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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1936
Page
16
Helen Welshimer recalls a family Christmas shopping day as an old lady visits to take each child to the shops. The girl has a round silver dollar to spend and plans secret purchases to be unwrapped on Christmas morning. She explores department stores for the first time, previously shopping at ten cent stores.
A nine year old selects gifts at a dollar store for her father mother sister and brother. She buys a gravy bowl with a flawed red tomato decoration, a doll for her sister, a red drum for her brother, and uses saved silver dimes plus a quarter for a chocolate soda for an old lady. She regrets not spending more on the outsider. Christmas dinner features the new gravy bowl.
High Point residents will see the Forget-Me-Not drive by the Disabled American Veterans of the World War on Saturday December 5 1936. Mayor C S Grayson endorses the campaign calling for donations to aid veterans in rehabilitation and relief work. Citizens are urged to wear Forget-Me-Not pins and contribute on city streets through Guilford County Chapter No 1 D A V of W W and its Auxiliary.
Rev J Clyde Auman pastor of Community Methodist Protestant Church Thomasville and High Point College trustee spoke to students this morning Introduced by Dr G I Humphreys he shared six years of missionary work in Japan stressing understanding of foreign peoples as key to international peace The day also notes motorists pay about 10 for a tire and tube yielding roughly 25000 miles.
A road repair effort benefits from orderly tools laid out along the roadside. Proper organization speeds up fixes and reduces delays for motorists and workers alike.
Visiting minister Rev. R. A. Helsabeck will deliver the final sermon in the Preaching Mission at the North Hamilton Street Church of Christ tonight. His topic is Obedience and the public is invited, with special music planned.
This year 282 miles of new high speed roads opened and 1864 miles of existing routes upgraded to first class condition in eastern Siberia, with continued construction planned to improve regional connectivity and transport efficiency.
German pilots called their observers Franz while observers referred to pilots as Emil, a mutual nickname system used during air warfare.
A reader laments coworkers who snatch the telephone and talk long on office lines, monopolizing service and hindering work. The letter urges shorter, to the point calls and asks others to share their pet peeves by writing to the editor.
A historic claim identifies the Vickers Gun-Bus as the first true military aircraft. The note notes its development and recognition in early aviation records.
Invitations went to High Point University of North Carolina alumni for the annual alumni dinner and business meeting in Chapel Hill on December 9. President Frank P. Graham will lead a discussion on the 1937 39 appropriation request to be submitted to the legislature. High Point officers invited include D C MacRae and Holt McPherson with other local alumni and officers.
Funeral services for York Air, a 51 year old former Republican leader, were conducted Tuesday at Patterson B. C. Church. The service featured a choir and solos, with pallbearers and interment at the church cemetery.
The report shows last year York state accounted for 8.8 percent of passenger car registrations nationwide. It highlights York’s market size within the national totals and notes registration figures alongside broader United States data.
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