15 May 1948
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1948
Page
1
May social notices list dances, meetings, and classes at First Methodist and First Baptist churches. Family events include a wedding in Lewisville, a ninth birthday party at Fair Park, and bridge party honors for Miss Martha White. Attendees from Hope and surrounding areas attended, with plans for trips and home receptions.
Messrs James and family travel from Nash Ville Tennessee to tend the head of Mr James who lies seriously ill. Mrs Greene from Greenville will visit her sister Miss Allen. Admissions include Julia Chester and Mrs Roy Prestey. discharges list Minnie Walden and Mrs Thomas Butler with child.
Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip arrived in Paris amid cheering crowds marking their first trip outside Britain since marriage. A scarlet rug greeted them at Gare du Nord and cordial receptions followed with officials and a motorcade to the British Embassy. The city presented the couple with gifts as police guarded against unrest amid a grey sky.
Mrs Edwin Strauss of Malvern was elected president of the Arkansas Council of Church Women as the two day state convention concluded in Hot Springs yesterday with the Malvern church group leading events and activities.
Arkansas State Teachers College will dissolve its department of agriculture at the end of the current term. President Nolen M. Tryh said abolition had been under consideration for months and that E. M. Edlson, head of the department, would join the State Department of Education.
A crowded church notices page lists First Baptist at Corner Third and Main with pastor S A Whitlow and music director Bill Keltner plus a full weekly schedule. Catholic Our Lady of Good Hope with Fr F Boyle. First Methodist West 2nd at Pine led by Rev J F Cooper. First Christian North Main at West Avenue with Hardepree minister. Unity Baptist South Elim Street with Rev Hubert Arthur Taylor. North Malin Street church with H Paul Holdridge. and multiple activities across congregations including Sunday School, worship services, youth, women’s groups, and choir rehearsals. Names include Whitlow, Keltner, Smiley, Boyle, Cooper, Hardepree, Arthur Taylor, Holdridge, and Silvey. Locations cover S A, Corner Third and Main, West 2nd and Pine, North Main, South Elim Street, and North Ferguson Street. Events feature morning worship, Sunday School, training unions, youth programs, and midweek services spanning 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
The passage notes the District of Columbia covers 89 square miles and has a population exceeding 200,080 people. It frames the federal district as a 1 89 square mile area with dense civic concentration.
Jessica Blake, home from finish ing school in 1942, endures a drab life with her husband Tom Blake away overseas and her husband's mother and sister nearby. A chance romance with a bold Yankee soldier tests loyalties, prompting a rushed marriage plan that she resists at first yet fears losing. The story follows emotional conflict, family tension, and a perilous choice as Tom pressures marriage before shipping out.
The revival at Fourth and Ferguson features evangelist A C Hammonds with his wife and son Richard. Services begin Sunday with Sunday School at 8:45 and morning worship to follow. Revival meetings run nightly with prayer at 7 30 and special youth groups and afternoon sessions scheduled.
An 1899 Star of Hope feature by Dorothey Dix, reprinted in 1927, discusses marriage shifts after courtship. The essay claims husbands crave daily praise and flattery, while wives should provide affectionate encouragement to sustain mutual happiness and deter affairs.
Russia recalled Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko as UN chief today in a diplomatic shakeup. Jacob Malik, another deputy foreign minister, will succeed him at Lake Success while Gromyko heads to Moscow for a long vacation and awaits subsequent assignment.
Minnesota National Guard called to duty at strikebound packing plants in Newport and South St. Paul after a mob raid on the Cudahy Plant in Newport and hostages taken. South St. Paul police repulsed by pickets enforcing a court order as Governor Luther Youngdahl directs Adjutant General Ellard Walsh to deploy a substantial task force with motorized and mechanized units.
Little Rock May 15 The service with a smile program was urged at the Arkansas chapter meeting of the National Association of Postmasters. Officers elected include R. L. Slaughter Sheridan president John O Chambers Bauxite first vice president Mrs Julia Catalan Booneville second vice president WOM Freeze Cash Claude Bradley Wesson vice president Mrs Mabel Cannon Eglad secretary.
Under New York State tests led by Frank A. Lue home freezers freeze vegetables such as peas and beans in two hours, eight hours for full solidification in two hours slower. No difference in taste, texture, or vitamins after cooking between home and commercial freezing. Proper packing and spacing matter to avoid spoilage. use air space and distribute packages to speed freezing. Lorraine Blackwood notes elderly and sick benefit from proper storage and preparation. versatile dishes suggested.
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