Title Six Adds FHA Support To Texarkana Defense Areas
The piece explains Title Six of the Federal Housing Act expands FHA loan insurance to contractors builders and real estate firms in defense areas like Texarkana merging with existing U S Housing Authority programs. It notes Hope remains without these benefits and discusses the broader wartime housing strategy and potential national defense impacts.
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Texarkana
Texas
Arkansas
U.S. Housing Authority
Hope
U. S. Housing Authority
FHA
Southwestern to Furnish Proving Ground
Southwestern Gas and Electric applied to the Public Utilities Commission for authority to construct 25 miles of 34 000 volt transmission lines. The link would connect the Southwestern Proving Grounds near Hope in Hempstead County to the Okay system, delivering 4 000 to 15 00 kilowatts, with potential for more. If approved, power would be ready about 30 days after line completion.
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Wilker
Stuttgart
Searcy
Utilities Commission
Training School Opens Monday Postponed by Weather
The salesmanship school sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and led by Miss Evelyn Schatt hauser of the State Department of Education will now open Monday night November 3. Attendees will be classified for courses, a showing of The Land of the Free by Coca Cola Bottling Company will occur, and a certificate will be awarded upon course completion.
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Chamber of Commerce
Evelyn Schatthauser
Free
Reval Coca Cula Bottling Company
Wip
State Department of Education
Payroll Brief at Southwest Proving Ground Reaches 205000
Friday's payroll at the Southwest Proving Ground totaled about 205 000 dollars paid to more than 5 800 workers. The large construction area requires paying offices in the field and central time offices, with many paying clerks needed to issue the payroll. Paying begins with administrative staff and runs until 1 00 a m Saturday.
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Southwestan Proving Ground
McCabe to Enter Air Corps This Weekend
Jack McCabe son of Mrs Johnnie McCabe will relinquish his post as Supply Clerk Constructing Quartermaster at Southwestern Proving Ground to join the Air Corps as a volunteer appointive He will be classified as a flying cadet and assigned to the Aviation Photography laboratories in a supervisory capacity
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Jack McCabe
Johnniie McCabe
Southwestern Proving Ground
Jhis
McCabe
Air Corps
German Drive Centers About Crimea Moscow Fronts
Soviet and German reports describe fierce battles around Tula and along the Moscow approaches as German forces press two fronts toward the capital. In Crimea German sustained assaults reportedly break through toward Sevastopol while Soviet counterattacks seek to slow the advance.
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Moscow
Associated Prose
Red Army
Tula
Tass
Inne
Kalinin
Hitler
Crimean
Black Sea
Sevastopol
Tiercely
AVL
Kuibyshev
Zhukov
Aula
Volokoslamsk
Bullein
London
Volokolamsk
Safety Record Declines At Hope Plants Across September
More than 1100 mini hours were lost across six Hope Industrial Safety Council plants in September, the largest loss in months. Plans to revive monthly safety meetings and a November 20 general safety session include distributing safety buttons and certificates. State officials McCain and Mendelson will attend to discuss improved practices with film demonstrations from the National Safety Council.
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Hope Industrial Safety Council
W. J. McCain
J. S. Mendelson
National Safety Council
Hope
Hope Basket Compaaty
Bruner Ivory Ivory Handley Company
Lust Gunter Lumber Company
Union Compress & Warehouse Company
Temple Catton Oil Company
Troops Take Over Bendix Plane Works
The army seized the Bendix plant of Air Associates Inc on Friday to prevent a labor dispute from halting defense production. President Roosevelt issued an executive order directing the takeover and operation, with over 2,000 soldiers surrounding the plant and orders to avoid firing. Col Roy M. Jones assumed charge at the scene as CIO strikers and non strikers faced off near Hagbrouck station.
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Bendix —I
Air Associates, Inc
Roosevelthursday
Army
Stimson
Malion
Hagbrouck
CIO
Roy M. Jons
Eastern District Army
French Ignore Demonstration At Vichy Standstill
In Vichy the French population largely ignored Charles De Gaulle s five minute protest call for Friday at 10 am CST against German hostage executions. AP reported only six observants, five men and a woman, while reports from other occupied areas were unavailable.
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Vichy
Petain
Charles DeGaulle
London
CST
France
Associated Press
DeGaulle
Proclamation for Book Week by Hempstead County Judge
Fred A Luck proclaims November 28 to December 4 as Book Week urging county residents to visit the Hope Hempstead County Library system with branches in Hope Springhill Washington Blevins Columbus Fulton and school sub stations noting a rise in reading over the past two years. The proclamation is dated October 29, 1941. England’s 1940 birth rate was 14.6 per 1000, down 2 percent from 1939.
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Fred A. Luck
Hampstead
Hempstead
City of Hope
Hope
Hempstead County
Springhill
Washington
Blevins
Columbus
Fulton
Fred A. Lueck
Arkansas
Fred A
LUCK
Arkansas River Flood Forecast Raised On Rising Waters
Rain drenches Arkansas as flood predictions climb with the Arkansas River expected to crest near Ft. Smith at 35 feet, just 18 inches below the 1927 peak. 6 a.m. readings show 28.7 feet and rising, with U.S. engineers on 24 hour duty to shore up defenses and thousands of sandbags deployed.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Weather Bureau
Arkansas River
Ft. Smith
U. S
Crawford County
Pine Bluff
Jewlands
Wreck Victim Dies Here
Budd Todd, about 65, one of five Black men hurt in a car crash between Hope and Fulton last Tuesday, died at Julia Chester hospital Thursday night from a broken leg and internal injuries. Four others were treated and released. a white man was injured and taken to Texarkana hospital. The fatalities raise local highway accident toll to two in the week.
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Budd Todd
Hope
Fulton
Julia Chester
Todd
Texarkana
Cotton Prices Muted As Market Closes Mixed
The New Orleans session shows December cotton opening near 16.37 and closing around 16.19, with January and March futures fluctuating in the mid teens. In New York trading, spot Middling cotton sits at 17.07, reflecting varied demand and shifting futures sentiment.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Eye Ee
WGA
New York
Wale
Mayon
Wily Oo
VGGT
Red Cross Roll Call Planned for Hempstead County
George Ware announces a 2500 membership quota for Hempstead County with a Red Cross drive running November 1 through December 1. County outside Hope will be led by HE. E. Austin with rural teachers as chairmen. residential ward chairs listed. junior chapter led by Miss Beryl Henry. Luncheon for all workers set for November 4 at the Christian church with talks by Ware Henry and Austin.
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George Ware
IMI Roll Call
American Red Cross
Hempstead
Ware
HE. E. Austin
Hope
Austin
CCC
Beryl Henry
Red Cross
Christian Church
Miss Henry
Football Friday matchups across Arkansas towns
Ouachita and Arkansas Tech play in Russellville while Arkansas State Teachers meets Oklahoma City University in Oklahoma City. Hope visits Blytheville, Hot Springs goes to Camden, and many other city pairings include Jonesboro Clarksville Fort Smith Muskogee Lake Village Arkadelphia Amity Ashdown Helena Wynne De Queen Magnolia Stuttgart Warren Eudora Pocahontas Nashville Rogers Fayetteville Harrison Van Buren Monticello Dumas Monticello Mena Horatio Blevins Piggott Marked Tree Corning Imboden Bentonville Alma Ciwendon Malvern and Conway hosts Fine Bluff Catholic High Arkansas School for the Deaf travels to Heber Springs.
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Hope
Blytheville
Hot Springs
Camden
Berbert Renton
Jonesboro
Clarksville
Fort Smith
Muskogee
Okla
Risen
Lake Village
Frusvett
Arkadelphia
Amity
Ashdown
Helena
Wynne
Senvry
Batesville
de Queen
Magnolia
Stuttgart
Warren
Dermot
Eudorasburg
Pocahontass
Nashville
Rogers
Fayetteville
Harrison
van Buren
Dumas
Monticello
Harford
Paris
Murfeesborn
Mena
Horatio
Blevins
Piggott
Marked Tree
Corning
Imboden
Bentonville
Alma
Ciwendon
Augusta
Gordon
Malvern
Fine Bluff
North Little Rock Catholic High
Conway
Arkansas School For the Deaf
Heber Springs
Bobcats Leave for Blytheville Conference Trip
The Hope Bobcats and staff depart by bus Friday for Blytheville to face the Chicks in a league contest. Chicks outweigh Hope and are heavy favorites though Sonny Lloyd sits out. Coach Dildy saves Lloyd for Little Rock test. Cumbie and Ray to see action. Hammons notes Hope aims to keep score low and salvage effort against stronger foe before a Prescott rivalry game.
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Hope Bobcats
Blytheville
Chicks
Hope Lads
Sonny Lloyd
Dildy
Lloyd
Little Rock
Bobcats
Hammons
Cumbie
Ray
Cash Hammons
Hope
Prescott
Curly Wolves
North Little Rock
Salary Hike for City Employees in Hope City Council Meeting
The Hope city council voted to raise salaries by 10 percent for three departments the police street and fire departments plus volunteers the city hall janitor and cemetery caretaker Fred Russell received a 25 percent raise. The increase takes effect November 1. The council deferred a $100000 sewer project to focus on a new well and a boiler at the Dry Water and Light Plant. Mayor Albert Graves said he would report on the projects at the next meeting.
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Hope City Council
Volunter
Fred Russell
Albert Graves
Reuben James Torpedoed Off Iceland Coast
The U S 5 Destroyer Reuben James was torpedoed and sunk west of Iceland while on convoy duty. Reports from Berlin blamed convoy involvement on American ships. U S officials noted the ship’s duties and the loss as the first American warship sunk since the European war began.
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U. 5
Reuben James
Iceland
Europe
Roosevelt
U. S
London
Germany
United States
Navy Department
Berlin
Kearny
Navy
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Gillette D.iowal
America
Capper
Kansas
Guerney
Rep.n. D
Trueman
Great Britain
New York Shipbuilding Company
Greer
L. H. Edwards
San Saba
Texas
Reubut James
Suurees
A Thought One on God's Side Is a Majority
A Wendell Phillips quotation asserts that belief aligned with divine justice holds sway as a moral majority. The line emphasizes conviction over numbers, presenting faith as the decisive factor in justice and social reform.
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God
Wendell Phillips
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