Competence and education shape civilization in McNeil High School remarks
The speaker addresses 16 McNeil High graduates urging strong basic education as democracy’s safeguard. He links Savonarola, Luther, and Gutenberg to the power of skilled, educated common people and warns against accepting media at face value without challenge. The piece notes a weekend of community events and a river outing with local names and a humorous rabbit sighting.
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McNeil High School
Geome
Girolamo Savonarola
Mary
Savonarola
Martin Luther
Johannes Gutenberg
Gutenberg
Committee Votes Half Million for 2 Arkansas Dams
The House Appropriations Committee voted half a million dollars for the Dardanelle and Eufaula dams on the Arkansas River as it completed work on the water projects bill. The action was announced this morning after prior reports that a subcommittee denied funds and pleas from Arkansas and Oklahoma delegations. President Eisenhower had refused to include the projects in the bill.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Dardanelle
Eufaula
Arkansas River
Big Arkansas
Oklahoma
Eisenhower
Senate Opens Debate Today on Housing Bill Fight
Senate begins debate on a multi billion-dollar housing bill with aims to aid the poor and aged. A key issue is a huge public housing program proposing 135,000 units a year for three years, with options to raise to 200,100 or lower to 50,000. Administration seeks 35,000 annually for two years. Senator Capehart plans to push for reductions.
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G. Milton Kelly Washington
Senate
Sen. Capehart
R-Ind
Drug Keeps Leukemia Victim Alive at Hospital
Oklahoma City report recounts Joseph Ware, 3, Ardmore, battling acute leukemia since infancy. Since Sept 1, 1933, no further treatment, yet doctors cautious, noting modern therapies extend life beyond prior norms. Two companions, Candy Craven and Richie McClure, join ongoing work at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Hospital.
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Oklahoma City
Luekemia
Joseph Ware
J. W. Ware
Ardmore
Okla
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Leonard P. Eliel
Chic
Blid
Candy Craven
Glenn Craven
Midwest City
Oklo
Richard McLure
Richie
Lawrence McClure
Burglary by 16-Year-Old Boy Traced to Local School
City officers say a 16-year-old boy admitted to the school burglary on Friday. A pencil machine was broken open and some change taken from a second office. He also confessed to breaking into Burt's Barbecue weeks earlier and was turned over to juvenile court.
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Yerger
Cain
Burt
Juvenile Court of Action
Appeal Certain in Ark LaRate Increase Case
Judge Mitchell Cockrill weighs arguments pro and con Ark La Gas Co rate increases tied to a November 3 1955 PSC order. An appeal to the Arkansas Supreme Court is certain with possible U S Supreme Court review. Brick and chemical firms urge reversal, asserting departure from utility regulation principles and unprecedented returns on investments.
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Little Rock
Mitchell Cockrill
Pulaski Circuit Court
Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co
State Supreme Court
Cockrill
United States
United States Supreme Court
Circuit Court
State Public Service Commission
Supreme Court
PSC
Ark-La Gas Co
State of
Arkansas
Commission
Mrs. Valentine Dies at Home in Hope Arkansas
Jennie Lee Valentine age 77 of 920 Westth Street Hope Arkansas died at her home yesterday afternoon. Lifelong Hempstead County resident and member of Garrett Memorial Baptist Church in Hope. Survived by daughter Mrs. Bula Tefteller Elm Springs Arkansas two sons Rev Luther Valentine Hope and Rufus Valentine St Louis two stepsons Monza and Lee Valentine Hope two sisters Mrs Etta Collins Hope and Mrs Charlie Batt Ashdown 23 grandchildren and 27 great grandchildren. Funeral Tuesday morning at 1 a.m. at Garrett Memorial Baptist Church Elder Elbert OSteen and Rev Wesley Thomason officiating. Burial American Cemetery with Oakcrest Mortuary in charge. Pallbearers are nephews Sid W B Vernon Ceybern Lonitie and Jabr Flowers.
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Jennie Lee Valentine
Westth Street
Hempstead County
Garrett Memorial Baptist Church of
Ashdown
Garrett Memorial Baptist Church
Elbert O'Steen
Wesley Thomason
American Cemetery
Oakcrest Mortuary
Sid
W. B
Vernon
Ceybern
Lonitie
Jabr
Mountaineer Roby Buchanan Crafting Jewel Like Tiffany
Roby Buchanan, a self taught craftsman from the Blue Ridge, makes 500 to 600 rings bracelets and brooches each year by hand in a tar paper workshop 20 miles up a dead end road. He welcomes visitors who watch him cut and polish gem rocks and chats with them rather than mass producing.
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Hal Boyle Hawk
N. C
The
America
Roby, Buchanan
Tiffany
Hills
Blue Ridge Mountains
New York City
India
Roby
Ruby
Page Thyge
Book Contest in 3rd Week at Library
The twentieth annual Children s Book Festival sponsored by the New York Herald Tribune will be held the third week in May. More than three hundred titles will be exhibited by forty eight publishing companies. Six judges selected outstanding books across three age groups with twelve honorable mentions. Prize and honor winners are listed across four age divisions. Hempstead County Library has all prize winners and honor titles, with 200 new spring titles on exhibit and to be added soon.
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New York Herald Tribune
Lion
William Pene Au Bois
Georgie
George Bright
Davy Crockett
William O. Steele
Nicolas
Kenny
Maurice Sendak
Duvois
Rutherford Montgomery
Tony
Halum Bloch
Lee McGriffin
Frieda Friedman
Keith Robertson
Richard Armstrong
Mary Stolz
Jocotin
Joanne Williamson
Abe Lincoln
White House
Sterling North
Thomas Craven
Hempstead County
Widow Receives Statutory Allowance From Murder Case
Arkansas Supreme Court rules widow Mrs Smith, convict in the poison death of Ernest Dean, may claim a $1,000 statutory allowance from her husband’s estate. Court rejects full estate claim, distinguishes dower from the statutory widow allowance. Justice Moloney dissents.
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Little Rock
Vanteen
Resp Smith
Arkansas Supreme Court
High Court
Arkansas
Truman Urges Backing for Foreign Policy
Former President Harry S. Truman urged Americans to back the government’s foreign policy alongside President Eisenhower. He spoke at the U S embassy in Rome to about 200 officials, praised the Marines, and noted political differences exist but unity follows campaigns. He also met Pope and attended services at St Paul’s church.
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Rome
Harry S. Truman
Eisenhower
United States
Truman
U.S
M. Truman
Talian
Giovanni Gronchi
George Washington
A&a
Tech
Boyd Sheridan
Burlington
Iawa
Vatican City
Osservatore Romana
Vatican
Mark W. Clark
St Paul’s American Protestant Episcopal Church
Charles A. Shreve
San Marino
Calif
Merchants Group Active In Hope Chamber Have A New Division
The C of Merchants Group joins the Hope chamber of commerce as an additional unit alongside the 12 committees. The retail merchants division, led by chairman A. C. Ball, includes Harrell Hall Jess Pendergraft J. C. Atchley Barry Brown Dewey Baker Mrs. Syvelle Burke Herbert Burns Harrell Collier Lynn Franks Corbin Foster W. H. Gunter Jr Henry Haynes Jack Lowe R. Herndon Mike Kelly C. Lewis Jenel Moore Jr. Ben Owen Harold Holly Emil Kaden Burnis GatLion Perry Moses Henry Seae Moons LaGrone Williams.
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Hope Chamber of
Come Merce
Frank King
Retail Merchants Division
A. C. Ball
Harrell Hall
Jess Pendergraft
J. C. Atchley
Barry Brown
Dewey Baker
Syvelle Burke
Herbert Burns
Harrell Collier
Lynn Franks
Corbin Foster
W. H. Gunter, Jr
Henry Haynes
Jack Lowe
R. ¥. Herndon
Mike Kelly
C.C. Lewis
Jenel Moore Jr
Ben Owen
Harold Holly
Emil Kaden
Burnis Gatlion
Perry Moses
Henry Seaemoons
LaGrone Willams
Girl Hit by Auto on Third and Fulton Streets
A S-year-old girl, described as Negra, was struck by a car driven by Noel Ray at Third and Fulton Streets this morning. She suffered multiple fractures including a possible pelvic fracture but is expected to recover after being rushed to Memorial Hospital.
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Third
Fulton
Negra
Barbara Keel
Noel Ray
Texarkana
Memorial Hospital
Hernedon-Cornelius
Ray
Hope
Anderson
Halleing
McKay
J. H. Howard
L. C. Lively
East 1Th
Taft St
Columbia to Swap Off Lenin Letters for Russian Periodicals
MOSCOW A prized collection from Columbia University including four Lenin letters and papers of Maxime Gorky is exchanged today for a group of Russian periodicals and journals. Bibliographer Simeon J. Bolan says the swap aims to fulfill a request for Russian owned papers and notes Columbia bought the Lenin collection for $10,000 in Paris and will use Rockefeller funds to acquire Russian books and papers.
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Moscow
Columbia University
Lenin
Maxim Gorky
Simeon J. Bolan
Columbia
Russian Institute
Trai Columbia
M. ¥. Lermontov
Bolan
Paris
Soviet Union
U.S
Final Rites for J. L. Anderson Scheduled at Central Church
Final rites are planned for John Lee Anderson 71 who died by suicide at home Friday. Services set for Monday at Central Church South on Highway 20, with arrangements by Herndon Cornelius. He leaves two sons Cecil and Garland of New Merxen, four brothers Waller Patmos Charles and George Anderson Spring Hill Rufus Anderson Hope, and two sisters Mrs Bell Dickerson and Mrs Vesula Green of Presealt.
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John Lee Andersson
Central Church
South
Highway 20
Herndon Cornelius
Cecil
Garland
New Merxen
Waller
Patmos
Charles
George Anderson
Spring Hill
Rufus Anderson
Hope
Bell Dickerson
Vesula Green
Presealt
Student Survives Fall of 75 Feet
MORRISTON UP A 4yearold college student survived a fall over a 7-foot precipice Saturday at Petit Jean State Park. Allen Gabbie of Dumas, president-elect of the junior class at State Teachers College in Conway, suffered a fractured left ankle, scalp wounds and abrasions in the fall. He was brought to a hospital here where he is expected to recover. On an outing with a group of friends, Gabbie fell off the precipice into the gorge near but not at the falls. He is the son of Mrs. Jamye Gabbie of Dumas.
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Morriston
Petit Jean
Allen Gabbie
Dumas
State Teachers College
Conaway
Gabbie
Jamye Gabbie of
Witnesses Not Dismayed by H Bomb Detonation
Sixteen civil defense experts at the USS MT MCKINLEY test site described the hydrogen bomb blast as awe inspiring yet not dismaying. They stressed civilian readiness and industry resilience as vital to national defense and pledged continued support for civil defense measures.
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Uss
Mt, Mckinley
Candidates to Air Issues Over TV in Florida Primary
Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver debate political issues on a nationwide radio television program tonight in Miami as they campaign for Florida's May 29 presidential preference primary. The hourlong program, moderated by Quincy Howe, airs at 9 p.m. EST.
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Miami
Fla
Adlai Stevenson
Estes Kefauver
Florida
California
Stevenson
Jan RH
Kefauver
Oregon
Orlando Jaycee
Tennessee
Illinois
State Police report shows three Hempstead wrecks in April
The State Police log for April records three Hempstead wrecks with no fatalities, plus six in Lafayette, one in Howard, and two in Nevada County, all nonfatal. Miss Catherine Roberta Howard of Hollins College Virginia graduates June 3 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, daughter of Mrs. Catherine Richards Howard. Henderson College dessert party honors nine seniors including Mrs. Opal Rowe of Washington. Pony League baseball opening delayed to Tuesday due to school signal lighting. Army Pvt Clyde J Arnold Jr, son of residents in Hope North Carolina, recently completed artillery survey course in Korea after joining in 1955 and basic training at Fort Chaffee. Temperature reached a seasonal low of 91 degrees at the Experiment Station.
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Hempstead
Lafayette
Howard
Nevada County
Catherine Roberta Howard
Hollins College
Virginia
Catherine Richards Howard
S. Elm
Henderson College
Colecon
Opal Rowe
Washington
Army
Clyde J. Arnold Jr
Walker, Hope
I Corps
Korea
Arnold
24Th
Infantry Division
Fort Chaffee
Ark
Southern State College
U S Drops First H Bomb Swifty Plans Second Test
Aboard the Mt Mocking Ley enroute to Kwajalein, UP reports the first American hydrogen bomb test succeeded mid June. Plans for a second test and a pilotless missile delivery are outlined as the United States accelerates the thermonuclear program amid expectations of about ten more tests before summer’s end.
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U.S
Swifty
Joseph L. Myler
Ss. S
Mockingley
Namu Island
Bikini
Stréa
United States
United
Hot Springs High Court Considers Gambling Amendment
A garbled report notes a Hot Springs ballot title amendment linked to mutuel gambling. The attorney for the measure argues the term is commonly used in public operations, while the court weighs whether gambling should be eliminated from the ballot language and title.
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Borse
Hot Springs
Hot Spring
High Court
Luck Jackson to Host Annual Fellowship Event at Mt Olive
The Luck Jackson Reynili annual gathering will be held at Mt Olive Ba Church on Sunday May 27. Sage is set to perform at 1 pm as the union, organized several generations ago, invites family and friends for lunch. Agent Henry Willson, mentioning Roy Fitzgerald and Hunter, notes the ongoing search for the latest protege amid a long-running community tradition.
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Holy Wood
Henry Willson
Stars
Roy Fitzgerald
Hunter
Art
Golien
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