08 Jan 1949
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1949
Page
1
Social and Personal notes from January meetings of the Women Mission Society and various church groups. Items mention an all church gathering, program topics, hostesses, guest speakers, and January events across First Baptist, Methodist, and Wesleyan circles with attendees, transportation, and meal details. Also reports on club meetings, family visits, births, and hospital admissions.
Local clubs held meetings on January 4 with the Peace Peace Home Demonstration group at Mrs. Herman Hurd’s home led by Mrs. Pai Day new president. Members drafted yard plans and discussed several upcoming demonstrations and basket weaving. Guernsey 4H Club at Guernsey High School under Hazel Daugherty planned officer trainings and demonstrated shoe making and fruit tree propagation by Byron Huddleston.
Washington reports the start of a series of unofficial House subcommittee hearings on 1950 cotton controls. C D Walker and E D White will testify as witnesses. Ren Pace leads the subcommittee, discussing acreage inclusion, future allotments, and the need to rewrite cotton marketing quota laws amid a 10 million bale supply and 12.6 to 13 million annual consumption.
North Main Church invites visitors to Sunday school classes for all ages and a morning worship with choir anthem Only Trust Him at 8:00. Methodist at Pine hosts morning service and evening worship themed Time on My Hands with radio broadcast KKAR. Episcopal Saint Mark’s holds morning prayers and an evening radio hour. Presbyterian and Unity Baptist outline sermons, youth programs, and weekly choir practice, with plans for joint events and radio programs on KXAR.
Dramatic Arta features Hope High School's senior play Dear Fod dil portraying Prudence Parker and Dana Gibson in a 1948 scene. Hope’s Thespians receive honorable mention as Troupe 36 and 2 plan National Drama Week events with one act plays, benefits for backstage improvements, and a Texarkana tournament entry.
Norfolk mass reports the release of John T. Noxon at age 52 after four and a half years, on strict parole for life. Once sentenced to death for murdering his infant son Lawrence, his sentence was commuted to life after two years on death row. His wife Margaret stood by him as he left the prison with two canes, vowing to resume his law career amid public attention.
Bethel A M E Bethel Church on corner Ath and St Laurel Streets hosts the first quarterly conference led by Rev J O Crudup presiding Elder of the Prescott District West Arkansas Conference. G Paschal is pastor with services including Sunday School at 9:45 Morning Worship at 1 00 PM with Elder Crudup as speaker, Afternoon Worship at 3 00 PM by Rev E N Glover, Yerger School Chorus performs, and Epworth League at 1 30 PM followed by Evening Worship at 7 30 PM.
Dorothy Dix answers questions on the fear of female office workers wrecking homes, noting men chase dollars not skirts and that most home tensions stem from selfishness. A puzzled husband seeks advice on his wife's constant fault finding and a girl seeks dating advice about bored company.
The Arkansas Gazette reports a $4.5 million teaching hospital in Little Rock as part of a state medical center plan. A 9 mill levy would fund it initially, with after-year proceeds split to public schools five mills, University of Arkansas兩 mills, and other colleges two mills, sharing only through university appropriations.
State and Hempstead County officials present a bank cash and assets recap showing Total Resources of 774,087.. The reconstituted capital accounts list capital stock 100,000, surplus 100,000, undivided profits 141,549.48, and reserves for dividends and taxes 75,400. Deposits total 4,456,328.12 with total liabilities and capital at 4,814,277.60. Officers include McMath as cashier and Kendall, Chamberlain, Franks, Edwards, Henry, ONeal, and Stewart among senior staff.
Bank of Blevins 21 Hempstead County Arkansas reports at year end December 31 1948 total assets loans and discounts 860429.23 real estate loans 34700.25 securities 111190.10 other assets 346.50 cash and due from reserve banks 209... undivided profits 12995.78 reserves 1328.73 deposits total 415807.34 capital accounts 125000.00 and other items totaling 5 127 207.04. Officers C Stephens cashie... directors A L Black R M LaGrone C A Graves N B Jewel and others.
Congress weighing rapid enactment of economic measures aimed at 60 million jobs and peak production as Democrats split on new price controls and farm supports. Senator Maybank proposes a wide inquiry into middleman markups, citing cotton print costs and consumer prices, while Senator Sparkman warns against unnecessary controls unless needed.
Reports say the garrison commander ordered an immediate mid-day curfew in Tientsin, banning residents from leaving their homes as streets emptied. The measure follows tensions at the Chinese city and signals intensified control amid ongoing reports.
Federal referee Thomas Williamson will preside at a joint creditors meeting in Knetzer bankruptcy case involving Knetzer Motor Sales and associates. A contempt petition accuses Knetzer of dodging questions about autos lands and oil leases. Trustee Dunham would transfer titles to Knetzer homes and other properties while relinquishing rights to furniture, bonds, and several autos.
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