Four Years Since VJ Day Surrenders Remembered
A retrospective of the 1945 surrender sequence recalls Japan’s path to capitulation. From August 10 to September 2 1945 headlines trace wartime events, the Emperor question, Allied terms, and the Missouri signing aboard. The Star’s bound files capture the rapid endgame of World War II.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tooley
Isa
Japan
Potsdam
Emperor Hironito
Washington
Kuman
Douglas MacArthur
Hirowto
Manila
U.S
Tokayo
Tokyo
Mis R
Missouri
Tokyo Bay
Wexphoon
8Th Army
ANKS
Mac Arthur
Gen
Mirohito
Start
Tin UG. S
P. S
Yamasiuta
Bilibid
Tuition Fees for Students Outside District
The superintendent announced tuition rates for students residing outside the Hope School district. Outside district students attending Hope Senior High and Hope Junior High and all Blumen g iary and Yerger and Negra Elementary schools will pay $7.40 per month. High school students in districts with local facilities may arrange tuition with their district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vames H
Dunies
Hope School
Hope
Blumen G
Yerger
Negra
Vet Dividend Assistance Office to Close Amid Staffing Gaps
A local veterans aid office will shut temporarily due to staffing gaps and reduced operations. The American Legion will not run the office after a specific date, with limited help available in the interim from designated contacts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vet Dividend Assistance Office
American Legion
Vassistance
Sarceay
Joe Domes
J. Bewdeu
New Vaccination Rule for Spring Hill Students
School officials announce new vaccination requirements for incoming students at Spring Hill. The policy targets children who turn six by January and applies to the upcoming fall term. Superintendent and police noted confirmations. some families have not yet complied. Weather forecast: Arkansas to see fair conditions this afternoon and tonight with a cool Saturday in western regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spaing Um
Sore Man
Ans Powiced
Phaese
Sue
Anniversary recalls Talbot Feild Jr letter on Tokyo look
On the fourth VJ Day anniversary Hope Star reprints Lt. Talbot Fields Jr. U.S. Navy Tope writer’s 1945 Tokyo impressions. He describes a flight over Tokyo Bay and the city’s ruins noting surviving landmarks and complete destruction, concluding Japan won’t need to buy scrap iron from the United States.
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Hope Star
Talbot Fields, Jr
U. 5
Navy
Tope
Tokyo
Feild
Missouri
Admiral Nimitz
Tokyo Bay
Yokohama
Japan
United States
Farm Bureau Names Officer at Picnic
Hempstead County Farm Bureau held its largest picnic at the Experiment Station with home baked pies fish and pork chops. Ury McKenzie presided as H A Robertson outlined the Farm Bureau story and programs. New 1950 board members elected include Garland Kidd Brooks Shults Selman Goodlett Andrew Avery and Phea Middlebrooks.
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Hempstead County
Experiment Station
Ury McKenzie
H. A. Robertson
Farm Burray
Arkansas
Farm Bureau
H. T. Baker
Southwest Arkansas
Thee Middlebrooks
Patmos
J. Q. Fullerton
William Schorley
Hope
Garland Kidd
Spring Hil
Rush Jones
Oran
Marshall Geck
Oak Grove
Vernon Brown
Spring Hill
Warlio McWilliams
Center Point
Lloyd Smithe
W. ZL. Lee
Sweet Home
Karl PF. Radley
Sardis
Garland Kiddd
Brooks Shults
Filton
Selman Goodlett
Ozan
Andrew Avery
Board's Chapel
Phea Middebrooks
KKAR
Robertson
KNAR
Vets vow to again picket Robeson at Peekskill
Paul Robeson accepts a Sunday concert near Cortlandt as veterans vow a parade and protest past the new site. Fourteen veterans groups plan a conclusive demonstration against communism after a riot disrupted Robeson’s last appearance. The event is under the Westchester Committee for Law and Order. a parade permit was granted for 14 veterans posts and allied groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peekskill
Paul Robeson
Cortlandt
Robeson
Westchester Committee For Law and Order
Albany
State Capitol
New York
United States
Alan M. Grant, Jr
American Legion
Building trades classes closed to new trainees pending December
Superintendent James H. Jones releases a Veterans Administration directive affecting local training programs. No new students may be enrolled in building trades classes at present while other adult and on the job programs may accept trainees. The new class may form a new glass by December 1 149.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James H. Jones
Cation
Veterans Administration Central Office
Acc Cepl
Remains of Primitive Hunters Unearthed in Wyoming
Primitive hunter group remains dating from between 400 and 12 000 years ago were found near Cody Wyoming. The site covers about 600 square feet on a Sage Creek terrace and yielded tools weapons and food remains. Scientists say the Yuma culture finds provide new timing for when early inhabitants of the Americas roamed the west.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
New York
American West
Christ
Cody
Laren Eiselay
Universsity of Pennsylvania
Picklo
Yuma
New World
Riseley
Sage Creek
Cady
Neherly Qeemun
Americas
Kiseley
Cudy
Glenn Jepsen
Nng
Keulony
Princeton University
Eton
Jamies Allen
U S Tightens Door on Five Per Centers
Washington reports McCarthy pressed to compel Frank Costello to testify in the five percenters probe as the Senate investigates improper influence in federal contracting. The inquiry pauses while staff study evidence. officials say direct contracting will aid small businessmen and blacklist unethical firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Washington
McCarthy
Wis
Frank Costello
New York
Senate
Costello
Hoey
D-Nc
Shbeammitttee
Jess Larson
Larson
New
Government Services Administration
Priest and four defy Vatican order over heresy charges
A Jesuit priest and four former Boston College instructors vow to ignore a Vatican demand to drop their heresy charges and return to Catholic obedience. Archbishop Cushing had silenced them, stripping sacraments from the Benedict Center and its followers. The Holy See letter, signed by Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani, endorses Pius XII era doctrine and labels the group a source of discord.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Mass
Boston College
Vatican
Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office of Rome
Emi
Cardinal Marchetti - Selvagiani
Leonard Feeney
St. Bendict Center
Cambridge
Richard J. Cushing
Harvard
Raceliffe
Feeney
Pope Pius XVI
Falher Feeney
Holy See
Hily
Centers
Condition of Justice Rutledge Very Serious
York Maine September 20 Supreme Court Justice Wiley B Rutledge gravely ill in York hospital with an ailment and in an oxygen tent. Dr Fred A Geer, his physician, and Mrs Aygearold present as he worsened after a prior setback.
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York
Supreme Court Justiess
Wiley B.latude
Fred A. Geir
Washington
York Hospital
Atedga
Aygearold
Geive Tole Mewsmen
Kutly
Six Passengers Injured In Bus Overturn Near Russellville
A Missouri Pacific bus overturned near Russellville injuring six of the 13 aboard. The vehicle ran off the highway shoulder after attempting to pass a truck, struck a culvert and rolled over. Five injured were identified: James H. Frisby Heber Springs Arkansas William Raxonislowie Frances Luster Springfi eld Ohio Ida B. Davis and Gwendolyn Davis Kansas City Kansas. Doctors said injuries were cuts and bruises with no serious harm. G W Hawthorn Fort Smith was treated at Russellville clinic for head lacerations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russellvile
Missouri Pacific
Boone Barnett
St. Mary's Hospital
James H. Frisby
Heber Springs
Ark
Wiliam Raxonislowie
Frances Luster
Springfleld
Ida B. Davis
Gwen
Wildcatters Drive Oil Boom Near Stephens United
In Stephens area wildcatters push exploration with 25 producers this year and 500 wells drilled in eight years, yielding about 500000 barrels monthly. New pools may emerge near Hamilton, Curry, and Ouachita Nevada line as pipeline development and deeper tests shape a growing oil district.
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Stepehsn
Colon G Davis
Here
Hamilton Pool
Lee & Burnett
H.T. Pannell
Ouachita-Nevada County
Gum Creek
Smart and Wesson
Walter Keith
Will
Stephens
A. B. ‘Forner
Wesson
Smart Fields
Travis Peak
Texas
Sun Oil
Sohip Petroleum
Ouachita County
Camden
Jand Magnolia
Smackover
el Dorado
Charles T. Reveley
Stephens Security 1
Wildcatters
GAR Commander Refuses Rebel Offer in Michigan Meeting
Grand Army of the Republic commander Theodore A. Pen Janel said he cannot meet with rebel leaders. He cites lack of time while delegates from Michigan towns gather in Jaglandpolis for a ceremony and to discuss the relics of the confederate past.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linsing
Mich
Theodore A. Pen Janel
Republic
Digest
Peblind
Jaglandpolis
Hds Grand Sur
Michigan
S. Heaee
Vancouver
Wash
Hare
Mes
Hesta Cook
First Month of New Year Sees U S Farm Red
Washington reports a two month treasury deficit of 2 53 474 078 83 as of September. Tax payments due in December March and June will reduce the shortfall but the deficit remains large. Spending this year outpaces last year with outlays around 3 billion a month. The national debt has risen beyond 255 billion dollars, and calls for government economy grow louder.
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Washington
Treasury
Treasury Department
Uncle Sam
Employee Charged With Theft of Company Time
In Elizabeth New Jersey on September 2 a larceny charge was filed by Phelps Dodge Copper Products Corp against Charles MacLaren an employee. The firm says he used company time material and equipment to build a television antenna. Estimated values total fifty dollars and four cents. MacLaren denied the charge and the case was adjourned to September 9. He is a former president of Local 441 United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers' and led an eight a month salin against Phelpsedge Fy.
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Elizabeth
N. J
Phelps Dodge Copper Products Corp
Charles MacLaren
MacLaren
John L. McGuire
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Phelpsedge Fy
New Board to Discuss State Girls School Crisis
A revised Arkansas Board of Control meets in Little Rock to address recent escapes at the Arkansas Girls Training School and the adjoining women's reformatory. Temporary superintendent Mrs. Maxine Cogbill, appointed by Gov. McMath, plans to keep girls busy and make the campus escape-proof as five escapees remain at large. The session will organize procedures and parole matters with two governor-appointed new members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Board of Control
Arkansas Girls’ Training School
Maxine Cogbill
McMath
Copbill
Tom Cogbill
Arkansas
Howard Gladden
Safety Council Urges Sane Labor Day Travel
United Press reports that millions prepare for Labor Day weekend with forecasts of heavy highway traffic and about 280 traffic deaths expected as 33 million cars crowd roads. President Truman plans trips to Pittsburgh and Des Moines, with safety pleas to start early and drive with courtesy.
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United Press
National Safety Council
H. Dearham
New York
New York Automobile Club
Truman
Pittsburgh
Des Moines
Independence, A
Borden Drivers Face Arrests Over Milk Sales in Hope
Hope officials ordered arrests of Borden Milk Company distributors for selling milk in the city arguing the practice violated local ordinance. A special council meeting reviewed a challenge to the ordinance and discussed seeking a court restraining order to delay further actions while a new ordinance is studied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Borden Milk, Co
Hope
Roilk
bin McClendon
Tiled Ault
Hempstead Chancer Court
Wilkin_ Hope
Borden Co
James H. Piikinton
Mr. McClendon
Borden
Pikini
Post Vacation Blues Smolder in Office Return
Hal Boyle humorously weighs the nerve strain of returning to work after a long holiday. The piece imagines a gentler reentry plan with staged vacations and lighter hours, contrasting modern work pressure with a gentler, gradual return to the daily grind.
District Bus Routes and Driver Assignments Noted
Readable fragment describes multiple bus routes serving Clyde Sanders home area and Hope High, with stops at Garland and Oglesby schools, Providence Terrarogue Creek crossing, and mentions Bus Nos 3 and 4 with drivers Glenn C and unnamed, continuing to Experiment Station, Dentville and Highway 67 intersection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Sanders
CCC
Hope High
Sch
Spring Hill
Experiment Station
Providence
Terrarogue Creek
Brookwood
Oglesby
Irtur
Dentville
Education is Key to Employment in Hope Area
Article highlights new employment figures for Hope and nearby area due to school openings. Teddy M. Jones notes drop in unemployment as students return, citing a government release urging youths to stay in school. Secretary Tobin stresses education as key to a competitive job market and national strength.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope
Teddy M. Jones
Jones
Attentian
Aunia
Tentin
Homer M. Adkins
Maurice J.bin
Yall
Tobin
Serts
Tobi
M. Poors
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Alex. H. Washburn
Jepan
Fuir
Wiemer
West Orth Tunigut
Talbot Feild, Jr
Vatican Order
Rutledge
GAR
Safety Council
Hal Boyle
Wirth
Medici Science
For- Hollen Min
Madlyne
Ereerare
Ricky
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