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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1943
Page
15
NEA Service notes clever styling in fashion to stretch a small wardrobe. Pair a navy skirt with a fire red blazer for contrast and tie by matching navy binding. A beige navy hound’s tooth skirt works with navy or beige sweaters. Jumpers in flannel or jersey adapt from sports to dressy with blouse swaps.
Britain plans a four million home construction drive to replace blitz losses and lift housing after the war. Ministers Ernest Brown and Richard Attlee outline aims to house and clothe all citizens, with experts studying U S plans while facing material shortages and manpower limits. The scheme hopes to employ up to 1.5 million workers as demobilization proceeds and considers a pay-rent-to-own approach to help civilians own homes.
In a remote New Guinea ravine a field of rusting aircraft lies where war once raged. Fortresses Liberators Lightnings and more rest with their crews, bearing scars and memories of Maj. Kenneth D. McCullar Captain Charles MacArthur and their others. The anonymous guard recalls Blackjack Wilco and Dirty Girty, while the graveyard tells a quiet, relentless story of valor and loss.
A $100000 Spanish style alert ends a cross continental chain from Nome Alaska to the far south tip of South America with El Paso Texas as the final link in the sequence.
A 1943 44 instructional staff roll released by Superintendent Charles F Carroll lists senior and junior high teachers plus Ada Blair Brentwood Johnson Street Oak Hill Bay Street and Cloverdale schools with principals and substitutes. Names include Dan P Whitley Catherine Abernathy Edith Weir Beamon Evelyn Rodman Sutton Ivey Paylor Kathryn Shipman Marcus Gordon Emily Ramsey Commander and numerous others.
The High Point school board details charges for grades 9-12 including $2.00 per semester for textbooks, $1.00 for instrumental music, $2.00 for woodwinds or brass, $1.00 for stringed instruments, $2.00 for typewriting, $1.00 for bookkeeping, 75 cents for manual training and drawing, and 50 cents for home economics. Tuition for non residents is $12.50 for 1943-44, with specifics on payment schedule. Oak Hill and Oak View districts exempt.
For school or best wear this jumper and blouse pattern 4473 with soft neck and waist gathers. Choose corduroy wool plaid cotton for jumper and various fabrics for blouse. sizes 6 to 14 with yardage details and order form from The High Point Enterprise pattern department.
Emma Blair and Clyde Daniel tied for the 16 year old girls and boys divisions while Jack Ridge won the 12 year old boys ping pong title. Harold Chadwick represented Bay Street in the 13 to 15 year old group at the event.
City leaders push wartime bond sales focusing on Series E and FE issues. Hall promotes FE bonds as the widely sold security, noting three dollars invested yields four back in 10 years. Bonds come in denominations of 25, 50, 100, 500 and 1000, dated the purchase month.
Two American ATA pilots Roberta Sandoz and Emily Chapin join about 20 U S women delivering lanes from assembly lines to RAF squadrons. They fly single engine fighters and two engine bombers, endure harsh weather, and live in British homes, acting as informal ambassadors while serving in the British Air Transport Auxiliary with pride and caution.
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