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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1945
Page
3
A newspaper columnist reflects on comfort for the bereaved, cites biblical verses, and previews modern poetry selections. It includes brief notes on evolution, nature as solace, and a Duke Power Magazine poem about wartime heroism, featuring Ella Brooks Wilson.
An advertisement promotes Tromone as a medical formula combining vitamins and hormones to restore youthfulness in middle aged men. It asserts increased vitality and zest, urging readers to follow directions on the label and purchase at Mann Drug and druggists.
Ottumwa Iowa Ensign Charles Hill of 422 Lexi Avenue Thomasville N re ed at the naval air station Ottumwa for naval air primary flight training He is among more than 300 commissioned ensigns to start the four month course Hill attended the naval preparatory flight school Chapel Hill and was commissioned after completing the midshipmen course at Ft Schuyler Also a note mentions peanut seed treatment costing 10 cents an acre with measurable gains.
A 1945 Guilford County bank statement sworn by cashier M H Folger lists pledged assets and liabilities including government obligations and deposits. Notary J Gurney Briggs confirms the oath dated March 27 1945 with commission expiring May 12 1946.
Lt Summe y of High Point North Carolina begins a five week B 29 transition course at Roswell New Mexico Army Air Field to become a flight engineer. Cpl Sechrest of High Point earns Air Medal after 150 flight hours on India China routes. Leslie W Lamar of High Point serves at Naval Training Center Gulfport as seaman first class with one year in service.
Chief Yeoman Merton R. Smith, 30, talks of Salt Lake City girls and life in the Navy after surviving the Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor. He and wife Reva live in Salt Lake City, and he recalls 42 months in the Pacific with one home leave last August.
Army engineers plug gaps in the Mississippi flood defenses as tributaries set all time crest records. The Mississippi runs at or above flood stage from Iowa to the Gulf, with Morganza floodway ready to divert up to 640 000 cubic feet per second. Governor Davis requests emergency funds while Morgan City prepares a protective levee and Bayou Teche is dammed.
Ration details list Book Four meat and processed food stamps with expiration dates through April 28 June 2 and July 71 plus sugar stamps through June 2. Airplane shoes stamps valid indefinitely. OPA has no cancellation plans. Gasoline and fuel oil coupons cover four to five gallons and heating-season periods. note safety facts on burns and etymology of electricity and telegraph.
Miss Alice R Day missionary to the Kenya colony British East Africa will be principal speaker at a missionary service at Oak View Methodist church Wednesday evening at 7 30 oclock She led the mission school in Kenya and is expected back in late summer or early fall She was chosen by the John Wesley camp for support due to favorable reports of her work in Africa Public invited to hear her tomorrow evening.
Washington April 3 Capitol Hill waits nervously over the appointment of a third man in as many months to head the nations largest bank job. The nomination of Fred M Vinson to succeed James F Byrnes as director of War mobilization and reconversion leaves Vinson still administrator of RFC financing and lending operations valued at 40.6 billion dollars. Senate finance leaders indicate rapid confirmation, while questions center on Vinson's successor and the need for a man of the same high qualifications.
S/Sgt Norman L Bowman Jr 23 of Asheboro NC, a gunner on a B 24 Liberator, was awarded the Air Medal by the 15th Army Air Force. He enlisted November 13 1942 and is stationed at a heavy bomber base in Italy in a unit commanded by Col Thomas W Steed of Etowah Tennessee.
The earliest flamethrowers appeared at Delium in 424 B C a hollow tree trunk carried a basin of glowing coals sulphur and pitch at the lower end A bellows fed the flame and a pipe launched the jet from the device.
Memorial services for Sgt Jewel H Spears will be held at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning at Saint Edwards Catholic Church followed by a memorial sermon. Sgt Spears died in action on Iwo Jima. Father Robert J MacMillan will officiate and invite friends and relatives to attend.
Cpl John W Ruth of High Point arrives at Miami Beach redistribution station for reassignment after a Mediterranean tour and will rest about two weeks. Cpl Marion R Sams, also of High Point, receives a meritorious service unit plaque with the Ninth Air Force Service Command in France. he is a photographer who joined in 1942 and has been overseas since 1943. Sgt James R Kimpey, son of High Point residents, serves with command in England. Edward Elvin Hussey of High Point begins naval indoctrination at Great Lakes after marrying Margaret Hussey. he is due for leave after recruit training.
A. R. Kimrey of 1202 Montheu Avenue High Point prepares to close his third year of overseas duty He serves with the first quartermaster truck company in Europe delivering high priority air corps cargo to various theaters Kimrey a High Point High School graduate joined the army January 1942 and sailed overseas June 12 1942.
Pfc. Charles W. Davis from High Point is assigned to the 716th band at Alexandria Army Air Field in Louisiana. He joined the military in July 1941 and previously served in Mississippi. Davis, 29, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William P. Davis of Route 1 Kennerville, and his wife was Sarah Darby of High Point.
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