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High Point Enterprise

Location

High Point, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

Aug 23, 1945

Page

10

Camp Smith Swim Meet Crowns 12 and Under Winners

Camp Smith hosted a home swim meet at the Y pool with top finishers in under 12 and over 12 divisions. Gordon repeated as under 12 champion, O Kelly took second, while Jimmie Wind won the over 12 title by defeating Ray Bryant. Cleer won the under 12 distance event with strong showings from Smith O Kelly and Bryant.

Gordon Hal O'Kelly Jimmie Wind Ray Bryant Bry Cleer Ith O'Kelly Bryant Smith Jay—Johnson Hilliard Street R. Bryant Windham Reid Candle Windham Hall

Camp Activities Conclude Week With Treasure Hunt

The report lists event results for swimming diving and relays with Windham Hall McDowell Bryant among top finishers. It notes five top under 12 point scorers led by G Smith O Kelly Bryant Surrett and Collins Cloer. Today campers enjoy games at city lake with a treasure hunt and a full tomorrow of Y swims puzzles theater party and a camp fire ghost and watermelon feast to close.

Bryant McDowell Windham Hall Brayant Reid G. Smith O'Kelly W. Bryant Surrett Collins Cloer City Lake

Denver Woman Becomes First Female Lab Visitor at Rio Grande

Miss Gertrude Patterson, daughter of a Denver engraving company manager, makes history as the first woman to enter the Rio Grande railroad laboratory. A Kent School for Girls and Colorado College chemistry graduate, she operates a spectograph, a device using physical methods for chemical analysis. British Guiana is noted as the sole British possession on the South American mainland.

Denver INS Gertrude Patterson Denver Engraving Company Kent School For Girls Colorado College

Veterans Plan for Future From Three Service Groups

The American Legion the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Disabled American Veterans press for a 1 year military training expanded GI benefits job preferences free hospitalization and special aid for disabled veterans as Congress reconvenes. They seek adjusted service compensation and compulsory training alongside broader pension and insurance reforms. War costs loom as officials weigh the plan.

Arthur Edson James Marlow Washington Congress The American Legion Veterans of Foreign Wars Disabled American Veterans G.I Legion V.F.W National Guard DAV VFW

Bicycle demand cited as postwar consumer boom

Economists warn postwar growth may hinge on bicycles, a 1818 invention, as Bendix Eclipse division highlights pent up demand among U.S. youth. A historical note explains the origin of C O D as collect on delivery in 1841.

Elmira N. Y INS Eclipse Machine Bendix Aviation Corporation

Government To Continue Support Of Peanut Industry

The government will keep its peanut support program through September 1946 with a floor at 90 percent parity, announced by W. T. Parker of the Commodity Credit Corporation. He spoke at a State army Bureau meeting before today’s National Peanut Council directors gathering, predicting higher edible peanut consumption and potential 1945 crop allocation to edible trade.

Raleigh W. T. Parker Commodity Credit Corporation Parker State Army Bureau National Peanut Council H. L. Wingate Georgia Farm Bureau Federation Paul J. Mitchell Georgia Agricultural Experiment Station Farm Bureau Lewis Crenshall

Army to redeploy 86 percent of on hand ammunition

The report states the army plans to redeploy 86 percent of ammunition on hand. It also notes a historical claim that P. T. Barnum’s circus in 1827 was the first to be transported by rail.

Khabarovsk Siberia Manchuria Alexander M. Vasilevsky Harbin Otozo Yamada United States H. B. Sheets Boston Ordnance District France Belgium Germany Ammoston P. T. Barnum

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