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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1947
Page
1
Alex H. Washburn presents a master plan overview titled Our Daily Bread Our Daily Bread detailing proposed steps, goals, and organizational framework for a regional initiative. The piece emphasizes structure, progress milestones, and anticipated outcomes.
The Hope city council ordered a comprehensive water plan for Fair Park after noting haphazard, uncoordinated construction. Livestock buildings already cluster at the north end while other park areas lack arrangement for picnics, tennis, playgrounds, softball, and a planned summer swimming pool.
James Thrasher argues General Eisenhower links humor with firmness patience and preparedness. He notes a democratic people with humor temper global affairs and urges Americans to apply a calm, constructive outlook to world politics to help ease tensions and improve diplomacy.
May 26 Darlington South Carolina a young Black man Willie Pooler 20 was moved from county jail to state penitentiary to protect him from mob violence after acquittal of 28 white men in Greenville last week in the mob killing of taxi driver Willie Earle Sheriff Wiley Grantham said Pooler was kept safe from possible mob action as details emerged of an elderly white woman assaulted near a patch of ground on the town outskirts
General Mark W. Clark, speaking on CBS, accuses Soviet occupation forces in Austria of confiscating industrial properties farm products and the Danube shipping lifeline. He also charges food political weaponization extra rations for Communist party members and cites UNRRA burdens and oil seizures. He defends firm U S stance to deter war and notes postwar Allied pledges to reconstruct Austria.
Fayetteville May 26 The University of Arkansas board chair Herbert L. Thomas said the Veterans Administration is willing to hold plans for an $8 million veterans hospital at Little Rock until the site for the new university medical school hospital is finally determined. Major General Paul R. Hawley of the VA told Thomas the hospital should be in the same city as the medical school, with Little Rock eyed but not guaranteed. Several cities, including Fayetteville, Fort Smith, Hot Springs and Texarkana, have bid for the school and hospital. The VA previously indicated plans were too far along to move. The university hospital project remains a major topic for the June trustees meeting after 1947 appropriations and federal funds hopes.
A nursery in the Stanley Beker store houses four kittens and three baby rats. Brownie the four year old cat feeds the rats after catching them on the premises. The kittens are about three weeks old.
Seven year old Delores Diaz was found half nude and malnourished in a trash filled padlocked chicken coop. Parents Domingo and Mary Diaz are jailed on felonious assault and neglect charges. State police say the child had wrists and legs tied each night while the couple were away.
The army seized control of Nicaragua’s government with the national guard maintaining quiet in Managua. Communications through Guatemala faced delays while Pan American Airways reported normal plane service to Managua. Dr. Leonard Arguello, elected last February and installed May 1, succeeded Gen. Anastasio Somoza amid claims of fraud from opponent Dr. Eric Aguando Farfan.
Atlanta police questioned French artist Paul Refoule in the 11 day old case of his wife Mrs. Refoule found slain near Peachtree Creek. A clothesline used as a weapon and the knot tied rope were identified as the instrument of death. Investigators noted rope burns on the victim and fibers on the saw used to cut the line.
President Truman asked Congress to approve a wide program for military cooperation with Latin America and Canada. The plan includes arming training and standardizing weapons across the hemisphere, with limited transfers and adherence to the United Nations charter. He warned against indiscriminate armament and aims for cooperation under a joint defense pact.
Washington reports the CIO formed a committee to organize telephone workers into a new industrial union. Philip Murray directed Allan Haywood to lead a two day conference May 31 to establish organizing machinery and extend affiliation to nonparticipants. NFTW members and officers in Atlantic City signaled willingness to join the CIO, indicating potential growth beyond 100,000 workers. NFTW announced three months ago 49 affiliated unions with more than 32,35 members.
The pirarucu is a fresh water fish found only in the Amazon and its tributaries. It resembles a whale and can reach weights around 200 pounds.
A cafe in Southern Missouri on May 26 argues historians will view the post atomic era as the age of the pinball machine. The piece compares pinball addiction to cultural shifts, noting the machine as a social force tied to escapism and speculative futures. It imagines a future where pinball, jukebox, and restaurant counter merge, challenging traditional family life.
London observers note the royal birthday tribute to Queen Mary underlining the rift with Wallis Warfield Windsor. The Duchess of Windsor was excluded from the Buckingham Palace luncheon while the duke visited his mother at Marlborough House. Duke Eddie attended alone, sparking renewed talk of reconciliation versus royal precedence.
The Lions Club will sponsor the hillbilly musical Cornzapoppin directed by Mildred Duncan Williams with a local cast of 69 to 75 men all dressed as women. It debuts at Hope High School Auditorium at 8 pm on June 5 and 6, with details to be announced at today's Lions Club luncheon at Hotel Barlow.
Four wartime powers United States United Kingdom Soviet Russia and China will draw lots for ships of destroyer tonnage or less from the former Japanese Navy. Larger ships are to be destroyed. The first drawing includes groups of six destroyers and 17 destroyer escorts to be handed over by Japanese crews to eastern ports.
Raleigh dispatch reports Godwin Bush a 24 year old Negro who broke from an armed mob at Jackson North Carolina jail, hid in rain soaked woods for 48 hours, then surrendered to authorities with FBI help. He will be held in Central State prison on assault with intent to rape charges pending trial.
Two young war veterans died in weekend crashes in Arkansas. Lloyd Matthews age 20, coast guard veteran, died at Hot Springs from injuries after his car hit a parking meter post. Edward S. Henry 28 from Black Oak was killed when struck by a car near Jonesboro.
John Thompson of Pine Bluff was re elected president of the Arkansas Council of Lumber and Sawmill Workers AFL at yesterday’s meeting in Little Rock.
In Florida, alligators render water unsafe for amphibians causing frogs to retreat into nearby bushes rather than dive. The behavior protects frogs from predators and emphasizes habitat shift away from aquatic zones.
Senate debates delay of a 4 billion tax cut as Tydings argues for balancing the budget before further tax relief. Taft urges speedy passage, warning delays may push July 1 withholdings out of reach. George plans to back the bill, while Truman opposes tax cuts but may sign if Congress sends a measure.
Southern Democrat Senator Fulbright and Republican Senator Lodge urged a European economic federation tied to a large reconstruction plan. They seek a multi billion dollar program over three years. Some leaders discuss a possible fall session to consider long range policy, while others remain silent awaiting details.
A fragment notes four cigarette plants in Carolina producing more than the combined output of nine other facilities. Limited readable details obscure exact locations and totals.
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