Mosquito Drive To Start Here This Week
City launches Intensive Clean Up to cut mosquito breeding. Residents urged to place water vessels on sidewalks for easy pickup and disposal. Campaign aims to reduce the menace and improve public health.
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1942
Page
5
City launches Intensive Clean Up to cut mosquito breeding. Residents urged to place water vessels on sidewalks for easy pickup and disposal. Campaign aims to reduce the menace and improve public health.
Social calendar lists church circles meeting July 13 and 14 at various homes, a mission study at First Baptist, and knitting for the Red Cross. A wedding announcement covers Miss Josephine Morris and Malcolm Pressley married July 10 at First Christian church with reception. couple to reside in Texarkana.
An iron lung donated by Bud Abbot and Lou Costello aided 4 year old Okla. boy Williams who had lived on artificial respiration for 22 weeks. Doctors described the survival as a miracle and noted he can now breathe for up to two and a half hours, though a full recovery remained unlikely.
Charles L. Wilson, executive director of the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission, is named regional representative for the Bureau of Employment. He will supervise the United States Employment Service in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma as part of the Kansas City regional office.
Daughters of Jonesboro and Fort Smith host at Kyler home. Horace and Rogers kin visit. Lt Clyde Hill returns to Fort Leonard Wood after time with relatives. Trimble couple back to EL Dorado from visits. Mrs Owen and daughter Wendel from Texarkana. Molt and Holt family hosts. Craws kin from Waco visit. Ward and Whitton sisters from Springfield stay with relatives. Mary Beth Routon of Little Rock visits grandparents. Charles R Briant, stationed in Ketchikan, Alaska, promoted to Corporal.
Collingswood New Jersey July 13 A minister once praying for divine intervention to stop the Camden New Jersey race track asks President Roosevelt to seize the $2,000,000 park and keep it from opening He says WPA laborers built nine outbuildings days after the War Production Board deadline The track set to open a 48 day meeting with top horses entered The pastor led prayers that this race against the government shall fail.
Aubrey Bailey writes from San Francisco in 1942 asking for the addresses of Navy friends and a subscription to Hope Star with price and delivery details. The Editor notes plans to offer reduced rates for armed services personnel and explains delivery challenges for troops and Guard units in federal service.
Edward C Spillers of Hope son of Mr and Mrs Ernest L Spillers has reported to the Lubbock Army Flying School Texas for the final lap of training to become a flying sergeant at the large Lubbock twin engine school commanded by Col Thomas L Gilbert He will complete the training begun in January at Bryton Flying Service and Brady Texas Upon graduation he will be commissioned Staff Sergeant and assigned to active Air Forces duty A salesman in civilian life he was a CMTC member and National Guard veteran and attended an Air Forces technical school at Chanute Field Illinois prior to becoming an aviation student.
Washington solid fuels office urged advertising campaigns asking fuel oil users to convert furnaces from oil to coal and border coal now along eastern states.
Clyde Pawson of the Canadian Intelligence Service investigates a severed hand linked to Darwin Lemoy later revealed as Lee Moy Statler. Dawson traces a Nazi-aligned alum and a mysterious actress, pursuing clues from Chicago to Halifax while a new murder case motives unfold at sea and in Newfoundland.
New Orleans announces that young men aged 18 to 27 who have completed high school may enter civilian pilot training as Naval Reservists and progress to full Naval flight training. The program offers pay during training, free lodging during civilian phase, uniforms, and eventual commission in the U S Naval Reserve or Marine Corps Reserve. Applicants must be unmarried and physically fit, with board offices open 8 am to 6 pm daily at 910 Canal Building.
New York profile of Brigadier General James Doolittle as a stylish, forceful officer. The story details his charismatic entrance, pleated trousers, and a Parisian-like party with Paul V. McNutt and others at the Lexington Hotel. Anecdotes highlight his temper, leadership presence, and resolve after Pearl Harbor.
Herankara Turkey United States ambassador Laurence Steinhardt joined UN and Axis diplomats at the funeral for former Premier Saydam yesterday. Hitler and Mussolini sent wreaths. leaders from multiple nations observed the ceremony.
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