Brookwood PTA Opens Year With Guest Speaker Henry
Brookwood PTA held its first meeting of the year with Miss Henry as guest speaker. Principal Miss Henry spoke on Our Contribution to Victory, emphasizing mothers’ role in the war effort. Officers and teachers were introduced, yearbooks distributed, and a social hour followed. Kitty Carol Jones celebrated her second birthday with 17 friends at her home, with flags and balloons as favors and a large white cake with two candles.
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Rookwood PT. A
Kitty Carol Jones
Carl Jones
Hames
Shelia Foster
Caroline Cox
Judy Franks
Mary Dean Epher
Susanne McNeil
Susan Davis
Larry Marin
Jimmy Ann Cole
Webbasetor Ll
Jimmy Jones
Judybeth Arnold
Lynda Syd Houston
Dick Broach
Jan Robinson
Lou Nell Cox
Dora Lou Franks
Patsy McPherson
Coming and Going in Hope Society Notes
Senator Lloyd Spencer returned to Washington by plane last night and Mrs. Spencer plans a Boston bound return later this month. Mrs. Jess Tolleson of Amity has been guests of her brother T. R. Billingsley and Mrs. Billingsley this week. Mrs. Dolphus Whitten Sr. has returned to her city home after visiting in Little Rock with Dolphus Whitten Jr. and his wife. Mrs. H. C. Whitworth leaves for Little Rock to join Mr. Whitworth, accompanied by daughter Mrs. Jack Ambrose of Luke Field. Mrs. Tra Yocum and son Jim return today from Fort Worth where they visited relatives. Cadet Harvey Barr Jr. arrived for a visit with his parents, while Cadet Barr is a student at Ellington Field in Houston. Miss Doris Vaught, secretary to Attorney Steve Carrigan, underwent an operation at Julia Chester hospital and rests well at noon. Coast Guardsman Ray Turner is seriously ill at Savannah Marine Hospital. Mrs. Turner and L. C. Turner are at his bedside. Sat. J. L. Cook Jr. returns from Alaska to Hope for recuperation after major surgery and will attend officers training school.
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Lloyd Spencer
Washington, D. C
H. C. Whitworth
Little Rock
Mr. Whitworth
Jack Ambrose
Luke Field
Aviz
Harvey Barr, Jr
Harvey Barr
Barr
Ellington Field
Houston
Texas
Doris Vaught
Steve Carrigan
Julia Chester Hospital
Coast
Sat. J. L. Cook, Jr
Alaska
Hope
Welfare Clients Get Higher Payments
Little Rock reports that effective November 1 the State Welfare Department will raise payments by about 60 percent. Old age pensioners will receive roughly 15.81 monthly, dependents 26, and the blind 19.50, up from prior amounts, funded by booming revenues from sales, liquor, and income tax.
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Little Rock
State Welfare Department
Welfare Board
Blevins Schools Open Monday With New Buildings
Blevins Public Schools restart Monday September 21 with 9 30 a m program led by James Bostick and speeches by M J Nelson Rev James Lee and others. Three new buildings added, including a home economics cottage on Blevins campus, a two room high school at $9000 with $6000 federal grant, and a one room elementary for McCaskill colored students.
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Blevins
James Bostick
M. J. Nelson
James Lee
Grevins High School
Evelyn Chesshir
L. J. Brown
Della Mae Schirmer
Eva Joe Brown
Coy Nolen
Iona Razr
Martha Fane Smith
Mary C. Holschlaw
Bleving
R. W. McCracken
Warren Nesbitt
Johnye Lou Epperson
Mildred Kraus
Virginia Bedingfield
Marga Vile Smith
Margaret Kaufman
Margaret Gardener Odom
Jesse Lee Wimberly
McCaskill Jr
Marion Griffiths
el, Puryear
Sanders Moses
Vera Mae Sanders
Blevins Training School
McCaskill
Hope Boy Receives Naval Reserve Call
Cecar A Stringfellow of Hope has been called to active duty in the U S Naval Reserve. He enlisted April 7 and will report for duty October 1. He is married with one child.
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Naval Reserve
Cecar A. Stringfellow of
Hope
U. S. Naval Reserve
Reform proposals outlined by Adkins on state issues
The speech urged moving stores away from schools and churches, banning liquor sales on weekends, and removing gambling devices from alcoholic venues. It pressed for higher teacher pay, better school fund management, a 500 bed charity hospital with the University of Arkansas Medical School, a mobile mental health unit, and continued livestock testing funds. It also noted defense program gains, Camp Chaffee expansion, and praise for President Roosevelt.
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University of Arkansas Medical School
State Health Department
State Hospital
Little Rock
Flood Central Commission
Adkins
Arkansas
Camp Chaffee
Camp Robinson
Noy
Roosevelt
Clyde T. Ellis
Ellis
Howard ‘Thomas
Fayetteville
Herbert Thomas
J. W. Fulbright
Fulbright
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P. E
Carter Johnson
Red Cross
Pana
Y Hope
Order of Insiguhante
Riday
Terrell Cornelius
Hempstead County
Pate Reem Tact
Pst
Stoi
Pawl Sof Jrury
Arrid
Pnew Saenger
Joe E. Brown
Judy Canova
Joan of
Ozark
Lionel Barrymore
Lew Ayers
Bill Elliott
Perils of Royal Mounted
Captain Midnight
Tie
Saenger
Rialto
Hong Kong
New York
Missouri
Pyt
Dolphus Whitten, Jr
Dolphus Whitten, Sr
City
Andy Devine
Leo Corrillo
Fred MacMurray
Mary Martin
Anne Shirley Chas, Coburn
Don “Red” Barry
Lorraine
Orily
Trojan
Nelson
Rockford
Phoenix
Ecru
Geo
W. Robison & Co
Nashville
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