Mullen Calls for Strong Peace Time Army in Observation
Lt Col J R Mullen of Fort Bragg urged a robust peacetime army during Army Day observances in High Point. He argued a capable force deters aggression and that future wars could be decided in air power, stressing the army’s ongoing role in peace and atomic-age defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. R. Mullen
Fort Bragg
America
North Carolina
Mullen
North Carolina National Guard
First Army
Europe
Nazi Germany
Hodges
Disabled Veterans Chapter Formed by Local Volunteer Leader
Talmadge Mason Pipkin of Archdale and High Point, a former Marine wounded at Peleliu, plans to form a local Disabled American Veterans chapter. He will stay in Archdale then return to Washington for training as a service officer. He invites disabled veterans to contact him or the DAV service officer in Winston-Salem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DAV
Pipkin
Veterans Administration
Winston-Salem
J. P. Pipkin
Los Gatos
Calif
High Point High School
Marines
Pelileu
Garden Clubs Plan Citywide Clean up and Survey
High Point moves to observe Clean up and Paint-up week with school children aiding a citywide survey. Garden clubs will inspect eight districts while extra trash trucks operate. property owners must tidy vacant lots and curb debris for city pickup. District leaders include J F Hayden and ten club heads coordinating eight districts.
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Coopera High Point
Eli K. Ingram
Sam Strickland
Public Works
High Point Council of Garden Clubs
Chamber of Commerce
Strickland
Garden Clubs
Burbank and Wildflower Club
North Main Street
East Washington Street
Centennial Avenue
Centennial
Garden Study Club
North Main
South Main Street
Main
East Green Street
Nature St
Friendly Garden Clubs
East Green Great
Southain Street
Southern Railway
Oak Street
Elizabeth St
Cassell Street
Highland Avenue
Wayside Garden Club
Main Street
Thurston
Howell
Lindsay Street
High Point Garden Club
Howell and
Thurston St
J. F. Hayden
J. W. Hiatt
Burbank
John Teague
A. R. Harrison
Roy C. Brown
Robert Bain
Valette Harris
C. C. Haworth
H. L. Mitchell
C. M. Allred
Hardin
Meat Shortage Strains High Point Slaughterers
High Point faces a severe meat shortage as local slaughters report a 50 percent drop in output last week. They blame federal price controls and OPA ceilings, warn of closures, and urge Washington to act while calling for closer cooperation between OPA and the agriculture department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
North Carolina
S. W. Horne
Geo. E. Hutchens
OPA
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Clyde Ayers
North Carolina Food Dealers Association
Ayers
Truman
Charlotte
Horne and Hutchens
High Pointers
Food Dealers’ Association
Association
State Agriculture Board
Dodd Confirmed as Undersecretary of Agriculture
The Senate confirmed Norris E. Dodd of Oregon as undersecretary of agriculture. He succeeds Jitsen who resigned to become an assistant secretary general of the United Nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dodd
Washington
Senate Today
Norris E. Dodd
Oregon
Riculture
J Itsen
United Nations
Hens Start Early Easter Production With Colorful Eggs
Chickens rush to Easter production as farmer W. W. Hughes brings two multi colored eggs from Route 5. A. L. Cook of English Street reports a hen laying two yolks in every egg and one egg with three yolks, in the lead up to Easter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. W. Hughes
Route 5
Enterprise News Department
Hughes
A. L. Cook
English Street
Cook
Local Delegates Appointed To GOP State Convention
A large High Point Republican delegation heads to the Winston-Salem state convention on Wednesday April 10 with Commander Harold Stassan delivering the principal address. About 200 attendees dine Tuesday night at the Robert E Lee hotel, and the main event begins at 1 pm in a Liberty street warehouse with an 8 pm address by Stassan. Delegates include Noble T. Praigg and J J Corrigan among others with numerous alternates also listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Winston-Salem
Harold Stassan
Robert E. Lee
Liberty Street
Airage of planes draws crowds at local fields
Sunday air traffic boomed at Fraley and Greensboro High Point fields with EAL PCA liners and two motor Cessnas drawing crowds. Navy PBYs and scout planes visited en route to Pensacola and Missouri's crewed battleship from the Pacific showed in. Local pilots formed a club offering prizes for name submissions mailed to Room 308 Elwood Hotel by April 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fraley Field
Cubs
Taylor
Greensboro
High Point Field
EAL
PCA
South East Airlines
Army
Hawthorne
United States
Greensboro High Point
South
Atlantic Seaboard
Pensacola
Florida
Missouri
Japan
High Point
Uncle Sam
Army and Navy
Oo City
Vicinty
Elwood Hotel
Navy officer among nine killed in Culebra air tower blast
The navy announced Lt. Cmdr. Cyrus Sugg Radford Jr. of Norfolk Virginia was among nine sailors killed when a bomb accidentally dropped on an air tower at Culebra near Puerto Rico. Eight other victims had been identified earlier.
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Radford
Washington
Navy
Cmdr
Cyrus Sugg Radford, Jr
Norfolk
Culebra
Puerto Rico
YMCA Drive Leaders Announced For High Point Campaign
Nathan Ayres and Welch Harris were named campaign co chairs for the High Point YMCA building fund drive to raise 327000 for a new gym floor dormitory health club and social facilities. The advisory committee includes R T Amos W F Bailey W B Hall Charles Hayworth Amos R Kearns Arthur Kirkman Willard Leathers J E Millis Erl N Phillips W T Powell T V Rochelle Rand Willis Slane and W A Tomilinson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point Ymca Biuldi Fund
Annon
Nathan Ayres
Welch Harris
R. T. Amos
W. F. Bailey
W. B. Hall
Charles Hayworth
Amos R. Kearns
Arthur Kirkman
Williard Leathers
J. E. Millis
Erl N. Phillips
W. T. Powell
T. V. Rochelle
R. Rand Willis Slane
W. A. Tomilinson
Red Men Meet Here Next Saturday
The sixth district of the Improved Order of the Red Men Pocahontas degree holds its spring meeting on Saturday April 13 at 207% West Commerce Street. The gathering includes welcome by Walter L. York High Point and response by Allen D. Tate Graham with a banquet at the Reformed church where R J Mitchell is toastmaster A J Koonce will give the banquet address. The first medical school in America was established in Philadelphia in 1751.
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Improved Order of the Red Men
Degree of Pocahontas
West
Commerce Street
Alamance
Rockingham
Guilford
Davidson
Walter L. York
High Point
Allen D. Tate
Graham
The
Reformed Church
R. J. Mitchell
A. J. Koonce
Red Cross Fund Still Trails Local Goal in High Point
High Point notes the 1946 Red Cross drive under the $30,000 target with noon totals at 7,610 contributions and 59 percent of goal. Lee F. Schaner commends L. B. Haizlip for an excellent effort. The Negro division reports 459.60 toward a 350 quota, with six firms achieving 100 percent participation. Negro workers donate at their workplaces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Red Cross
Lee F. Schaner
L. B. Haizlip
Schaner
High Point
Industrial Automatic Sprinkler Company
Ritz Theatre
Rogers Paint Store
Oakwood Memorial Park
Jose B. Lochrin Shoe Shop
Oak Street Cafe
USES Directors To Meet In Asheville
A regional conference of state directors and personnel of the U S conner service region four will be held in Asheville next Wednesday and Thursday. Delegates from North Carolina Virginia West Virginia Maryland and the District of Columbia will attend. Henry E Treide regional director will lead the conference focused on employment problems.
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Raleigh
U. S. Conaner Service
Region Four
Asheville
North Carolina
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
District of Columbia
Henry E. Treide
Washington
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Es Chai
Lt. Col
Talmadge Pipkin
Disabled Vets
Disabled Veterans
Susan
Blunt’s Bay
Collington
Billy Rogers
Wilson Wyatt
National Housing Agency
Emergency Housing Committee Chamber of Commerce
N. Main Street
YMCA
Philadelphia
Red Cross
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