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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1949
Page
10
The article outlines treatments for lawn pests and diseases including chinch bugs grub damage June beetles and brown patch and dollar spot. It recommends dusts and fertilizer mixes with sand for insect control plus early season application of arsenate lead dust and DPT or Chlordane. It covers disease control with mercurial compounds and reseeding after damage.
Chinese Communists press peace demands by attacking Nationalist positions along the Yangtze front. Red troops strike north-bank bridge heads and push against government strongholds as observers say the action sets the stage for broader hostilities behind a bid for settlement.
In Thomasville on Salem street three ancient store buildings are being demolished to make way for two new brick Colonial fronts. One new building will house a North State Telephone collections office while the other will host the Butter Kist soda shop after moving from its current site. The dismantling and construction plan clears the Citizens Insurance Agency, Bruton's Barber Shop, and the City Barber Shop, with demolition wrapping up soon and new erections starting after. The Butter Kist site will be built by Harry B. Finch and covers 1645 square feet. the adjacent telephone office adds 612 square feet.
W E Fouts, a general building contractor of Thomasville, will construct the companys new fire proof commercial office. The office space was bought this week from Finch and Mrs C F Finch.
The present telephone building will be used exclusively as an equipment building. The company has grown so much that its current building cannot house both commercial offices and central office equipment. It plans to add commercial space by early summer with architect Charles A. Kendall of High Point.
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