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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1945
Page
13
Heavy July rains damaged crops in eastern regions and relief reached Piedmont and mountains. Tobacco suffered where flooded, with 1,500 acres in Surry County affected. Some cotton and peanut fields were abandoned as hopelessly grassy.
Pfc William Lester Trivette son of Mr and Mrs L H Trivette of the city sailed from Le Havre France on July 28 and is expected home by August 10 He trained at Camp Wheeler Ga and went overseas in May Also mentioned are Cpl William P Lassiter in China and Pfc Charles O Elkins in Italy with Bronze Star honors on the Fifth Army front.
Heavy sales of Aue cured tobacco continued on markets in the Carolinas with favorable reactions from the opening day. Prices were 81 to 84 higher than last year's opening and the general average ranged from 44 to 45.50, with offerings mainly fine to fair and lugs predominant. some damaged tobacco was noted. Poultry notices report five Charlotte area counties under a WEA freeze and six released from restrictions, with several counties allowed to sell poultry only to authorized plants for ship provisioning.
Senator Stewart urged a joint government and private study of the entire freight rate structure. He cited ICC's southern rate decision and said negotiations must yield voluntary changes or face legislation and executive action to achieve fair rates. He warned interim adjustments won't quickly relieve east west south disparities.
The North Carolina forest survey commission discussed steps to preserve forest land productivity. A questionnaire seeking cogitations will be mailed to various groups and individuals statewide concerned with the issue.
Navy recounts January 9 incident in Lingayen Gulf where a Japanese plane dived into the Mississippi, killing 22. The ship remained in action, a cofferdam of mattresses and metal stopped leaks, welders repaired shrapnel holes, and by March she went to Pearl Harbor for overhaul.
Salt Lake City Utah Aug 2 There is a last minute flood of entries that includes Mildred Babe Didrikson Zaharias a colorful women player. Managers expect her to be a top drawing card when play begins Friday at the $1500 Utah open golf tournament in Sanford Maine?
George I. Dail of the state highway patrol is named the new Edenton police chief, succeeding J. R. Tanner who resigned as Greenville police chief. Dail’s resignation from the patrol has been accepted.
Professor Harold J. Laski, head of the Labour national executive, declared Britain has entered an era of the common man after a sweeping Labour victory in the general election. He outlined plans to nationalize the Bank of England and coal, then move to transport and iron and steel, framing it as a monument to Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The Rev. J. F. Stegall, pastor of the First Baptist church here for four years, resigns to accept the pastorate of the Clemens Baptist church in Forsyth county. He leaves here August 7.
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