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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1945
Page
5
A Mannheim report from the American military administration notes rapid rebuilding after 144 air raids. The city once housed about 280,000 people with 86,000 dwellings damaged, and authorities say over half the population has returned as reconstruction proceeds.
London faces a mounting housing crisis as postwar returnees flood back from the blitz era and countryside evacuations. With thousands of homes destroyed or uninhabitable, the overcrowded metropolis confronts renewed accommodation shortages and growing urban strain.
Brownie Troop 23 and Girl Scout Troop 25 celebrated anniversaries at Leonard Street School. New Troops 44 and 53 were invested, with a candlelit ceremony and scrolls marking promotions. Leaders, committees, and Mary Bethune YWCA events highlighted a busy community program.
Treasury reports show E-bond sales at 1.037 billion against 975 million expected by pattern, with 926 million still needed to reach an 2 billion goal. Drive ends Saturday night but sales counted through month end. Finance Director Ted Gamble notes lag from last 12 days and urges continued purchases to meet targets while observers warn demand may be waning.
Otha Willoughby died Sunday afternoon at Burrus Memorial Hospital at 12 30. He was born in Wadesboro North Carolina and moved to High Point in 1914. Survived by wife Connie three sisters Lela Gatewood Laura Tillman and Ella Willoughby.
An old advertisement explains kidneys contain 15 miles of tubes and urges sleepless sufferers to use Doan's Pills. It links tired kidneys to nocturnal awakenings and bodily aches, claiming the product flushes toxins from the blood and has decades of use.
The High Point Salvation Army opens its annual Christmas appeal to raise funds for servicemen overseas and hospital patients. Captain Charles R. Collins announces the drive with Robert H. Smith as chairman, who prepared about 1,000 letters to mail to residents. Donations may be sent to Smith at 806 Sunset Drive. A portion funds will aid patients at the ORD hospital in Greensboro.
A recommendation for a $1,000,000 bond issue to alleviate overcrowded conditions in Gaston county schools was presented to the board of county commissioners. The commissioners took no immediate action on the proposal.
Joseph P. Knapp 82, Crowell Publishing chairman, has reached his winter estate at Mackay Island after a summer illness. He arrived by ambulance from the Catskills and has shown steady improvement over several weeks. This is his 27th winter at Mackay Island, purchased in 1918 by his family.
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