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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1943
Page
7
Elsie Robinson urges readers to face fear prejudice and hardship to gain multiple lives through bold risk taking. she compares birth and death to a continuous process and calls for self reflection by tracking changes in attitude over ten years and counting the “deaths” one has died through growth and learning.
Miss Whitener read Matt Sangster's The Birthday at the Wesley Methodist Church group meeting in Gastonia. DAR Alexander Mary chapter members discussed plasma bank donations Ellis Island project Crossnore scholarship gift and hospital doll donation while tea and cookies followed the program.
Veterans must be provided with jobs as 7 000 men are discharged monthly, said Mrs N S Stirewall veterans representative of the United States Employment Committee of the Warner Commission. She urged training for new work and return to old jobs where possible as released service members resume civilian life. A Christmas program followed with carols a solo and a reading by Mrs L R Peacock. Refreshments in a Christmas motif were served by Mrs G Haley and hosts at 405 West Howell Street Santa and sleigh décor dominated the table.
The Tuesday Evening Garden Club met at Mrs. H. L. Mitchells home on Forest Avenue for a Christmas afternoon with thirteen members and eleven guests. Decorations, prayers, a tenram, a piano accordion program, and a word contest with Dickens prize highlighted the event. Gifts collected for service men in Piedmont hospitals replaced the usual member exchange and will be distributed by the Red Cross Camp and Hospital committee. Plans were approved to aid High Point College students through the council party.
Commissioner will sell at the City Mall front door in High Point on December 2, 1945 at 11:00 AM the Woodrow Avenue parcel described in the Sherrod Park Plat Lot 24 in Guilford County. Sale under a 1943 municipal court judgment to satisfy street assessments and taxes. Conducted by Commissioner J. V. Wilson Jr. with title per Guilford County records.
New fall and winter pattern 4607 offers a shirtwaister style in cotton for daily wear and a wool or rayon town frock. Describes slimming front yoke and bodice, lists misses sizes from 14 to 44, yardage for size 16, and ordering details from High Point Enterprise Pattern Dept at 243 West 17th St New York.
Save scraps of toilet soap until half a cup accumulates then pack into a four by four bag of old bath towels with a strap. Sew shut to form a shower mitt. Can also use laundry soap odds and ends to wash bathtubs sinks and washbowls.
The article notes that most major U S internal transportation routes were surveyed by army engineers, highlighting the role of military surveying in building early infrastructure.
Thomasville notes show the Thursday Bridge club gathering at Mrs. Robert Rapp’s Fisher Ferry street home for a dessert bridge with two tables of play. Top score went to Mrs. J. W. Hawthorne who earned pyrex ware, runner-up prize to Mrs. W. E. Tomlinson. visitors high prize to Mrs. G. L. Bryant. Other club members listed. Also Culbreth Harris Legion Auxiliary met on West Main with Miss Jennie Reid Newby reading a Christmas story. hostesses served refreshments. Illness updates follow for Miss Sallie Clodfelter. Mrs. George Corcoran and daughter Jane Alline return from Sternberger hospital.
The Mu chapter of Beta Sigma Phi will meet with Mrs. W C Boyles at her home 232 Woodrow this evening at 7 30.
The Cloverdale Parent-Teacher Association meets Thursday at 7 30 in the school auditorium for a Christmas program directed by Miss Frances Lang Brown and Miss Winifred ie. The event follows a brief business session. About 70 percent of U S cotton goes to armed forces and appears in about 11 000 items.
The Enterprise invites all women’s page news and photos to be submitted by noon Thursday December 23 for the Sunday December 26 edition. Items received after the deadline will miss the Christmas Day preprint and appear in the next issue on December 27 or 28.
A bridge deal shows North passing two hearts while holding a seven card spade and diamond length. West opens three trump and declarer cannot profit, leading to a 300 point loss. North should have rebid his long suit to push to a diamond contract, offering chances to make with better defense. South notes a no trump continuation if North had shown the suit.
Kansas City writer Logan Clendening describes the widespread influenza and virus pneumonia outbreak. He warns against hysteria, advises rest in bed, hydration, and cautions that there is no specific cure beyond symptomatic care, noting doctors are overworked and prevention centers on careful self care.
In Guyford County the High Point municipal court orders the sale of a Commerce Street parcel to satisfy a 1965 judgment. The property at the corner of Commerce and Reed Streets, 70 by 70 feet, totaling about 2660 square feet, will be auctioned at 11:90 AM on December 27, 1965, at the courthouse front steps.
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