Distribution of Hempstead County funds to cities and departments
Hempstead County total rel amounted to 423717.22 with sheriff settlement listing allocations to cities, schools and departments. Items include collector's commission 14903.49, clerks cost 244.10, printer 515.55, general and road funds for Co. 45,646.89 and 21,339.96, hospital and jail 28,282 and 14,141.57, common school pole tax 6,542.03, assessors 7,920.00, and multiple town disbursements across Blevins Emmet Hope Texarkana Nashville Saratoga Clow etc. totaling 250,774.84, plus levee and irrigation distributions and road general allocations within Hempstead Co. Levee 2,603.08, Hope Imp Dist 152.45 and 185.45, among others, finalizing at 2,340.98.
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Co. General Ve
VA Co. City & Jail
Blevins
Emmet
Hope
Patrios
Washington
Guernsey
Nashville
Saratoga
Texarkana
Cithes
McCaskill General
McCaskill
Hope General
Hope Road
Fulton General
Fulton Road
Oakhaven General
Oakhaven Road
Washington General
Washington Road
Ozad General
Ozan Road
Hempstead Co
Hope Imp. Dist
Antarctic Shackleton Camp Preserved on Ross Island
At Cape Royds near McMurdo Sound the Shackleton base camp remains intact after 47 years. Ernest Shackleton’s hut, 40 feet long, whitewashed and anchored by cables, sits by a frozen pond with penguin rookery nearby and Mt. Erebus looming in the background.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saul Pett
Cape Royds
Ross Island
Antarctica
South Pole
Mt. Erebus
McMurdo Sound
England
Ernest Shackleton
Erchus
Antar
Paga Two
Rider Heads Christian Church Board Names Frank Rider Chair
Frank Rider was named chairman of the Official Board of the First Christian Church of Hope replacing Robert Gayle who resigned. Lloyd Coop was named vice chairman. Board reports covered Education Evangelism Stewardship World Outreach and more with plans to boost attendance and win twenty souls for Christ by Easter Roll Call Sunday urged full participation. Ferrer and Clooney announce second child due late summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Rider
First Christian Church of Hope
William E. Harries
Rider
Robert Gayle
Lloyd Coop
Thomas Fenwick, Jr
Cline Franks
E. W. Graham
Judge Studies Authority in Racing Case
In Crittenden Chancery Court a recess paused a dog racing dispute in West Memphis as Judge W Leon Smith weighs court authority. The judge asked the Attorney General and Southland Racing Corp. to file briefs within 10 days on jurisdiction while Riverside Greyhound Club and West Memphis Good Citizens League may file as friends of the court. Earlier, those two groups were refused formal intervention.
75 Percent Increase in Food Aid to Arkansans
Welfare Commissioner Carl Adams reports federal surplus commodities reaching 184,750 people in December, up from 109,700 in May 1953. He projects about 210,000 recipients this month as flour and meat join the program. All but six counties participate: Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Crittenden, and Drew.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Carl Adams
Adams
Ashley
Bradley
Calhoun
Chicat
Crittenden
Drew
State to Take Bids on No 29 to Blevins
Arkansas Highway Commission called for bids on ten highway and bridge projects totaling about 1.6 million dollars. The largest item is paving 14.193 miles of Highway 29 from Hope to Blevins in Hempstead County with grading drainage and double bituminous surface. Other projects include Highway 89 in Benton County between Maysville and the Missouri border, and a county road between Cave Springs and Healing Springs, plus work on Highway 23 between Paragould and Caldwell Missouri road in Green County, all described with grading drainage and concrete or steel structures.
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Little
Maysville
Arkansas Missouri Border
Betwen Cave Springs
Healing Springs
Green County
Paragould
Cald- Well
White Collar Workers Seek a Lobby for the Unorganized
HAL BOYLE notes Curbstone reflections on white collar workers feeling overlooked by government and lacking a powerful lobby. He contrasts farmers veterans manufacturers unions railroads utilities and others with the mostly unorganized white collar class and widows. He urges building a fund or voice to address their woes as they remain outside the public trough.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Boyle
New York
F Curbstone
Civilization
Paper Clip Brigade
America
Congress
President Proposes Plan to Aid Great Plains Farms
President Eisenhower told Congress the Great Plains region facing widespread suffering and heavy losses will need legislation to implement a farm relief program. The plan targets soil erosion, drought, and wind damage across ten states including Montana Wyoming North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska Kansas Colorado Oklahoma New Mexico and Texas.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Great Plains
Nixon
House
Rayburn
State of the Union
The
Hacky Mountains
Montana
Wyoming
North and
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Colorado
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Texas
Westinghouse Union to Try Again in Mediation Push
Federal mediators and 16 city mayors urge renewed talks in the Westinghouse Electric strike. Pittsburgh meetings backed a plan for continuous negotiations and a possible interim return-to-work for about 54,000 workers while a final contract is sought. The dispute centers on contract length and wage demands amid plant shutdowns nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Pittsburgh
United Electrical Workers
James Mattles
Westinghouse
General Electric Co
Chicago election board bans girdles for women workers
The Chicago election board told its 96 women employees to leave girdles at home on upcoming days as it conducts lie tests in a widening election scandal probe. Girdles interfere with measuring breathing rates, a key factor in the polygraph exams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago! ‘Election Board
Helena radio man dies of heart attack at 54
George Caven commercial manager of radio station KFFA Helena died yesterday from a heart attack. He was 54 and had served as commercial manager for three years. Survivors include his wife two daughters and his mother. Funeral arrangements were incomplete.
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Helena
Qiel Helena
George Caven
KFFA
Caven
District Forester Warns More Fires Burn Acres Than 1955
Waco Texas district forester Buster A Denton warns that this year has already seen more acres burned by fires than in all of 1955. He cites careless burns of trash and grass as the main cause, urges caution about daytime burns and windy conditions, and stresses that fires threaten homes barns and woods. A Shoemake, former U S Trust president, survives a self inflicted gunshot wound with improving condition after hospital care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forrester
Arkansas Forestry Commission
Clark, Pike
Hempstead
Howard
Nevada County
Ap. m
Buster A. Denton
Radioactive Vial Found on Milford Worker
Milford Conn a 33 year old electrician Benjamin Zowacki found a small cobalt cylinder after it triggered a Geiger counter at a construction site gate. The device was in a paper bag inside a cloth cap in his car glove box and had been left there overnight. Officials warned about the danger of radiation causing illness by destroying white blood cells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milford
Conn
Benjamin Zowacki
Zawacki
United Engineers Construction Co
Connecticut Light & Power Co
Zowachi
Storm Batters Points Along Eastern Coast
A giant Atlantic storm battered the New Jersey coast with tides and gale winds, stretching to Florida and as far west as the Mississippi. The system reversed normal weather flow, iced highways, and caused Florida crops to suffer over 16 million dollars in frost damage while Texas faced a severe drought prompting prayers. Government and religious leaders weighed in as jury duty summoned locals in Texarkana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
New Jersey
Florida
Virginia
Mssissippi River
Seaboard
Mideset
Texas
Allan Shivers
No Evidence of Reds on U.S. Payroll
Senator Glen D Johnston said the Eisenhower administration has not produced proof of any Communist on the federal payroll when it took office. The Civil Service subcommittee reported the program’s employment security records show many listed as Red resigned. about 41 percent were hired under Eisenhower. The hearing paused the inquiry though its mandate may be renewed for another year.
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Washington
Glen D. Johnston
D-30
Eisenhower
Senate Civil Service
Wisenshower
Philip Young
Civil Service Commission
Taren
Johnston
New Tractor to Be Demonstrated at Tel-E-Tex
Public demonstration of the new International 300 Utility tractor to be held at Tel-E-Tex Company east on Highway 67 from 10 4 a m to 6 p m on January 12 and 13. Officials said many features will be demonstrated by firm officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International
Tel-E-Tex Company
Highway 67
Firemen Called to Three Blazes
Firemen answered three calls yesterday two for grass fires with little damage. The third call involved a burning truck on Highway 67 owned by Bennie Arnwine of Celeste Texas. Wiring caught fire causing the damage to the vehicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highway 67
Bennie Arnwine
Celeste
Texas
Massacre of Five U.S. Missionaries In Ecuador Jungle
In a remote Ecuadorian jungle near Atica territory in Hastern a mission plane was destroyed by indigenous attackers. One body with a spear was found near the wreckage as U.S. and Ecuadorian forces launched an intensive search with planes and helicopters for possible survivors. The missionary party included T Edward McCully and others, last heard from Sunday at 4 pm local time.
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Guayaquil
Ecuador
United States
Atica
Wauwatosa
Wis
McCully
Missionari¢S
Inidlang
Sunivans Wwenry L. AM
P ¢ Pascae Fs
Ans
Quinte
Quito
Albrook Air Force Base
Panama Cabal Zone
Shell Mera
Dixon Yates contract canceled by Arkansas official
Attorney John L. Wilson told Hope Kiwanis the Dixon Yates contract cancellation was the oddest event of 1955. He attacked TVA power distribution as un-American and opposed federal funding for expansions that would rival private power firms, saying cancellation cost Arkansas a 107 trillion dollar plant and dampened private power plans after six government agencies approved it.
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John L. Wilson
Dixon-Yates
West Memphis
Hope Kiwanis Club
TVA
Arkansas
Agencas
Wilson
All Around the Town notices and events
Hempstead Medical Association elected Dr. George Wright as president and Dr. Jim McKenzie as vice president. VFW post meets tonight at 6 at the hut on Highway 67. Turkey shoot planned at Municipal Airport January 19 15 starting 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, sponsored by the Third District Livestock Show. Rockford reunion note from Rockford Illinois Register Republic about war buddies DelVecchio and Belvecchio.
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Hempstead Medical Association
George Wright
Jim McKenzie
Wayne Lafferty
Jim Martindale
Judd Martindale
VFW
Hut
Highway 67
Unable to parse nuclear policy remarks prompt
Dulles comments on atomic arms policy appear garbled in this fragment. The text references U S statesmanship on nuclear weapons, inspections, and safety concerns but is unreadable and lacks concrete facts or clear quotes.
Local Snippet Lacks Coherent Details
Fragmentary OCR text mentions places such as Walnutidge Faystteville Texarkana Batesville El Dorado Morriston and Houston. A 40 year history reference and a fire are noted, but most names and facts are garbled, leaving unclear event, date, or persons.
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West Port
Walnutidge Iniaddi
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Grace Kelly
Pasadena
Calif
Miss Kelly
NEA
Hempstead County
Christian Church Board
Ferrers
Hollywood
Rose
Mary Clooney
Jose Ferrer
Ferrer
Pave
Plains Farm
Union
Waco
Tex
M. Shoemake
Boyd Alexander
Shoemake
U.S. Trust and Guaranty Co
Insurance Company
U.S. Trust and Guaranty
Forrest C. Feezer
Baptist General Convention
Fifth District Court
Platrict
Atly
Herbert Line
U.S
Star
Rockford Ilinois Register-Republic
Willam
Gx Beldhas Jr
Capac
Mich
V- Belvec
Chio
Illinois City
Phillipines
DelVecchio
Borneo
Rockford
W. Shanhouse’ & Sons
Mento Armatrong
Alton Armstrong
4Th Infantry Division
Yise
Dulles
Atomic Arma
Ted
Oy Dulles
Houston
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