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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1949
Page
5
A distorted column from Hope features a false Houston tornado report about Rosston Arkansas, a humorous bird observation, and a tirade on immigration and politics. The piece blends anecdotal quips with critique of American public discourse and energy policy.
Hempstead County farmers are urged to report farm acreage to the Triple-A office. County Administrator B K McHale notes a countywide survey aims to catalog acreage for all crops and land uses for 1944 and 1945, with 2633 of 3162 farms still lacking reports. The office is open Saturdays until noon for convenience.
Arkadelphia Ark May 10 Dr J O Grant retiring Oucehita College president will address 141 OBC seniors at Mitchell Hall Monday May 28 The speech will be ABC’s of Tomorrow Three honorary degrees will be conferred Dr Grant and Dr G E Cannon Hope will receive Doctor of Laws degrees while Hie Williams president of Southern Baptist College Walnut Ridge receives Doctor of City degree
Forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with chances of showers this afternoon, tonight, and Friday. A cool front moves through tonight and Friday bringing slightly unsettled conditions and a modest drop in temperatures.
AEC chief Lilienthal told Senate appropriations subcommittee the National Research Council supports requiring non Communist affidavits from atomic fellowship candidates. NRC President Detlev Bronk indicated the council would withdraw Freistadt’s $1,600 yearly fellowship if Congress demands it, and seek other funding to aid his education. The hearing covered NRC awards, council governance, and requests for funding levels for 1949 and 1950.
Brazilian President Eurico Dutra told a joint session of Congress that the perfect friendship between Brazil and the United States strengthens western hemisphere solidarity. He said ties are founded on shared purposes and interests and will grow stronger, praising US democracy and Brazil’s own commitment to international law.
West 6th Street residents from St Pine to Spring Hill road appeal to motorists for aid as blacktopping and graveled work causes heavy dust. They request use of alternate routes to Fair Park during road improvements to ease misery.
Rev. W. Lewis will preach Sunday at 1 p.m. in Fulton Methodist Church and at 3 p.m. at Water Creek Church. Both services precede the Annual Conference. Mycryong ds Welvorie.
Individuals who served on active Army duty between December 7 1941 and June 30 1947 may apply for reserve commissions as second lieutenants in the Officers Reserve Corps. Applicants must be 21 to start, under 28 at initial filing (except interim rule to 1949), or up to 32 at receipt. Must be US citizen, high school graduate, of good character, physically fit, with Army test score 110 or higher. College graduates who did not serve as warrant officers or in the first three enlisted grades may also be eligible. To apply contact Captain Jim Kelly or Sgt. Roy Lindquist in room 403 Hempstead County Courthouse or call 1363. tests via Army general classification test by appointment with Captain Kelly or Sgt. Lindquist.
A local businessmen group called a 7:30 p m meeting at Hope City bul tonight to organize a Junior Chamber of Commerce inviting all young business men and others interested in the city's progress.
Latile Rock May 19 UP Thomas E Downie a four year deputy prosecuting attorney of Py jisski and Perry counties joins the McMath administration as new chairman of the state board of review Gov MetMath announced Downie's appointment to succeed Joe Martin of Jonesboro yesterday The World War II veteran has been deputy prosecutor since January 1947 He won the Silver Star Bronze Star and Purple Heart decorations in the Pacific and received a wartime promotion to colonel Downie is a past first vice commander of the state Amvets and a past district commander of the American Legion He graduated from the University of Arkansas Naval school in 1980 and began his practice in Littl Rock Martin announces his resignation last Saturday to devote more time to his insurance business in Eastern Arkansas He was one of McGrath's lieutenants along the governor Lubensstul campaig and has handled much of the patronage from the governor's office
Rebecca Ann Johnston 94 known as Aunt Beckie in Oak Grove died yesterday at her nephew Sid Skin’s home. Burial set for 3 p.m. Thursday at Oak Grove cemetery.
A 40 pound black wolf, rare for the area, was captured early today in a trap at the north end of the Southwestern Praying Ground. Traps were set by Luther Burchfield, U S Fish and Wildlife trapper, and Marshall Gardner of the Washington office, with cooperation from Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and local game wardens. The wolf, alive at trap time, was killed with a rifle. no bat was used. Trappers have worked about three weeks and may stay three more, having killed three wolves in total.
Warren Ark May 18 Pro duction will be resumed at the Bradley Lumber company in Warren after lengthy repairs to the mill following the Jan 3 tornado that killed more than 50. Al W Fullerson Sr, president, said most of the 1,700 employees would be back at work Monday, with only the dimension mill not yet ready due to boiler shortages.
Oklahoma City May 19 A committee on theological education urged the Southern Baptist convention to establish two new seminaries one in the East and one in the West to train more pastors. The 2nd annual gathering, near 8000 attendees on day two, will consider the recommendation after a morning session with Dr Joseph H. Dawson denouncing totalitarian control of education. Dr J Frank Norris preached a lengthy sermon as Dr Robert G Lee delivered the keynote to about 7000 Baptists at the municipal auditorium. Continued on page two.
Alexander Anagnos, a Greenwich Village grocer and self-made songwriter, runs a one man campaign to shake up Tin Pan Alley with his tune An Onion and You. He markets via chalk signs and neighborly boxes, tying purchases of onions to sheet music, while promoting his own publishing company and record label.
Flood waters receded in Fort Worth and Dallas as residents returned to water ravaged homes. The Trinity River crest reached 48 feet, with damage estimated at about 6 million dollars and nine fatalities statewide. Oklahoma floods, tornadoes, and heavy rainfall impacted widespread areas, prompting evacuations and power outages.
The Associated Press reports Arkansas violent deaths rose to 15 for the week amid four Wednesday night crashes. Jeanne Ward 17 and Henry O Hyland 25 died in a Stephens car fire after overturning. Four other youths were injured. Charles Reed 7 died in a Woodlawn collision. William Hester 70 died after being struck near Little Rock. Charles Eugene Lacicero Jr 5 was fatally injured when struck by a car in Jacksonville. Other incidents include drownings, a homicide, and a firearms accident.
School officials announce season tickets for Pair Park Municipal Pool go on sale today. Frances Hanuyons, Manager, says tickets will be sold at Oglesby and Wape High Schools for five dollars per season.
Frances Juin Ward aged 17 daughter of Ekive and Mrs. Fred Ward of Stephens was killed in a high speed auto wreck near Stephens. She was the niece of Mrs. We Paith of Hone. Funeral services will be held at 8 p.m. in Stephens.
Augusta May 16 Three youths fled from the city jail after overpowering Jailer Arthur Parker When Hobbs and Baley bound him the three escaped Edward Azeil Hobbs 19 and James Baley 18 are charged with grand larceny while Leonard 19 faces robbery charges
Little Rock May 19 Pros ecutor Dunaway said a medical student accused of killing one man is under investigation in another murder. Harold Raymond Houchins Jr 23 a University of Arkansas medical student is charged with first degree murder in the death of Seth B Reed Clarksville insurance man in a hotel room last November. Holt said Reed propositioned him to submit to intercourse Houchins objected Reed hit him He later read of Reed's death in newspapers next day. Houchins sat with his mother as bond hearing ended Mrs Houchins fainted and was taken from the courtroom He had been in Austin Texas for a lie detector test and reportedly admitted hitting Reed after regaining consciousness.
George Steed of Pine Bluff will serve an unexpired term as president of the Arkansas Municipal League in Little Rock on May 19. He succeeds former Hot Springs Mayor Earl Ricks, with state adjutant general absent from confirmation.
An escaped convict believed to be Thomas Jefferson Rice was captured near Benton, Arkansas, after a local fisherman reported a man asking the way to Benton. State police picked him up along the Missouri Pacific railroad tracks without resistance. Rice, serving a five year sentence for a Hot Springs junior store robbery, had fled Cummins prison farm on a horse Sunday and was last seen west of here near Lonsdale and Hot Springs.
The Hope High School auditorium in Little Rock hosts Henry Aldrich’s What A Life presented by Pebble Playhouse Inc. Admission is 36 jand al gents for tonight’s three act comedy at 8 p.m.
Batesville Mississippi May 18 JP W T Thompson aged 82 is the father of a large new set of twin boys born to 41 year old Mrs Thompson on Saturday. The boys weighed five pounds eight ounces each. The Thompson family includes three other children aged two five and twenty four. Mrs Thompson was sixteen and her husband thirty seven when married in 1924.
In Bern on May 18 Maj. Gen Geni George and deputy governor P Hays said Russia is modifying restrictions on trucks from West Germany to Berlin. Freight vehicles halted at Helmstedt will be allowed to proceed without written permission, with Russia demanding limits on other crossings. Hays cautioned Western leaders to press the Russians to drop that demand as part of likely bargaining. He warned the situation remains delicate but improvable, with indications of possible progress toward a trade accord.
The piece discusses lobbying as a regular, contentious force in Washington. It cites Sabath and others noting a 1500 registered lobbyists plus unregistered players, examining methods to sway lawmakers, including ex-congressmen, funding, and secrecy.
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