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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1946
Page
2
The plan divides authorized homes into price bands with targets such as 50 percent under 6000, 20 percent at 6000 to 6500 rising to 30 percent, and adjustments for high cost areas. The aim is to maximize low cost builds while some units will sell near ceilings. No figures released yet on how many of 245,000 authorized dwellings will sell under six thousand in initial weeks.
Bowles testifies that the wage price policy is working and labor management cooperation is improving. He notes civilian production is at a historic high and rising. To curb inflation the economy must stay stable with prices and costs under control and keep speculative capital out of the market.
The early development of anesthesia relied on chloroform ether and nitrous oxide as the first agents used to induce insensibility in patients during surgical procedures. Their use marked a turning point in operative care and medical practice.
Partly cloudy and slightly warmer today and tonight. Tuesday will be partly cloudy and warm with showers mainly in the extreme north and west and in the mountain regions tonight.
The Cannon YMCA of Kannapolis North Carolina won the southern Y volleyball title in Atlanta by sweeping Knoxville Tennessee in the finals 12-15 15-11 15-13 after earlier beating Knoxville 15-8 15-11. Georgia entries Macon and Augusta fell to the champions.
An official source at Tabriz reports no Russian evacuation signs in Azerbaijan Province while the Red Army upgrades communications and builds rest camps and officers’ residences. Radio Tabriz says the Azerbaijan government has not received Tehran communications and negotiations appear planned.
CHICAGO April 13 The Boston Red Sox were assured of a league first as they prepare for the 1946 season with a complete return of war veterans Pitcher Clem Dreisewerd joined the club after an army hitch making the Red Sox the first junior circuit club to erase its service list per the league service bureau
Clayton W. Frost state president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce died around noon at Mooresville General Hospital after an automobile crash on the Mooresville Salisbury highway early Saturday. He was 34 and survived by his wife Mildred Jones a daughter Jane Carroll and his mother.
Lawmakers push through a five month draft extension with a May 15 halt on inductions for 18 and 19 year olds. Debate over a roll call revealed a push to be on record while Senate talks a conference plan, with a veto possibility floated by Rep Sparkman.
Caesar Kleberg 72 longtime vice president and manager of King Ranch Inc in South Texas died in Kingsville after months of ill health. He led the vast ranch and served as a key figure in its operations.
Mrs Estelle Lawson Page of Chapel Hill is the top favorite as over 100 leading female players begin qualifying for the 44th North South golf championship at Pinehurst. The field competes on the 6 145 yard par 71 No 1 course with 16 advancing to match play through Friday, while others enter four flights of 16. Suggs of Lithia Springs Ga challenged Page after winning the 1942 tournament.
An attack by strikers seeks an 18 cent hourly raise and a 10 percent general wage increase as part of the 84 day old walkout.
Butte in turmoil as Governor Sam Ford公开 considers asking the federal government for help after riots left many houses wrecked and two boys wounded. He planned talks with Butte peace officers, currently outnumbered by rioters, to decide on federal assistance.
A four day street car and bus strike in Birmingham Alabama ended pending arbitration of the AFL union demand for an 18.4 cents per hour wage increase involving about 1000 Birmingham Electric Co. workers. The 400000 mine workers strike continued as steel output losses grew for bars and rails due to fuel shortages. In Michigan, Lansing bus drivers continued while Kalamazoo drivers ended a walkout with ongoing AFL grievance talks.
Reports say 30 000 Communist troops surrounded Changchun while government forces lag behind as the American first army sits 100 miles away. In Mukden a Sino American cease fire mission arrived to brief government, Communist and Allied reps amid risk of civil war.
Agriculture Commissioner Werr Scott has postponed a meeting of North Carolina bakers from April 15 to April 25 to discuss issues tied to the proposed 19 percent reduction in the cost of bread and bread-type rolls.
New York trading opened with mixed early results as Kennecott Glenn Martin and New York Central edged up while Anaconda Chrysler General Motors Western Union A Standard Oil NJ and Union Carbide slipped. Also notes on dry goods shipments and potato market conditions across Chicago and regional prices follow.
USDA market notes salable hogs 4 000 seen. total 9 500 with ceilings at 14.85 for barrows and gilts and 14.10 for sows and stags. early clearance aimed. Cattle and calves: salable cattle 15 000, calves 700. fed steers and yearlings largely steady to 15 cents lower. top price 18.00 for 1 300 lb. averages 17.25 35, bulk 16.00 17.25. heifers around 17.25, bulk 15.00 16.75. cows bulls vealers scarce, steady, most beef slaughterings in ser 15 n. top vealers 17.00 in seven lots. heavy feeder steers to 16.25. replacement cattle scarce.
A federal official accuses Clark meat packers of falsifying cattle prices to obtain subsidies. The scheme allegedly involves paying black market prices to push up reported costs and claim government aid, with penalties including forfeiture of subsidies for overbidding beyond legal maximums.
Luther Saunders aged 44 was killed instantly when an automobile struck him on Highway 115 about six miles from North Wilkesboro last night.
Seven axis nationals described by U.S. investigators as remnants of a Nazi spy network operating in the Orient four months after Germany's surrender were captured in Shanghai. The group includes four Germans, two Italians, and one other, accused of war crimes activities hostile to the United States. They may be tried in China or repatriated to Germany on the June 15 ship. investigators say witnesses in China can testify.
At least Superior Wisconsin resident died when her car overturned on a bridge. Willie S Leach was shot to death early tonight during a near Charlotte altercation. another Black man was in custody. Allison Ambrose Lucas Jr 22 of Lucama died in a Johnston County hospital from injuries in a Saturday automobile collision on US 301 between Micro and ma.
A report notes George Washington authored roughly 20 000 letters, many in his distinctive self composed chant, illustrating his prolific correspondence and unique voice.
Exhibitions feature St Louis beating St Louis 4 3 Baltimore 2 Washington 1 Pittsburg 10 over Kansas City Boston 19 over Cincinnati Indianapolis 0 New York 7 Cleveland 5 New York 12 over Philadelphia Chicago 4 Detroit 3 Louisville 3 and more results across major league clubs in early spring play.
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