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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1938
Page
5
A garbled page from a small Texas town newspaper lists guests of relatives in Dallas Wateright and Mcnab while noting arrivals births and engagements. It covers visitors from Vallas Texas to Houston and Hot Springs with birthday and travel mentions, plus a few social events at local homes and meetings at a Masonic hall.
Mrs J L Powell of East Second Street and relatives will leave this weekend for a Gulf coast vacation visiting Houston and Galveston. Mr and Mrs J Walter of West Third Street accompany Tom Coleman and children Gladys and David Coleman who spent Wednesday in Little Rock. Gladys Coleman entered St Vincent's Hospital to begin a professional nurses training course.
Hempstead County will extend the Bankhead-Jones farm tenant purchase loan program into the new fiscal year starting July 1, 1938, with about two or more additional loans in the county. The county committee, led by H. Earl King, will advise, while applicants must be bona fide farmers unable to obtain other loans, and loans run up to forty years at three percent interest with a regular first mortgage and a potential early payoff option. Local recipients listed include Henry Fowler, C R Willard, Carter Scoggins, Charles Otis Sims, RL Bonds, L B Delaney, Andrew H Rhodes, and Elbert Jones.
In Oshkosh Wisconsin the first passenger for Dr R O Ebert after his private flying license was his German police dog Bello. The dog rode in the cabin barking with excitement as bystanders urged him aboard and Ebert landed safely.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr stars in When Thief Meets Thief at the New Theater Thur Friday in a lively adventure about Ricky Morgan a burglar who partners with a bootlegger, falls for Glory Howard, and faces a scheme tied to a rehabilitate the South program while Alan Hale portrays the villain. Valerie Hobson co stars.
Farmers face losses as bumper crop and hot dry weather flood orchards. FSCC intervention avoids spoilage while 800 carloads of peaches from Nashville and Highland district move toward markets. Higher grades fetch up to 85 cents. two-bushel lots around 65 cents amid widespread spoilage risk.
Arkansas Power & Light Co. seeks state approval to build 36.75 miles of rural electrification lines in Columbia and Union counties at 24,220 dollars. The project would serve 173 customers with an estimated annual revenue of 4,700 dollars, funded by a Rural Electrification Administration loan, routing through Stamps Buckner Waldo McNeil Magnolia Village and Maryville.
The new softball field promises top lighting in the state as WPA workers finish scraping the diamond. Games start at noon with lights ready by 7 30. Tickets go on sale at 6 30 for 10 and 20 cents with proceeds to relieve lighting indebtedness. The Hope Boys Band will attend as Ralph Cornelius officiates as head umpire assisted at first and third.
The article notes Bailey’s continued hour page one stance promoting an anti New Deal publican ticket in 1940 and urges candidates to endorse this shift. It highlights how anti New Deal Democrats in the South face a pivotal political moment and intensified scrutiny from observers.
Delmar Watton, an 11 year old kid actor, is described as the most kissed male in Hollywood, kissed daily for six years by Keystone bathing girls for luck. He compares himself to Valentino and is making a film titled Breaking the Ice with Bobby Breen.
The First Methodist Church announces July morning services led by Rev. Fred R Harrison with age group themes each Sunday. July 10 focuses on Boys and Girls with a solo by Freddie Patten, and a Sunday evening service on the lawn begins this week with lights being installed.
Denver officials said A. A. Bailey, 45, identified as W. A. Beale, escaped Arkansas life sentence in May 1935 while en route from Corpus Christi to face a minimal charge. Deputy District Attorney Joseph Cook noted the prisoner’s alert status and plan to detain him in Denver.
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