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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1940
Page
3
The Star presents a left column sample ballot covering 11 amendments and explains its analysis. It urges voters to mark the ballot carefully and notes Amendments 3, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 46 with guidance to scratch or vote for them as described, highlighting home rule and tax impacts.
Greece fights to hold western defense line as Troly’s forces press near Leannina about 30 miles from the frontier and coast. Greek resistance is firm though retreating guards move to main lines per plan amid heavy night artillery on the northwestern front. Italy claims limited Greek counter thrust in Albania.
The Hempstead County Farm Bureau will host its annual meeting and family gathering at the Fruit & Truck Branch Experiment Station this Thursday October 31. Arizona Ranch Girls, popular singers and dancers from a Shreveport station, will perform. L C Sommerville president and Lee H Garland secretary organized all arrangements in the recreation area of the Experiment Station.
The executive committee of the Young Business Men's Association convenes at 7 30 Thursday evening in the Star office under acting president A E Stonequist. Members invited include Dale Jones H Kyler A H Washburn P E K Nolen Roy Stephenson and Leo Robins. Also notes Mont Blanc peak lies mostly in French territory rather than Switzerland.
The Bankhead Jones Tenant Purchase Act funds a model Hempstead County farm home and barn as the first of two federally financed homesteads. A North of old Highway 67 site near Hope features a 40 year loan at 3 percent with 100 percent financing and a supervisor guided farm and home management plan. Hope Star photos by collaboration with W. M. Sparks, county Farm Security Administration supervisor.
Hempstead county farmers are urged to study five proposed measures before the November 5 general election. The Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation backs Refered Act 44 changing venue in personal injury suits, and Refered Act 329 on workmen’s compensation to curb damage suits and stabilize industry. The Farm Bureau opposed Proposal Unitated Authority over workmen’s compensation insurance and the Rotenberry Old Age Pension Amendment, citing impact on school and state welfare funds and taxes.
The Hope High School Junior football team will play the Prescott Juniors Thursday afternoon at Hammons Stadium at 3 45. Admission will be 5 and 1 cents.
The piece lists five famed men of legend and history: Mike Fink, John Henry, Johnny Appleseed, Dave Crockett, and Paul Bunyan, noted as partly legendary or real figures of the era when stories arose. Answers are provided on the comic page.
The Star will publish the draft registration order numbers in Washington next. The first 200 numbers and names were released via AP Tuesday. Hempstead county’s nearly 4,000 names will run in the Hope Star and appear on four pages in Thursday’s Hope Weekly Star October 31. The full order list should finish in about a week, with extra copies available at The Star office.
A wing of the War Department building housing the Signal Corps message center caught fire early Wednesday. District fire units battled the blaze for over an hour before bringing it under control. cause and extent of damage were not immediately known.
A devotional line from Psalms 107 35 praising the Lord for His goodness and wonderful works to the children of men highlighting gratitude and reverence in faith.
Mike Murphy resident manager of Louisiana Nevada Transit Company remained in most critical condition Tuesday afternoon at Julia Chester hospital after an automobile collision on U S 6n Monday morning west of here. He was returning from a visit with his wife in Dallas Texas and Mrs Murphy arrived in Hope Monday night.
Census reports show 5 420 bales of cotton ginned in Nevada County before October 18 from the current crop, compared with 9 24 bales for 1939, per Carl Munn of Rosston special agent for the Commerce Department. Oklahoma has the largest population, 92 725, Arizona is next 43 726.
President Roosevelt began a New England swing with a stop in New Haven where he told a drenched crowd that workers are being trained for military service. He warned that despite wartime production, manpower is still essential and noted discussions on increasing aid, though he offered no specifics.
The grand conscription lottery for about five million 18 year olds concluded early Wednesday with six numbers missing. Officials found two more numbers than expected after the final capsule, drawn at 4:47 am, was misnumbered. A special junior drawing of eight omitted numbers was held to correct the master list, resulting in the last number drawn being 7839 for the 9,002nd position.
Prescott advances blacktop work on two streets with a third underway. The $10,198 project is funded by the WPA and the Chamber of Commerce Young Men's Division with $3,003 in sponsor material and equipment and $7,195 in WPA labor and materials.
The January cotton market opened heading and closed at 94.5 cents. The mid-dling spot price settled around 9.76, reflecting steady demand in a cautious trading session.
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