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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1941
Page
5
Ance and Loam Companies announce closures all Easter Monday with many stores also shutting to grant employees a holiday. In Rio de Janeiro Brazil Manoel F Pereira stabbed Manoel P da Silva with scissors during a quarrel then died while the other man suffered no serious injuries.
In Bynum North Carolina scientists from Duke University and the Rockefeller Foundation study local diets under state health department direction. They find vitamin deficiencies especially in vitamin C and B group with high fat intake and low calcium and iron. Results may apply to southern communities and prompt an educational campaign. Also announced: Economy Auto Stores sold to B F Goodrich. T A Montgomery named manager at High Point store.
Walter Winchell lampoons occupied France as quiet yet declining in living standards. He mocks CBS officials for a false assassination prank by a newscaster and riffs on White House defense talk. The column notes Musholini’s exile, Isa Miranda in Hollywood, and fake romance rumors around a bombastic era.
Thirteen draftees from draft board four will report next Thursday for Fort Bragg induction camp as sixteenth Selective Service call. Another April 15 group heads to Camp Jackson for yearlong training, first from local boards to that South Carolina camp. Ten negro draftees are slated for Fort Bragg on April 16 with orders sent for the 10th and 8th.
B F Goodrich Company purchased Econ omy Auto Store locations at 204 North Main Street High Point and 42 East Main Street Thomasville from Econ omy Auto Store Inc chairman E M Dudley. The stores will operate as Goodrich Silver town Stores selling Silvertown tires and other automotive essentials. Dudley thanked local customers. R E Noble outlined Dudley’s new role as state retail supervisor and T A Montgomery will manage the High Point store.
The Cubs monthly achievement night at First Presbyterian Church features a kite contest with awards for best construction most original best decorated and best box kite. Judges include the council cubbing and Jack I committees led by Tom J. Kearns Fred J. Flagler Henry V. Koonts C G Bedford A H Holton Glenn R. Ward and A W Klemme along with S L Radenbaugh Jr J D Pickard and C M Garrison. Den mothers will report award lists to Scout headquarters Monday morning.
A Winston-Salem report cites 669 labor law violations in February from 420 establishments employing 11,180 workers. Offenses include 220 safety code breaches and 120 child-labor violations, with eight prosecutions resulting in fines and jail-suspended sentences. The cases span Hamlet, Salisbury, and Waco facilities, involving excessive hours and improper time records.
The High Point College Quartet will perform with the college a capella choir in a sacred concert at First Methodist Church on Wednesday evening April 9 at 8 oclock. Directed by Miss Vera Whitlock, the quartet has been active with two to four school and church programs weekly and is booked through year end. Members include Zelma Parnell soloist Doris Koonce alto Wade Whonoe tenor and Bill Gossard baritone.
At High Point College the annual senior investiture will occur in the chapel on Thursday morning April 17. Sophomores chosen by the seniors will invest the graduates-to-be with cap and gown. The service is the first in a series for seniors and a speaker has not yet been chosen.
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