Star Sponsors Cook Booklet SaleMonday
The Star begins a weekly sale Monday offering twenty Culinary Arts Institute Cook booklets. Each booklet covers cooking and homemaking with 1,000 pages and 7,500 recipes plus illustrations and process information for time saving dishes. Read about the program and how to obtain a new booklet each week on Page 4.
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Hempstead County CCC Enrollees Planned for Spring Selection
Hempstead County Public Welfare plans to recruit about 25 young men aged 17 to 24 for Civilian Conservation Corps enrollment from April 1 to 20. There are 14 current Hempstead CCC enrollees. Each month the $400 wage allotment is distributed as $15 to depots, $74 is on deposit, and $6 paid in cash, totaling $4620 in county residents’ wages. Enrollment is expected to bring in 25 more county residents, with a $750 monthly addition.
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Arkansas House Backs Lease-Lend Bill Resolution
The Arkansas House adopted a resolution thanking the congressional delegation for support of the lease-lend bill in Congress by a divided voice vote with no debate. Rep. Julian Jates of Jonesboro introduced the measure.
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Williams Transfer Moves Soldier From Fort Williams to Camp Edwards
Private William H. Williams, of Williams Street Williams, West Virginia, was transferred from Fort Williams to Camp Edwards in Massachusetts, a move described as dull despite the sublet beauty of alliteration in the report.
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State Fears Loss of Seat in 1940 Census Reapportionment
Washington reports the House approved Arkansas measures to prevent losing a seat under the 1940 census but sent the bill back to Senate Commerce subcommittee for hearings. If reapportionment uses equal proportions, Arkansas may keep seven seats. otherwise it would lose one to Michigan. The 60 day deadline ends Saturday, complicating timing for action.
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Our Daily Bread Cook Booklets Offer At Star Office
The Star promotes a new series of Cook Booklets for housewives and grocers. Two booklets per subject, weekly, at The Star office for 8 per copy. A 20 booklet binder costs 3 cents. Booklets produced by Consolidated Book Publishing of Chicago, once sponsored by Chicago Times, now offered by major papers nationwide.
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Southeast Feeder Airlines proposes nine Ark routes study
Southeast Feeder Airlines of Oklahoma City filed with the Civil Aeronautics Board to seek permanent certificates to operate 13 routes serving south and west Arkansas. Nine routes would carry passengers mail and express, including a Houston Texas to Tulsa Oklahoma line via Lufkin and Tyler Texas. The board filing names Shreveport Louisiana Texarkana Pine Bluff Little Rock Fort Smith and Muskogee Oklahoma as hubs. The company is led by Thomas Hardin, former chairman of the now‑abbolished Air Safety Board.
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Huchelors Paid Fine in Leap Year Proposal Law
A Scottish law from 128B allowed ladies to escape Leap Year proposals by paying a fine up to one pound. The text notes Huchelors paid the fine under this provision, reflecting historical customs on courtship and penalties.
Hendrix College Band Concert in Hope March 17
Hendrix College concert band of about 70 players, directed by M J Lippman, will perform two concerts in Hope on March 17 under the High School Band Mothers Club. One at the high school auditorium at 8:00 p m and another at the City auditorium at 8:00 p m J T Luck son of Mr and Mrs Fred Luck Hendrix sophomore plays baritone trombone and is a student director The band visits El Dorado Fordyce Forrest City Port Smith and other Southwest Arkansas cities during its annual tour The program features a mixed repertoire including classical overtures dances and marches with a combined quartet and other selections by Lopez Skornicky Brig Coates and others.
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Axis Threatens Yugoslavs Over Hesitation
Virgino Gaydu, official spokesman for the Axis, said Yugoslavia would be asked to clarify its position toward the Axis after Roosevelt reportedly urged keeping the country out of the Rome Berlin Tokyo bloc. Gayda accused Roosevelt of risking world order, intervening via third parties, and pressuring Belgrade while claiming U S involvement in the war would grow.
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Band Letters Awarded At Regular High School Rehearsal
Fifteen members of the High School Band received service letters during the regular rehearsal period. Seniors Thomas Kinser and Luther Garner earned the award for the third time. Second awards went to Martha Ann Alexander, Margaret Bush, and Wallace Keene. First letters were awarded to Everett Lai, Caralyn Robertson, Mary Elizabeth King, Bobby Barnett, Robert Ward, Kinard Young, Jack Bell, Charles Clifford Franks, I. O. Kyler, Sammie Segnar.
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Kinard Young
Jack Bell
Charles Clifford Franks
I. 0. Kyler
Od Sammie Segnar
Mexico Open to Military Pact With United States
Mexico City foreign minister Padilla told the senate he would not hesitate to sign a military pact with the United States if wartime emergency required. He stated Mexico had no secret pacts and bases would be built with American money, but sovereignty would never be transferred. Ambassador Daniela observed the session.
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Enlists Jefferson to Pay Taxes
Hopkinsville Kentucky report notes Mrs J W Dollins turned in 479 nickels from 1940 savings to pay state and county taxes, delivering the coin collection to the sheriff’s office. The article highlights local effort to meet tax obligations and civic duty.
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State Police Denies Involvement With Prisoner Confab
Arkansas State Police Sergeant F Haynie states that his talks with inmates tied to the Tour Arkansas convicts do not relate to conditions at the state penitentiary. He explains that he and Frank McGibbony sought information about a 1937 Danville bank robbery claim, which inmates allegedly spread to win Pem escapes. The AP report was incorrect he adds.
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Patmos Advances In State Junior Basketball Tourney
Patmos beat Warren 74 to 27 to reach the quarterfinals of the state Junior basketball tournament joining Hardin Mount Vernon and West Side of Little Rock. James Mayton scored 41 to lift his tourney total to 65, after a 26-point game against Lavaoa Friday afternoon. South Hempstead meets West Side of Little Rock at 10 o'clock Saturday.
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Truck stolen from Lewisville recovered in Hugo Oklahoma
A Lester Mercantile Company truck stolen on February 23 in Lewisville, Arkansas, was recovered by Oklahoma authorities in Hugo. The vehicle was found in Hugo streets and returned to the company. Bible sales figures quoted separately indicate thirty million copies sold annually.
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Shanghai Armed Men Rule as Crime Capital
A Manila clipping from Shanghai describes the city as a dangerous, open battleground where gun wielding guards, alarms, and bullet proof gear are common. Foreigners live under constant danger amid gangs, rackets, and warlike tensions with soldiers patrolling streets and police fishings out suspects daily.
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Five Famous horse tracks and their locations
Churchill Downs in Kentucky United States hosts the Kentucky Derby. Pimlico Race Course is in Baltimore Maryland. Golden Gate Fields is located in Albany California. Agua Caliente Stock Farm is in Tijuana and the Agua Caliente Racetrack once stood in Agua Caliente California.
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Penitentiary Investigating Committee Seeks Prolonged Authority
LITTLE ROCK Companions in the house introduced Saturday a bill to indefinitely extend the seven member penitentiary investigating committee s authority and to provide a $10 000 appropriation for a special investigating prosecutor. The governor would appoint the prosecutor to handle prosecutions arising from the committee s investigations who could prosecute in any county with the powers of a local prosecuting attorney Rep O E Gates of Bison committee chairman submitted the measure.
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Old Fiddlers Contest in North Hempstead Saturday
The North Hempstead old fiddlers contest will be held in the high school auditorium at Blevins on Saturday March 15. M L Nelson, master of ceremonies, announced the event which features bands from southwest Arkansas. The program starts at 8:00 p m with prize events for best quartet, second best quartet, best yodeler, comical readings and songs, trick fiddling, best tap dancer, all round fiddle and string band performances, imitations of animals or movie stars, and more with cash awards ranging from one to ten dollars.
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Nazi Submarines Sink Two British Destroyers
Berlin says U boats and fast torpedo boats attacked convoys along the English southeast coast sinking two British destroyers and 11 armed merchantmen totaling 14 hundred tons. The daily bulletin counts five vessels at 43 thousand tons, while the fast boats claim six merchantmen and two tankers totaling 28 thousand four hundred tons plus the destroyers.
Berlin monitoring tightens as Japan seeks talks
Dispatches report Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka plans Berlin visits for personal deliberations with Hitler and to discuss a possible Axis unity against Britain. German officials weigh Greece Albania Balkan dynamics and Turkey diplomacy while noting British pressure and Italian command reshuffles.
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Thought on Lord forging soldiers from highland pain
A compact reflection quoting Spurgeon on how suffering in life's highlands shapes the strongest believers, suggesting affliction is the Lord's method to prepare his best servants.
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