Public Welfare Enrollment urged for CCC April call
Fragmentary notice from Hempstead County ent of Public Welfare urges young people to enroll for CCC programs in April.
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1941
Page
3
Fragmentary notice from Hempstead County ent of Public Welfare urges young people to enroll for CCC programs in April.
A fragmented news item notes the liner Bremen, with references to British Broadcasting and CBS coverage in New York. It mentions a heavy raid on German docks and shipyards, and the liner’s repeated damage or sinking amid Atlantic crossings to Murmansk during the early war days.
In Brushy Creek near Magnolia two vehicles collided while rescue crews worked a prior scene. Florist Parker Mrs Ward and a baby were involved as a truck plunged over a embankment. Ed Hennessey faces manslaughter charges. Jenesta to face similar. Rescue workers recovered the child from the creek after a lengthy effort.
Conservation agencies and landowners push a systematic pine forest plan in the South. Paper mills cooperate with the National Forest Service to promote selective cutting and seed trees, with six seed trees per acre as a minimum. Seed trees defined as straight, well formed, at least 10 inches DBH. Southern Kraft distributes 1,700,000 seed tags to mark protected trees, pledging a perpetual pulpwood supply through careful culling.
Arkansas legislator Rep Talbot Feild Jr vows to continue pushing a severance tax on bauxite to fund old age pensions. He argues a $1.05 per ton rate is just and that Arkansas, with about 7 percent of domestic bauxite, should tax mineral deposits. Feild plans resume efforts after returning to the University of Arkansas for final exams.
Mr Parker died at Magnolia hospital and is survived by his wife and eight children named Margaret Paul Jr Dorothy Mae Mary Patsy Ruth Travis Jack and Jerry Parker. Funeral services will be at Buckner Baptist church at 2 30 p m Monday. Shirley Ann Ward is noted as their only child with services at Stamps Baptist church at 2 40 p m Monday.
Plymouth firm Nash unveils the IS41 Ambassador 600 with unitized body, Flying Scot engine, four coil springs, Weather Eye climate control, and unprecedented interior space. The car promises 250 30 miles per gallon and strong economy via bridge-truss construction. Nash aims to capture 92 percent of the market, opening a new outlet March 17 with an open house and trained sales staff.
Hempstead treasurer Newt Pente announces state Department of Education equalization funds arrived over the weekend. Allocations listed: Columbus 300, Paths 900, Spring Hill 1,000, Washington 1,500. A fragmentary discussion follows with unclear remarks about a meeting and a nurse.
County and visitors from the Welfare Department seventh district gathered in Hope on Friday March 14 for an in service training meeting. Field Supervisor Hursty presided and noted participants from multiple counties including Miller Howard Sevier Clark Hempstead Nuguely and others.
Controversy rages over a United States address as fascist and allied outlets condemn or praise the move. Rome and Tokyo commentaries decry Roosevelt’s wartime stance while Britain and other presses label the speech as a call to a global struggle between authoritarian regimes and democracies.
A concise, period voice notes that she remains not in active combat yet leads from the helm. The line emphasizes symbolic leadership and determination in a broader wartime effort without depicting direct fighting.
Informed sources say Fritz Thyssen the German industrialist who aided Hitler’s rise was surrendered by France to Germany. The report notes Thyssen later fell from Hitler’s favor. A separate local mention refers to a pirate bug called “the devil's riding horse” in the south.
In Goldsboro North Carolina officers seeking bootleg liquor searched a residence and found a hidden still behind plaster and in the attic. A suspect turned a water spigot and liquor flowed out. A separate jungle note mentions frightened growl monkeys tumbling from trees when hearing a tiger in the jungle.
Marian Young profiles Axel Wenner-Gren, the Swedish industrialist famed for vacuum cleaners and ice boxes, who sought paradise on Hog Island near Nassau. The piece notes his lavish Shangri-La estate, gardens, staff, and his wife Marguerite Liggett, painting a portrait of opulent island retreat in the Bahamas.
The passage highlights appreciation for her talent in organizing events and her husband’s cultural interests. It notes her enthusiasm for American readers and references the popular children’s book Ake and His World by Swedish poet Bortil Malmberg, while also noting a scientific line about blood circulation.
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