Postwar Red Cross calls for continued volunteers
Mrs. Horace S. Haworth announces local Red Cross chapters will keep active postwar with expanded services. Basil O Connor notes ongoing worldwide tasks and aid to veterans and servicemen as hospitalization claims grow. Chapter duties include blood donor drives and civilian services.
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Red Cross
Horace S. Haworth
Japan
Haworth
National Red Cross
Basil O'Connor
Washh
American Red Cross
American Cross
Regina
Woodmen Circle Holds Regular Business Meet
The Woodmen Circle held its regular meeting last evening at the hall with Mrs. Wy arene in charge. Business matters were settled and a social meeting was set for September 12 instead of the usual business gathering. Members absent last night should contact the guardian for details of a kitchen shower planned for September 5 for the new hall.
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Wyarene
Improved at Boulevard unit High Point hospital
Mrs. J. E. Foust, recently a patient at High Point Memorial Boulevard unit, is very much improved after two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Hal K. Te and two daughters from Mawr Pa plan to visit Greensboro to see Mrs. Reynolds’s parents Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Lambeth. Mrs. R. J. Kirby is recovering after surgery and can receive visitors.
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J. E. Foust
Boulevard Unit
High Point Memorial Hospital
Hal K. Te
Mawr
Cora K. Reynolds
J. W. Lindsay
Hillcrest Drive
Greensboro
R. J. Kirby
Hunt And Hughes Reunion Set For Sept 2 At Silver Valley
The eighth annual Hunt and Hughes family reunion will meet at Silver Valley Lutheran church twelve miles east of Lexington on Sunday September 2. A morning message and singing by top state quartets are planned with dinner on the ground and an open invitation to the public.
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Hunt and Hughes
Silver Valley Lutheran Church
Lexington
Daughters Of America To Hold Regular Meeting
The Daughters of America Washington Council No 4 will hold their regular meeting this evening at 8 o'clock in the hall located at 129 N. Wrenn Street.
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Daughters of America
the Daughters of America
Washington Council No
N. Wrenn Street
Clothing pattern details and ordering info from The Enterprise
Ad describes pattern 4557 with slim skirt and pleats plus three sleeve lengths. Lists sizes 16 through 40 and 39 inch yardage, price twenty cents for pattern and fifty cents for the Summer Pattern Book. Request readers mail size, style number, name, address, and zone to Pattern Dept New York.
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Enterprise
P. O
Station O
New York
N. Y
Anne Adams
Sacrificing a Trick Key in This Contract Bridge Deal
In today’s contract bridge analysis, the declarer failed to sacrifice a trick in one suit to promote two in another. South, East-West vulnerable, misplayed the diamond break and a club finesse, allowing East to take the lead and defeat the contract by two tricks. The article shows the correct sequence: overtake the diamond queen, lead a low club to the ten, then later lead to the diamond jack and return the club nine to secure three club tricks and block East’s spade shift.
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West
Declarer
East
South
VFW Auxiliary Plans Call Meeting for Friday Evening
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary will hold a joint call at 8 p m Friday evening at the Broad street home to entertain convalescent soldiers from Camp Butner visiting the city next Tuesday. The group will discuss ways and means to raise funds for the coming year.
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Ibe Erans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary
Pridaevening
Broad Street
Camp Butner
Explosion at Portland iron plant leaves casualties unclear
An explosion at Fireman Manufacturing in Portland reportedly killed two workers and injured fifteen, though a female employee says there were no deaths and four injuries. Fire officials say the blast may have been caused by an electric furnace and the blaze was put out after a second alarm. Day shift workers were told to report to work. The plant makes furnace parts for aircraft engines.
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Portland
Ore
Rock Iron Fireman Manufacturing Company
Boeing Aircraft
Birth of Daughter Henrietta Anne Presnell
Maj. and Mrs. Tom Presnell announce the birth of a daughter, Henrietta Anne, on August 20 at Boulevard Unit, High Point Memorial. Mrs. Presnell is formerly Miss Cola Gallimore. The note mentions mango Indian delicacy size comparison.
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Tom Presnell
Henrietta Anne
Bulevard Unit
High Point Memorial Ital
Presnell
Cola Gallimore
Two Plants In State Advertised For Sale
The war department released a list naming 252 government owned plants declared surplus and to be disposed of by the RFC. Included are Fairchild Engine and Aircraft Corp in Arlington? North Carolina and National Ice Company in Charlotte North Carolina. The Phoenix was the first steam vessel to cross the Atlantic in 1808. Tuberculosis among U.S. soldiers was one eighth as prevalent in World War II as in World War I.
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Washington
War Department
Army
RFC
Fairchild Enoe and Aircraft Corporation
Lington
N. C
National Ice Company, Inc
Charlotte
Phoenix
N. Y
Philadelphia
U. S
Green Street Juniors Wiener Roast at City Lake
The Green Street Baptist church junior department plans a wiener roast at the city lake Friday at 4 30 pm. Members are asked to meet at the church for transportation to the event.
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Green Street
Green Street Baptist Church
City Lake
The
Army Air Forces To Cut 1,400,000 Within 12 Months
The Army Air Forces plan a reduction from 2.4 million to 1.0 million within 12 months. Maj. Gen. Fred L. Anderson spoke in a radio address, detailing screening of personnel with high discharge points and WACs from overseas units, replacing high-point men with low-point volunteers as units wind down.
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Washington
Army Air Forces
Fred L. Anderson
AAF
Columbus First Stopped at Santa Maria After Discovery
Anderson notes that strengthening a rotation system will limit overseas duty to two years or less. Columbus first halted at Santa Maria following his discovery of the western world.
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Anderson
Columbus
Santa Maria
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