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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1945
Page
6
Due to the critical food and help situation, Guest month will not be observed at the Emerywood country club this August. Members may no longer invite non members to bridge parties, the club announced. The weekly ladies bridge event and luncheon proceeded with winners listed for North South and East West directions.
Local Girl Scouts may join the August 11 parade with decorated bicycles or other vehicles as no group entrance is listed. Individual scouts should call the playground official nearest their home to enter rather than the Girl Scout office.
The Mu chapter of Beta Sigma Phi will meet this evening at the Blue Room of the Sheraton hotel at 7:30. Members are urged to attend as important business will be transacted.
The Theta Kappa chapter of Tau Phi Lambda sorority will meet at the Sheraton hotel Thursday evening at eight o'clock, according to an announcement made this morning.
Mr and Mrs Fred Chilton of 502 Cable Street announce the birth of a son Richard Arlen on July 28 Mrs Chilton formerly Miss Marjorie Davis of Star
Mrs. R. C. Loman of 612 Wise Street is a patient at Randolph hospital in Asheboro undergoing treatment and expects to be there for some time. Mrs. Mabel Burnett plans a vacation with relatives and friends visiting Pittsburgh Newcastle Clatton Pa and Youngstown Ohio returning around August 16. Miss Marie Grumbecht will oversee the Girl Scout program in Mrs Burnett’s absence. Mrs. George T. Wood is visiting Staunton Virginia with her son Col. George T. Wood Jr at his army hospital assignment and will remain through August.
The Mothers Prayer Band will meet Thursday at two o'clock with Mrs. A L Howard on Coletrane Street, according to today s announcement.
The local post office reports July receipts totaling 26455.09 dollars, up 1739.71 dollars or seven percent from last year. Officials note mail volume grew beyond the receipts percentage, with incoming government mail and franked items expanding. Mail from Asheboro and Trinity passes through here with no receipts shown.
Buster Hooks, 22, a Black resident of 104 Perry Street, was sentenced to four months on the roads by Judge D. C. Mac, for larceny of a $37.50 pair of eyeglasses from Beatrice Adams. He appealed to the superior court with bond set at $300. Several defendants were fined for public drunkenness. others sought jury trials for minor offenses.
Samuels tkin, a leading meat packer, pushes a postwar butcher shop turned salon concept on Fifth Avenue. The planned shop features fluorescent lights, comfortable divans, reading material, and ready meals like Hungarian goulash and Irish lamb stew. Slotkin, an art-minded immigrant, will stamp meat with exact weights and waste elimination while promoting stylish presentation and even mural ideas.
The narrator argues memories cannot restore strength after loss. Looking back leads to sterility like Lot wife turning to salt. To heal, one must move forward with living, finding new life, strength, and hope for those left behind.
Brazilian novelist Enrico Verissimo says South Americans overestimate U S money focus and miss cultural life. He cites a strong American Catholic following, diverse religious practice, and a robust sense of decency as proof of genuine spiritual culture amid exchanges to improve inter American ties.
The Women of the Moose plan a regular meeting this evening at eight o'clock at the Moose home on North Main Street. Members are urged to attend the session.
The Magdalene Rebekah lodge officers club will meet tomorrow at eight o'clock at Mrs. H. O. Hayworths home 1027 South Main street. This is the regular monthly meeting.
Graveside funeral services for Emily Melvina Konkle were held at Oakwood cemetery at 11 this morning. The child of Mr and Mrs William A Konkle Crestwood Park, Rev Hoy Fesperman of First Evangelical and Reformed church officiated.
London August 1 Sir Harold Alexander at 54 becomes Canada’s 17th governor general succeeding Lord Athlone whose term expired last June. Alexander led Allied forces from Dunkirk through Burma and commanded at El Alamein before becoming allied commander in the Mediterranean. King George VI approved the appointment announced by Buckingham Palace.
The note praises creating gadgets that clean, simplify and improve comfort. It frames a two way learning: you teach us to provide better appliances and we teach you how to enjoy them.
Air transport plans 50 000 returnees monthly with 30 000 landing at Miami field. North Carolina and South Carolina veterans cleared the ATC Caribbean division hub for Camp Blanding Florida by rail. T/5 Ralph B. Davis 27 of High Point NC discharged after 31 months overseas in Germany.
Lt. H. B. Whittemore of the U S field artillery left his sister Mrs. G C Jackson at 607 Bridges street and flew to Fort Ord California to report for overseas duty. He enlisted in May 1943 and served 14 months in North Africa and Italy.
Rebecca Patterson Jarrell AS USNR former War Department civil service employee receives orders to report to the Naval Training Station in the Bronx New York for assignment. She is the daughter of Mrs Annie Mae Jarrell of Leaksville and a Leaksville High School graduate.
S/Sgt James R Scott of Jamestown North Carolina returns home from the European theater with the Bloody Bucket division after eight months of combat from Normandy to the Reich. He wears ETO ribbon two campaign stars infamy badge and good conduct medal. Cpl Lawrence D Wagner of High Point North Carolina is in Camp Detroit near Laon France awaiting deployment to the Pacific with a fighter bomber group. He is authorized to wear the presidential unit citation and ribbon plus four battle stars.
Pfc Robert G Smith son of Mr and Mrs Virgie V Smith of High Point North Carolina has begun training as an aviation engineer at Geiger Field Spokane Washington according to Colonel James W Park commander of the base.
PFC Charles H Payne is home on a 28 day leave with his mother Mrs Wilma Payne at 1803 North Main Street after returning from overseas Marine Corps duty. He was wounded on Okinawa and has been a patient at the Chicago Naval Hospital with plans to return for further treatment and an operation. He has served overseas for about a year and a half and participated in several major battles. Payne previously worked as a carrier for the Enterprise as a boy.
Print plainly size and style number your name address zone. Send twenty cents for this pattern to The Enter rise Pattern Dept. New York 11 New York. Include order for the Anne Adams 1945 Summer Pattern Book and fifteen cents more for a copy.
Betty Lou Oliver of Fort Smith Arkansas survived an 80 floor fall when an elevator car dropped after B 25 bomber crash damaged the Empire State Building. She remained conscious, suffered burns bruises and possible back fracture. Her husband Oscar L Oliver USNR is en route home.
Detroit reports that amid 1946 model production hurdles, automakers face shortages of replacement parts especially rear fenders. War restrictions and price ceilings complicate rebuilding stockpiles as manufacturers seek readjusted ceilings from the Office of Price Administration.
In a bridge context, the note specifies Contract Ridge North dealer with neither side vulnerable. It implies a deal setup or bidding convention for a session. The readable fragment indicates a position or instruction without further details on players, bids, or results.
The article analyzes a bridge deal where East preemptively overcalls, and West leads spades. South doubles at four clubs despite a weak five card suit. The declarer misplays, ending in a four trick, 70 point penalty. A hypothetical line would have eased defense by cashing clubs and diamonds.
Washington report says more butter than planned will be available for civilians during August. OPA Administrator Chester Bowles states no further reduction in butter point value is expected after the cut from 6 to 16 points per pound.
The manufacturer expects 18 months to two years to reach a cars for everybody level after a 3.5 year suspension. Until then he will retain as many of the earlier models on the highway. Postwar sales hinge on how well remaining wartime car famine is bridged.
A short item notes a medicinal pill called Chi-Chesters promised to relieve menstrual periods and associated discomfort. The brief describes its use and claims without medical endorsement.
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