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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1945
Page
10
The OPA authorizes special gasoline rations for returning veterans and displaced civilian war workers. Applicants must prove the fuel is used for necessary auto trips to job interviews arranged by approved agencies. Oranges from the south and west sides of trees are said to have more vitamin C than those from the north and east sides.
The U S department of agriculture says Britain will be the main market for U S grown flue cured tobacco in the early postwar period with exports to decline later if duties aren’t reduced. It notes wartime shipments helped British blends, and outlines 1945 acreage rules, quotas, and expected export trends for flue cured tobacco.
Bennie Reynolds a 14-year-old Bertie county boy entered Duke Hospital for knee treatment marking the institution’s 250000th patient since its July 1930 opening. He arrived with Mrs. Beasley and was welcomed by a reception committee. A baseball glove was given as a keepsake. The first patient was Sara Lee Wilkinson then age one.
Returned combat veterans at Fort Sam Houston and their new habitat at the Sam Houston Country Club craft living quarters from salvaged furniture. The Bitter Lakes near the canal’s dry southern end provide a stark historic note about pre canal conditions.
Sgt. William M. Smith, son of Mrs. W. D. Smith, is home in High Point with his sisters after 36 months overseas with the 11th Infantry. He saw action in France under the Third Army, served in Ireland and Iceland, and was wounded in France. He arrived March 7, reports to Louisville on April 5 for reassignment and rest in hospital.
Cpl. Wade M. Rucker is entitled to wear the meritorious service unit insignia after his unit’s superior performance in the north ern Solomons. He has served in the Southwest Pacific since February 1943 as a welder with an nance unit and is a former resident of the city who attended the local school.
CPL Otis C Chapman Jr son of Mr and Mrs O C Chapman 245 Boulevard returns to Cherry Point after a 30 day furlough. He has served 18 months in the Pacific theater with the 4th Air Wing Squadron based in Hawaii Midway and the Marshall Islands and bears the Pacific theater ribbon with three battle stars and a presidential citation.
Pvt Charlie Dunlap age 26 is listed as the son of Mr and Mrs J D Dunlap of Fort Thomas Kentucky in this military notice from Kentucky.
Local draft board No 5 lists one 18 year old registrant Robert Cain of 530 North Hamilton. William Curtis Mangum honorably discharged from the Marine corps after one year and two months and becomes a registrant. Philip Augustus Warner discharged from the naval reserve after two years and five months. he volunteered and was over draft age. Eisenman discharged from the navy after two years and nine months.
Richburg, S C, husband of Mrs Ella Belle Brown Dunlap of High Point, has reached the army air forces convalescent hospital in Fort Thomas Kentucky for rest and recreation. He served with a unit of the RAF in the ETO for 19 months and was injured in an accident at his base in England.
Detroit reports Willie Hoppe of New York holds a 54 point lead after two straight wins in a cross-country match to reclaim the three-cushion title from Welker Cochran of San Francisco. Hoppe beat Cochran 60 to 50 and then edged him 60 to 59 to lift his total margin to 1,277 to 1,223.
St. Joseph reports on March 31 with Alline Banks at the forefront as the six-time All American cements a lead in the competition.
Nashville Tennessee Convacs beat Little Rock Ark Dr Peppers 22 to 20 to keep their women's national AAU championship. Miss Banks scored 18 points, boosting her season total to 620 points across 34 games, and extending Convacs winning streak to 49 over two seasons.
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