CIO-PAC Demand Defeat For Opponents Of Truman
President Truman ramps up his fight by backing the CIO-PAC demand to defeat lawmakers opposing his 17 point program. Southern Democrats plan a caucus as Hillman vows to influence up to 100 districts while accusing opponents of a coalition against labor and full employment.
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Washington
Truman
Cio-Pac
Capitol Hill
White House
Congress
CIO
Political Action Committee
Sidney Hillman
Pro
C F Wilson Celebrating 84th Birthday in High Point
Charles Fermont Wilson known as Uncle Charlie celebrated his 84th birthday while continuing his printing goods sales in High Point. Born April 16 1862 in Weeping Water Nebraska he moved through the Midwest before settling in North Carolina and serving as a schoolteacher and later as circulation manager of The Enterprise. He married in 1892 his wife dying in 1943 and remains active with daughter Ione Clapp in Florida and many friends in High Point.
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Charles Fermont Wilson
Charlie
Point
Middle West
Jarrell
Wilson
Weeps Water
Neb
John Charles Fremont
Rockies
California
Charlies Fremont
Marshalltown
Iowa
Rich Square
Ind
Charle
Midwest
North Carolina
Randolph County
Trinity
High Point
Enterprise
Ione Clapp
Florida
High Point approves water and sewer connection charges ordinance
An ordinance amends Chapter Q Article I to set city taps for water and sewer mains, outlines charges for various connection sizes, assigns prepayment to the City Collector, and states work between street edge and mains is at the property owner’s expense. An emergency clause declares immediate effect upon passage on April 16, 1946.
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High Point
Corporation Cock and
Lead Bend
Department of Public Utilities
Lois Welborn
Grange Tobacco Committee To Meet Today
Washington reports a conference of the North Grange tobacco committee with state officials from commerce and agriculture. The session in Seattle on April 17 aims to protect the Chinese market for American grown tobacco and will involve Rep. John H. Folger and other delegation members.
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Enterprise
Washington
North Cooeg Grange Tobacco Committee
State, Commerce and Agriculture Departments
Office of Relations
Seaseae Ton
Harry Caldwell
Gringe
John H. Folger
Lenten Services At St. Mary's Include Easter Music
St. Mary's Episcopal Church hosts Lenten services tomorrow with Holy Communion and sermon at 10 a.m. and Easter music at 8 p.m. by the Dunstan Boy Choristers and St. Mary's male choir. Rev. Howard S. Hartzell presides at evening prayer. Good Friday service runs noon to 3 p.m. with the rector's address on The Seven Words of Our Savior from the Cross.
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St. Mary's Episcopal Church
Int Dunstan
St. Mary's
Howard S. Hartzell
Maunder
Tschaikowsky
Oldroyd
Moon’s Tide Power Exceeds Sun by More Than Twofold
The lunar gravity drives tides with a strength surpassing the sun, producing tidal effects on Earth’s oceans more than twice as strong.
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Earth
Dairy Council Elects S D Gibson Jr President
Sloan D Gibson Jr of Hi Point becomes president of the Greensboro High Point Dairy council leading 156 milk producers distributors and ice cream dealers in the Hitch Point Thomasville Greensboro area. Tom Reed Sam Wiley Mose Kiser and others form the board of directors with local dairy executives and physicians on the slate.
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Sloan D. Gibson, Jr
Hi Point
Gibson Ice Cream Company
Greensboro- High Point
Tom Reed
The
Southern Dairies, Inc
Greensboro
Sam Wiley
Rt. 3
Mose Kiser
the Guilford Dairy On Association
Aoa Oa
Direcors
Coal Operators Agree To Stay In Washington
Soft coal operators agreed to remain in Washington for the balance of the week in hopes of resuming contract talks with John L. Lewis. After a week of idleness since Lewis walked out, the miners and owners held a five hour session with Special conciliator Paul W. Fuller as negotiations linger over mine safety and a health and welfare fund.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Paul W. Fuller
United Mines
Dairy Products Conference Set For Tomorrow
Four state dairy products dealers from the Carolinas Georgia and Virginia postponed their meeting to Thursday to protest OPA inaction on a petition for ceiling prices on cream mix. Congressmen invited noted a possible decision on the matter Wednesday.
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Washington
OPA
Carolinas
Georgia
Virginia
Local Cafe Pays $25 Fine For Overcharges
Nine North Carolina dining rooms settled OPA price panel claims for overcharges on meals during March paying penalties to the treasurer of the United States ranging from $25 to $112.50. The Haygood dining room at 504 East Washington Street High Point was fined $25 for overcharges of $5.10.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
OPA
United States
Office of Price Administration
Haygood
East Washington Street
High Point
Ancient battlefield mercy rite described in chronicles
A historic note recalls a practice where victorious troops, after battles, would move over the fallen and slit the throats of comrades whose bodies were pierced by arrows as an act of mercy, a grim ritual recorded in ancient accounts.
Crossword by Eugene Sheffer
Hit gently and prevaricated clues fill a compact puzzle with an annexed note about the scale and a southern state abbreviation. Thessalian eggs and pagoda finial terms mix with crowned hints as a range of across and down entries unfolds.
Why Easter Rabbit Lays Colored Eggs
The piece traces Easter traditions from pagan and Christian roots, noting the Easter rabbit as a longstanding symbol and origins of Easter eggs. It also recounts historic customs such as egg coloring, Easter Monday pranks, and fires, ending with a 1866 act adopting the metric system.
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England
Germany
North
Mouradoff’s Foxhole Ballet Delights High Point Audience
Mouradoff’s Foxhole Ballet presented by USO Camp Shows wowed a large High Point crowd with a sparkling colorful program. The medley included Swan Lake excerpts, Mouradoff and Sonia Wore in Grand Pas de Deux, Mouradoff’s Circus, Virginia Richard in a fortune-teller role, and Betty Burge in a studio workout. Rosa Rolland performed Andalusia and a Czech Village ballet closed the show. Victoria Grandall and Moreland Kortkamp provided piano accompaniment.
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Grant Mouradoff
Foxhole Ballet
Te Ballet
Imperial Ballet
Mouradoff
Foxhole
Metropolitan
Europe
USO
Ameri_ Seenen
High Point Community Concert Association
Try
Sonia
Vine
Virginia Richard
Betty Burge
Winston- Salem
S. W. Burge
West Fourth Street
High Point
Miss Burge
Victoria Grandall
Moreland Kortkamp
Marital Mixup Causes Dual Wedding in Askov
In Askov Minnesota a double wedding ceremony united William Groth and a bride with her sister as bridesmaid. The event tied families as both bride’s mother became mother in law to the groom and groth’s father became father in law to the bride.
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ASKOV
Minn
William Groth
Skin Extennae Relief Advertises Home Treatment
An old advertisement touts Black and White Ointment for eczema acne pimples ringworm tetter and other skin complaints. It claims fast action and healing, with 25 and 50 cent sizes, urging purchase for home use and relief from itching burning and soreness.
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City OF
Grange Tobacco Committee
St. Mary’s
Florist
Francis Nelson
S. D. Gibson, Jr
Dairy Council
Henry C. Liles
Ae Ae
Boro
C. H. Willard
Lindale Dairy Corporation Point
W. C. Phillips
Clover Brand Dairies
S. E. Coltrane
Guilford
Guilford College
S. R. Clinard
Lindale
J. U. Bu
Pleasant Ga
E. C. Blair
Clover Hill Farm
Ss. D. Gibson, JR
Dairy Products
Eugene Sheffer
New England State
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Isa
Bury St. Edmunds
Bavaria
Clement X
Maximilian III
Rosa Rolland
Metropolitan Opera Ballet
Andalusia
Milaud
Astemis
Harllee
Dorothy Gray
Évening Star
Harllees
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