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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1956
Page
1
Society items note events on Monday April 7 at 7 o'clock as the Executive meeting, with auxiliary groups and the Wesley Garland School at Wesey hosting programs. Additional notices mention 4H, ML society activities, and a district association meeting.
Mrs and Mrs Jack Strickland welcome a daughter Sharon born in Houston. Easter visits include Mr and Mrs q Strickland and Mrs 8 D Eason. Guests include Miss Martha Jane Eason of Denver and family from Arnaudville Little Rock Washington and Burbank.
Mrs Clyde Huckabee hosted Liberty Hill Home Demonstration Club in March. Lorraine Wylie demonstrated how to make a house slipcover and provided patterns. Irvin Betts spoke on twenty common danger signals of diseases. Members were urged to sew a boy's shirt for the Crippled Children's Home project. Tea cakes and pies aided the bake sale. Refreshments were served to members and guests including two new members and a visitor. Next meeting will be with Mrs Sid Anderson.
The Blevins Home Demonstration Club met at the home of Mrs. Tollett Taylor with co hostesses Mrs Elvin Campbell and Mrs Billi Taylor. Mrs Ernest Graham of Hope spoke for the American Cancer Society on cancer danger signals and showed a breast self exam film. Mrs Lorraine Wylie led Hempstead County Council notes and a devotional was given by Mrs Bill Taylor. Wylie demonstrated making house shoes and handed out patterns. Twenty two members and two visitors attended. Visitors were Mrs Jewell Bruce of Blevins and Mrs Graham. The April meeting will be at Mrs Dave Bands for a room decor program.
Stevenson increases pressure on Kefauver as California voters choose 68 delegates. The campaign focuses on attacks over Kefauver's tactics and portrayal of Stevenson as a manipulator. Stevenson holds news conference and rallies in Los Angeles before heading to San Francisco.
Final plans call for marketing 185 million dollars in revenue bonds to finance a Memphis power plant. Mayor Edmand Orgill said the bond sale will be handled by a New York firm heading the syndicate, with completion expected within 180 days and a target completion date of June 30, 1958.
Mike and four others board the Arkadia bound for Egypt but fall under German suspicion at Piratus. Chesney’s scheme gains trust as the boat is halted by a patrol. A mysterious convoy away from Athens signals a prison trek to Averol, with Elpis and Yichiel clinging to hope amid danger.
Dorothy Dix counsels a new teacher to seek new friends and engage in extracurriculars rather than accept isolation. She urges active enthusiasm for work and pupils, and suggests social life within the job through clubs, sports, music, and arts to avoid becoming dated or dull.
Hope Public Schools meals for the week include Elormitory-Gthoot entries with Monday baked ham and cheese on buttered bun, scalloped potatoes, fruit and cookies, milk. Tuesday meat loaf, mashed potatoes, beans, beets, cold bread, rice pudding, milk. Wednesday pinto beans and ham, buttered cabbage, corn bread, apricot, vanilla sauce. Thursday specials. Junior Senior High School offers similar meals with variations like Spanish rice, mixed greens, onion rings, corn bread, berry cobbler, milk. Friday details appear incomplete.
Hollywood looks back at the 28th Academy Awards and notes a shift toward new faces. Anne Magnani, Ernest Borgnine, Van Johnson, Jack Lemmon and others earned first nominations or debuts, signaling a trend as veterans face sentimental competition and fresh talent rises to the top.
The National Safety Council reports February motor vehicle fatalities equaled the all time February high with 2,630 deaths, unchanged from 1956 and 1962, 16 percent above February 1955. Officials cite more travel and an extra leap day but call the rise the largest monthly percentage increase since June 1951.
A damaged OCR fragment shows a pleading note urging honesty and a refusal to participate in deception. It references a friend, a request to cease complicity, and mentions a long widowhood, marriage, daughters, and entrusted savings, but many proper nouns and dates are unreadable.
Mrs Mark Justiss hosted the 27 Contract Club with guests including Mrs Basil Munn Mrs Saxon and others. Guests enjoyed dessert with coffee and drinks while high score prize went to Mrs Williams. In Temple, the Pris chott Business and Professional Women's Club met at Mrs Herbert Hawley s home for a program and social. Miss Mary Hamilton won the prize in a raffle style program about signals. The Methodist Men s Fellowship Club held a monthly dinner meeting at the church with guest speaker Haskell Jones from KXAR Hope presenting Decisions and Easter stories. Numerous community members and guests from Shreveport McCaskill Corpus Christi and Seattle were noted visiting or staying with locals. The March meeting of the Band Mothers honored regional festival participants and announced support for junior musicians advancing to the State Festival in Hot Springs with performances by both bands. The American Legion and Auxiliary observed their 87th anniversary with a candlelit cake and a ceremony recognizing dedicated service members and a push to install safety signs along major highways on district roads.
A two man delegation from Syria said they are in Japan representing Tayara & Co and deny any arms sales or government ties. They clarified private firms act only in private capacity and that negotiations would go through official channels if needed.
Legal notice from Chancery Court Hempstead County Arkansas warns defendant Sid Williams to appear within thirty days and answer Ruth Williams complaint. The order carries the seal of the court dated March 16 1956 with successive publication dates March 17 24 31 and April 7 1956 in Garret Willis Clark County News.
The defendant Frances Perry is warned to appear within thirty days and answer the complaint filed by Artris Percypyigoyn in No 7851. The court dated March 46 1956 with Clerk Garrett Willis and seal. Publication dates Mar 17 24 Apr 7 1958.
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