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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1933
Page
5
Readable fragments indicate the article mentions the automobile industry accounting for seven percent of all fines or penalties. The text is incomplete but identifies a 7 percent share within a broader context.
The High Point and Laura Wesson chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy will entertain the State Convention here October 10 11 12 with six business sessions at the Sheraton hotel and social events including a Historical evening and a Children of the Confederacy pageant. Mrs R K Stewart publicity chairman says about two hundred delegates are expected and Miss Mary Simmon will lead the children's presentation. The convention follows plans announced after local committees were formed yesterday afternoon by Cure J F Hayden president and Mrs C H Bass secretary of the High Point chapter and Mrs H B Robertson and Mrs Joe Snider of the Laura Wesson group.
The United States government purchased 12,500 trucks for a reforestation army at an average price of less than $500 per truck.
Hyde Park N Y August 29 President Roosevelt named Harold L Ickes secretary of the interior as administrator of the new oil industry working agreement. He will appoint the remaining 14 members of the oil planning and conservation committee within 24 hours from names submitted by Ickes. Ickes will wield virtual power of a dictator over an industry at war.
The text muses on using soothing words to ease life’s unavoidable hurt. It suggests rhythmic language may act as a brief anointment for pain, offering comfort through sound.
The piece notes Ickes as administrator of the large public works program and suggests an immediate assistant, likely James A. Moffett, former Standard Oil of New Jersey VP, to strengthen the administration of the oil sector in the New Deal recovery effort.
W. G. Barnwell of Archdale places an 1873 Winchester in The Enterprise window today. He says the age shows in its heavy frame but the gun remains true and does not kick. The weapon has been in Barnwell family memory for as long as he recalls.
Victoria Falls in Africa stands more than two and a half times higher than Niagara Falls, illustrating a striking difference in scale between the two famous spectacles.
Odell White, an escaped convict from Rolesville prison camp, was shot and captured near Wake Forest as guards recovered the escapees. White, from Mecklenburg County, under five to eight year term for breaking and entering, survived wounds deemed not serious. Four others at large include Nathan Blake, a 30 year sentence for deputy sheriff Will Hall’s death in Durham County.
North Carolina limits truck drivers to 14 hours of work in each 24 hour period and requires a one hour rest between every seven hour work segment, establishing a structured on duty and rest schedule.
The Going to the Sun highway opening spurs a 28 percent surge in Glacier National Park visitors. A 15th century Basle witchcraft trial ends in the burning of a rooster accused of laying an eye. Boxing results show Wilard Brown and Lom bardi defeating opponents in San Antonio and Jersey City respectively.
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