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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1930
Page
8
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company reports July 1930 sales exceed July 1929 in dollars and volume. Five-week dollar sales reach 96 723 670, up 3.26 percent. tonnage climbs 14.33 percent to 488 682 tons due to lower food prices. Retail wage levels and price declines are cited as factors supporting recovery.
Clinton August 15. Death in the electric chair comes a day apart for the convicted killers of postmaster F. F. Newton. Ernest Herring, a Black man, was found guilty of first degree murder by a Sampson County jury in Kerr, North Carolina.
The body of Aymond Patterson 20 year old Furman University student Greenville South Carolina was brought home to Pineville for burial. He died after falling from a 50 foot steel tower he was helping to erect while working for a power company in Chardon Ohio during vacation. He was the son of Mr and Mrs John W Patterson of Pineville.
In a room thick with innuendo and music Barbara pleads for Barabara to play the violin as secrets surface. Jean Brady regards Barbara with quiet tension while Sue and Ted watch, and an unexpected arrival looms as a transformative moment in the scene.
The treasury's daily statement shows a deficit of 214 million dollars in government operating costs for July 1 to August 12, down about 2.56 million from the same period a year ago. The shortfall likely will be covered when the Sept third quarter income tax installment arrives.
During the first 42 days of the current fiscal year the government took in 183,340,729, about 53,202,509 less than the same period a year earlier. Expenditures reached 397,859,682, down 55,726,277 from the previous year largely due to a smaller sinking fund. by August 12, 1929, 319,864,950 had been placed in that fund.
A. C. Cline of Cleveland County was chosen president of the North Carolina association of county commissioners and accountants at the Wrightsville Beach meeting closing in Hendersonville selected as the 1931 convention site. George L Stansbury of Guilford County was named vice president and J L Skinner treasurer, all serving as county board chairmen.
Mrs. Rose Pearce of Birmingham England won 2500 damages against her son Thomas Pearce in a suit alleging his driving caused the death of her husband H T Pearce. The collision occurred when Thomas was driving and hit another car, killing the elder Pearce.
Hop production for the Pacific coast is estimated to be half of last year's with acreage reduced by 40 percent, signaling a tighter supply for brewers and related markets.
A North Carolina druggist markets a blend named B C that promises immediate relief from headaches neuralgic sciatic and rheumatic pain. The ad claims three minutes to relief and notes the product is available at drug stores or soda fountains in 10c and 25c sizes with a harmless guarantee.
Mrs. M. Douthitt, 62, begins a taxi journey across Africa. After leaving Windhoek in South West Africa, she hires a Portuguese car at the border into Angola and plans to reach Morocco, aiming to show Africa’s civility.
Albert Otto Seeler of Derry New Hampshire, age 14, is identified as Harvard's youngest student of the year and will enter Harvard in the fall, with plans to attend MIT after completing his Harvard course. He expects to graduate as a very young man.
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