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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1942
Page
6
War Wardrobe guidance notes apparel useful for travel and staycations this season. Emphasizes practical outfits for sidewalks and roads, with travel wear sized for limited trips and weekends in town. Highlights double duty pieces like a jackable traveling suit and a simple blouse suitable for varied settings.
Fashion notes urge separate pieces for town and country wear with cottons and rayons dominant. Designers showcase versatile ensembles allowing color, texture, and pattern mixing across jackets, skirts, and blouses. Benjamin Franklin is referenced forecasting the fuse of parallel troops.
Prescott News reports Mr and Mrs John Marshall Pittman head the effort to furnish a day room for soldiers at Camp Robinson. The local Red Cross was asked to contribute, donations are still welcome, and a further requisition has arrived. Calls for donations may contact 142. Nearby visitors included Mrs C C Lewis and Mrs T W Young of Mane and John Green and David D Terry of Little Rock.
War time travel limits shape a new domestic vacation pattern with 60 million Americans planning two week trips largely within the United States and Canada. Mobility is constrained by rubber and fuel shortages, but travel aims to be flexible, with rail and road options, resort horses and buggies, bicycle tours, and river cruises touted as practical ways to enjoy time off while supporting wartime needs.
In St. Charles Virginia Mrs Sale Smith misplaced cash after storing money in bags. She later disposed of waste paper bags, one containing the cash and the other waste, only to have the bag with money burned in disposal. Ashes were sent to the U.S. Treasury to recover serial numbers.
A New York professor from Cormic University claims authorship of a scholarly scoop in a book of letters to English poets. The volume allegedly contains letters by William Wordsworth Samuel Coleridge and Robert Southey never published before.
A lively note contemplates continuing the Our Daily Bread page one with satire. The exchange weighs in on proceeding with the satirical approach.
A long list of individuals is shown as contributors or participants in the USO drive. The names include John Rindes F S Moses Mrs J B Moses Chester McCaskill H M Rhodes J A Sevedge Homer Hawkins R B Sudduth Susie White Wallace Rody Harap Rhodes C L Denials P M Rhodes Janie Hopkins Ed Rhodes Mrs Rube Griffin C A Hamilton E W Brown 3 M Hampton Lula Wardlaw Mrs I D Eley Truel Roberts Mr and Mrs G O L Reaves Cecil Raleigh R E Rodgers I He Wortham Bert Scott John Greene D B McCaskill Betram Sweat Miss Ollie Gunn Mrs Ollie Gorham Emmet Sweat John Gaines Mrs John Gaines Cloid Bittle J S Bittiel ey and Mrs J O Harris H B Eley Lester York Ralph York W B Porterfield J L Buckley W D Hood Oscar Stone Bert Montgomery W H White M BW Curtis R F Curtis Ceril Hicks Mrs It Wa Patmos Frank Seapraves Rufus Martina Ray Smith Elmer Thomas l Rider Paul Speck John A Wallace M B Thomas Roy Morgan Mrs L Wiggins E S Brown B J Drake N G Thomas Co L Turner E C Turner Guy Martin Taines Anderson O T Weider Ployd Rogers W AL Davis Rey Gurls Clifton Formby Co P Jones S R Hamilton K G Retelife Potal ore BOGE 2S
Buenos Aires AP reports prodemocratic student unrest at a university during a philosophy lecture. Indignant students absenting themselves from class caused a corridor din and took several into custody. Twenty three students including eleven women were detained, later released after dawn disciplinary talks.
Denver AP deputy sheriff R. George Woods says a device used by a gang of boys, aged 12 to 14, is the grand daddy of all bean shooters. The contraption uses a forked tree branch, inner tubing, and stretched rubber to launch large stones, requiring two padmen to pull it to full power.
A World War I unit report notes that Company I of the 72d Infantry Regiment included a large share of Olahoma Indians.
T P Boyd of Emmett FP B Miller of Evening Shade and Way Allen of Hope will represent Hempstead county at the 1942 Summer Poultry School to be held by the University of Arkansas College of Agriculture at the University Farm near Fayetteville. Oliver L Adams county agent announced Wednesday. The school aims to teach flock selection and pullorum testing for the National Poultry Improvement Plan, with courses in breeding housing feeding and disease plus culling and testing. On July 9 the school will join the Arkansas Poultry Improvement Association annual meeting. No fees for attendance. enrollment open to anyone interested in poultry production. Inquiries may be made at the county Extension office or to S A Moore, Extension poultryman, Fayetteville Arkansas.
Denver aviation group launches glider training aiming to spread to colleges and high schools nationwide. Ardell, chief instructor at Dover University, argues gliding provides a sound pilot training path postwar and cites Germany’s program as a model for youth aviation education.
Hempstead County Farm Bureau reports federal and bank loan rates at 3 percent for two more years if legislation passes. President T A Cornelius says House already passed Pierce Bill extending the 3 percent rate. Senate backed Bankhead Bill extending commissioner loans four years. Farm Bureau supports both.
Mr Cornelius cites 1935 land bank and commissioner loan rate reductions as saving Hempstead County farmers thousands yearly and estimates national annual savings around 40 million dollars. He notes Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation and county affiliates support the extension of the 3 percent rate while Colorado holds 3 400 000 acres under irrigation as the second largest in the nation.
Hempstead County farmers harvest seed for horse use facing heating and poor germination. County agent Mr. Adams notes moisture issues after harvest and advises spreading seed in a shed or ventilated room and turning for even drying. After drying, seed should be cleaned and stored in bins. A sample should be analyzed before sale, and Extension No. 33 on Legume Seed Vest is available.
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