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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1938
Page
4
A persuasive exhortation to write letters to loved ones, mentors, and public figures. Encourages personal touch, sharing encouragement, gratitude, and affection. Describes the joy of receiving letters and the lasting impact of a handwritten note, urging immediate action and ongoing letter writing.
Hope Chamber of Commerce boards set October 6 as start date for a year long membership campaign. Aimed at canvassing individuals firms and corporations to join. Past year projects included Trade Day Air Mail Day County Seat Removal and a county fair with plans for a courthouse soil conservation district WPA road paving stock yards and other community goals in Hempstead Nevada and LaFayette counties.
Dr. James W. Workman told the Hope Rotary club at Hotel Barlow that peace costs less than war and praised Neville Chamberlain for steering a compromise. He spoke during a revival at First Methodist church and noted threats to Christianity raised by the Oxford Conference. Guests included E. J. Martin Sam Logan Harrison Sheppard and Dr. A C Kolb. Five gypsy babies loudly cried as a gypsy band performed in La Porte Texas prompting authorities to release the crowd to ease the noise.
The Briton serving as poet laureate wrote four lines of verse to Prime Minister Chamberlain. He was born in 18XX, predating the Russo Japanese War by several years.
Spring Hill public schools open on Monday. Gulber J. N. Davis, superintendent, announced Friday improvements at the school include one new all steel bus, new playground equipment, automatic water system, and new basketball gear. All friends of education invited to opening day. first P T A meeting planned for Friday night October 7. The new bus to be used that night for transporting members to the school. Two English MPs do not take the $20 salary.
Hope High School football, a 34 man squad, will travel on a five coach special train to Smackover to face the Buckaroos in a hard fought game Coach Foy Hammons predicts. One player Loy Ward is out. Tickets and train seats are sold on board the train with admission 40 cents to the stadium.
Question about social rules for engagements and gifts. The piece presents five scenarios on announcing engagements, gifts, dinners, returning gifts, and behavior with friends. Answers: 1 thoughtful to inform intimate friends, 2 no though close friends may, 3 engagees seated with hosts as other honorees, 4 return gifts from ex-fiance, 5 yes return engagement gifts. advise natural affectionate conduct. Copyright 1938 NEA Service.
In Lake Providence Louisiana 2400 acre Olive Dell plantation shifts plowing to night using tractor headlights. Owners W. T. Michiner and E. S. Voelker report cooler conditions fewer distractions for operators and overall more ground covered.
Hempstead county property owners face Saturday as the final deadline to pay general taxes without penalty. Books close Saturday night and a delinquent list will be published. After publication, further costs are added for listing, publishing, and property sales. The tax law requires penalties if payment is late with no extensions.
Washington leaders and congressmen urged higher government loans for cotton and wheat and sought a Roosevelt audience to outline a “desperate” farm crisis. Secretary Wallace backed processing taxes to fund subsidies, proposing four options including price supports and a government marketing control. Smith pressed for a higher cotton loan rate and a workable subsidy plan at a cotton states meeting.
Romania, a monarchy now run under a dictatorship, emerges as a potential ally of the democracies in any general war against the dictators. The article outlines Romania’s strategic value, its minority tensions, and its drift toward centralized rule under King Carol and the Iron Guard influence, following the suppression of fascist groups and a late April military dictatorship setup aimed at resisting Nazi domination.
ROCHESTER N Y JP New York Governor Lehman agrees to seek re nomination for a fourth term after Democratic party chief support. He broke with President Roosevelt over federal debt and budget balancing while Dewey won Republican gubernatorial nomination. Lehman, a Jewish conservative Democrat with strong business ties, maintains influence in state politics.
GEMVA Switzerland reports the League of Nations assembly accepted separating the League covenant from the Versailles treaty. The vote follows the Munich Conference on Czechoslovakia and clears the path to erasing one of Germany’s main arguments against membership.
A southern storm formed over eastern North Carolina after two tornadoes tore through Castadon and moved rapidly toward Long Island and the hurricane struck areas of New England Friday. The weather bureau said little likelihood it would be as devastating as last week's storm.
Reports from Prague and Asch indicate General Jan Syrovy announced in a nation broadcast that superior force compelled acceptance of the four power Munich agreement for dismemberment. Sudetenland fronts quiet as Sudeten Free Corps retreat behind German lines.
Munich pact signatories Chamberlain Hitler Daladier and Mussolini outline plans to cede Sudetenland to Germany within ten days. An international commission will supervise the evacuation with plebiscites in disputed areas and minority concerns addressed.
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