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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1932
Page
2
The Star announces charges for tributes, cards of banks, resolutions, and memorials about the departed in its news columns to limit space. It disclaims responsibility for life-keeping or return of unsolicited imprints.
The Star outlines municipal goals to boost Hope with Aggy revenues for power plant development, more city pavement in 1932, and better alley sanitation. Hempstead County pursues annual all-weather road work to cut dirt roads, support for agricultural progress, and farmer cooperation. The state seeks highway progress and budget-driven tax reform for efficient government.
The piece notes that for the first time more people are leaving the United States than arriving. It marks the end of a vast pioneer era, with immigration shrinking to about one third of emigration and the continent filling up beyond future expansion. The emotional takeaway highlights a shift from boom times to tighter economic life and harder social mobility.
Massachusetts authorities plan a rigorous check of tires on motorists. The state registrar may order drivers with badly worn tires to install new ones or surrender their licenses. The piece stresses worn tires pose blowout risks and dangerous driving, urging action to remove such tires from highways.
The piece argues counties are too small and numerous for modern travel speeds. It urges redrawing county lines to form larger units so fewer governments levy taxes and spend, reducing overall expense. A nationwide reorganization of county government is proposed before taxpayers can see relief.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt boasts of Rhode Island delivering electoral votes after a productive term. John Flanagan criticizes modern art as nonsense and questions appeal of the George Washington quarter design.
A cast of hundreds from nearly every Arkansas county will perform the 14th Farmers Week pageant George Washington the Farmer on August 4 in Fayetteville. Miss Annie Stark Foster directs music as the tale covers Washington from boyhood to Congress with 4-H and Home Demonstration Club participants contributing choruses and country scenes. A coronation by Gov Parnell caps the event with a star spangled finale and taps.
Hot spells ease but cooler air arrives as community reports multiple visits and gatherings. Burial of Mrs Buck noted. extended family and friends from Red River Red Lake Fulton and Battlefield visit, attend meetings, and participate in a Fayetteville orchestra pageant segment.
Government supervised seal herd on the Pribilof islands is forecast to yield between fifty thousand and sixty thousand skins during the 1932 hunting season.
Earl Brazell Dave Finley and Young Foster played with the Prescott team in a series against Nashville. Asbury Dudley visited Texarkana on Wednesday. Hon Carl Von Jagersfeld from Washington shopped with his wife in Hope on Thursday. Mrs Jagersfeld is former Miss Themi Brady. Ten years ago T M Gorham and others planned a Nashville Highland outing. S B Henry and M F Serrest traveled to El Dorado Saturday. Miss Mary Freeman of Prescott visits Mrs Birdie Rhea Mc Daniels in this city.
Qtan Miss Mary Roberts of Fulton visits relatives here. Mrs. Roy Meyers of Dallas stays with her parents Mr. and Mrs. N. R. Lewis. Miss Ruth Clendenin of Columbus visits Miss Ethel Roberson. A J Robins and O C Robbins attended a political rally in Hope. B C Webb and Charley Irvin visited Hope. Miss Lillian Robins and Mrs. J K Green shopped in Hope. Mr and Mrs Davis and daughter of Lewisville attended Baptist meeting. Mrs Lee Shofner of Fort Worth visits her parents. Rev Wheeler of Fort Worth conducts revival at the Baptist church. Everyone invited to attend.
Doyle Van Brandon attended Sunday school at this place. Mr and Mrs Walter Balch and their children and Mr and Mrs J W Balch attended their mother's birthday dinner Sunday. All 12 children were there except Mrs Clide Hutson. Three grandchildren were present. Miss Mattie Harper attended the singing at Bing Friday night. Mrs Jeffers and daughter Birtie Belle visited Mrs Vivian Byers who has been ill. Rev Jones will preach Sunday and Sunday night. Revival begins the second Sunday in August.
Henry O Malley commissioner of the bureau of fisheries, now in Alaska for the summer, reports the salmon run in the Chignik river as the largest in history.
Mona Moran pursues wealth while her former lover Steve Saccarolla returns after three years abroad in Brazil as a partner in a Brazilian business. He plans a grand NYC display, including gifts and a swanky supper club outing, while Mona navigates love, loyalty, and family duty amid high society pressure.
Dr. Paul Bartsch of the Smithsonian reports noddy terns in the Florida keys adapt to barren shorelines. After a storm swept all vegetation from a key, terns lay eggs on the ground and place a few dead twigs around them or incubate on bare boards, showing a preference for any nearby wood to support nests.
The column records sick friend Marie Ward improving at Sardis Route 2 and lists numerous visits and gatherings among local families. It mentions Miss Eza Porterfied, Nellie May, Cora Crews, Oscar Middlebrooks, Basil Rider, Dorothy Rider, Patmos residents, Emma Mayton, Lona Rider, Ivy Rogers, Johnnie Porterfield, Brent Jones, Opal Mayton, Dora Taylor, Cleve Mayton, Bob Mayton, and church at Hinton.
Willisville residents hosted visitors including the Simpsons and West family. A new gym project is set to begin next Monday though smaller than the old one. Singing schools continue at Rosston Whites Chapel and Arl Fincher teaches at Whites Chapel. Farmers near completion of crop work prepare for vacation.
A fragment from a London report describes "Dora" as a lively figure in wartime Britain, with a misused name highlighting tensions over Defense of the Realm measures. Publican curfews and post midnight wine sales become flashpoints as the new Defense of Rights Amusements society pushes Parliament to act.
England's Royal Air Force trains its airplane gunnery using a flying target towed behind a fast aircraft. The target is a winged disk used to indicate direction at airports. Gunners locate the moving target and fire. holes from hits puncture the target.
Railways launch a promotional scheme to win tourist patronage with special rates for journeys and car transportation to a headquarters with return trips offered free of charge.
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