wednesday. Doctors said he spent a restful night and showed progress as his father, after requesting privacy, arrived at the news office to learn details about the crash.
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