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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1943
Page
4
Daisy Heard, editor contact hours listed. Social notes cover circle meetings at First Baptist Church with host homes, and Auxiliaries meeting March 16 at specified homes. Housewife tips include seed catalogs and Victory Garden items amid wartime jottings. Reports detail visits by Mrs. Taylor Stuart, Mrs. Dick Med, Mrs. Bert Russ, and others, plus service members and WAAC training notes.
Arkansas Louisiana Gas and Arkansas Fuel Oil men will join workers from across the region at Marche near Little Rock on March 19 as Cities Service Defense corporation receives the Army Navy E award for exceptional wartime production. W. Alton Jones heads the firm with D W Harris as VP and GM. the ceremony will be attended by military and government officials.
Boxing star Barney Ross attended a private party hosted by boxing writers in New York after weeks of public appearances. He spoke modestly about heroism and recalled his Guadalcanal service while noting many others did more. Publisher Nat Fleiger presented him the Ring Magazine Merit Award for 1942, solidifying his status as Boxing's Man of The Year.
Tope community leaders and extension specialists including Miss Mary Claude Figicher are urged to meet at 10 a.m. Tuesday at city hall to discuss plans and coordinate actions.
By Hugh Fullerton Jr wide world shorts Goflimnist reports on late winter sports chatter in New York. The piece covers hockey playoffs, track season, boxing fans, racing rules, Red Barber comments, Oscar Wilde jokes, and notes on athletes, college track times, and service members in sports.
Mirror notes last year the New York Rangers defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 5-1 in Chicago to clinch the NHL pennant. It also references a three years ago report about Yankee officials denying a sale to a syndicate led by Gov. Murphy of New Hampshire and mentions five years prior when Dick Bartell signed with the New York Giants for about 17000. It adds a line on draft rejections tied to mental health.
In a Chicago hotel room Miss Loraine Stuart masquerades as a flight passenger, angling for secrecy and control. Captain James Cary returns, confronts romance and danger as a gun’s memory shadows their plans for a smooth ascent.
Eight top three year olds contested a distance test for the Arkansas Derby nominees at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs. Notable entries included Beau Of Mine, Uncle Billies, Star, Blue Shot, Modest Lad, Dr Rush, Tren Works, and Alphart as finalists for the $1000 mile and a sixteenth Mountain Valley purse. Also nominated for the Arkansas Derby were Kentucky Derby prospects Count Fleet Ocean Wave and nine others led by Pop's Pick in the eighth annual renewal set for March 27.
Readable fragments show a disputed eligibility issue in the National A A U tournament centered on Sergeant Rivlin of Fort Warren and a separate scoring record by Larry Toburen of Denver University. Fort Warren All Stars defeated Denver Capitol Life 83 36 in a first round game as Midland Dow Chemical beat Denver American Beauty 39 33. other scores and schedule for the event are listed with Denver University set to face Ouachita College in a Central War Time match prior to the next rounds.
The first WAAC contingent has arrived at a training camp near Monticello, set up in a former POW camp. Auxiliaries and offices arrived by special train and will form a cadre to train 3,500 WAACS arriving later. The camp operates under the fifth training center at Ruston, Louisiana.
Major league baseball opens spring training with at least 17 holdouts. The New York Yankees lead with four unsigned players including catcher Bill Dickey and pitchers Alley Donald and Spud Chandler. St Louis Cardinals arrive with Harry Walker unsigned in Cairo Illinois. Dodgers report three holdouts including Mickey Owen. Browns train at Cape Girardeau while Indians begin at Purdue with Jeff Heath as the only holdout.
Paul Derringer pitched three innings of one hit ball for a 9 to 4 win by a group of major leaguers and local players against the Sarasota Army Airbase team in Sarasota Florida. The soldiers matched the rivals for most of three innings before a late surge and errors led to seven runs in the fourth and fifth.
Dodgers spring camp opened at Bear Mountain with heat at first base as the caretaker built a large log fire to thaw the ground. The scene, dated March 15, sets the tone for the Brooklyn Dodgers unusual spring ritual as they arrived to begin workouts amid frost clearing efforts.
Hempstead County garden officials urge replanting of vegetables killed by the recent cold. Miss Mary Claude Pletcher, home demonstration agent, advises replanting cabbage and other plants destroyed by low temperatures. Seed potatoes may be dug to check for cold injury. if damaged, replant. New Vid Garden fertilizer now available. apply 2 to 2.5 pounds per 10 by 10 feet.
Loyd Morgan forfeited 1.4 cash bond for improper lights. Harlin Arnold 1.00 for without license. Charlie Monroe and Jim Simpson 10.00 for disturbing the peace. S. T. Lee guilty 50.00 fine. Quincy L. Sanders guilty 50.00. Several defendants forfeited 10.00 bonds for drunkenness: H. E. Lockard O. W. Mullins L. Young Claude Florence Hershel Roberts James Ellis. Plea of guilty for drunkenness with 50.00 fines: Jess Atkins Alvin Shankles Tay B. Sandifer Tom Donahue Ira Halliburton. Barnette Strong assault and battery 10.00 bond. Jimmie Nelson assault and battery plea guilty 10.00. Arthur Hubbard assault alias Gi isty dismissed. Henry Modisett possessing taxed intoxicating liquor examined waived held to grand jury. Jim Murphy drunkenness 10.00 bond.
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