Murfreesboro plays host to regional playground group
State Senator F C Crow reports on a Murfreesboro trip while the Young Business Men's Association promotes a new lake behind Narrows Dam. A second meeting is set for March 30 in Murfreesboro to form the organization, select officers, and nominate two representatives from each town for the development, promotion, and tourism potential of the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F.C. Crow
Murfreesboro
Young Business Men's Association of
Narrows Dam
Hope
Ozarks
Arkansas
Missouri
Nashville
Forest Reserve
Southwest
Texas
Louisiana
Nashville- Murfreeshoro
Murfreeshoro
Messenger Finds Money He Lost in Street Satchel
Milwaukee March 17 The Mitchell Street loans today held the $174,684 in cash and checks lost by two bank employees. Roman Wojcinski a 41 year old post office messenger found the satchel beside a curb and, after hours of confusion, realized it contained cash totaling 339,560 and $135,164 in non negotiable checks. He gave the satchel to police and no money was missing. The two bank workers Elmer Jemerjahn 53 and Arminchmidt 35 had left the satchel in their car en route to another bank and believed it might have slipped out during errands.
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Milwaukee
Mitchell Street
Roman Wojcinski
Post Office
Elmer Jemerjahn
Arminchmidt
Local Cattlemen to Attend Hereford Auction
A group of local cattlemen will attend a Folled Hereford sale at Gerard Hereford rough Berton on Monday March 26. Some of the outstanding cattle buyers of the nation will attend. Transportation will be furnished to interested local persons. The group will leave the Chamber of Commerce office at 0:30 a.m. Monday, Bob Shivers, Woestock show manager, said today that such an action would be worthwhile for citizens. Citizens in this section are invited.
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Gerard Hereford
Berton
Chamber of Commerce
Bob Shivers
Woestock
Oglesby to Stage Program Monday Night
Oglesby Junior High School Library to present a St Patrick's Day program Monday March 20 at 7 80. The event features the crowning of a St Patrick's Day king and queen followed by two plays Say Uncle and Galloping Grandma. Tickets on sale for 25 cents. Public is invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oglesby
Sehoual
Weather forecast for Arkuvi region today
The forecast calls for fair and warmer conditions this afternoon in the southern areas tonight. Central portions may see cloudy skies with colder temperatures and colder conditions spreading northward by Saturday.
Murfreesboro Lake Lots To Be Ready Soon
State Senator F C Crow says Murfreesboro lakefront plots near the Narrows Dam will be leased by the U S Engineers for about 25 dollars a year. Leases run two years with transfer only by permission and lot drawing to assign sites near Daisy Arkansas at Cowhide Cove and Millcreek Cove. A playground association will promote the lake area with Arkansas Resources and Development Commission backing publicity efforts.
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New Narrows
Murfreesboro
F.C. Crow
Young Business Men's Association of
Parks Hunter
YBMA
Crow
Sun
Hempstead
Pike
Montgomery
W. A. Hawkins
Arkansas Resources & Development Commission
George W. Pecklet Hope
John Blan- Aell
State Commission
David Parsons
U. . Corps of Engineers
Parsons
US . Engineers
Murfreesboro m
Cowhide Cove
Millcreek Cove
Playground Association
Narrows Dam
Nashville
Last Eight
Minstrel Show Delights Hope High Crowd
Kiwanis club minstrel opened at Hope High School drawing a capacity audience. The upbeat show lasted about 1 hour 40 minutes with strong end men Amnesia and others credited, Luke and Duke with their dog providing laughs, and queen contestants leading the closing chorus directed by Emmet Thompson and Wayman Taylor. The minstrel queen will be chosen at tonight's performance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis Club
Hope High School
Lawrence Mar Statie
Lyle Brown
Michap
Jimmy Miller
Fred Robertson
Meaniy Willis
Frank Horie
Luke
Duke
Emmet Thompson
Wayman = Taylor
Wreckage Removal After C-47 Crash at Hope
Wreckage of a C-47 transport crashed near Hope on Saturday March 11. The pilot was killed while a trainee was moved to a truck by U.S. Air Force investigators. Three others parachuted safely. Crews labored four days to dig engines and parts from mud. Investigators have not announced their findings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope
Wiis
U. S. Airforce
Civic Group Outlines Year Ahead Luncheon and Plans
Hope Civic Improvement Association met to set a March 31 luncheon for business and professional men and women. The group also discussed issues affecting Negro citizens and tentative plans for a community reconstruction program this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope Civic Improvement Association
Mareh
Sanade
Plans for taming the Arkansas River near Pine Bluff
U S engineers outlined a plan at a public hearing to tame the Arkansas River along an 18 mile stretch from Tulsa to its mouth. The project includes a new permanent channel to straighten curves and reduce erosion, bank stabilization, and a pilot channel with funding from the Little Rock district. Representatives from Little Rock and Vicksburg districts attended. $600,000 is available for bank revetment and pilot channel work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pine Bluff
U.S
Arkansas
Tulsa
Okla
Congress
Little Rock
Vicksburg
Growers Sign Up for Federal Crop Insurance in Hempstead County
Hempstead county cotton producers are signing for Federal Crop Insurance protection on 1949 cotton crops. Earl N. Martindate urges eligible producers to make insurance part of farming plans, noting quick signup to protect investments from losses. Applications are taken at the PMA office in Hope and nearby agents in Rawley Washington Route 4 Hope and McKaskill Arkansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hempstead
Earl N. Martindate
PMA
Hope
Guy H. Hicks
Rawley
Washington
T. A. Cornelius
Route 4
J. G. Prescott
McCaskill
Arkansas
Okay Honor Roll Students Announced
Saratoga High School announces the fourth period honor roll list featuring Eleventh Paulette Rosenbaum Wayne Garner Tyelyth Jane Sloan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Okay
Saratoga High School
Paulette Rosenbaum
Wayne Garner
Tyelyth
Jane Sloan
Sunday Community Singing at Garrett Memorial Baptist Church
A community singing will be held Sunday at 2 pm at Garrett Memorial Baptist Church. Harper Ladies quartet and other Magnolia singers are expected. An invitation is extended to everyone. The sip of the coconut palm culed today is a National Geographic Society fact about Pacific Islands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pam
Garrett Memorial Baptist Churc
Harper Ladies Quartet
Magnolia
Pacific Islands
National Geographic Society
State's January Farm Income Shows Decline
Arkansas January farm income fell by 21.0 million dollars from a year earlier to 23.613 million. Officials attribute the dip to timing of cotton sales and a nearby base year irregularity, noting 1949 had a large cotton crop sold later. Mississippi and Washington state figures show similar patterns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agriculture Department
Washington Today
Miles McPeek
Little Rock
McPeek
Arkansas
Mississippi
Washington Report Today
Teacher Fired for Communist Leanings
A Brooklyn grammar school probationary teacher, Mrs. Sylvia Schneiderman, was ousted from the Board of Education payroll after denying affiliation with a subversive organization. The nine member board, after a stormy hearing with 250 in attendance and 300 pickets outside, ruled she lied on her teaching license application about Communist party ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Brooklyn
Board of Education
Sylvia
M. Schneiderman
William Jansen
Schneiderman
Communist Party
Jansen
Dansen
Teachers Union
Sceneiderman
New York City
Service to Be Held Sunday at Old Liberty
The Rev. W. E. Lewis will preach at Old Liberty church at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 19. The public is invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Liberty
W. E. Lewis
Old Liberty Church
Needham Dies for Rape of Little Girl
Hollis Edward Needham, 26, of Blytheville Arkansas, was executed in the Tucker State Prison Farm electric chair for the rape of an eight year old girl in his taxi last May. He died at 7 38 a m without making a statement. Bloodstains in the cab led to him and he was traced from Blytheville to Hattiesburg Mississippi where he was arrested after the crime. The jury found him guilty as charged, carrying the automatic death sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tucker State Prison Farm
Arkansas Electric Chair
Hollis Edward Needham
Blytheville
Ark
Needham
Hattiesburg, Miss
Cial
Criticism Bogs Foreign Policy in Congress
Washington reports that President Truman's foreign policy program stalls under congressional criticism of the State Department and Acheson. Bills for European recovery and the point four program await action as McCarthy era distrust grows. Acheson's West Coast speeches draw fire from Republicans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
State Department
Congress
Senate
House
Dean Acheson
U. S
International Trade Organization
GOP
Asia
Charles
Joseph TR. McCarthy
R-Wisi
Agheson
Owen Brewster
R-Me
Acheson
West Coast
Fifth Avenue St Patrick Parade Opens March 17
New York reads the world’s largest St. Patrick’s Day parade as Irish groups from Cork to Dublin march two and a half miles along Fifth Avenue starting at noon. The procession, featuring Murphys and Sullivans, will wind past St. Patrick’s Cathedral and run over five hours, potentially spanning 13 miles.
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New York
Planagans
Hannigans
O'Tooles
O'Flynns
Cork
Kerry
Dublin
Limerick
Fifth Avenue
St. Patrick's Day
Murphys
Kellys
Sullivans
O'Briends
Fair City
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Raffertys
Muldoons
Hogans
Morans
Manhattan Island
Cutback Aims at Lump Sum in 1951 Budget Bill
Washington reports House Republicans propose a new 3 billion dollar cut to the 1951 federal budget year starting July 1. The plan targets most of President Truman's recommended appropriations, avoiding foreign aid and permanent trust funds, with debate slated for late March and potential further reductions on the floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Republicans
Truman
House Appropriations Committee
Central Subcommittee
Appropriations Group
Congress
Rep
Taber
Groun
House
Hope High Library Club Featured in Library Journal
The March 13 issue of Library Journal features a two page story and photo of Hope High School Library Club for 1949 30. The piece highlights Mrs W M Sparks sponsor and library staff role in developing a formal initiation ritual for club members, presenting the plan as a guide for student library clubs nationwide. It outlines the club’s purpose, resource selection principles, librarian traits, membership requirements, and the club pledge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Library Journal
Bible of Librarians
Hope High School Library Club
The
Library Journal
R. K. Bowker Company
New York City
United States
Journal
W. M. Sparks
Hope High School
Man to Die for Slaying of Wife in 1949
Little Rock March 1 The U S Supreme Court refused to review the death sentence of Robert Louis Smith a former Texas convict to be executed April 28 for fatally shooting his former wife Sallie Mae Barnet 40 near the University Hospital where she worked as a nurse's aide Smith 41 had served a three year term in Texas for bigamous marriage to Mrs Barnar His murder conviction and death sentence were upheld by the Arkansas Supreme Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Robert Louis Smith
U. S. Supreme Court
Smith
Texas
Sallie Mae Barnet
University Hospital
Bernar
Arkansas Suepreme Court
College Slayer to Die in Electric Chair
Lancaster March 17 A Franklin and Marshall college student was sentenced to death in the electric chair for the first degree murder of Marian Louis Baker. Edward Lester Gibbs 25 of Pitman New Jersey was found guilty by a 7 5 jury after four hours and forty five minutes deliberation Gibbs attorney W Hensel Brown pledged an appeal within fifteen days and plans to seek review by the state Supreme Court if denied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
Franklin and Marshall College
Marian Louis Baker
Edward Lester Gibbs
Pitman
N. J
Gibbs
W. Hensel Brown
Brown
State Supreme Court
Atom Smasher Produces a New Element
Berkeley scientists Thompson Street Ghlorso Seaborg report creation of element 94 berkelium at UC by bombarding curium with alpha particles. It is the heaviest atom yet very unstable, decaying within hours, with predicted relation to dysprosium 66. Discovery confirmed by rapid chemical procedures under AEC contract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berkeley
Calif
Atom Smashers
Une
Ens Senate
Earth
University of California
Atomic Energy Commission
Stanley G. Thompson
Kenneth Street, Jr
Albert Ghlorso
Glenn T. Seaborg
Acheson speech places Cold War aims on spot
Washington March 7 State department officials say Secretary Acheson spoke yesterday on ending the Cold War. He outlined a seven point program and urged a relaxation of tensions. The remarks touched on Soviet and Western relations and the need for a measured policy, though officials noted uncertainties remain in the West’s resolve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Bse
Washington
State Department
Speths
Acheson
Thesia
Ijganda
West
Westes Witcheson
Washington hears debate on civil defense and atomic attack
The joint committee heard testimony about possible exceptions to a rule and the eye risks from radiation. Warren cited studies from Hiroshima and Nagasaki and noted cataracts may increase after an atomic attack. Harvard ophthalmologist David Cogan referenced medical measures for atomic attack preparedness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Warren
Cong Atomic Energy
Skwauls
Lewis and Conte Crisis Raised by Hidden Signals
Lloyd H. Sidener faces a court citation over alleged secret communications with miners. Sidener claimed to have held a leadership role, while the fragment hints at covert signals aimed at keeping the pits operating amid turmoil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis
Lloyd H. Sidener
Sidener
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Playground Group
Messenger
Arkansas River
Library Club
Atom Smasher
Rope High School Library Club
Milda Green
Thalia Chism
Betty Sanders
Wanda Spears
Jennie Luz Allen
Dorothy Bultock
Betty Somers
Mildred Taylor
Mary Ann England
Fern Gross
Norma Morrigan
Marcell Smyth
Flossie Hartsfield
Roberta Howard
Minella
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