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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1937
Page
16
Raleigh reports Syphilis leading the week ending August 14 with 329 cases, down 29 from the prior week but up 58 from 1936. Whooping cough rises to 199, measles 32, typhoid 22, and diphtheria 22 cases. no smallpox.
North Carolina's coast is being documented with a series of aerial photographs by army engineers. T. S. Johnson said the work records winds tides and currents at Oregon and New Inlets to map shore changes for potential corrective plans.
Fred Cohn of the North Carolina WPA notes Roosevelt spoke at Manteo within a WPA produced context. He lists WPA projects at Roanoke Island, including the amphitheater stage and Lost Colony casting, with CCC extras and WPA theater leadership shaping the event.
The passage lists four main Hindu hereditary orders: Brahmins the sacerdotal class, Kshatriya the military class, Vaisyas the mercantile and agricultural class, and Sudras the servant class.
Industrial activity rose in the latest Commerce survey with steel at 83.2 percent capacity and power production hitting a record 2.3 billion kilowatt hours. Auto output fell as 1937 model runs ended, while freight carloadings rose one percent and private contracts showed gains despite engineering-award declines.
Funeral services for Miss Myrtle Lee Weaver who died Friday night after an operation will be held Sunday at 3 PM from West Fifth street home with Dr S C Leonard of the First Reformed church officiating. Interment in city cemetery. She was born February 17, 1905 and survived by three brothers Paul Weaver J D Weaver Lewis W Weaver Jr and four sisters Lucille Mozelle Weaver Mrs Robert Everhart and Mrs Charlie Beck.
Juanita and Austin Combs left Friday night for Bristol Tennessee after a week with Mr. and Mrs. J Short on Unity Street. They were accompanied home by Hazel Short and Henry Davis who will stay a week.
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