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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1954
Page
1
Disjointed market notes show grains and poultry details with scattered prices. Cotton futures dip gently while oats and barley sections are fragmented, and eggs and butter quotes appear altered with unclear figures.
Senate debate on the Taft Hartley Act revision was stalled as Lehman and Southern Democrats signaled filibuster threats over an anti discrimination amendment. Chairman Smith faced expected opposition while Senators warned they would block the bill to force votes on the measure.
The second round of a nationwide experiment with a new anti polio vaccine advanced in Arkansas and three other states. Over 1,000 second graders in Jefferson and Mississippi counties received their second injections today with a third dose scheduled in one month. In all 5,150 children had initial injections. 1,786 completed second shots in Arkansas. The test, sponsored by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and state Health Department, aims to measure the vaccine’s effectiveness in preventing infantile paralysis.
A Nogio couple identified as Joseph Hannah, 42, and his wife Anna Maa, 40, drowned yesterday in nearby Take Hamilton when the boat they were fishing in capsized. Bodies recovered. Earthworms are found nearly everywhere.
NEW YORK The 1954 Pulitzer prizes honor Newsday Long Island daily for meritorious public service in exposing race track and building construction uprisings. John Patrick for The Teahouse of the August Moon won drama. Brig. Gen. Charles A Lindbergh received the autobiography award. Herbert L. Diath won a journalism prize for The Washington Post and Times-Herald. A note on earth worms and their spread is included in the end.
Fifteen Rotarians from Hope City will travel to Hot Springs for the 201st Rotary International conference, set for May 6. Representatives from 30 other clubs in the southern half of Arkansas will also attend the event, with Jim Cole serving as president of the Hope club.
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