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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1943
Page
3
An Allied air base in Africa reports American airmen on multiple fronts gaining respect for Allied ability and courage after a two day layover. The correspondent notes Red Kinney, Lieut. Clayton R. Kinney of Atlanta, Georgia, as a key figure in shaping this view.
In first person sketches from a North Africa base, pilots recount Russian pilots looping douglas bombers and praising the Airacobra while belittling fear. British RAF veterans applaud British tactics and Chinese pilots earn high marks for rapid learning during training in America. Cattlemen plan a Washington uprisings over rationing.
Radar, the military air superiority asset, was discovered on a Virginia farm 13 years ago while locating the dirigible Akron. The note details its origin and role in early aerial warfare and defense developments.
A reminiscence by W A Bivins traces a long marriage from a valentine split to a shared life in High Point. He recalls moves from the East to the Piedmont, two sons, a daughter, and three grandchildren, and posts gratitude toward work with The Enterprise and readers.
In Blue Springs Missouri an Army cargo glider released from its tow plane yesterday and flew a chaotic path over fences and ditches before stopping. The crew escaped unharmed despite the risky descent.
A second lieutenant offers a five dollar bill for movie tickets for himself and his girl. The seller quotes seventeen dollars total including ten dollars per ticket and two dollars tax. The lieutenant scans his wallet and withdraws without buying, muttering about the army.
An insect in the Wiswell back yard of FER makes a rasping nightly sound heard a block away. Tin cans and sticks hurled toward the noise fail to deter it. Wiswell says the sound is a precise nine o’clock every night for the nineteenth night.
In Madison at Vilas Park a buffalo broke loose from its pen. Policeman Lester Shore six other officers and about fifty soldiers and civilians chased the animal for half an hour. Shore used a rope to form a lasso and swung it until the buffalo calmed and returned to its pen.
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