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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1942
Page
5
World briefs report repeated attacks on Malta by Axis fighters and bombers targeting airfields and installations. Other items note Germany’s Ruhr potential postwar use, Churchill’s replies on North Africa cooperation, and various wartime dispatches about ships, submarines, and economic measures.
Social calendar lists garden club gathering at Mrs Higgeson home with ve 8. D. Cook and Mrs Abed Brannan coordinating beauty, Wingemo Baptist Sunday school planning a business social at Mrs Paul Power’s home, and a cosmopolitan club event at Springs road hosted by Mr and Mrs Mack Stuart. Also Jett By Graves class meeting at First Methodist church, plus multiple Women’s Society of Christian Service circles meeting with devotionals and programs focusing on Africa. Master Holloman Jr hosts 6th birthday party at 1107 West th street with games, cake and trips to Fair Park and nearby store.
Announcement from Kempstead County American Red Cross calls for 17 knitters to join the effort. Dr J G Martindale First Aid chairman invites licensed instructors to a meeting at the Municipal Court Room Wednesday at 7 o clock. Yarn secured this week for service men garments. finished items ship August 14. Mrs Bernay Ocatyer reports ongoing production. contributors include Mrs Ned Williams Dr Etta Champlin and Mrs G W McDowell.
Mrs. George Stroud and children returned from a two week visit in Gailsburg Illinois. Rita Beaty and Ralph Beaty Jr. of Little Rock stayed with grandparents H. C. Houston. Claude Garner of Edinburg Texas visits. Mrs. Garner stays a month with George Robison. Sun and Callie Wes son were Stephens Arkansas weekend visitors. Holloman family traveled to Little Rock for a visit with daughter Mrs Kneaat. Finnees Holloman and Geral dine Hall accompanied home. Pvt John David Frith surgeon technician at Brookly Field Mobile Alabama and Mrs Frith of Prescott were guests of J. W. Frith last week. Mrs M. W. Faulk and daughter Barbara Ann and Miss Betty Ann McCoy of Houston Texas are guests of Mrs Faulk's parents.
Philadelphia July 6 AP Hart McDonald a former boxer and rodeo star wrote the first major American war inspired symphonic piece dedicated to General MacArthur’s men. The tone and creation unfolded in train cars hotel rooms and during late telephones while the National Symphony premiered the work in Washington as the Philadelphia Orchestra toured.
Washington profile of Rep. Robert Ramspeck of Georgia as a longtime advocate for federal workers. The piece highlights his role in expanding civil service protections, promoting merit-based appointments, and securing salary increases and retirement pay for government employees, noting strong support from colleagues like O'Mahoney and Mead.
The 42-year-old former boxer and prolific composer McDonald, once director of Penn’s music department, wrote over 100 works and once staged an 18th century piece by a fictitious composer John Christopher Smith. Critics noted the contrast with modernists as he promoted the hoax to highlight past styles.
Bob Ramspeck in a quiet Southern guise rises to House party whip, replacing Pat Boland after a career shaping pensions and wartime bonus proposals. He promises Boland’s system of assistant whips to tally votes and guide leadership, leveraging decades in city, state, and federal government.
Judith escapes from pursuers after leaping from a schooner, fights through wreck and tide to reach shore, and is aided by a Chinaman. She is hospitalized but later regains health, reunites with Tom Burke, and is welcomed back by Mr. Watson who endorses Judith and Burke’s future together.
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