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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1945
Page
3
Social and Personal notes list joint luncheon of Gardenia and Lilac Garden Clubs at First a church at 1 o'clock Wednesday. Also reports PTA meeting rescheduled to Sept 26 and YWA meeting set for Sept 17 with officer assignments announced.
Miss Mary Edna Killian arrives for an overnight visit with Miss Frances Osborn before they travel to Denton Texas to attend TSCW. Pfc Burton Yates leaves for Washington then Ft Meade for reassignment. Miss Rosemary Coop and others depart for Den ton Texas to enter TSC LW M Suez. Mrs John F Clark and other relatives spend weekend at Hot Springs. Sgt Charles W Key arrives in Hope from Ft McClellan for furlough with wife and son on South Main Street.
Ruth Millett recalls wartime triumphs and lists the small pleasures that would thrill women in a postwar world. She highlights unused coupons, nylon stockings, rationed meats, prewar items, help-wanted ads, roast beef menus, blue points, and new domestic helpers as the kind of everyday wins that would satisfy women after the war.
The piece advises against asking guests to bring gifts for the guest of honor. It suggests giving a gift personally if you wish and notes hosting can force awkwardness. It also mentions battens as thin wood strips used to stiffen sails.
The Happy Home Demonstration Club met at Mrs Susie McJunkins home on September 7 with a song of the month When Johnny Comes Marching Home. Devotional by Mrs Wiley Dillard. New members Mrs Susie McJunkins and Mrs Will McKinney joined. visitor Mrs Foster Cannon attended. Next meeting at Mrs Bill Rosenbaum on October 5 an all day event with slipcovering demo.
Emmet Lula McSwain Society of Christian Service met at Mrs A E Magness home with co host Mrs Herman Reyenga. Meux pastor announced revival starting Sunday September 16. Kudos for a fall floral decorate and salad plate.
Washington manufacturers and distributors urge a definite date for the reduction or abolition of wartime excise taxes on luxury items like fur, jewelry, and luggage. They blame Congress for inaction while Treasury handles collection, noting reductions may occur six months after hostilities end and suggesting options ranging from early cutbacks to reverting taxes to prewar levels.
A reader asks if Grandma should babysit and how mothers in wartime balance duties. Dorothy Dix cautions about elder limits, wartime shifts, and grandmothers' patience and health as the war era reshapes family caregiving. A second letter faults college manners and urges parental instruction in polite behavior from cradle to adulthood. A sailor seeks advice on a girlfriend with bad breath, and the answer suggests discreet handling by sending him remedies to share.
USS reports recount Maj. Gen Keys faced a jap private who slapped him and was punished. Sgt Blain in Australia denounces Japanese guards as war criminals after release from a Singapore area camp. Major Singlaub led a successful Hainan rescue. prisoners endured brutal confinement. Aging life expectancies contrast white male and female longevity with Mexican averages.
The text notes 1946 proposals to set a new effective date for reductions and rewrite schedules or abolish most excises. Congress faces growing pressure to revise the federal tax system. Numerous national plans exist from groups such as the Committee for Economic Development and individuals like Beardsley Ruml, with a common urge to end most excises except liquor tobacco and gasoline.
Dr. Hale dictates a secret report on X-999 while Carolyn Tyler manages guard orders. Ken Palmer hires applicants to fill police roles as Hale and Carolyn sneak time for dinner and dancing, blurred by the urgency of the discovery and Leana Sormi’s sharp confrontation.
Japanese official Terashima, aged 63, is handed to American custody today. He previously retired from active service in 1934 and held senior posts including chief of staff to the Second First and Combined Fleets, commanded the naval training squadron, and led the Uraga dockyards.
Captured veterans from Battle Creek recounts a harsh camp routine where Japanese corpsmen used lighted punk sticks to burn patients and force work. They describe cold water baths, barefoot marching, and extreme measures seen as cures for headaches malaria and dysentery. Two deaths among 240 at Camp Asmio noted. some were sent to Tokyo hospitals, fate unknown.
The attorney general proposes subdividing Alcoa to reduce reliance on a single supplier of key raw material, noting current capacity and that no punitive atomization is intended. The plan would create separate companies while maintaining national alumina and aluminum production.
Attorney General Tom C. Clark told Congress that domestic aluminum supply risks staying idle as high grade bauxite concentrates in Alcoa hands. He urged breaking up Alcoa, examining all U.S. bauxite lands, and enabling independent producers to access a 3 million ton stockpile for the Huricane Creek alumina plant in Arkansas.
A resolution from the American Legion post urges naming the new Mississippi River bridge under construction at Memphis the Douglas MacArthur bridge. The motion cites the general’s service and ties Memphis to national history.
Health is the first objective of education says the NEA. The program should protect health, find and fix defects, and promote health. Schools must have proper facilities and crowding should be avoided to control contagion. Regular physical exams and timely defect correction are essential.
Tornado forward speeds vary from a few miles per hour to nearly 150 mph. Reports indicate tornadoes have occurred in every U S state except Nevada.
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