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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1951
Page
11
The U S and state department report leaf prices held firm with cutters top quarry logs steady. Sales volume rose with medium auction flow versus last week while quality remained similar and reaf grades held, lugs priced around 43 dollars.
The New York City medical examiner's office reports handling about 16 000 cases yearly as it investigates deaths caused by violence. A separate note mentions the first English noble title being granted in America to Manteo as Lord of Roanoke Island in 1587 and a price reference of about 65 dollars per hundred.
James Thurber refused producer Samuel Goldwyn's lure to join Walter Mitty writing for movie, citing Magazine Editor Harold Ross who had previously met every salary offer. Goldwyn later offered less, but Thurber again cited Ross's stand, ending the bid.
A scattered mixture of notes describes a road work machine, wines for cooking, inflation jokes, a Passaic police report, a woodpecker disturbing a crime scene, myths about Eskimos, a Stone Age headache cure, and a Lowell wire shortage survey.
The piece notes resolutions backing Senator Lister Hill's bid to redirect tidelands oil profits to public education and support for federal aid to education. It also covers endorsements of the International Typographical Union projects to launch daily newspapers in single-newspaper cities and a weekly AFL paper in North Carolina.
C A Fink of Spencer reelected to lead the North Carolina State Federation of Labor for a 14th year after defeating Paul Etheridge of Raleigh at the annual convention. Officials reelected include R B Marsiden Salisbury secretary treasurer Lazenby Salisbury Durham Guyne and Jesse Armistead Plymouth as vice secretaries. H G Fisher of Salisbury named chaplain. The federation plans next meeting and urged Gov Kerr Scott to call a special session amid a broader labor controversy drawing Senate objections.
A fragment recalls a contest for youths with prizes including a bicycle and ten dollars, while a novelty meat service offers ten cents per ban. An usherette serves straw and cream to patrons and latex treated textile substitutes cost less. A cynic quotes ignorance and Pubertyville tribune history mentions a family with long-subscribed lineage.
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