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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1943
Page
15
ROSELLEN CALLAHAN outlines practical wardrobe planning for college bound women. Focus on compact, mixable outfits built around one or two colors, with well tailored suits, smart skirts, and jumper dresses. Emphasizes avoiding baggy styles and choosing bright wool skirts with pr gressible blouses for campus life and events.
Raleigh August 21 State Labor Commissioner Forrest H Shuford said payrolls totaling 5 630 126 were paid to 237 814 employees in 1 443 industrial establishments in North Carolina during July. Both employment and total wages showed fractional declines from June figures.
Nancy Oakes De Marigny flew to Nassau from Miami to visit her husband Alfred De Marigny held since July 9 for the bludgeon murder of Sir Harry Oakes. Accompanied by American investigator Raymond Schindler, she said the visit is part of her husband’s defense and plans to stay indefinitely.
Cronstedt returns from Columbia University to assist the church choir in a High Point oratorio project. Dan W. Smith praises the choir while stressing attendance at the 2 30 practice at Wesley Memorial. The excerpt recalls a July 31 1933 report of about 2000 attendees at A R Gaul's oratorio The Holy City in a city lot during union services.
The marines employ two barrage balloon types. One is fully gas-filled and relies on internal rigging for its shape. The other is partly gas filled and partly air filled.
Alicia Hart notes that lack of exercise softens the figure while regular training trims pounds through redistributed fat and firmer muscle. Basic training among WAC recruits shows weight appears lighter as bodies become more toned. Swimming and an advised straddle jump routine help engage all major muscles.
Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes issued a regulation giving iron and steel industries first call on the bituminous coal output of the Appalachian mining region. Producers must fill metallurgical coal orders for Great Lakes users before other orders and then pro-rate remaining tonnage.
The Hemric family thanks friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy during the death of L. Hemric and for the many beautiful floral offerings. R. J. and Clayborn Hemric.
North Carolina saw its forest fires fall to a yearly low in July, with 14 fires reported and 563 acres burned. W K Beichler, head of the forest fire control service, noted the department oversees 12 million acres, while 5 million acres lack organized protection.
A 10 year old boy, Billy Conner, who wandered from his Charlotte home with $25 found a purse and rode a bus to Miami. Police and juvenile court officials say he came to Miami voluntarily and will return home tonight with his mother. He was registered by a woman in a downtown hotel but left when warned she would report him to police.
In Schenectady on August 21 General Electric announced 100000 volt x rays produced today at the research laboratory with a new electron accelerator. Dr W D Coolidge and Dr E E Charlton led the team describing radical differences in the radiation but not detailing the nature of the change. Police later turned over trunks to juvenile court authorities.
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