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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1941
Page
5
Craigh Wood discusses how grip and wrist alignment affect clubface at impact, explaining open versus closed faces at the swing top. He cites famous players like Stewart Maiden Bobby Jones and Chick Evans, advising average players to copy the pros.
All fruiting of strawberries will start Friday at Chadbourn Wallace Olive Warsaw Rose Hill and Tabor City. This year’s acreage totals 7,500 up from 6,000 last season. The crop brought $1,836,000 with an average of 33.40 per crate. May 5 the Chadbourn dike crop harvest peaks, while Blakemore and Missionary varieties move by April 28 in Wallace.
A single engine attack plane, disabled by a mid-air collision, crashed near Clark Field Fort Stotsenberg killing Pvt. Franklin J. LaBonte observer with the second observation squadron. Second Lieut. Raymond A. Sloan parachuted to safety. LaBonte also jumped but his parachute caught on the plane.
Governor Broughton is expected to reappoint R Bruce Etheridge of Manteo as director of conservation and development. The 12 member board will expand to 15 under a 1941 law, with Charlotte and Winston Salem likely to retain one each. Names floated include Hinton James, Frank Eatman, Josh Horne, Roy Hampton, Horton Coughton, Charles Ray Jr, E I Bugg, and others from Greensboro to Laurinburg.
A vintage notice urges votes in the primary for Fourth Ward candidates R H Bob Sechrest and W R Grant for council seats. It backs C A Lewis and Ed Gurley for Third Ward representatives and mentions RB Floyd with limited oversight of the CIO sponsorship.
Gertrude Blair Livengood 62 of 1416 English Street, widow of Andrew F. Livengood, died at home after a yearlong illness. Survived by five daughters Mary Shipwash H Point H D Carter Charlotte Pauline McCullum Bernice Livengood Velma Hall. three sons William Harrison Howard Franklin Jack Edward, two brothers Ed Blair Thomasville James Carson Blair Ham Let, two sisters Dora Gurley Lola Haley, eighteen grandchildren. Funeral Tuesday 3 PM Rankin Memorial Methodist Church High Point. Burial Floral Garden Cemetery.
The Duke d Aosta in East Africa refused a British demand for unconditional surrender to protect the Italian population. Italian officials announced today.
The North Carolina highway system adds 918 miles to state and muni plans and 578 miles to county roads, with 165 miles surfaced. Most additions are short segments. 72 of 100 counties affected. Jurisdiction totals rise from 58,495 to 58,940 miles, a 445 mile net increase, with 2,156 miles built or surfaced that year, enough for a Raleigh to Salt Lake City stretch.
Reports from La Rochelle said today a Frenchman was condemned and shot after being charged with killing a German non commissioned officer and assaulting another. The incident occurred in Vichy area censorship notes unclear details.
Hindu Muslim rioting in Ahmedabad, 300 miles north of Bombay, reported spreading to outlying areas. Disorders that began Friday caused at least 106 deaths and injuries to 318 people.
North Carolina shipping point information and yesterday’s sales at principal wholesale markets as reported by the U S and Northern California Departments of Agriculture. Prices are centered to ranges for merchantable quality stock.
Market notes from Plant City and Hammond show demand waning and prices varied for berries and vegetables. Listings include per pint prices, crate and hampers, and notes on cabbage lettuce radishes asparagus snap beans sweet potatoes and potatoes with regional bids and shipments. A London dispatch reports the British submarine Tetrarch sinking an enemy tanker bound for Tripoli and mentions rioting arrests.
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