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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1949
Page
3
A Hempstead health notice warns vacationers about sun exposure risks during outdoor activities. It advises wearing hats and appropriate clothing, avoiding swimming after meals, checking boats for leaks, and seeking prompt medical care for heat illness or snake bites.
Little Rock reports 47 poliomyelitis cases by last Saturday, more than six times the 7 cases for the same period in 1948. Twelve new cases were added last week with four in Craighead and three in Mississippi counties, according to the state health department weekly report.
Dr Frank Oppenheimer testified before the House Un American Activities Committee admitting three years of Communist Party membership before wartime work on the atomic bomb He and his wife joined in 1937 left after three and a half years to seek unemployment relief and change He was then an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota and worked at the University of California radiation laboratory in Berkeley 1941 1947
New York June 14 Plans for a coal industry czar to coordinate soft coal operations near completion. The New York Times says John L. Lewis and much of northern coal support the move, with Harry M. Moses named as potential coordinator per Iron Age. Steel and coal sources neither deny nor confirm.
June activities include First Baptist church gatherings with youth meetings at 6 40 pm and various prayer and choir sessions. Central Baptist hosts Bible study from 2 40 to 9 pm, while Presbyterian choir meets Thursday. Softball games at Cummins Field feature Hardware and Ward's of the City. Community Band concert planned Friday on the Court House lawn under R E Lindblad. Local social events include a bridge party hosted by Mrs Vaughn Bright and notes on club activities and visits from area residents.
Betty Ruth Etheridge of Crossett Arkansas was installed as national president of the Future Homemakers of America during the opening day of a three day southern regional convention in Memphis. She succeeds Shirley Osborn of Harper Kansas and the election was limited to delegates from Louisiana Oklahoma and Arkansas. The session drew about 1500 delegates from 12 southern states and Puerto Rico with participants from Florida Virginia Oklahoma Texas North Carolina Alabama Georgia and Louisiana.
Washington June 14 The House un American Activities Committee voted to grant Dr Howard A Condon a hearing upon request He is director of the Federal Bureau of Standards If he does not request a hearing Rep Nixon said he will push for one Oppenheimer admitted he was a Communist for three and a half years before the atom bomb project Nixon criticized departmental handling of espionage reports and Judith Caplan case renewal.
The first day of a month-long aerial campaign began from five bases across Wyoming and Montana to target grasshopper nests. U S Agriculture official Lup Iverson said, We are just beginning to give them hell. Bug experts roamed a 31 million acre danger zone to pick out the worst territories for bombing aims.
County maps show critical hopper populations from 30 to 200 per square yard. New poisons chloradane and toxaphene will be spread by planes over infested zones. Four tenths of an ounce in five pounds of bran covers an acre. USDA expects 95 percent relative insect loss. Half-grown hoppers could swarm within 10 days, laying eggs by July end and threatening grain on ranges as Iverson notes 30 grasshoppers per yard eat 350 pounds of forage per acre.
Ranchers say local acreage cannot sustain livestock in good times. With insufficient feed, the only options are shipping stock to pastures in other states or sending animals to slaughterhouses.
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