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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1930
Page
18
Enterprise Bureau at Sir Walter Hotel reports Made-in-Carolina week runs September 1 to boost North Carolina product awareness and shopping. Col. J. W. Harrelson says cities will host displays, civic clubs and schools will discuss state goods, aiming to raise standards, grow industry and cut unemployment.
Stu Hawley of the Texas Company road map division set a new transcontinental and return record in a stock Buick Eight coupe. He beat the Los Angeles to New York to Los Angeles total by 15 hours 26 minutes with a time of 141 hours 38 minutes. Hawley fueled with Texaco regular and motor oil, aiming to show a cross continent trip under four days without undue haste.
Four new homes were built in Davidson this summer as faculty members moved into them. Lingle Arbuckle Brown have new residences on Concord Road, and Schenck’s home on North Main Street was built by W. E. Potts. Several staff shift into vacated houses as others decide moves and locations for new term assignments.
Washington reports that airport drainage and surfacing remain difficult problems. The American Engineering Builders' association and the U S department of commerce road aeronautics branch lead research on better drainage, with emphasis on preventing landing and takeoff accidents due to faulty construction.
The article reviews the prophet Amos, a Tekoa herdman who spoke to Israel two years before a great earthquake during kings Uzziah and Jeroboam. It highlights his call, rugged honesty, denunciation of social injustice, and insistence that true religion requires justice and righteousness, not ritual excess.
A 60 cent wager spurred J A R Bromage and S G Stubbs to drive 6000 miles from Lahore to London in 73 days with 41 days of travel and 32 rest periods. Their route crossed Lahore Baluchistan Persian desert Iraq Syria Greece Austria Germany Calais and the English Channel. Both men serve in the Indian government engineering service.
Davidson College in North Carolina announces 49 students chosen to assist faculty for the 1930-31 academic year. Assignments span Latin to economics and include monitors and absence recorders, with selections based on subject expertise and merit.
Charles J. Boyd of Amarillo patents a simple strong folding wing airplane. Wings fold back perpendicular to the fuselage by unfastening fixtures, a process claimed to take under two minutes. Boyd specializes in repairing damaged planes and overhauling motors.
The sentence notes the service crew of the USS NC4, recognized as the first plane to cross the Atlantic. The landmark achievement highlights the crew's role in the historic flight.
Ray Pregenzer Jr. set a new world outboard speed record of 49.723 miles per hour aboard a Century Hurricane with an Elto 460 motor and AC spark plugs. The mark inches toward the 50 mph goal long sought by outboard pilots.
The fourth murderer in Nevada to face a death sentence under the lethal gas method will be executed in October after adoption of the new procedure.
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