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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1944
Page
3
Notices urge donations of wrapped presents around one dollar for Army and Navy hospital patients in Hot Springs, to be delivered to Mrs. Leo Robins for packing and shipment by December 1. Also listed are church group meetings for Monday and Tuesday with hostesses and locations.
The John Cain Chapter D. A. R. will meet at 12 30 Wednesday at Hotel Parlow with Mrs. Wilbur D. Jones Mrs. H. J. Chesser and Miss Mamie Twitchell as associate host ess. Reverend Glenn Hutton will be guest speaker and a full attendance is urged.
The Executive Board of Paisley P.T.A. will meet at 2 30 at the school on Wednesday afternoon. The regular P.T.A. will meet at 3 o'clock. Mrs. Jim McKenzie will present the program on Sound Health on the Four Fronts. All mothers are urged to attend.
On Thursday November 9 the Junior-Senior High School P T A will meet at the high school at 3 30 PM Executive Board meets at 3 PM before the regular session Circle No 6 of the W S C S gathered at the church Monday with Mrs Chas Parker Mrs J R Gentry and Mrs McCorkle as hostesses Leader Mrs J E Ward opened with Thanksgiving Today Mrs Parker gave the devotional Miss Mary E Whitehead life and work was discussed by Mrs J R Gentry and Miss Mary Ora Durham was presented by Mrs G W Womack After a brief business meeting hosts served a sandwich plate with hot tea and cookies to 12 members.
Mrs Lex Helms and Mrs J W Strickland hosted Circle No 2 W S C S on Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs Lex Helms. Mrs Gray don Anthony led with A Thought for the Day from the Upper Room and led a brief business session. Mrs Gib Lewis presented the program on Deaconess devotional Work in the Methodist Church. Mrs A B Patten spoke on life and work of Miss Mary E Whitehead assisted by Mrs C W Bridgers who spoke on life and work of Miss ion. Hostess Mary Ora Durham assisted the program. Seventeen members attended and an ice course was served.
The YW A of the First Baptist Church met for its regular monthly circle four gathering. Dinner was served to 29 members and one guest, Mrs McConnell. Mrs Arlest Trout led with song and prayer, five new members joined, and Miss Wanda Stern and others spoke on Under Southern Skies. Mary Roy Moses led the program with readings and a Mispah benediction concluded.
Leo Kabateck, once broke, claims a prime role as adviser to racketeer Virgil Boggio. Ginger presses for truth as Kabateck reflects on his failed early life, ambition, and a shift from unhappiness to legal ambition, ending with a plan to leave Harri Ferguson and Company and return with Ginger. The scene ends with them driving toward Columbus Towers.
Mrs. Joe C. Porterfield hosts a Spring Hill gathering for Mr. Meadows 89th birthday and grandson S Sgt Olan W Reeves home on leave after 16 months in the South Pacific with the 5th Air Forces. Attending are Lee Meadows Neils Kanstrup and families from Houston Daisy Ridchill Ezra McDowell and others. A birthday dinner and cake followed. Polly Tolleson travels to Denton Texas for weekend visit with parents. Lt M J Baum and family visit, Pfc Raymond Huett visits from Camp Campbell, Lt Jack Fulkerson returns to Galesburg after overseas duty in Europe.
Mrs. Orie Gilbert received a letter from her husband T/5 Sgt. Orie Gilbert in a hospital in England. Dated October 17, it reports a shrapnel wound on October 8 that cost him his left leg above the knee. He says he is OK otherwise and can sit up part of the day.
Mr and Mrs Chas Bader report their son Lt Stephen Bader has arrived safely overseas. The family conveyed the message to confirm his status and express relief.
Funeral services for Tom J Matthews 43 who died yesterday at his Emmet home will be at 10:30 Wednesday morning at Emmet Methodist Church with Rev Cagle officiating. Burial will follow in Snell Cemetery near Emmet.
In Little Rock on November 7 the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission secured an additional 700 dollars to hire a petroleum geologist geophysicist. Governor Adkins moved the funds from his emergency account yesterday to cover the hiring.
Commissioner of Revenues of Arkansas issues permit No. 478 to Leo Robins to sell vinous or spirituous liquors at retail on premises 108 E 2nd, Hope. Permit issued November 2, 1944 and expires June 30, 1945. Leo Robins, Permittee. November 7, 1944.
America Goes continues with heavy voting in Baltimore Norfolk and Massachusetts. Dewey and Roosevelt urge high turnout as record participation looms with women voters and service members shaping outcomes, while Congress races and state ballot measures add to a tense wartime election landscape.
Funeral services were held at Ozan for Mrs. Johnnie Smisson Carrigan 60 who died last Friday at her sister’s home in Ashdown. Survivors include another sister Mrs. E M Hyatt of Roswell New Mexico and a brother Woody T Smisson of California.
Nov 6 in Little Rock announces state champion 4 H club boy Billy Dow Huggins 16 of Franklin County and girl Janece Turpin 17 of Lee County. Runners up were Joe Donald Botto of St Francis County and Mary Moore of Washington County.
The Hope Texarkana football game, moved from Thursday to Friday at Texarkana, was announced by the Hope High School athletic committee. The Bobcats beat Texarkana 21 to 8 in the first game here on October 20.
Evening Shade Home Demonstration club members baked and donated 24 dozen cookies for soldiers at the Army and Navy hospital in Hot Springs. Mrs. Leo Robins, Hempstead county chairman, said this is the third Hempstead county shipment, following two prior cake shipments.
War Department lists thirty three Arkansas soldiers wounded in action in Europe. Names include Pfc. Fred E. Alexander of El Dorado, Capt. Jack W. Downer of Kingsland, and Sgt. John E. Hillyard of Kingsland, among others, with hometowns such as Little Rock, Monticello, and Hot Springs.
Hyde Park, N. Y. November headline shows President Roosevelt calling for 50,000,000 voters to the polls after a fourth term campaign finale. He says a large vote will make the world respect democracy and the American government as the best in the world.
Envoy to Rome reports Roosevelt spoke from Hyde Park at day’s end after a 75 mile Hudson Valley tour. He affirmed confidence in re election and urged voters to choose freely as he called for victory in the war and a world organization to maintain peace. The president framed the battle as finished and urged divine guidance and a prayer for justice and truth guiding nations.
At the end of February 1944 the estimated population of the United States stood at 137,700,000, a figure previously set as the 1945 year-end mark. The count reflects wartime demography and immigration controls shaping national figures during World War II.
Governor Thomas E Dewey heads toward New York City to vote amid a nationwide push for change in national leadership. He broadcasts a sharp anti Roosevelt appeal and urges Americans to exercise their ballot, arguing the country faces a desperate need for change. Dewey travels by train from Albany with Mrs Dewey to cast his vote near Hyde Park.
The Norwegian lemming migrates in a non periodic pattern, crossing lakes and fjords. It sometimes encounters warm water and baking soda during these movements.
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