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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1952
Page
4
A brief column titled Our Daily Bread by The Editor offers a pointed critique of a recent decision. It suggests accountability and invites readers to consider the implications, calling for explanation from those responsible.
The Nashville News editorial asserts Senator John McClellan championed flood control and dams at Bull Shoals and Norfolk in Arkansas but faces a rift with President Truman and Governor McMath over a state dedication. The Star seeks comment, warning political tension could ripple through the gubernatorial race and public credit.
In Vienna May 30 Ana Pauker a longtime Stalin ally and Romania’s foreign minister was reported purged from government posts including deputy prime minister and No 2 on the Romanian Politburo. Other top communists Vasile Luca and Techari Georgescu were also removed for rightwing opportunistic thoughts.
An hour after the accident Nell McCargo of Hope was shaken but not seriously injured. The incident details remain unclear with only sparse readable wording about her condition.
President Truman greeted Secretary Acheson at National Airport and hailed Western Germany’s pact as a great contribution to world peace. Acheson cited Bonn and Paris agreements as bolstering security of the nation, allies, and free world while signaling forthcoming U.S. legislative action and Senate ratification tests.
A House appropriations subcommittee will study President Truman's request for 3.441 billion dollars to expand the five year atomic weapons program. Key lawmakers, including Maybank and McMahon, expressed varied views while Truman urged swift action and cited national security needs. The plan includes new plants and the Ohio River Valley facility, with the Nautilus keel laying set for June 14.
A singing program will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 1, at Sardis Union Church near Patmos. The public is invited.
A large opening crowd attended the first performance of the Third District Livestock Show Spring Rodeo. Winners included Ray Matheson Texarkana 16.4 in calf roping and Gerald Williams Greenville 5 seconds in bulldogging. top bareback riders included Bob Ferguson Oklahoma City and Marvin Holmes Pickney Olla. girls barrel racing saw Kay Lee Williams Texarkana 17.2 and Charlene Watkins Texarkana 18.0.
Hempstead County Library launches a Vacation Reading Club starting June 2 named the Tom Sawyer Reading Club. Boys and girls will paint a wooden picket as they read, using white paper to cover grain. fifteen books per painted picket. Diplomas awarded for completing fifteen book reads. Eligibility includes fourth graders from 1951-53 and higher.
A community gathering at Garrett Church begins June 4 with a two week revival, inviting attendees to join sessions led by visiting speakers and local leaders at the church hall and sanctuary.
Girl Scouts and Brownies plan a five day day camp at the park from June 2 to 6 with a 9 am opening ceremony and 9:15 am program start. Activities include handicraft tennis folk dancing swimming and team games led by named leaders. Curved Bar Scouts assist with demonstrations. Each day has a cooking group while others bring lunches. drinks provided. Final day features a special program.
United Nations troops repelled two North Korean Red company assaults on a high East Korean peak known to Allied soldiers as Dulls the Gooks Castle. The 3,000 feet summit overlooks several lines of Communist front positions as Red forces had sought to block UN advances for about a month.
Sergeant First Class Wesley P. Calhoun, son of Mr and Mrs H B Calhoun Route 1 Hope Ark recently attended an orientation on public information policies and methods at the Eighth Army advance headquarters in Korea. In civilian life Calhoun graduated from the University of Arkansas with a BS degree in business administration.
New York May 30. Father Frank Woods an Irish priest who served 17 years in Korea. For two years he fought with U.S. troops as a non commissioned officer, earning high praise and the American medal of freedom. After a dangerous tour as interpreter and chaplain he was unofficially promoted Buck Sergeant by popular vote of the unit. He hopes to return to Korea to reenlist, praising the fighters and the buddy system that sustained them.
A Russian soldier and an East German officer fired warning shots to drive Western photographers from the barricaded border between West and East Berlin. Time and Life reporters Carl Mydang and Thomas Lambert and Telenews rep Martin Badekow witnessed the incident as a German guard fired into the ground. No one injured, but the camera was seized before the intruder returned to the East. Western officials pressed demands that Soviet interference stop amid contested highway and communications lines.
Hope High School honored graduates with diplomas as Governor Sid McMath spoke and principal addresses filled the program. Syd McMath Jr served as valedictorian and presented awards, including National Honor Society and various academic and service honors to students such as Sara Lauterbach, Marilyn Shiver, Billy Joe Baker, Jim Compton, Charlene Rogers, and others.
Fragmentary text references secular events and trains near Denver with a fete. Names and places are unclear due to garbled OCR. The readable bits suggest a local notice or brief about a ceremony and transportation. No clear actions or outcomes can be determined from the fragment.
Munsan Korea May 30 The Communist chief truce negotiator ended the killing of a Red prisoner on Nose Island and dropped a hint of possible reprisals against Allied prisoners in North Korea. UN authorities in Kojo reported one Communist prisoner killed and another wounded Thursday by a guard's rifle discharge. General Nam demanded Allies immediately stop those reprisals and warned of mutual responsibility and consequences.
Paris May 30 AP government accuses French Communist Party of plotting to seize power and orders nationwide police readiness to crush a Red insurrection. Jacques Duclos charged with incitement. editor Ania Stil also faces plotting charges. Sporadic strikes erupt as papers seize several Communist issues. Duclos could face one year to life in solitary.
General Dwight Eisenhower resigns from his defense command in Paris today and will not engage in active campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination. A campaign spokesman in Washington stated further details.
May 30 reports from Koja Island and Kojo Island near Yongchon describe a violent outbreak at a United Nations prisoner camp on the Korean mainland. Wounding of 17 and several deaths are blamed on Communist POWs and factional clashes among prisoners. Police and troops moved to restore order. civilian casualties and detentions reported, with authorities citing Martyr's Day amid Tokyo demonstrations and public unrest.
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