03 Jan 1949
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1949
Page
1
School and church activities fill the week with meetings of Scout troops Daughters of the Confederacy and Garden Club. Guest speakers include Mayor Lyle Brown, while civic and social notices cover visits, anniversaries, and travels across Ranger and Beaumont areas.
A stream of names shows Pine Bluff residents heading back to the University of Arkansas Fayetteville and Southern Methodist University Dallas after holiday visits. Others depart for TSCW Denton Texas Little Rock Monticello, plus new arrivals and hospital admissions including Mrs O L Reaves and David Rizzio in a Mary Queen of Scots note.
An excerpt from Dorothy Dix on a young wife who married at 18 and a 10 year old, then separated and remarried, asks if she may visit her first husband. The column cautions against marrying in youth, urges ending lost loves, and stresses accountability for heartbreak. Also discusses in-law relations and age-gap marriages with reader James seeking advice.
City docket records Leon Whitehead pleads guilty to disturbing the peace and is fined $10. Willie Lee Criner faces assault with a deadly weapon and forfeits a $50 cash bond. Wash Morgan pleads drunkenness and is fined $10. Chester Stevens listed for drunkenness.
Scout Troop 58 held a Thursday lecture by Paul Klipsch on rifle safety and field ethics. Regwar weekly session opened with a rededication to the scout path, led by Bobby Martin, under the direction of Scoutmasters Jimmy Miller and John Bagby. Field Executive Hickman led the benediction. Troop 58 meets Thursdays at Hope Presbyterian Church. Scout Troop 90 of First Baptist Church, Hope, meets tonight at 7 in the Educational Building. Scoutmaster Floyd Osborn announced rechartering begins tonight and new members may join as the troop expands. Tonight, planning for anniversary week Feb 6 to 12 proceeds. The Scout 90 committee and field executive held a charter review last Friday at the church, with Chairman Ben Owen guiding progress and year-ahead planning.
Reports from Jerusalem describe two raids on the Jewish quarter with at least five injured and air raid alerts lasting about 25 minutes. An Israeli spokesman warned that if Egypt is behind the attack, retaliation on Cairo is possible. An Egyptian communiqué claimed reconnaissance raids and continued fighting in the Negev amid exchanges with Israeli forces.
W. P. Shields, 88, died late Saturday at his home near Nashville. He is survived by his wife. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Bluff Springs, near Nashville.
Mrs Ruth Alma Watkins 56 wife of J R Watkins died at home in Washington. Survived by daughter Margaret Nell mother Emily Watkins Texarkana six sisters and a brother. Funeral 2 30 p m today near Waldo by Rev F J Taylor burial in Shiloh cemetery. Active pallbearers Thurston Hulsey Earl Ray Saunders Frank Simmons Arthur Gray Jr San aedur Dudney Finis Johnson H L Pinegar.
Cunard White Star officials said the 8,235 ton liner Queen Mary will sail for New York at 1:30 p m local time tomorrow after running aground near Cherbourg. Six tugs pulled her free at high tide and Capt H Grattridge was on his first voyage as master.
Miami search officials announced no survivors expected from a charter DC-4 that disappeared last week near Miami with 40 aboard. Coast guard, port authorities and airline crews pressed on, but officials said the vessel likely sank in the ocean and remains a tomb for those aboard.
Borne Transport Co of New York vanished with 27 Puerto Rican passengers and a three-man crew after going down early December 23. An intensive sea and air search lasted four days without locating the vessel or survivors.
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