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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1949
Page
2
Forum notes that property owners, Raleigh residents, and rural citizens bear unequal costs for city and county services. It cites方 ad valorem taxes, road and school debt, and health and welfare funding, with Raleigh carrying a large share of county burdens.
SARASOTA Florida U Goats o No such thing say Don Grace Ragsdale. They started with one milking animal to aid arthritis and now run a goat dairy with a study of goat habits. The Ragsdales claim goats have a sense of right and wrong, sulk if slighted, and remember, but they do not eat rags or tin cans.
Mrs Ruth Bellow guided 40 Riverside Nursery School children through the Union Railroad station using a rope line. The group stretched along the terminal like snake dancers, ensuring none wandered away during the tour.
Autographs of Rudyard Kipling George Win Dr Lise Meitner and Margaret Mitchell are among the most sought after by collectors today. Robby Stevens lists Albert Einstein Franklin D Roosevelt Felix Frankfurter Windsor Duke and Duchess George Marshall Cordell Hull Thomas Edison as popular signatures with catalog prices including Washington 185 Faulkner 45 Sousa 12.50 Wilson 6.50 Lewis 10.
Federal game officials use aerial photos to deter commercial fishermen in Alaska waters. Albert M. Day says patrols shifted from dog sleds to planes, with 134,329 miles by plane and 300 by helicopter last year, while sled travel dropped to 13 miles.
In Merced County dairy farmers have fed unmar keted figs to cows for 25 years. W. H. Alison, a farm advisor, notes cows enjoy the sweet taste and figs have food value close to barley but require mixing with other feed. Figs contain more than 25 percent content with a laxative effect.
In New Yorks special senatorial contest Gov Herbert Lehman insists no differences with Dulles on foreign policy exist yet opponents say Dulles defeat weakens bipartisanship. Taft Malone Jenner and others press for deeper cuts in Marshall plan aid and attacks on Western Europe rearmament while Vandenberg, less fit than last year, faces a tougher task keeping bipartisan policy alive.
Premier Yen Hsi-Shan flies to Taipei as Chiang Kai-shek reportedly considers delaying a return to power. Li Tsung Jen travels to the United States for health, while logistics and snow disrupt routes to Formosa. Government layoffs accelerate as withdrawals from Sichuan advance, turning Chengtu toward a war camp atmosphere.
The 500000 workers exhausted unemployment benefits in the latest quarter far exceeds 216000 the prior year. Many will turn to direct relief or live with relatives as job prospects look dim. States vary in benefit duration and some workers may gain new benefits later, but most face at least three months without aid. The Labor Department plans to press Congress to set minimum standards for benefits.
The American Medical Association faces a vote by its House of Delegates on a board proposal to institute annual dues not to exceed 25 dollars. If approved, about 120000 members would pay, raising roughly 3 million dollars, with retirees and others exempt. A reporter poll found broad support among doctors and state society leaders.
New York report cites 50 000 drug stores in the United States and Americans visit them five billion times yearly. Robert P. Fischelis of the American Pharmaceutical Co. says pharmacies are ideal for health education programs and urged use by public health groups.
Flora Finlay, aged 62, obtained a divorce from Percy Ricardo Finlay in Brisbane Supreme Court. She testified she married in 1903 at age 16, he deserted five months later, and she heard nothing from him again until 1947.
The statement emphasizes delivering the best mechanical services and materials to customers. Prices are set at wholesale cost plus a small operating percentage, highlighting a transparent pricing approach based on cost plus margin.
The report notes Baguio Luzon Philippines recorded the heaviest rainfall in a 24 hour period in 1911. The text also mentions pumpkins are often misidentified as squashes in common usage.
The U S Bureau of Reclamation estimates that 16 840 000 additional acres could be irrigated in western states, signaling a major potential boost to arid region agriculture and water resource utilization.
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