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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1937
Page
3
The town plans a beauty contest Monday to select a queen for the Peach Festival. A representative from Nashville will sponsor a candidate. Audience voting will determine the winner who will compete against other towns’ entrants. The event will be held at the local theater with the festival on July 2.
Testimony given before the commission on an application for approval of a railroad project faced questions from board chair Ruisiana and Arkansas rail officials amid concerns over DISLIKE expressed toward Harvey Jatter and the process.
Senate Democrat from Montana accuses the administration of prejudice behind the court bill. The debate centers on the measure as Wheeler says he has never seen such a move to bias public opinion. In Raleigh, Robert Glenn Brown, 19, was executed for the ax slaying of J A Xuecock, 18, storekeeper at Newm. In Milledgeville, Mitchett Jackson, 26, died in the electric chair for the murder of his employer Mrs Fluker. In Lonoke, a circuit judge refused a new trial for Lester Brockelhurst, 71, death row inmate. The defense has four days to perfect an appeal to the state supreme court, delaying execution until after the summer recess.
New York report says Samuel J. Siegel, attorney for Frank Wallace Mae Wests husband, seeks half of her fortune. Siegel claims Wallace 47 vaudeville actor should receive 1 half of the reputed 3 thousand dollars. An injunction to tie up Wests California property is expected next week under California law.
The Ozan Methodist and Baptist missionary groups met Tuesday afternoon with plans and programs prepared by committee members. The Ozan-St. Paul Home Demonstration club held a social with singing, devotional, and planning for future events at the Jones residence. Various home improvements and leased property activities were noted in town, including Barrow renovations and a new AAA station opening.
The quarterly meeting at Ozan High School on July 14 featured reports by club members on foods canning fairly products clothing landscaping gardening poultry home management taxation and discipline of children. Re-seating old chairs was shown. Social games included jumbled names a spelling match and a grinning contest with prize winners Floyd Matthews Annie Fonswine and Helen Mise. A punch and cake service followed.
A singing school will begin at the Gospel Tabernacle next Monday night at 7:45 with the Odom Brothers in charge. Enrollment is 30 cents per week with new books and materials on hand. Each of the four brothers covers different subjects from fundamentals to advanced music in a large regional event expected to draw attendees from nearby areas.
At Fort Smith Arkansas a car crash killed B Green Burkett while en route to attend his brother David Y Burkett's funeral in Conway Oklahoma. Burkett aged about 9? fractured skull from the overturned vehicle near Gore Oklahoma Wednesday night. Injuries also left Ben Lewis 43 seriously hurt, as the party headed to Oklahoma for the services.
A core was taken at the Boettcher Oil and Gas Company test well near Okay at 1360 feet. Drillers were instructed to proceed with another core. the formation matched the one deeper in a separate Saratoga well. The drill stem is being hurriedly sunk to determine the field with no delays expected.
The Miller county board recommended J Lee Timberlake of Texarkana for assistant conservation agent in Miller county. Three special drilling permits were granted in Miller county with action deferred on five other operator permits in Miller field and one in Union county. Permits went to H F Schweer for a well on a Cancer M E church lot and to C Andrade on a five acre tract in section 15 24 23.
Chairman C C Bailey of the Arkansas board of conservation announced a hearing for July 20 in El Dorado to take testimony on proposed rules governing the new Miller county oil field. The session covered applications for permits to drill on tracts under 10 acres in the Rodessa extension and discussed casing, spacing, and well allowables. No action was taken on the proposed rules or a 20 to 30 acre unit plan with 30 percent prorating and 50 percent based on acreage.
Financial notice lists capital stock, surplus, undivided profits, and deposits with totals. Names and figures appear in fragmented form, indicating a balance sheet summary from a local or small institution.
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