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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1947
Page
1
In Hope, a $5,000 annual grant proposal to city council to support public schools for nine years is debated. The piece notes tax-exempt municipal utility status, potential impact on other city services, and calls for voluntary equalization of the tax picture to aid school construction needs.
James Thrasher recounts Dunkirk Dunkerque and the 1940 evacuation that saved Britain. He notes the alliance formed there between France and Britain and now expanded to include the Soviet Union and the United States. The pact, termed the treaty of Dunkerque, signals a durable, interdependent effort to keep peace and deter aggression.
The search for quinine to replace lost East Indies supplies uncovered numerous chinchona trees in South America previously unknown to science, revealing new sources of the valuable drug.
Georgia's Herman Talmadge, ousted by a 5 to 2 Supreme Court ruling, leaves the governor’s mansion unpaid as Melvin E. Thompson is installed acting governor. The legislature backs Thompson, funds unlock, and Gov-elect Eugene Talmadge’s forces rethink policy amid a rapid political shift.
Twenty Hope Chapter members of the Future Homemakers of America travel to Henderson State Teachers College in Arkadelphia on March 22 for the first annual Southwest District Rally Day. The program features discussions, music, skits, and a corsage making demonstration, with Mrs. D. D. McBrien and Mrs. Ben Laney as honored guests. more than a thousand FHA members are expected.
In British Columbia lumbermen ride wooden boards along mountain flumes, racing down slopes at high speed as they float toward mills. The stunt showcases perilous yet skilled logging methods and the audacious use of gravity powered routes.
Ten survivors of the tanker Fort Dearborn credit radioman Henry F Wiehr of Los Angeles with saving their lives after a makeshift SOS finally got through. He, despite one arm and broken glasses, rigged an emergency set in the charthouse. the SOS reached the S S John Foster nine hours after the ship broke apart, prompting a 16 hour rescue by the General Gordon and subsequent transfers to the St John Victory.
Hempstead County Chapter of the American Red Cross reports ninth in Arkansas for 1947, thanks volunteers and renewing members. Finance chairman Franklin McLarty urges remaining campaigns to finish and members to renew, with local contributions totaling 77.75 and grand total to date 5,198.98 dollars.
Actress Laraine Day and husband Leo Durocher flew from Burbank toward Mexico City and Havana Cuba after a flight incident last night. The couple are safe. A divorce matter involving Day and J Ray Hendricks is set for April 29 in superior court with arguments to invalidate Day's Mexican divorce and her subsequent marriage to Durocher in El Paso.
Announcement of Hope's new Willis Men's Store at 101 South Main in the old Capitol Hotel building. It opens Friday night from 7 to 9 o clock with regular hours after Saturday and invites the public to inspect the store featuring nationally advertised clothing and men’s wear.
Acting Gov. Melvyn E. Thompson faced press at his Atlanta hotel suite as news broke of a possible adverse court ruling. He initially issued a statement praising Governor Talmadge then retracted it and urged all Georgians to support the state.
Alf M Landon urged immediate U S financial and military support to Greece and Turkey saying delay could lead to war with Russia. He cited a $400.6 million loan as a hedge against communism and described a western bloc opposing Soviet expansion, with risks seen across Cuba Mexico Canada and beyond.
A decade of gradual change among Florida Seminoles sees old anti white sentiment fade as young leaders embrace schooling and jobs. Officials cite population growth to 740 plus and new crafts, farming, and guiding work, while elders warn the transition may be slow and uneven.
Undersecretary Acheson testified that American aid to Greece and Turkey to check communism should not lead to war. He warned that Greek Turkish collapse could trigger a broader crisis while stressing UN action, and outlined how $400 million in aid would be spent.
Beulah Louise Overell, 21, a college coed, and her fiancé Rector Collum, 21, were jailed in Newport Beach on suspicion of murdering Walter Overell and Beulah Overell. Investigators found 30 sticks of dynamite and a time clock aboard the 47 foot cruiser Mary, shifting the case from an ignition theory to a deliberate explosion.
A 60 year old widower William H. Mathewson burned to death on a park baseball diamond after pouring gasoline on a circle about ten feet wide and stepping into the flames witnessed by two boys and a woman. Police expect suicide. landlady cites despondency from a lame leg.
Five persons are missing as the Red Deer river rose fourteen feet after ice cracked. Royal Canadian Mounted Police report no trace of Mrs. Gordon Harps, her sister, and three children whose tar paper shack was hit by a four foot wall of water and ice. Red Deer lies about one hundred miles south of Edmonton.
Moscow reports say the four powers discussed a German peace framework with an economic reconstitution plan and possible inclusion of additional Allied states in the process. The session touched on coal guarantees, Ruhr control, and the scope of Soviet and Turkish roles as debates continued.
Police investigate a brutal assault on an elderly woman in Los Angeles as details remain unclear and authorities seek witnesses. Detectives urge nearby residents to come forward with any information.
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