Awfully Lonesome Kids Bring Christmas Hope to High Point
An official warns that demobilized workers arriving in High Point face morale issues. Civic groups should host a Christmas party to introduce newcomers to locals, and families invited to host two or more workers could boost spirits. The piece urges breaking social barriers to welcome the “lonesome kids” and notes the broader challenge of housing morale after the move.
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Civic Clubs
Chamber of Commerce
Sone
Armed Services
High Point
From Africa to High Point A World War II Letter Update
Editor notes Capt Thomas D Tyson, among High Point dece stors now in Africa, shares excerpts from a long letter. He describes a massive convoy, bunking on beaches and barracks, hospital tents, and steady rationing while noting health improvements. Housewives in High Point rally for rationing, urging adults to limit meat to two and a half pounds weekly.
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Thomas D. Tyson
High Point
Africa
Dheir
Bertha Staley
Carter Street
Hatteras Park Aims for Eastern National Park Status
The piece argues for turning over 11 505 acres of Hatteras Sea shore to a national park as part of a 62 000 acre project. It praises the Outer Banks, notes war debt risks, predicts Gulf Stream fishing appeal, and urges a proactive postwar development by the Park Service. It also reflects on Congress, Roosevelt, and wartime policy.
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National Park Service
Hatteras Park
America
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
North Carolina
Park Service
Gulf Stream
Hatteras
New Congress Forecasts on War Funding Debate
New Congress to convene in January faces funding warfare as a top issue. Report notes Republicans are expected to press for clear fiscal positions and strong policy voices in the next session.
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Congress
War Industry Shift Risks the Thin Ice of Jobs
A remark on job freezing as workers switch wars industries. The piece notes Russians destroyed 68 German transport planes, calling it the best ferry story in a long time. A man of courage is also full of faith, per Cicero.
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Cicera
It's the Same Old War Excerpted History Memoir Voice
Walter Winchell discusses enduring military strategy across epochs, citing Vegetius Sun Tzu and ancient systems of battle. The piece traces timeless tactics, from chariots to tanks and siege engines, noting early forms of chemical warfare, aerial concepts, maps, and unit organization through history.
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Hannibal
Cannae
The
Marne
Marshal Foch
Vegetius
Vegeterius
Daily Mirror
Sun Tzu
Eisenhower
Military terms through history and notable figures
The passage traces military terms and figures from antiquity to mid centuries, noting Old Ironsides clergymen in a Broadway regiment, Polk as Confederate General, grenadiers, early pistols and bombs, shrapnel, crossbow sights, wash marks for service, chevrons from goats, colonel etymology, corporal insignia origins, ancient conscription, hand grenades in 490 B C Egypt, Molotov precursors in Rome, and early war decorations. It also mentions Caesar, Hadrian’s wall, engineers, and signal methods.
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Leonidas Polk
Charity show to aid Christmas relief observed by Lions Club
The Lions Club sponsors a December 22 charity show at the Sheraton Hotel starting 1:30 PM with over 325 invitations issued for the Build High Point night. Donations for Christmas relief pressingly needed as holiday aid efforts proceed and community members rally to help.
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The
Lions Club
High Point
Sheraton Hotel
Tri- State Hotel Association
Winston-Salem
Sheraton
Y.M.C.A
Health board notes large drop in disease cases in 1942
The State Board of Health reports weeks ending November 28 and December 3, 1942 show total reportable diseases at 701, down from 1,724 the year before. Measles fell to eight cases from 683, whooping cough 132 from 298, and diphtheria 72 from 140. Scarlet fever remained near equal at 206 and 207. Overall, two weeks of 1942 yield far fewer cases than in 1941, with measles and diphtheria driving the decline. Seashore Park Commission in Raleigh says 16,505 acres are in hand or in sight toward a 62,000-acre goal, with federal takeover possible after 10,000 acres. promotion continues though war delays loom. Also notes a Raleigh WAS/Bureau advisory denying Nazi propaganda and clarifying that service members can receive up to $50 in packages without home duty, provided mailing addresses are clear for prompt delivery.
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Health
State Board of Health
Seashore
Cape Hatteras Seashore Park
Virginia
Ocracoke
Con
Victor Meekins
Raleigh Office of War Information
OWL
Patman Seeks Equal Justice Beyond Wartime Rules
Congress member Wright Patman of Texas, leading the small business committee touring North Carolina, argued that OPA and wartime regulations often failed to deliver exact justice though they aimed for equal justice. He noted the federal justice building inscription “Equal justice under law” and quipped that exact justice may be impossible. He also called the recent election a “Democratic Pearl Harbor.”
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EXACT
Wright Patman
Texas
Committee On Small Business
North Carolina
OPA
Federal Justice
Washington
Pearl Harbor
War agency waste and reg reform urged by Patman
Patman says war effort overall is going well but warns of duplications and lost effort in civil administration. He and colleagues seek to amend regulations and curb overlapping federal bureaus. Charlotte hearing reveals small business largely healthy but frustrated by ignored regulations and unanswered letters. A dismal attitude among some local firms favors contracts over aiding the war, hampering patriotism.
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Patman
South
Charlotte
North Carolina
Washington
Texas
Halleck
Indiana
Hall
New York
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London
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H. A. Millis
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Greensboro
Willis Slane
Lippe
Oklahoma
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Harding
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Winston- Salem
White Sulphur Springs
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