Two High Point Marines Recall Guadalcanal to Cherry Point Home
First Class Louie H. Beam Jr. and Delmas D. Burchfield, High Point natives, recall five major battles in the South Pacific. They completed 30 months of service, with campaigns including Guadalcanal Peleliu and New Britain. Both return to North Carolina for reassignment after training in Australia and Melbourne and a Christmas air-landing.
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South Pacific
Wates
Louie H. m. Jr
Delmas D. Burchid
Pfc. Beam
High Point
Parris Island
New Zealand
Guadalcanl
Batles
Guadalcanal
Pelelieu
Palau
Pietehfield
Beam
Louie Ham
North Main Street
Pfe. Burchfield
W. C. Lewis
Avenue
Cherry Point
City Council Meets Amid Large Crowd to Tackle Bids
City council session moved to county courthouse due to anticipated large crowd. Bids to be opened for 1000 feet of fire hose and about 6500 dollars in grading and topsoil work in the northwest. Utilities committee to seek four lighting water and bus service items.
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General Assembly
County
South Main Street
Council
Duke Power Co
Sunset
Woodland Drive
West Broad Street
Edgeworth
Chestnut Streets
City Utilities Department
Hansel and
Burton Streets
West College Drive
Hicks Street
Hoover Streets
Banks
Buckram
Denny Street
Barbee and
Denny
Montheu Avenue
Fourth
Fifth Streets
Crawford Street
Ragan Street
Pershing
Woodbury
Mitchell
English
Gilbert
Pitometer
Pitometer District No
Iorner
East Lex
Committee Of Twenty Raises $135000 For High Point College
The Committee Of Twenty reports nine tenths of the debt of $150,000 for High Point College cleared. Chairman J E Millis urges Christmas gifts to wipe out the remaining $15,000. Donations have come from High Point and North Carolina Methodist conferences, with no high pressure campaign. The college seeks endowment and new buildings to join national educational societies and to help veterans resume study after the war. Contributions may be given to college offices or via committee members.
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High Point College
J. E. Millis
Millis
High Point
Methodist Church
North Carolina
Gars
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Country City
E Bonds All December Quota Push In High Point
December E bond purchases count toward the High Point quota though E bonds lag. The Women’s Division reports $456 329.75 in all bonds with 616 applications. additional quotas were approved for banks and building and loan associations. Christmas bond sales are urged as a “Bond Christmas” to boost E bond totals amid complete returns from merchants showing similar lag in E bond sales.
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High Point
Earl N. Phillips
Sheraton
Elwood
Center Theater
Mesdames
Katherine Raymond
Matt Wall
Organization of
University Women
Catholic Guild
Girl Scouts
Aliusa Club
North Carolina
Phillips
U. S
Third Army
E's
Ralph Williams
Merchants Division
Lil. . Gardner
Advance Stores
Penney'’s
Lis
Lis, Ltd, $800; Fashion Sod Mrs. Clyde Pearson, Major, ; Rosaine Shop
Ina Bennett
Morris
Hardlee’s
Johns
Dorsett
Charles
Royals
Efirds
Mildred Hardie
Lina Thomas
Bill Price Elected President of A. B. Club
Bill Price elected president of the American Business club at a semi annual election held at the Sheraton hotel. He will lead for six months with Glenn Smith as first vice president Morris Jones as second vice president and other officers and board members named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Price
American Business Club
Sheraton Hotel
Price
Glenn Smith
Morris Jones
Arthur Fidler
Vernon Idol
Pat Patterson
Pete Morrow
John Clinard
M. Z. Perkinson
W. E. Mitchell
E Gumsley
Union Protests Election Which It Lost
The United Textile Workers of America AFL failed to win recognition as bargaining agent at the Melrose hosiery plant on Kivett Drive. UTW organizer Albert W. Cox filed a protest and request to set aside the election with the National Labor Relations Board, alleging illegal interference. The vote was 44 for the union, 66 against, with no challenged ballots.
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United Textile Workers of América
AFL
Melrose
Kivett Drive
Albert W. Cox
UTW
National Labor Relations Board
Cox
NLRB
Joe Boyd
Nent
Moore proposes route to council on Duke Power plan
E A Wright attorney for Mr. Moore will present the proposed route to council as part of a dispute over the Duke Power Co. alignment alongington avenue.
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Ington
Duke Power Co
E. A. Wright
Moore
Council
Effectiveness Of Volunteers Is Praised
Miss Mary E. Judy of Community Chests and Councils of Volunteer Service praises wartime volunteer work for broad participation across the community. She spoke in High Point after a survey on volunteer services and discussed postwar trends with local social service agencies and the Volunteer Office.
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Mary E. Judy
Judy
National Association of Junior Leagues
Coffer Denies Involvement In Local Hold Up
Robert Coffer 22 said he was a bystander when Gray Shackleford drew a gun at Herman East Washington Street clothing store Monday evening and ordered a hold up. Coffer claimed he followed Shackleford then fled the scene to avoid identification. Herman and Shackleford gave differing accounts of the incident.
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Robert Coffer
South Main Street
Gray Shackleford
High Point Rt. 3
Herman
East Washington Street
Coffer
Shackleford
Washington
Wrenn
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
Main Street
Arcade
Turkeys and Gifts Sent to Goldsboro Odd Fellows Home
Turkeys totaling about 100 pounds were shipped yesterday afternoon by the Goldsboro Odd Fellows Lodge No 62 to the Odd Fellows Orphanage and Old Folks Home in Goldsboro for Christmas dinner. The Rebekahs contributed numerous gifts for children and adults. Crowded public conveyances will bring Point citizens as guests on the 25th.
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Reption Lodge
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Odd Fellows Orphanage
Goldsboro
Rebekahs
Wilson Named City Purchasing Agent Candidate
City Manager Roy S Braden said an inquiry by City Attorney Grover Jones found no basis for charges against J Vassie Wilson Jr supervisor of foreclosure sales and that Wilson should become full time city purchasing agent within a week. The council reviewed three bills on retirement for city workers a police traffic bureau and a street foreclosure tax validating act.
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Roy S. Braden
Grover Jones
Ocean
J. Vassie Wilson
Wilson
L. J. Young
Jones
Civil Service Commission
Jummusleg Agente Eifies
General Assembly
Police Probe Three Break-Ins In City Night Spree
Police investigated three break ins at the L. and M. Cafe on East Wash, the Silver Dollar, and the Texaco station on North Main Street. Cash and cigarettes were taken from the cafes, while lottery tickets were stolen from the filling station.
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East Wash Pee
L. and M
North Main Street
Texaco
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Pacific
By Bess Davenport
Pfc
Louie H. Beam, JR
Delmas D. Burchfield
Committee of Twenty
C. Excelle Rozzelle
R. Gregg Cherry
Raleigh
Memorial Auditorium
Rozzelle
Trinity College
Duke University
Cherry
Ril
A. B. Club
United States
Guatemala
C. F
Sterling & Identification
Orchic
Eversharp
Parker
Elwood Hotel
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