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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1937
Page
5
North Carolina tobacco farmers had earned over 133 million dollars by December 1 from leaf sold on state warehouse floors. The season averaged 26.18 dollars per hundred pounds with 629,526,607 pounds sold, up from last year. Prices on Old and New Bright Belts averaged 25.36 and 25.86.
A Southeastern Folklore Conference will be held at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill on April 1 and 2. The Folklore Council organizes the event with members including R. M. Grumman and Felix Grisette and advisory figures such as Paul Green and Phillips Russell.
The terms Occident meaning the west and Orient meaning the east come from Latin occidens meaning the falling sun and oriens meaning the rising sun.
In Raleigh dated Dec 15 Henry Averal reports on a national Auto Association survey showing motorists are safety conscious and seek education, and notes on NC theft and recovery stats. Dudley Bagley heads Ducks Unlimited in NC without pay. Senator Reynolds outlines congressional procedure and defends a stance on tobacco crop controls. J M Grainer recounts a Creedmoor farmer using power poles for hay stacking.
Rev F R Mason pastor of the First Baptist church will preach for the St Mathew C M EF church on Olga street where services are held in the Seventh Day Adventist church Thursday evening at 7 o'clock. Golden Gate Jubilee Singers at First Baptist Meeting. The choir will sing Monday evening December 20 at 6 o'clock with admission charged. Sponsored by the Daughters of Dorcas. Public welcome.
Personal Nathaniel Beckham of Durham visits his brother Freddie Lee Beckham at 1207 Hoover. Birth notices list newborn girls and boys to the Padgett, Potter, Cole, and Vaughn families with birth dates in November and December. mothers and babies reported as doing well.
Dec Newton NC State head football coach will speak at the Kiwanis Rotary banquet for Lexington high school football at the Methodist church at 7 pm Wednesday. He will bring Eddie Berlin ski and Art Rooney. Adrian J. Newton may attend with him. Coaches Tom Young H B Tucker and about 30 players will be honored guests.
The navy and army will observe National Aviation Day on Friday marking the Wright brothers first flight. Naval planes will fly from shore stations and warships with Yorktown and Enterprise squadrons staging flights from Norfolk to Kitty Hawk where Orville and Wilbur Wright made history 34 years ago.
In Richmond Indiana grocer R M Little confronted robbers after they held up his shop. He challenged them and hurled about a dozen cans at the intruders, who fled the scene with Mrs Iva Carter assisting in the confrontation.
Dudley High of Greensboro and Hillside High of Durham advance to Memorial Stadium in Greensboro for Friday afternoon’s state high school football championship. Dudley features a strong passing attack likely to challenge Hillside as it did William Penn.
Kansas City police officers underwent a calm thinking first aid drill. Instructor Barney Mahoney noted one officer nearly graduated but had to leave due to his wife fainting Friday night. He was stoked back to the first grade for readiness.
The event notes a son of Rev J D Newton and Mrs Newton of Thomasville. The banquet Wednesday night doubles as the weekly meeting for the two clubs.
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