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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1945
Page
3
Social Calendar notes a regular Men's Fellowship meeting Thursday at 7 30 with dinner at 8 and a program. Sunday July 1 the church hosts a basket picnic at Fair Park at 7 with vesper services. No choir rehearsal this week.
Mr and Mrs Barney Cox announce the marriage of their daughter Miss Mary Jane Cox to Clinton G Taylor of this city. The ceremony occurred at 8:30 Tuesday evening at the minister’s home, Reverend Waymon Der of the Church of Christ officiating. The bride wore blue with white accessories and a sweet pea corsage. Attendants were Mr and Mrs Clarence Weakley. Mrs Taylor is a graduate of Pris High School and for a time.
A secretary employed by the West Coast Land Co of El Monte California will marry Mr Taylor who is an employee of the Star. The couple plan to make their home in Hope.
Mr and Mrs Samuel Madison Pankey of Emmet announce the engagement of their daughter Mary Elizabeth Pankey to Mr Charles Dennis Smyth, both of Shreveport Louisiana. The wedding is planned for Plain Dealing at the bride’s sister home on Saturday July 7 after a luncheon in the Zypher room on June 23.
St Julian E Spillers arrived Monday for a 60 day furlough visit with Mrs Spillers and son David Lt Spillers has just arrived from the European theater where he was a prisoner of the Germans for 15 months Otto Mike Schweiker Cox arrived Monday for a furlough visit with his parents He has served in the Pacific for four years Lt Carl McCafferty arrived from New Orleans for a visit with Mrs McCafferty and family Major MacDuffie arrived Tuesday for a leave with his family He has just returned from the European theater where he was a prisoner of the Germans for two and a half months He will have a 60 day leave Mrs Duffie and sons Don
Richard met him in New Port News Virginia and returned to Hope with him. Robert Bales arrived Tuesday for a 15 day furlough visit with his parents here. Pfe Louis Crain arrived Tuesday for a 30 day furlough visit. he has just returned from overseas duty in Europe. Mrs H C Whitworth will leave today for New Orleans to take Master Frank Kirk to join his parents. Miss Loretta James and Master Kirk James returned from California. Sgt Luther Reynerson and family visiting from Blytheville. Reverend Glenn Hutton and family guests including Pfe Glenn Hutton Jr and George Dale Slade and George Edward Hutton. Mrs Henry Dillard and daughters visited from Hobbs NM. Pfe Thomas C Gorham will leave Sunday for LaGuardia Hospital after 45 day furlough. Miss Phyllis Denty visiting. Mrs P J Holt returned from funeral in Lewisville. Mr and Mrs Clyde Osborn host dinner guest. S/Sgt Imon E Stone returned home with honorable discharge after three years overseas and over 100 service points.
Washington June 25 Lend-lease supplies cut off to surrendered areas are being shipped to western Russia and Siberia at the request of U S military leaders. Leo T Crowley testified that a separate military sponsored program will continue aid to Russia in Siberia until advised to stop by the president and top military advisers.
Dorothy Dix answers readers on midlife marital boredom and age gaps. She explains men often retreat from romance in the forties and fifties, urges patience and grooming to prevent lapses, and cautions that large age gaps ruin compatibility. A 54 year old’s love for an 18 year old is deemed unsafe and unlikely to succeed. A reader complains of hair loss and receives a sly suggestion to wear a transformation.
Crowley quoted that top military strategists view the Sibberian lend-lease as essential to American aims. He said Russia entering the war against Japan could pin down many Japanese troops in northern Manchuria, keeping forces from the Asiatic theater.
Washington June 26 UP The House rejected a proposal to discharge all fathers of four or more children who request release The vote was 115 to 89 Rep Albert J Engel Mich offered the amendment to the 1946 War Department appropriation bill He said about 35 009 men fit the criterion and 15 000 would qualify automatically or by age The measure would have required prior to Sept 1 and estimated about half of the rest would seek ease
The House passed by voice vote a war bill to fund the Army with 36.5 billion dollars for the year starting July, pushing total war funding to about 410 billion. If Japan is defeated before June 30 1946 this will be the last massive supply measure of the war, per the House Appropriations Committee.
June 26. Director Hendrix Lackey of the State Resources and Development Commission said Assistant Editor Frederick Simpich of National Geographic is expected to arrive in Arkansas this week to begin assembling material for an article to appear in an upcoming spring edition. Photographer Willard Culver has visited most parts of the state and expects to finish in about a week.
Robbie Fern Teague twelve of Guion Izard County drowned in a creek near her residence Monday after stepping into a deep hole while wading with three other girls. The child could not swim and her body was recovered by her father Stanley Teague. Her mother Louise Cooper resides in Kansas City.
A crash prone high Himalaya flight story recalls the Dinjan to Kunming leg of the hump route. Captains Petach and Fox and pilot narrator face violent updrafts near Schneiching peak, narrowly avoiding disaster as Fox crashes and Petach barely misses. Skippy Lane sums the grit: some seek medals, others wars.
A medical officer notes guerrilla fighters and local scouts in jungle combat. Filipinos ferret out snipers, locate ammunition beneath a floor, and uncover a mine under a banana leaf, while two KPs gather rice as enemy fire erupts. Sergeant Lodo balances combat and music, a stark contrast in wartime.
The article explains how the five permanent Security Council members can block action with a veto, while smaller nations hold a counter veto. It discusses scenarios where majority rules could change UN effectiveness and sovereignty. It notes the U.S. Senate would insist on veto rights to avoid being overruled.
Allied forces advance through mountains to mop up scattered Japanese positions. Air forces drop 292 tons on enemy holdings in Luzon and Mineanao operations. Additional 260 tons hit airfields along the Macassar Strait as Borneo coast pounding continues. A Tokyo radio claim reports a cruiser sunk and another damaged off Balikpapan.
Lawler urged an immediate increase in egg ceilings arguing higher prices would encourage more producers to keep laying hens, boosting egg output. He noted current OPA ceilings fail to match black market margins or profits from other lines, and egg supply is worsened by spring stockpiling and anticipated shortfalls in the second half of the year.
On Okinawa the army commander Lt Gen Ushijima and his chief of staff Lt Gen Cho dined in full dress uniforms then performed hara kiri for suicide. A cook recounts the ritual as shells and tanks pounded the cave retreat. Both bodies were found in shallow graves near the cave mouth.
Little Rock June 26 The State Revenue Department plans to complete the review of retail liquor permit applications for the 1945-46 fiscal year this week. Revenue Commissioner Otho A. Cook said many applications are under consideration for new permits and renewals, with about 400 permits expected to be granted versus 503 issued the previous year.
If you cannot find salt pork for baked beans try sliced frankfurters or Polish or Italian sausage as substitutes. The tip suggests using available sausage varieties to maintain flavor and texture when salt pork is scarce.
Production was less than half of last year’s amount, pushing a reliance on stored eggs to cover the deficit during the coming summer and fall.
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