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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1937
Page
3
John Alexander Shelton was dropped off to care for a drunk in 1883 and has served the Snow family and its heirs for over fifty years, continuing his duties as a trusted employee.
John Alexander Shelton, 75, who worked 50 years for Snow Lumber, arrived in High Point after a wandering 1882-1883 trek from Mecklenburg Virginia. He traveled with friends to Greensboro for a drunken spree, cared for a comrade, and settled into High Point to work from 1884, rising to shop foreman. He recalls a harsh winter crossing and a hospitable Randleman farmhouse that fed him on the way. Shelton married Nancy Birch in 1885 and raised five children in High Point where he remains a fixture at the Snow Lumber shop.
The State Department on August 14 assigned Francis C. Jordan of North Carolina from Colon where he served as American vice consul to Buenos Aires. This follows his posting as vice consul in Colon.
Pimento is a pungent aromatic spice made from unripe berries of the pimento tree and used in cooking and medicine.
In New York on August 14 cotton futures opened 11 to 20 points higher on hopes of crop loan support and overseas buying. Prices then fell under heavy hedge selling and profit taking, with December slipping from 10.60 to 10.37 and closing near 10.40 as traders awaited concrete loan terms and weather remained unfavorable.
The Senate passed a safety at sea measure covering ship construction requirements safety rules for ship operation crew quarter specifications and federal inspection provisions. A new de-icer uses rubber over shoes that expand and contract with compressed air to break ice formation.
A passerby recalls an East Liberty oriole years ago that sang a distinctive phrase resembling ta ra bom de aye inspiring locals. The note stood out amid urban birdsong and became a local curiosity in the area's natural lore.
Edith Wharton, famed American born novelist, was buried at a Protestant cemetery in Versailles France. She died Wednesday at her chateau near Saint Brice Sous Foret after twenty years living in France.
In a U S navy pursuit plane a shotgun shell is used to start the motor. A breech in the cockpit fires the shell and gas travels through tubing into a steel tank triggering the turbine which then powers the engine.
Tiny reed cylinders are dropped overboard to mark the crash site. They release luminescent dye visible over a mile from a submarine deck and up to ten miles from the aircraft.
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company of Alabama accused United Rubber Workers of coercion, violation and terrorism in a mine workers campaign. The company cited shootings dynamitings and threats of personal violence among methods used by workers or associates to press employees to join the union.
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