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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1938
Page
4
Plans finalize for a Tuesday rally at the El Paskegyy experiment station with AL ONeal invited to address the audience. The event features local Farm Bureau leaders including H. Mobley and KB Short presenting programs from the College of Agriculture and related extension services.
Centerville hosted a Council of County meeting with twelve clubs in attendance. The event featured club reports, a Melrose Club showcase, and demonstrations by the Ovan Baul group, plus entries from the McCaskill and Melrose clubs.
An event titled Sale Dance is planned at Hope Country Club on Friday night featuring performances by Latelle Oghurn and Danner, with a schedule at Welock. A floor show is prepared, and a cemetery work is noted at Mt Nel. Tickets and seating details appear unclear in the fragmented text.
Arkansas municipal leaders gathered Thursday to urge renewal of gas tax funds for cities and to plan a legislative push for the 1908 session. Attendees discussed shifting revenue from highway taxes and potential votes on future aid, with officials including Marianna city manager Muechener and Governor Bailey’s campaign team in attendance.
A cryptic line references that those who are thin must worship in truth, invoking spiritual themes and John 4:24 as a scriptural anchor about worshiping in spirit and truth.
A fragment question and instruction set describe expected sailor conduct and etiquette at sea. It asks about behavior on deck, interaction with others, and giving candy to travelers while noting casual social rules for a good sailor.
Washington reports 27 million acres of cotton under cultivation this summer the smallest since 1900. The Federal Crop Reporting Board says Arkansas had 2.474 million acres in cultivation July 1, down 0 from 1937 levels.
Texarkana deputy prosecuting attorney George F. Edwards was principal speaker at the sixen weeks meeting of the Man of the Christian Church. Other speakers included C B Lowtharp and Rev V A Hammond. The program featured music by Paul Philbrick and Othel Taylor and a supper served by church ladies. The next meeting will host a Watermelon Festival in August.
Cheyenne Wyoming reports a new vaccine to prevent Rocky Mountain spotted fever in people bitten by wood ticks. State health officer Dr GM Anderson notes early counts show 20 cases this year, well below 1995, 47 in 1950s, and 61 in 1937. The vaccine, supplied by the U S Public Health Service from Hamilton Montana, is widely used in the western states where the tick-borne disease is common. The king salmon travels Yuko river long distance noted in report.
Opening night at Fair Park drew about 350 as three softball games kicked off the first half champion series. Prescott beat City League All-Stars 8 7, Prescott girls defeated Ashdown 21 1, and Commercial League beat Ashdown 22 7 with multiple homers. Gate receipts totaled 4245 to retire debt on lighting equipment, regular games start Friday with J C Fenty company versus Braner, National Guards vs Hopa Basket, all free admission.
Nevada county annual singing convention will be held at Willisville shoal Sunday July 10. WoT Mani, president of the county organization, announced the event. Public invited. business session and officer elections at 8:00. Also notes Ohio salary trends for earlier years.
A reader poses true or false statements from a classified page quiz. The items include: Albert LaBrun as French president, Katherine Hepburn for Gone With the Wind, a karat as a unit, Cracow as capital of Por Tau, and a wooden nail. The note asks which are true and false.
A Northwest Airlines transport plane with eight passengers and two crew crashed at the field end during takeoff in Billings Montana. One person died in hospital, and seven others were injured. Passenger Mrs N S MacKay of Evanston Illinois died of injuries.
The Rotary club voted to meet jointly with the Kiwanis club next Tuesday at 12 15 in Hotel Barlow. Edward A. O Neal president of the National Farm Bureau Federation will be the luncheon guest of the Kiwanians. The meeting covered the Rotary International conference in San Si The Rey with news of the opening ceremony and flags of 50 nations. Florence Hyatt named as new pianist replacing Kate Scott Bolland who resigned. Three Prescott guests attended: Sam Cadenhead Hubert Whittaker and Rev Harmon B Ramsey.
LITTLE ROCK UPI State Auditor Humphrey issued warrants totaling 49,605.04 dollars to counties as settlements for land redemptions. Clark received 238.76 dollars, Arkansas 1,053.63, Columbia 18.77, Hot Spring 0.67, Ouachita 267.47, Pope 459.44, Union 3.50, White 1,935.26, Hempstead 338.43.
Water at Minnehaha Falls remains bone dry for years, only flowing when a valve is opened at a cost of 25 cents. Thousands of visitors, drawn by Longfellow’s poem and the bronze statue of the Indian warrior with Minnehaha, find the famous chasm parched, a disappointment as they study the dry scene.
Detroit gangster Anthony Chebatoris was hanged by the federal government in Milan Michigan becoming the first capital punishment victim in the state in 108 years. He was executed under the national bank robbery act for an abortive holdup September 23 at Midland where bystander Henry Porter was killed.
HOT SPRINGS AR Harvey C Couch and Antanas Power and Light Co directors inspected the Blakely mountain site for a 170 foot dam and 4,000 foot crest to form a 36 mile long flood control power reservoir. Government participation reduces storage cost to about 2 million while AP & L bears roughly 4 million. The project covers 25,000 acres inundated with houses and farms, and aims for flood protection on the Quachita and possibly to Saline mouth.
Little Rock Arkansas. Super intendent J H Glass of the Arkansas Anti Saloon League said petitions to place a vote on a proposed initiated act to simplify local option election procedures would be filed with the secretary of state during the day.
A bomb blast at Jerusalem's Jaffa gate killed four Arabs and wounded 36, marking another deadly outbreak as Britain tries to crush terror with warships and troop reinforcements.
The AAA reported that local farmers' committees and associations spent 524,640 dollars in Arkansas to implement the 1936 agricultural conservation program. County expenses included Hempstead 8,696.75. Clark 6,322. Columbia 8,535.75. Ouachita 5,787. Union 8,999.48. Pope 7,630.25. White 9,679.75. Arkansas 7,405.87. Hot Spring 4,872.00.
Curtis Neal aged 19 and Hugh Marshall Jr aged 22, both of Indianapolis, were put to death in the electric chair for the $1.25 robbery murder of William Bright in Michigan City Indiana.
A Washington Indiana man bought two railroad tickets to Petersburg but remained calm when told the next train would not depart for 48 hours. He claimed he had hitchhiked from Princeton to Washington many times and bought the tickets only to ease his conscience.
London society figure Ursula Waldron organizes a corps of emergency aviators for wartime use. The proposed uniform includes dark grey flannel slacks with a feathered golf coat in summer and flying suit in winter, signaling a mobilization of female pilots in Britain. Paul Hough suffers sixth June injury as truck axle accident causes skull and leg fractures.
Senator Hattie Caraway announced the White House confirms President Roosevelt will make a platform appearance at Booneville when his special train arrives around 10 o clock tomorrow morning. She plans to join the presidential party and may de train at Booneville.
New Orleans cotton opened Friday at 9.03 and closed down 16 points amid volatile trading. Traders cited unsettled conditions and thin liquidity as factors in the early session plunge.
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