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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1947
Page
1
Washington dispatches report a long awaited merger uniting Army and Navy into a single National Defense Department while keeping operations separate within the branch. The move underscores global dangers and echoes debates over executive influence and military intelligence amid wartime pressures.
The November National Labor Relations Board data show 69 percent of 61 926 ballots supporting collective bargaining, down from earlier months, with 26 percent of no union votes in cases with negative ballots. The piece argues changes reflect personal plant conditions, urging individual-level solutions within industrial relations.
Congressman Oren Harris reports that orders were issued to open the paved road through Southwestern Proving Ground to the big airport with warning signs for safety. Harris wrote to State Rep Talbot Feild Jr Mayor Albert Graves and others after discussing the matter with Floyd Sharp head of the Little Rock War Assets Administration. The Star has not learned when the road will be opened to industry or the public.
Washington January 17 The plan for unification of the armed services under a national defense secretary with separate air land and sea forces has Truman’s blessing. Patterson and Forrestal drew up the proposal which would create a defense council and a war council while keeping separate service secretaries. Congress reaction was cautiously favorable as officials weigh cabinet status and legislative details.
The Arkansas Seed Growers' Association elected Ernest F. MacDonald of Weldon as president and R. A. Pickens Jr. of Pickens as vice president at the January meeting in Little Rock.
The overnight low reached 35 degrees with 0.82 inch of rain in the 24 hour period. The high for the period was 54 degrees and a 7 am reading noted 0.2 inches of rain.
The City of Hope negotiates with War Assets Administration to acquire veterans houses at Southwestern Proving Grounds former Officer's Quarters for sale to local veterans at cost. Veterans must file a letter of intent with City Treasurer by noon Tuesday January 21 1947 showing name address and phone and stating financial ability to pay.
Washington reports the Agriculture Department authorizes 34 states to plant 2,669,800 acres of potatoes this year, up from 2,624,700. Officials expect a smaller harvest of about 375,000,000 bushels due to shifting acreage to lower-yield states. Missouri and Arkansas receive larger allotments.
Bakersfield Calif Jan 17 Seven people were known to be killed and many injured when a Southern Pacific Owl passenger train struck a broken rail twelve miles north of the city. Coroner Norman Houze said one or two more might have died. At the wreck scene three of the dead were women. Hospitals reported 37 to 100 injured, with 25 taken to Kern County Hospital and two more expected. The wreck involved four coaches and a tourist sleeper derailed and overturned.
William F. Huddleston of Hope Arkansas 23 earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and Navy Air Medal for heroism and mission work in the Western Pacific May to July 1945. He served 25 months overseas as waist gunner and bow turret gunner with Patrol Bombing Squadron 13. Huddleston enlisted 1942 and is married to Dorothy Moore Huddleston. son of William B. and Mrs. Huddleston.
A Chicago column quotes a Goodrich Company mailbag proposing how women should pick husbands. It argues a buyer’s market with men as buyers and women as sellers, offering pragmatic tactics and contrasts on appearance, companionship, and baiting a husband.
Arkansas Power and Light Company directors approve a 50 million dollar expansion and improvement program covering its 66 county system. The plan raises Arkansas investment to 110 million and includes high voltage lines larger substations and more rural electrification. It also funds completion of the Lake Catherine steam electric plant and a Bull Shoals dam plant.
A meeting for all men aged 18 to 35 interested in National Guard work will be held at Hope City Hall on Tuesday January 21 at 7 30 p m.
A rejected suitor feared by Elizabeth Short is sought as a murder suspect. Investigators withhold his name while describing Short as deadly afraid of him, and noting the brutal torture and dismemberment of the 22-year-old in a Hollywood area tragedy.
John Goodwin U S Public Health Service area supervisor announces Hempstead County residents must pay their malaria control fee by January 31. DDT spraying starts March 1. funds have been cut so donations are sought locally. After January 31 fees rise and bureau collectors in each district will collect payments.
Grand Rapids pastor Rev. Daniel L. Reedy 54 and church organist Mrs. Mary Margarette Cowles 40 were arrested on morals charges after fleeing the state. Prosecutor Menso R. Bolt said they were apprehended in a Kalamazoo hotel and returned to Grand Rapids on a warrant charging adultery.
Hope city plans resurfacing seventeen blocks in the downtown business area and widening of Highway 67 from Shover Street to the city limits. City engineer C O Thomas completed plans and council adopted a resolution at the January 8 meeting seeking state aid and bids from contractors for both projects.
Rev S A Whitlow at Hope Rotary noon at Hotel Barlow urged moral power to back science in averting destruction. He cited MacArthur on peaceable solving as last chance and described Axis defeat and global turmoil while lauding American moral capacity and church influence. He called Sabbath observance essential to Christianity.
Atlanta dispatch reports Governor-elect Talmadge seized control of the state capitol, forcing Gov. Ellis Arnall to move his offices to a downtown building. Arnall declared he remains governor and will operate from 1407 Candler Building, while Dykes disputed his access and the crowd cheered.
Oslo signals willingness to discuss a joint Soviet Norwegian defense of Spitzbergen. A communique notes Norway may permit a military use of Spitzbergen if the United States or France approve, and if four other European powers back the plan. The move follows a request to renew negotiations on joint defense and economic interests in the archipelago near 600 miles from the North Pole.
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