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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1954
Page
4
The column riffs on a misattributed Emerson quote about better mouse traps and runs through a humorous anecdote about a man visiting a drugstore. It debates who first said the line, questions the value of Emerson’s example, and muses on invention, distribution, and the risk of copying successful ideas.
In Portland Maine Gen Margaret Chase Smith campaigns against Robert L Jones as Sen Joe McCarthy’s ally amid a heated Republican primary. The rivals staged late night TV appearances and exchanged sharp rebuttals in public forums.
Revival services at Unity Baptist Church of Hope begin today with twice daily sessions at 10:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Eld. Richard Wallere, pastor of First Baptist Church of Waldo, will preach. Massey, pastor of Red Routhside at Springs, will assist.
The University of Arkansas Fruit and Truck Branch Station hosts the 2d visiting day for southwest Arkansas farmers on Friday June 25 with a separate day for Negro farm families on Saturday June 26. Dr James H Hilton will speak Friday afternoon with a campus tour and demonstrations in cotton insect control pasture crops rice cookery and horticulture. The program features university researchers and extension staff plus a youth program and farm women sessions. Lunch is available on both days.
Arkansas Supreme Court approves the disbarment of former Paragould City Attorney Horace W. Whitgitt for misconduct after a lengthy hearing. The decision upholds claims of bribery and withholding facts from clients and relatives in a high profile case.
Washington reports Sen. Mundt says 40 day televised Army hearings revealed salient facts and that lawmakers may spend 20 years chasing details. He announced no postponement of consultative talks with Republicans and three Democrats on vetting Special Counsel Ray H Jenkins to help write the inquiry. Jenkins, Knoxville lawyer, voiced readiness to serve and potential Senate run questions linger.
Hempstead County Democratic Central Committee will meet at Hope City Hall at 10 a m Friday June 26 to draw for ballot places and to consider renaming Clow Mineciecle community. Chairman W S Atlin announced the meeting and agenda.
President Eisenhower plans to urge British Prime Minister Churchill to back a new international conference on anti Communist defenses in Southeast Asia. Talks with Churchill and Eden are set for next weekend and will be secret. Indochina crisis tops the agenda with aims to unite Allied European and Asian nations against Communist expansion.
Geneva reporting states 14 Americans dead or missing amid Red China detentions. State Department cites 15 airmen in jail and 12 unaccounted. two released exit visa requests, one not detained. U S seeks release through Geneva talks with Chinese delegates and Far Eastern Conference participants.
All Negro youths aged 12 to 18 are invited to a meeting on Saturday June 26 at 12 noon at the new picnic grounds to organize a junior baseball league. Invited from Washington Prescott Hope Emmet Fulton Blevins McCaskill Rosston Spring Hill and Mt Oliva. Boys encouraged to bring gloves. Sponsors are Earl Sells and Verda Phillips.
Hempstead Courthouse will be closed all day Wednesday per Mrs. Bobby Parker. A inspectors conference will be held in Hot Springs. Mrs. W. G. Fairchild of Hope Route Two reports 20 bushels of onions, 13 weighing 15 12 pounds. Arkansas State Police logged 362 accidents with 4 deaths in May. 237 injured across 262 wrecks, 225 rural, 12 urban. Hempstead had seven accidents with no fatalities. Slowing down and obeying traffic rules urged. Mrs. R. M. Burney of Hope among 325 Wheaton College graduates earning BA in economics and business. Richard recognized as best blocker on varsity football and all-conference. Charles C. Spragins received gold gift for five years at Citizens National Bank. Rotary plaque for second in Rotary membership. Ouachita Dean’s List honorees include Ja 4one Burroughs, Marlyn Shiver, Melvin Farash earning BA degrees. Burroughs named Ouachita Man of the Year and Cadet Major with tender ment OS cone.
United Nations Security Council discussion on Guatemala ends with an American warning to the Soviet Union to stay out of the hemisphere. Russia votes against referring the matter to the Organization of American States, while the OAS plans an investigation despite Guatemala’s objections. Ambassador Lodge denounces Moscow as the veto blocks further action.
Edward Hopper of Greenville Mississippi was designated resident engineer of Narrows Dam near Martyeesboro Arle by Col Thomas B Simpson District Engineer. He assumed duties June 20 and will reside in Murfreesboro. He replaces Richard C Warder who moved to the Omaha District. Hopper brings varied river engineering and dredging experience with the Vicksburg District and McWilliams Dredging Company, and previously led the Minor Repair Unit. He is the son of a Methodist minister, born in Tocopola Mississippi, and his wife Bessie Perry Hopper and daughter Martha Sue will join him in Murfreesboro.
Memorial notices list Reverend Hugh Faught age 83 of Center as to be buried at Ayers Cemetery. Funeral services are scheduled for Monday at Cen tery Home with arrangements handled by the settlement religious community.
French troops reported landing operations on an island with Reds allegedly hiding underground near bamboo huts. Units advanced cautiously through villages, claiming no resistance encountered while hundreds of Communists burst from hideouts and fled toward the mainland as artillery and infantry joined the assault.
A Pacific freight train collided with a pickup truck near Pace killing five family members from an Oklahoma farm family. One girl escaped injury. Lyla Davis, 23, wife of Jack Davis, was among the deceased. two others, Myrtle and Sam Poviss, and Betty Jean, 17, plus the infant Brenda Capel Davis, died. Jack Davis was injured and a child born dead to Lyla Davis. One of the injured remained in critical condition.
E H Montgomery aged 61 died at his home in town after a brief illness. He is survived by his wife and two children. Funeral arrangements were not yet announced by the Montgomery family.
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