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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1938
Page
4
Mayen Aliort Graves said Tuesday that the week long clean-up drive is underway and will continue through Sunday. He urged residents to place beans and other cubbish in containers at the curb for pickup by city trucks free of charge.
Hempstead County residents and farmers express sympathy with a cotton marketing measure in a preliminary county survey. County Agent Clifford Smith and agricultural staff plan meetings to explain provisions of the marketing program while noting nationwide strawberry production expanding from few sites to widespread cultivation.
A fragment hints at Draven and Quarles pursuing a concealed heart quest. The line suggests doubt and pursuit, with unnamed locations implied and a search driving the scene. The text remains fragmentary but centers on the thematic hunt and personal stakes.
The Good Food Grace Store sold items totaling 6.24 to Renald Smythe. A $20 check drawn on Henry Pure’s account, presented by Smythe, was accepted then cashed. The bank later canceled the check and charged Pure’s account for the $4. The store received 14.76 in change and the customer fled town. The bank sued to recover the $20.
Local Scout drive kicks off Tuesday with 10 teams and a goal of 75 dollars per year per scout. The program aims to fund a Boy Scout presence in Hempstead and nearby towns, with donations to be collected by Anderson or DT. Cornelius and scout officials urge community participation and report funds will appear in the first report on Wednesday.
Arkansas cotton farmers vote Saturday on whether marketing quotas should take effect for the 138 crop. Two thirds of producers in all states must approve. Arkansas acreage is set at 2.328 million acres, allowing marketed output plus limited stored cotton if quotas are approved. Penalties apply to excess production, with refunds and loans tied to quota decisions. County committees will oversee the referendum amid other aid notes for ex servicemen and municipal hospital treatment.
Washington reports the House tentatively refused a publicity clause for corporate salaries over 15000 yearly while debate neared on the administration's naval expansion bill. TVA and undistributed profits tax battles drew partisan lines as Republicans push a substitute income tax and criticise the failed publicity measure.
New Rochelle New York man Murray Levine waited Tuesday for instructions to pay 30,000 dollars after believing he had contact with the kidnapers of his son Peter Leying, 12, who vanished February 24. No overnight developments were reported by a New York lawyer.
Congressman David D. Terry indicated on Monday he is weighing a bid for the United States Senate seat now held by Mrs. Hattie W. Caraway. Speaking during a stop in Little Rock he said his decision depends on further consultation and his return to Washington after a personal trip on an American Airlines plane.
Fresno, California report notes treacherous weather and Sierra snowdrifts hinder search for a passenger plane missing for seven days after a rainstorm. No new clues or signs of life emerged as authorities continue the hunt for all nine aboard.
A 1958 NEA Service quiz asks about teaspoons for bouillon, soup serving in plates, dipping toward or away, tipping soup, breaking grape clusters, and self serving with creamed food on toast. It presents choices and best practice answer as (c) with guidance on proper utensil use and waiter skill.
British rescue destroyers placed the insurgent losses at about 640 after the Baleares cruiser was torpedoed near Cartagena. Some 200 were saved, while insurgents attacked Curta-Bena and called for more ships to bolster their naval forces.
John J. Oxford arrives as assistant manager to Arthur Swanke at the Rialto theater in Hope. Connected with Jefferson Amusement Co of Texas and Fox in Atlanta, he brings experience in class work, advertising, and art. His first Liter line display promotes Paradise for Three with 10 featured players, ahead of Rialto’s Friday and Saturday double bill.
Former prosecutor Houston Emory was held on a $1000 bond after a two hour grand jury inquiry into the death of 52 year old Thomas Red Flemings. Flemings body was found on a highway near Hot Springs Saturday night. Sheriff Marion Anderson said Emory was arrested after a damaged air tank was found at a local garage and identified as his property.
Gov Bailey calls governors of Missouri Oklahoma Kansas Colorado New Mexico Texas and Louisiana to a March 29 30 eight state flood control water and soil conservation conference in Little Rock. He urges joint action on water resource development and soil conservation. The state flood center commission met to map the program, with the Southwest Valleys Association Convention to be held in conjunction.
A regular meeting of the Hempstead county farm debt adjustment committee will be held in Hope on Friday March 18 at 10 a.m. EM Osborn of Hope, chairman, announced. Farmers facing debt problems or possible foreclosure are invited to submit their problems. The committee acts as arbitrator to help debtors and creditors reach workable, voluntary agreements. Services are free.
In Jonesboro Arkansas Clyde King alias Char tw Kies a longtime operator of night clubs and houses shot himself minutes after police arrested him in a robbery case. He died Monday night in a state hospital. King had prior robbery conviction and multiple releases on bond, with a Missouri Supreme Court affirmation earlier that year.
The New Orleans market opened Tuesday at 4.23 and closed by 9.19 with activity noted in poten and corks, four Ledate lower and markline 929 referenced in the report.
Robert T. Bridge of the National Red Cross spoke at the Hope Kiwanis Club luncheon at Hotel Barlow. He detailed flood relief along the Red River in Hempstead county Fulton area with about $2,000 spent and another $2,000 to aid survivors. He noted about 130 families aided, 90 housed in the Red Cross camp at Fulton, and introduced new members H E Yarrington and Oscar Greenberg.
A new storm brings hail and lightning into southern California as flood chaos from last week continues. The forecast calls for localized showers Tuesday with brief rain, while engineers plan flood control steps to manage the anticipated precipitation.
LYTLE ROCK The state supreme court Monday upheld the constitutionality of a 1937 act requiring three consecutive years of separation grounds for divorce. The decision noted the law is retroactive to the extent a thirty year period ending after the act’s effective date may be considered, affirming a Boone chancery court divorce granting Mrs. Fannie B. Parrish from J. W. Parrish. The report also mentions 1929 figures and a net income segment referenced in the record.
Governor Bailey announced plans for a special session to seek about 175000 for eight month rural school terms in the current year. He also outlined highway debt readjustments, freeing toll bridges, tuberculosis sanatorium funding, and projects for the Arkansas School for the Blind, with broader insurance and bond provisions under consideration.
Arkansas pardon board recommends governor grant clemency to Aylife Draper, life for murder in Garland County. Details recount Roy House’s confession, Draper’s death sentence commuted to life, and other changes including Steve Demetra’s reduced sentence for second degree murder in Pine Bluff.
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