Local Club Meetings and Community Notices Listed
The Cosmopolitan club plans a 7:45 p.m. home meeting with Mrs Hamilton Hanegan and Mrs LaMar Cox hosting. Oglesby Junior Hi group to meet 3:30 p.m. at the shop on Tuesday September 28 for first-year activities. Executive committee to convene 2:30 p.m. Social hour planned. Veterans of Foreign Wars to meet at VEFW hall Wednesday 7:30 p.m. All members invited. A Thursday group conference at First Presbyterian on September 29 with registration at 8:30 a.m. Mrs T H Seymour Fulton chairman. Brookwood PTA to hold a rummage sale October 4 on vacant lot opposite Rialto theatre. contact Mrs Bon Owen. F&FW club to host steak dinner 7 p.m. Thursday at Mrs George Hosmer’s 519 Edgewood. annual white elephant sale and bazaar planned. bring a guest and packaged items. Reservations with Mrs Chas. O. Thomas by Tuesday noon. Mullin-Morton hospital fall event: Beatrice and Hazel Abram announce engagement of Nisa Neu to William Joel Morton. wedding planned in October. Rhodes family reunion held September 25 at Friendship Church. 195 guests attended. annual event to continue next two years on last Sunday.
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Oglesby
Hi Hep A
Oolfivers
F& FW
George Hosmer
Edgewood
Fair Park
Chas
Thomas
Rhodes
Friendship
Prescott
Community notes from Friendship church and area residents
In September at Friendship church Friends of Mrs Ivan Bright report she shows slight improvement at the Baptist State capital in Little Rock after five weeks as a patient. Mrs Sally Marts returns to Tulsa with her son after an extended visit with sister Mrs Bell Phillips and relatives. Mrs Scott DeLee and daughter Susan of Dallas visit her parents Mr and Mrs Lea Robins. James McDowell of Elgin Florida spends weekend with parents Mr and Mrs J S McDowell. Miss And Clayton Booth return to Benton after weekend with aunt Mrs E M McWilliams. McWilliams Thomas Berry leaves for Ruston Louisiana Tech.
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Ivan Bright
Little Rock
Sally Marts
Tulsa
Paul Marts
Bell Phillips
Scott DeLee
Susan
Dallas
Mrs
Lea
Robins
Miss and Clayton Booth
Benton
E. M. McWilliams
McWilliams
Chicago Prepares for Atomic Attack Response Meeting
Chicago officials moved to ready the city for a potential atomic strike. Mayor Martin Kennelly called a disaster planning meeting led by Fire Chief and civil defense head Anthony J. Mullaney to update Chicago's readiness for its railroad hub role and industrial importance in light of Russia's atom bomb breakthrough.
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Chicago
Martin Kennelly
Anthony J. Mullaney
Civilan Defense
Russia
Kennelly
Deanna Durbin Files Divorce Suit in Los Angeles
Deanna Durbin filed for divorce from her second husband, Felix Jackson, charging desertion and mental cruelty. She seeks full custody of their three year old daughter, Jessica Louise, and notes separation since January 6, 1947. The couple wed in Las Vegas on June 18, 1945, and Durbin was previously divorced from Vaughan Paul in 1949.
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Los Angeles
Deanna Durbin
Huabahd
Felix Jackson
Jessica Louise
Las Vegas
Miss Durbin
Vaughan Paul
Revision of Tax Law Gets Top Priority
Washington reports a general 1950 tax law revision is top congressional priority for action this year or next, with possible new taxes to balance the budget and some excise cuts. Speaker Rayburn and Ways and Means chair Doughton push early action to enable broad revisions while warning against perpetual deficits.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Rayburn
House
Jand Means
Ways and Means
Doughton
Someone to Love! A Domestic Turmoil in 1940s Life
Ted Duncan marries Jenny Poleska after his elopement with Liz Conover. A strained budget and cramped home tests their bond as Jenny clashes with Tod and Ma while Ted clings to vague hopes. Jenny’s night out with Nina ends in an awkward dinner when Tod unexpectedly enters the swank Green briar room with Lis.
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Ted Duncan
Jenny Poleska
Liz Conover
Jenny
Liz
Tod
Harriet
Joe
Duncan
Sleepyhead
JeEnny
Ted
Nina
Greenbriar
Lis
Ning
Dorothy Dixs Divorce Advice on Love and Honesty
Dorothy Dix counsels that a wife should tell her husband the truth about loving another man to spare the innocent party and preserve dignity. She warns against quick divorces and notes many separations rekindle love, urging honest choices over expedience.
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Miss Dix
Leas
Divercy Court
Job Orders Issued on State Highway Projects
Little Rock September 27. Job orders for five state highway projects totaling more than $950,000 were issued today by the Arkansas Highway Department. Highway Director J. C. Bakers led the action, outlining project scope and funding.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Highway Department
J. Cc) Bakers
Suspicious Watchmen Spot Alley Sentry in St Paul
Two detectives investigated a suspicious man in an alley near a mint plant. The man turned out to be a watchman for an industrial plant who had been watching a second suspicious man at the far end of the alley. The detectives joined him, surrounding the target from behind. The second watcher explained his intent.
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St. Paul, Mint
Oklahoma to Vote on Bonds and Liquor in Special Election
Oklahoma voters face a special election on prohibition repeal and an 836.9 million bond issue for public buildings. Forecasts ranged from 400 thousand to 980 thousand. last general turnout was 721 thousand. Oklahoma's 1907 constitution barred hard liquor, a provision repeatedly targeted for repeal. In Oklahoma City a residential precinct reported 64 ballots in two hours, about double last year’s rate, signaling wide turnout.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Statehood
Arkansas road projects awarded in Texarkana region
Work is to begin immediately on several road projects with contracts listed. Texarkana street widening at 329,718 dollars, Balesville Sulphur Rock road at 154,635, Brownbricy Quitman road at 196,592, Melbourne Rockwell road at 147,711, and Henderson Creek Huntsville round at 137,718 dollars.
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Texarkana
Balesville
Shreveport Native Ties to Prohibition Efforts Across States
Fragmented notes reveal a Shreveport resident involved in early prohibition advocacy. The text references figures like David C. Shapard and Albert G. Kulp, mentioning vote counts around 60,000 to 212,000 signatures and legislative action, with cross state mentions in Oklahoma and Mississippi. The garbled OCR indicates a chaotic wart of dates, places, and political ties to a broader temperance movement.
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Ponca
Asin
Tulsa
Votin
Turner
Hig
ORY
Ansas
Mississippi
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Hamilton Hanegan
LaMar Cox
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First Presbyterian
Brookwood Pta
Rialto Theatre
Bon. Owen
Mullin-Morton
Beatrice
Hazel Abram
Thig Vity
Vic
Garland
Wan * Johnson
Speing Bytom
Rialto
Eras Dlean
Robert Mitchum
Myrna
Friendship Church
James McDowell
Elginney Fla
J. S. McDowell
Kenneth Vann
Big Springs
Tex
Mr. Vann
Berry
Ruston, le
Louisiana Tech
Irene Lonnen
Ernhart
Nea
Service, Me
Pasen
M. A
Markwood
State University
Thals
Pauline Trigere
Toni Owen
David Evins
Dorothy DIX
Ginger Aswers
Ginger
Miss Smith
Vranace
The
Beil Syndicate
Natchitoches
Shreveport
Brian
Rock
Ark
Olsen and Johnson
Buick
Fisher
Raflig
Detroit
Roger Clinton Buick CO
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