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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1930
Page
2
Berlin’s state loan office notes 1929 loans rose 11 percent from 1928. Over 40 percent went to shopkeepers, independent tradespeople, and farmers. 27 percent to wartime loss beneficiaries and women with no occupation. Auctions of unclaimed pledges and low silver values cloud business outlook.
The article touts built in cupboards bookcases desks and breakfast nooks as space savers and decorative elements. It advises finishing them to match woodwork painting interior cupboards in bright or subtle colors and using modular movable bookshelves to suit room layouts.
The board of inquiry moved from the penitentiary to the Attorney General's office with a full report to Governor Cooper pending. Testimony recalled guards and officials as witnesses described rescue efforts and blame for delays in opening locked cells during the fatal blaze.
The UNC and Virginia debate teams meet in Raleigh for the annual event radiocast from WPTF at 7:15 PM. Three speakers per side will present arguments and rebuttals on adopting the 13 month Cotsworth calendar, a first southern airing. Carolina’s lineup includes W. W. Speight, A. V. Lewenstein, and alternates H. H. Hobgodd, with Virginia’s debaters not listed.
New York dairy report shows butter output at 8,366 units with no change and cheese at 148,642 units remaining steady. No additional context or market moves provided in the brief item.
The judiciary committee reported favorably a bill shifting prohibition enforcement from the treasury to the justice department with a July 1 effective date. The Williamson measure passed the house with one amendment granting the attorney general staff selection freedom, and Senate opposition was not foreseen.
Senator Tydings of Maryland asserts that drink use among high school students is rising beyond parental reports. He cites Methodist Board of Temperance and Public Morals data, claiming 25 percent of high school students use intoxicants. He presented a clip sheet distributed to newspapers nationwide.
The Daily Express reports Princess Marie Louise cousin of King George has chosen a simple life at the House of Mercy convent near Horbury Yorkshire. She follows the order’s rules rising early sharing plain meals and assisting sixty girls during a brief yearly stay.
Raleigh April 25. Southern governors conference sessions at Asheville Monday will be executive with reporters and stenographers barred. Gov. O Max Gardner said no minutes will be kept, and only after sessions will findings be released to the public. He said the aim is frank discussions of sectional economic conditions.
Charles Lockwood 89 of Chamberlain South Dakota stands as the last surviving member of the Last Man's Club of Civil War veterans and will drink a bottle of Burgundy bought in 1886 to toast fallen comrades. The other surviving member has recently died.
Charles Ross of the State Highway Commission says counties could save money by letting the state maintain all county roads using the $3,000,000 gasoline tax allotment rather than funding road debt service. Only four of 100 counties now switch to state maintenance. most counties prefer debt service and their own road taxes. He estimates total county road upkeep at $6,000,000 with state aid, and suggests $4,000,000 could cover maintenance statewide.
Readers warn that real facts may chill as officials avoid blunt truth. A newspaper veteran notes some fearfully avoid frank talk, while others demand accountability and openness from city leaders and media.
Some suits don’t need a flow er. Try wearing a small boutonniere at the V neck of your blouse. It’s a new trick and a cute look.
On May 31, 1938 the Insurance Department orders changes to the Total and Permanent Disability Clause and removes it from future use. Over the next 40 days a new Perfect Protection Combination offers a $15,000 death benefit payable from accidental injury.
Mrs. Jess Little of Auburn, Nebraska found a 1776 one third dollar note among her possessions. The currency bears the congress resolution text dated February 17, 1776 and the signature of B. Brannan, an ancestor of the finder. A sun dial diagram appears with the fragment mind your business on the reverse.
Lane Airport in Erin Dublin Ireland operates a single official landing field with a customs airport at Baldennel nearby.
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