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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1944
Page
2
E Miller head of the local Employment Office reports about 75 people refused statements of hardship by quitting first and then seeking release. He says releases require an essential job to be under 40 hours or hardship, wage, or working condition criteria, and not voluntary quitters.
William David Freedle 71 prominent retired farmer of route one died at his home Wednesday morning. He was born in Davidson County October 9 1872 and lived in the county his entire life. He married Ida Link on October 10 1910 who died January 7 1912.
Act features two mind readers MADAM BENAE and READS MINDS, part of RED HOT AND Y season at PARA THEATRE. Other acts include CHARA AND DREW, Gill, PADGETT, MITCHELL, SHERRY MARSH, DONRI S BAND, OMARI drummer, with matinee and evening times and ticket prices.
Funeral announced for Mr. Freedle with burial in New Pilgrim Lutheran cemetery. Surviving family includes two sons Raymond Freedle and Liam Henderson Freedle both of whom reside in the city along with widow Vada Lee Myers and one son Paul D. of route one. Also five sisters and one half sister plus four grandchildren and a Grace Southern church service set for Friday at 11 with lies in state from 10. Interment in New Pilgrim Lutheran church cemetery follows. A Rotary talk mentions U.S. world role and local visits by L W Moon and others.
Dr. E Plaff of the Southern Council on International Relations discussed postwar world problems. He stressed forging a lasting peace and a new world economic era while warning the opportunity could be lost if not seized. The Rotary audience heard the expert’s cautions and opinions.
Iles McLeane Hilton 61 died at 9 0 a.m. yesterday at 809 Park Avenue Greensboro. Funeral services were at 4 p.m. in the chapel with burial in Green Hill cemetery. Rev. E H Nease officiated. Hilton was a member of Revolution Lodge No 552 A F and A M and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. Surviving are his wife Margaret Brown two daughters Mrs R W Foster and Mrs W P Bivins one daughter Margaret Hilton and two sisters Mrs J W Flint and Mrs R D Hayworth Greensboro.
William Vestal Meadows aged 54 died at his route 1 home Wednesday at 1 pm after a yearlong illness. Born in Stokes County he lived in Friendship community ten years and at his last home two years. He was a Friendship Methodist member. Funeral plans are incomplete with body at Hanes Funeral Home Greensboro. He is survived by six sons, three daughters, three stepsons, one stepdaughter, three brothers, four sisters, and three grandchildren.
The 32nd North Carolina Conference for Social Service opened with talks by Leonard Mayo and Josephus Daniels. Today focuses on business sessions and open meetings of the community organization committee recreation commission interracial commission and a general session. The Mental Hygiene Society meets tonight in Raleigh.
Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thunder showers today. Occasional activity in the central and eastern portions tonight. Friday shows partly cloudy skies with isolated thundershowers in the extreme east. Mild temperatures continue.
Forty men from Thomasville depart by bus for Fort Bragg for induction into the army. The draft board released a list of names including Rolando Vann Harrington Clyde E Teasley Jr Ben Parrot Smith Clyde William Goins Curving Taft Coggins Lloyd Joseph Clodfelter and others.
A wartime bulletin from Cairo states Marshal Tito announced that air and ground operations in Italy and the German airfield arena led to significant Yugoslav gains. Tito claimed partisan success against a Chetnik force of over four thousand in Western Serbia.
Maj Jepson arrives in London as assistant military attache the first WAC to receive such an assignment. She is the widow of Lt James Jepson who joined the RAF in 1940 and was lost on a combat mission.
Public notice in Guilford County North Carolina Municipal Court of High Point announces action to enforce street assessment liens on real estate tied to W. Robert Morrow A. Sherrod Morrow and related parties. Defendants must appear and answer within thirty days from May 20 1944 under the authority of the court.
Durham April 20 The North Carolina Congress of Parents and Teachers in convention endorsed cooperation with other state agencies on a rehabilitation program for ex service men and women and endorsed the Barden La Follette bill. The body also backed compulsory attendance to age 16 and various education and health measures. H E Stacy of Laurinton spoke of strong public education potential with 100 000 members.
RALEIGH April 20 Roy Rowe theater owner and head of a shire aeronautics commission joined the Cherry for governor advisory committee. Also announced: Charles E. Hartman named Yadkin County manager for wea by William B. Umstead state campaign manager for Cherry.
Four percent of the Hickory area’s prospects celebrate success as three young men from the Hickory region are commissioned second lieutenants in the Army Air Forces after graduating at Randolph Field Texas. They are Joseph A. Morgan Jr of Newton and two others unnamed in the fragment.
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