Fourteen High Pointers Killed Since U S Entered War
Home front duties fall to guard units as a 10 day Fort Bragg encampment trains North Carolina state guards in emergency procedures crowd control and home front protections. Lieutenant Merlin H. Watson praised the unit as excellent for neatness, discipline, and efficiency while instructors covered weapons handling and sanitation. Senior instructors Clyde A. Morrison Watson and Wilte P. Morehead led convoy procedure aid and scouting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Guard
Fort Bragg
22Nd Company
Merlin H. Watson
Home Guard
Army
J. Melville Broughton
Lieut. Watson
Carl D Cates
Cates
Watson
High Point
Clyde A. Morrison
Wilte P. Morehead
Reduction Of Discounts Is OPA Violation
OPA reports alleged discount violations at the O. E. Searns furniture plant with about $2269.07 in overcharges. FE Kearns says the firm has refunded none and cites confusion in discounts. Pauli Raper notes an unnamed local plant faces a similar case and explains possible OPA actions for flagrant violations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
O. E. Searns Furniture
FE. Kearns
Pauli R. Raper
Winston- Salem
Kearns
Raper
Lant
Searns
St. Leo's Hospital
Greensboro
Venereal Disease Clinic Battles In High Point
The High Point venereal disease clinic operates from a red brick building on Wrenn Street as part of the city health department. Staff of doctors and nurses provide treatment to those who cannot afford private care, framing the clinic as a frontline battle station against syphilis and gonorrhea with federal and state support. The service, running since spring 1938, educates the public and aids in eradicating infections by treating patients and reducing contagiousness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
U. S. Public Health Service
State Department of Public Health
Capus M. Waynick
Enterprise
Wrenn Street
Patty Gibbs
Fred KR. Taylor
City Health Department
Theresa Feeney
North Carolina
High Point City
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Rationing Board Receives New Food Point Charts
The rationing board announced the arrival of new point-value charts to be distributed to merchants. Butter rises to 10 points while lard and shortening drop to 3 and 4 points respectively. Meat points fall on several cuts, bacon to 3, English roast to 9, fat back down, backbone and pigs feet now free of points. Blue stamps expire and new ones become valid in August, with OPA posters available to stores upon request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. F. Jones
OPA
Jones
Guilford Hosts 246th North Carolina Yearly Meeting Of Friends
Guilford College hosts six days of business worship and fellowship as North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends begins its 246th annual session. Prominent Friends from across the state and country attend with speakers from Syracuse Fisk University Buck Creek and Richmond Indiana among others. International Service Seminar participants will appear at multiple sessions through Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guilford College
North Carolina
Syracuse University
Friends
American Friends Service Committee
Thomas E. Jones
Fisk University
Frederic
E. Carter
Indiana
Western Yearly Meeting of Friends
George Mohlenhoff
Richmond Hill
N. Y
Guilford
James A. Coney
Yearly Meeting For Friends
New England
Air Cadet Open House At High Point College
Air Cadet unit open house at 326 college training detachment High Point College runs 1 to 5 pm with parade drill platoon calisthenics obstacle course a baseball game and a talk by Lt. DeWitt on aircrew training for men 17 to 26 interested in becoming pilots bombardiers or navigators The display highlights college training detachment courses in mathematics physics English history navigation meteorology and code.
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326 College
High Point College
Lewis N. DeWitt
Roberts Hall
Army Air Corps
Nursery schools open as 30 register at county building
Mrs. J. M. McGuinn reports 30 children registered for High Point day nursery schools with mothers from clerical to industrial jobs. Another registration is planned Monday afternoon 1 to 5 in the county building basement, plus a separate session for Negro children at Daniel Brooks homes 7 to 8 30 Monday night. Final locations depend on demand with at least two white schools assured on Park Street and Highland Mill. A federal grant of 5538 funds part of the 22144 allotted. cost per child is 2.40 weekly.
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J. M. McGuinn
High Point
McGuinn
Park Street
Highland Mill
North Main Street
FWA
North Carolina
Three-Week Wrangle Ends In Easement For Porter
Porter F Logan, veteran High Point industrialist, wins an easement allowing a building extension on a non existent street at his own expense. City maps conflict with city records over a 30 foot strip that would provide access to a railroad spur. The council narrowly approves, after debate about fire hazards and conflicting maps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Logan Porter
High Point
Porter
Thomasville
Denton
Grover H. Jones
Arnold J. Koonce
Finance Committee
T. C. Kirkman
Koonce
F. K. Ingram
Jones
Joshua Street
Ingram
Sam Strickland
Silas McBee
Byrum Street
Kirkman
H. P
Greensboro
City Hall
Roy Street
Joshua
Trinity Man One Of Few To Fly Over Japan
Adak Alaska July 31 one of the most exclusive clubs in the world restricted to men who have flown over Japanese territory held unofficial meetings here veterans of the Paramushiro raids rest from long range combat missions Club members said the big raid on Parushiro island was led by Mah Robert Pappy Spear of Eugene Oregon one of the best known Aleutian bomber pilots Other participants included Sgt C L White of Trinity North Carolina
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William L. Worden
Adak
Alaska
Japan
Paramushiro Island
Mah Robert
Pappy) Spear
Hilyard St
Eugene
Ore
Sgt
C. L. White
Trinity
N.C
Food Dealers Set Raleigh Meeting For August
The North Carolina Food Dealers Association will hold a two day meeting in Raleigh on August 8 and 9. J Leroy Allen, Raleigh secretary, announced the event. Speakers include L F E Edwards and R Bruce Roberts of the OPA rationing division in Washington and Gerritt Vander Hooning, Frank Rapids, Mich., former president of the National Association of Retail Grocers. Officers are A Swaringen of Concord president John B May of Asheville vice president Clyde Ayers of High Point vice president J Leroy Allen secretary and J J Harvey treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
North Carolina Food Dealers Association
J. Leroy Allen
L. FE. Edwards
R. Bruce Roberts
OPA
Washington
Gerritt Vander Hooning
Frank Rapids
Mich
National Association of Retail Grocers
North Carolina Association
A. Swaringen
Concord
John B. May
Asheville
Clyde Ayers
High Point
J. J. Harvey
Mrs Carter Resigns From Sr High Post at High Point
Mrs Ruth M Carter resigns after nine years on the faculty at High Point Senior High School to pursue an assistantship in education and an M A degree at the University of North Carolina She will report September 1 and has ties to UNC Woman's College Catawba College and local clubs.
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Ruth M. Carter
High Point
University of North Carolina
Department of Education
University
Womans College
Catawba College
A Y
American Association of University Women
Business and Professional Women's Club
Carter
Ecker Apartments
William Bryan Carter
Army
Camp Lee
High Point and T'ville Men Among 100 To Secure MD Licenses
Dr W D James secretary of the state board of medical examiners announced 100 new North Carolina doctors licensed 62 by June exam and 38 by reciprocity. Top exam averages went to Richard Erwin Gutmann Chapel Hill 92.9 Richard Thomas Myers Winston Salem 91 6 7 and Henry Fauntel roy Harris Atlanta 91 7 Julius Ammons Howell Thomasville and William Jack Hunt High Point among those licensed by examination. Also noted a Spain railway bought 124 locomotives in the last year and Japan’s authorities detaining furs and skins valued at 860 000 in Tsiwan China.
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Atlanta
Julius Ammons Howell
Thomasville
William Jack Hunt
High Point
Oratorio The Holy City Set for August 29 Here
Dr G I Humphreys of High Point College will lead the final summer union service at Wesley Memorial Church on August 29 featuring a presentation of The Holy City by A R Gaul. Dan W Smith will direct the chorus with soloists from city, Winston-Salem and Greensboro and Mrs Bascom Whitaker as accompanist.
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G. I. Humphreys
High Point College
Wesley Memorial Church
Holy City
A. R. Gaul
Dan W. Smith
First Presbyterian Church
Winston-Salem
Greensboro
Bascom Whitaker
Some Were On Front Lines, Others Killed In Training
A High Point tribute notes fourteen local men who died since December 1941 with others listed as missing. It highlights front line service and training fatalities across the war and cites names including James A. Reece, Richard Raynor, Graham Alderman, Miles Gayle, Robert B. Parker, Jack Hunter Gibson, Ira J. Royals, Addison Lacy Brown, Edgar Green, Samuel M. Collier Jr., and Donald Alexander Lovelace among those lost in the U S Navy Army and Coast Artillery services with details on their deaths and units.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
United States
United Nations
War Department
James A. Reece
B. J. Reece
Venable Street
South Pacific
Richard Raynor
U. S. Army
North Africa
Graham G. Alderffian
Denver
Colo
P. B. Alderman
Grace Street
Miles Gayle
S. A. Gayle
Club Drive
California
Clear Lake
Lakeport
Calif
Robert B. Parker
Parker
Victor Brown
Jack Hunter Gibson
U. S. Naval Reserve
Adam Lee Gibson
Oakwood Court
Ira J. Royals
U. S. Air Forces
Marianna
Fla
Ola H. Royals
Tryon Street
Pvt
Addison Lacy Brown
U. S. Coast Artillery
Trinidad
Hugh T. Brown
English Street
Jacob Jones
New Jersey
Edgar Green
Samuel M. Collier
Collier
S. M. Collier
Charlotte
Greene
Ida Elizabeth Greene
Greer Street
Donald Alexander Lovelace
Pacific War Zone
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Schools To Open Here September 1 1943
Superintendent Charles F. Carroll announced that all city schools will open for the 1943 term on Wednesday September 1 at 8 30 a.m. Pupils will report to their schools for assignments and for text books and supplies. The next day regular instruction will begin with first grade dismissed at noon. Registration dates will be announced later this month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles F. Carroll
Carroll
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U .S
W. G. Shipman
Air Cadet Unit
T’ville
Spain
Tsiwan
China
I@1
First Baptist Church
Humphreys
Martha Warner
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