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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1942
Page
10
After ten strenuous hours the City Council reduced estimates and adjusted incomes to keep the tax rate at 1.21 dollars per 100 value for city operations and debt service. With the county 75 cent levy and school tax at 24 cents, High Pointers pay 1.45, the same total tax as last year. The move contrasts with 1941-42 totals of 2.20 and earlier years marked by shifts in city and school levies.
A survey shows at least one national meat packing firm with a High Point branch and others elsewhere evading beef price ceilings by not selling in halves or quarters and instead supplying smaller cuts at higher prices set by the firms. Swift Packing denies selling by cuts while Wilson Packing shifts to smaller cuts citing beef scarcity.
The Junior Service League urges support for its milk fund to aid underprivileged children in High Point as war conditions cut income. The program has supplied milk for 12 years to infants and malnourished children, with about 3,000 served to reach those in need.
A total of 178 city employees will automatically receive pay increases this year. The city council kept the 1941 salary ordinance and schedule, applying increments as specified then. The boosts cost $10,930.49, with 142 general staff gaining $5 monthly and 37 receiving 2 1/2 cents per hour. Increases cite written department head recommendations and city manager approval, continuing annually until the maximum of each class is reached.
Public Health records show milk from the milk fund saves lives. War may strain medical staff and supplies, but milk remains vital for child welfare, preventing malnutrition and disease by keeping young residents nourished.
City Council approved a supplemental 24 cent school tax that raises salaries for 100 High Point teachers to $1,412.46 next year, pushing overall pay 18 percent above state schedules. The pay varies by classification from A-2 to G-9, with 28 teachers in the minimum A-9 bracket and several dozen in other A or G groupings earning from about $1,062 to $1,508.04.
Local employment office calls for defense classes in aircraft sheet metal welding and machine shop work at High Point High School. Several thousand trainees are needed at once with wages of 5.36 per day upon completion. Mrs. Rachel Shiplett urges learning a trade to serve the country. Sheet metal classes open to women. Aubrey Brogden returns to New York City after a week with his mother. He will enter the U S Army at Fort Dix this week. Mrs. Brogden has worked with Loft Stores in New York for nine years.
In cooperation with the Civilian Defense Council the High Point Woman's Club plans a recreation room for men in military service. They seek donations of chairs tables lamps end tables settees or other equipment and will arrange pickup or delivery to prepare the vacant building next to the public library on South Main Street by Saturday.
City Council amends the plumbing ordinance following war regulations. Mayor QC and ex mayor Arthur Kirkman note this may be the first of several changes due to wartime needs. War Production Board directs manufacture of Victory cast iron pipe and fittings in place of standard types.
Guilford County officials and Greensboro city leaders presented the city school budget to the board, requesting a 24 cent per $100 valuation special school supplement tax for High Point in a partially municipal district. The council approved the city-county funds totaling 124,668.13 with estimated other revenues of 24,463.17 and a remaining 100,204.96 to be raised by ad valorem tax, based on a 846,380,000 valuation and a 90 percent current levy.
The ordinance was amended to authorize substitute pipe materials as required by the War Production Board rules and regulations.
Look Hing a laundry worker from High Point became the first Chinese from North Carolina drafted into the U S Army. He left with other draftees for Camp Croft amid a local send off attended by about 25 Chinese residents. Hing plans to learn English before civilian life.
The local Junior Chamber of Commerce prepares a sendoff party for draftees leaving the area on August 20 before their ten day furlough ends at Camp Croft South Carolina. Chairman Robert Rankin notes limited Jaycees funding and invites public contributions for this and future events.
Revival services at Fairview Methodist Church near Trinity will continue through the coming Sunday. Rev R F Honeycutt says attendance has been good and invites the public to attend. Evangelist Rev E W Grace of High Point will preach tonight and through the rest of the week, with morning and evening services on Sundays at 8 15 pm.
The notice identifies D A Rawley as treasurer for the Jaycees and places the enterprise office within their regional chapter. The brief item notes the role and location without additional context or dates.
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