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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1949
Page
6
OMASVILLE April 16 Hoyle manager of the Asville Chamber of Commerce will speak Thursday night when the Junior Chamber of Commerce installs its 1949 50 slate at the Woman's Club Building. City officials and club officers will attend.
During World War II the VU 8 shipbuilding industry became the country’s largest single user of steel, driving vast wartime industrial demand and production capacity.
Mystery Maidens appear in the Atomic Scandals vaudeville revue at the Paramount Theatre in High Point Monday April 18. Matinee and evening shows run 2:20 4:30 7:15 9:25 with acrobats dancers contortionists jugglers and an illusionist Marquis featuring mystery maidens and Terry Lee Manning.
Billy Hill of 938 Council St High Point brought a five legged frog to The Enterprise claiming it came from Elizabeth Culler’s pond. High Point biology teacher Dorothy Brown identified it as Amphibia nocturus a bullfrog with an extra leg. The incident ends with Hill pocketing the frog as the biology debate continues.
The Co operative club moved its meeting to Friday at 12 15 p m in the Sheraton hotel to hear Dr Ralph International vice president of Co Operative clubs and Mrs Roberts. Dr Roberts praised the clubs work and traced the origin and growth of the organization from Kansas City to a national presence of 112 clubs and 20 000 members.
In a brief Thomasville Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting on Thursday Kenneth Hoyle manager of the Thomasville Chamber of Commerce was named the honorary member. Tnyeen Linville Clemmons was chosen to manage the Jaycee softball team this year. Representatives from the Lexington Junior Chambers attended to seek support for a Lexington project to sponsor a game opening the North State baseball league between the Lexington Athletics and the Hi-Toms next Saturday in Lexington. Jaycees will sell tickets for the game. Plans were made for the Fiddlers convention at the high school next Saturday night.
The article notes Saturn’s volume is about 750 times Earth’s, but its mass is only about 95 times Earth’s due to its much lower density. It explains the discrepancy between volume and mass.
Central heating described by heaps of leaves and decay that release heat used by termites to warm their nests. The article notes termites, or white ants, employ this method as a natural heat source in their galleries.
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