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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1945
Page
2
A solution to the American cotton problem must be found to insure Southern prosperity, as urged by Dallas Times Almanac. The plea stresses economic stability and the role of cotton in regional welfare.
Shelby faces Laurinburg in the American Legion junior finals at Red Springs hoping to clinch the title after a 8-6 victory the day before. McKee and Cook limited Laurinburg to six hits as Shelby built a 4 0 0 0 0 0 run line and rematch looms.
The United States Army has shipped 2,065,829 tons of feed to Europe as part of postwar aid efforts for civilian and military sustainment during the wake of wartime food shortages.
Guilford College reports North Carolina Friends hold annual session in historic New Garden meeting house from August 6 to 12. Samuel L. Haworth, clerk, secured clearance from the Department of Transportation through Senator Clyde Hoey’s office.
Raleigh reports Robert W. Proctor of Marion named to a four year term on the state board of conservation and development succeeding the late Dr. J. D. Rudisill of Lenoir It is noted civilians are eating about 17 percent more meat than before the war.
Amsterdam and Rotterdam receive limited coal by sea, with gas restored in the capital. Courts will nationalize traitors among over 100,000 detainees as Holland tackles fuel shortages, transport gaps, and political cleansing amid southern flood damage and ongoing ally-led aid.
Joby Hawn of Winston-Salem has taken the role of executive secretary for the North State Officials association. He succeeds Paul Dunham of Salisbury who resigned. Hawn will keep his duties as athletic director and head baseball coach at Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem.
Frank P. Spruill Jr. of Rocky Mount has succeeded W. P. Adams Jr. of Greensboro as assistant attorney general. Spruill, formerly with OPA, will be assigned to the state revenue department. An orphan asylum founded by George Whitefield in 1740 still stands ten miles south of Savannah Ga.
Marine Major George Axtell, age 24, sculpted the Death Rattlers into a precision Corsair unit in Okinawa. He trained pilots and mechanics, delivering 96 Japanese planes shot down in 30 days and 107 in six months, with 12 aces in the squadron.
Raleigh August second. Governor Cherry says he plans to fill the post of director of the state highway safety division soon. Chief Walter Anderson of Charlotte declined the job. H. J. Hatcher of Burke County is mentioned as a potential appointee.
Veteran pilot Axtell leads a squadron that seeks action over the Pacific in a brutal air war. The narrative recalls Peleliu and Taiwan waters where planes pressed for kills and shot down enemy kamikazes amid dangerous skies.
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