City Council To Adopt Budget This Week
A photo caption shows S/Sgt. David W. Kestler on furlough with his English wife, Mrs. William Dillon, and Mrs. Dillon's husband, a former S/Sgt. The four met at the Dillon apartment on Montlieu Avenue to compare England experiences and discuss their new home in America.
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David W. Kestler
England
William Dillon
High Point
America
Raleigh
Sgt. Kestler
David F. Kestler
Rt. 2
Sgt
Kestler
Dillon
Phyllis Nelson
London
Georgia Dillon
Boston
Southampton
Portsmouth
Four Local Restaurants Guilty Of Food and Beer Overcharges
At a Thursday afternoon meeting of the local war price and rationing board price panel four Area eateries were found in violation for alleged overcharges. One case involved boiled ham sandwiches and a five cent hike on barbecue sandwiches. refunds were requested to the United States treasury. Other charges covered weiners used in sandwiches, beer overcharge, and crackers with soup. total penalties totaled 300 dollars. Panel members and district office staff from Charlotte attended.
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War Price and Rationing Board
United States Treasury
Jack Wood
George Field
Charlotte
TWUA Leaders Gather At UNC For Southern Institute
Emil Rieve president of the Textile Workers Union of America and Frank P. Graham UNC president open the TWUA Southern Training Institute in Chapel Hill with welcome from Chancellor Robert H. House. Sessions begin Monday led by Lawrence Regin and Margaret Knight on unionism labor history and parliamentary law for August 11 attendance limited by education rules. Rieve has led the union since 1939 and joined the hosiery workers in 1907, now married with a son in the U S Navy.
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Chapel Hill
Emil Rieve
Textile Workers Union of America
War Labor Board
Frank P. Graham
University of North Carolina
Twua Southern Training Institute
Robert H. House
The
University At Chapel Hill
Lawrence Regin
New York
Textile Workers Union
Margaret Knight
Greensboro
Rogim
Harvard
Yale
Bryn Mawr
University of Wisconsin
University of Virginia
Carolinas
Virginia
Georgia
Alabama
ODT
Rieve
Philadelphia
Lieut
Harold Rieve
U. S. Navy
July Fire Report Records Twenty Incidents and Losses
City fire department logged 20 fires in July 13 caused by hazard 3 by occupational hazard. Fires endangered buildings valued at 3500 with contents at 1000. total loss 1700. The month saw 35 371 in building permits and 53 wiring permits plus 95 inspections by the electrical inspector.
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K. Ingram
Cc. S. Canady
Boyle's Column Resumes Monday in The Enterprise
Hal Boyle returns from vacation and will publish daily columns in The Enterprise starting Monday afternoon. As an AP Pulitzer winner, he resumes coverage of the front line fighting man from Europe, with dispatches from Tokyo and the road.
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Hal Boyle
Enterprise
Boyle
Associated Press
Pacific
Europe
Tokyo
Self Help Seen as Prosperity Key
Westinghouse says production will begin in 60 to 90 days after restrictions ease. Radio and radar gear worth 350 million dollars will roll from lines, integrating electronics know-how to boost wartime readiness and civilian prosperity.
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Westinghouse
Thomasville Laymen Plan Picnic Meeting
The Methodist Men’s Fellowship club of Thomasville will hold an outdoor banquet at Fairgrove Methodist Church on August 7. Robert Rapp will preside over a brief business session for future plans. Local members listed for contact include D A Oakley A J Clemmer Harold Simpson C O Plyler John Oakley C E Ridge J W Boyles and L B Hayes. The note mentions cattle driving from Texas to Kansas after the Civil War attributed to Joseph McCoy.
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Methodist Men's Fellowship Club
Thomasville
Fairgrove Methodist Church
Robert Rapp
D. A. Oakley
A. J. Clemmer
Harold Simpson
C. O. Plyler
John Oakley
C. E. Ridge
J. W. Boyles
L. B. Hayes
New Strato Suit Aims to Raise Flight Ceilings
Akron Ohio based B F Goodrich Co develops a pressurized strato suit for pilots that laboratories equate to 80 000 feet 15 miles above earth. Tests in pressure chambers show practical use raising the potential flight ceiling for aviators.
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B. F. Goodrich Co
Akron
Ohio
Idol Announces Guilford County Schools Preliminaries
Superintendent E. D. Idol released the Guilford County schools preliminaries schedule. Opening date remains September 6 with two meetings for elementary and high school principals at the Guilford County Courthouse on August 23 and August 30. Kay Henry Highsmith leads the second meeting.
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Guilford County
E. D. Idol
Greensboro
Kay Henry Highsmith
New Language Arts Bulletin
Parent-Teacher Association
Iy Jay
P.T.A
Guilford
Large 4-H Group Attends Session At Camp Nawaka
About 100 boys and girls from Guilford county 4-H clubs attended a Camp Nawaka session near Randleman ending Friday with a candlelight ceremony and banquet. C B Gamble of Summerfield crowned health, Elizabeth Xler of Pleasant Garden crowned queen of health, and Robert Shaw of Summerville won the swimming contest.
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Camp Nawaka
Randleman
C. B. Gamble
Summerfield
Elizabeth Xler
Pleasant Garden
Robert, E Shaw
Summerville
Guilford County
Oak View
Henry An David Blair
Dolly Ann
Vernon H K
John Owen
Blanche H. Owen
Woman Loses Bet Wears Crue Cut After July War Bet
Miss Mary Ruth Bullington of North Main Street wagered a July victory with Mrs. Guy Dillon on US troops defeating Japan. July passed without a win and Bullington now sports a crue cut as punishment for the failed wager.
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U. S
Mary Ruth Bullington
North Main Street
Guy Dillon
Miss Bullington
Miss
Eclipse Pilgrimage Described by Former High Point Man
Dr. T. B. Douglas of Montana State College writes his father about an eclipse trip with a university scientific party to view a total solar eclipse in Butte. The group traveled by college station wagon, stayed in hotels, and planned to observe from a designated vantage point as daylight faded to darkness.
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High Point
T. B. Douglas
Montana State College
Bozeman, Mont
Douglas
H. T. Douglas
High Point High School
University of North Carolina
Butte
Bozeman
Harriet
Joe Livers
Dean Conner
Division of Science
Armin Hill
John McKenzie
Louis True
Joe
Ernest Lauer
Dr. Conner
Dr. Cooke
English Brides Like High Point And People But The Food Is A Bit Strange
Two English brides with soldier husbands in High Point compare American foods and rationing to home. They find watermelon and cantaloupe strange but enjoy shopping, note clothing unrationed, and describe arrivals from Bristol and London with ties to the Eighth Air Force and B-24 service.
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High Point
England
William Dillon
David Kestler
Mrs. Dillon
Dillon
Kestler
Bristol
Eileen Marshall
Midland
Northampton
David W. Kestler
Finance Department
Eighth Air Force
Marshall
Clipper
LaGuardia Field
New York City
America
City Police Report Shows Busy Month
High Point police report for July records 328 arrests across all offenses and 1,649 service calls plus 2,050 miscellaneous services. Five manslaughter charges, one robbery, 14 aggravated assaults, five thefts, and 44 animals killed. Drunkenness 71 and parking 71 arrests. 397 drivers warned. Stolen property worth 2,436 dollars had 1,000 dollar value recovered and returned.
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High Point
Gas Rationing To Continue Says Local Official
Ed Mendenhall, chairman of the local war price and rationing board, defended ongoing gasoline rationing to support Pacific war needs. He cited a daily shortfall of over 300000 barrels for unrationed driving and explained Pacific front demands exceed pre V E day needs, justifying continued storage and targeted civilian allocations.
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Ed Mendenhall
Mendenhall
United Nations
England
Pacific
OPA
America
Revisions Not To Be Ready At Tuesday Regular Meet
The city council will delay adoption of the annual budget to a later meeting due to City Manager absence. Finance reports remain ready while committees study recommendations. a proposal to bolster a capital reserve fund may be presented. The session will address property sales, bids for track removal, a Jap Zero exhibit request, and legal action over the R. B. Overman property on Tomlinson Street.
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Roy S&s
Braden
Earl. Phillips
Amos R. Kearns
R. 8. Overman
Tomlinson Street
District Meet of Furniture Union In City
Bernard Hiatt of United Furniture Workers of America announces a district conference at CIO hall 811 South Main Street. Delegates from Virginia to Tennessee, including Roanoke Sumter Atlanta Henderson Knoxville and cities like Thomasville and Winston Salem, will discuss reconversion postwar plans and a district call to consolidate locals for better wages and conditions. International President Morris Muster will address and report on past year progress.
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Bernard Hiatt
United Furniture Workers of America
CIO
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Tennessee
South Main Street
Southern
Roanoke
Sumter
S. C
Atlanta
Henderson
Knoxeville
Tenn
Thomasville
Winston-Salem
High Point
International
Morris Muster
City to auction three used garbage trucks this week
Bids are being accepted through Wednesday for three one and one half ton trucks once used by the city for garbage collection. The vendor list includes a 1936 Ford a Chevrolet and a 1937 International truck all with open garbage bodies and tires and sighted at the city garage. The note adds a separate line about silver lead deposits at Broken Hill mines in Australia.
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J. Vassie Wilson
Ford
Chevrolet
Broken Hill Mines
Australia
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UNC
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