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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1941
Page
10
In Louis, a burglar stole a music box holding a season ticket to the symphony and $400 in government bonds. The box was found with the contents intact except the ticket to the symphony was missing.
A St. Louis reporter found Nettie Ahren oversterbaeumer, co-champion in the city directory, unavailable for a picture as she reveals she just married. The note mentions traffic recorders now used in 46 states to obtain continuous flow data.
The Winston-Salem Greek Community centering on Greensboro High Point and Burlington will hold its fourteenth annual picnic at Chimney in the Dell on the Winston-Salem Greensboro highway. The event brings together members for a day of fellowship and regional gathering.
The Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company reports first half gains with life insurance in force at $8435,000,000 and assets over $100,000,000, rising $900,000 monthly. President Julian Price cites defense spending and higher renewal rates, noting paid-for business at $28,667,404 and total in force at $435,824,570. Board member Emry C. Green resigns. W. G. Clark Jr. succeeds him. The firm also boosts surplus and reserves as it nears its 34th anniversary. A new babs tractor is introduced for small farms, offering multiple functions.
By KIRKE SIMPSON the six weeks of Axis aim to smash Russia end with uncertain outcomes. The war has drawn nine million plus troops across a 2,000 mile front. Russian morale remains unshaken and Hitler’s oil and food goals seem farther from reach. Russian oil wells in the Caspian and Romania’s fields threaten German plans as Japan presses into Indo China. both fronts face looming oil starvation.
Announcement from J. M. Johnson of Liberty, president of the Johnson Clan, says the annual reunion of A. H. Johnson descendants will be held at Farmer High School on Sunday, August 10. The program, chaired by Mrs. E. W. Allman of Trinity, begins at 11 a.m. EST with Dean P. E. Lindley of High Point College as principal speaker. A picnic dinner will be served on the grounds and all family connections are urged to attend with baskets.
Records PACE TAINING issues a 1941 album set featuring Mozart Symphonies No. 29 in A major and No. 34 in C major conducted by Serge Koussevitsky with the Bastian Symphony Orchestra. The release also includes a Negro spirituals collection from Hampton Institute led by Charles Fox, plus other Victor titles and performances by Toscanini NBC Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and popular vocalists.
Linda Kay Ridge celebrates her first birthday on Monday August 4. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs L I Ridge of 522 Flint Street. (Photo by Stones Studio). Dinah Shore top style backed by Paul Wetstein and orchestras. Winchell praises Dinah's recording "Jim" as an orchid pick.
In Detroit Lakes Minnesota, Bernard Wendt aged 36 and five others were hurt when a new model car veered off facing and struck a tree after reaching 100 feet. Wendt, speaking from hospital, recalled the incident as things happening very fast. Glenn Miller and Ray Eberle were mentioned in connection with prior events but the crash involved Wendt and the others.
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