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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1944
Page
8
The report notes participants wore heavy blue jackets during athletic tests before and after games. It also mentions a superstition linking broken mirrors to bad luck rooted in beliefs about a shadow or reflection as part of the soul.
A city committee reported 434 families depend on the Empty Stocking Fund this year. They reviewed names to avoid duplication with public welfare, health, family service, Red Cross, churches, and civic clubs. With $1,037.23 on hand, boxes total 201 small and 233 large, and packing work is ready to begin.
Mrs. Ja T. Griffin age 75 wife of the late Prof A J Griffin pioneer educator here died in New York City while visiting her children. She helped head the home economics program at High Point Normal and Industrial Institute now William Penn School and was active in civic life including the Alpha Art club. Burial will be in High Point with services at St Mark Methodist Church conducted by Rev W S McLeod. She leaves three daughters and five sons with five grandchildren.
18 year old Marry Isaac, described as Negro, is held on a $1000 bond for breaking and entering McLeod's service station at 275 South Wrenn Street last night. A passer by Bill Harris reported the break and Isaac was allegedly found entering after leaving the station and later identified by police.
Sgt. George R. Johnson, son of Dr. and Mrs. T. C. Johnson formerly of High Point, earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery as waist gunner on a B-24 over Germany last September. He remained at his post despite severe wounds and destroyed an enemy fighter, collapsing later from oxygen loss. He recuperates in a convalescent ward and expects to resume duty soon. his parents now live in Kinston. Dr. Johnson was a former member of the High Point college faculty.
The funeral at West End Methodist Church honors Robert L. Binkley of 104 Moore Street who died in a Richmond hospital from injuries in an automobile crash. Rev. Oakley White and Simpson led the service with active pallbearers and floral tributes managed by Margaret Marr. Interment in the city cemetery followed. Clyde A. Mears services announced for Chattahoochee resident at Lord's Tabernacle with interment at Oakwood cemetery.
Vice Admiral Bellanger commander of Naval Air forces in the Atlantic returns to Roanoke Island as principal speaker for the Wright brothers first flight anniversary ceremonies. Coast Guard veteran A W Drinkwater helps host Miles Clark and the Kill Devil Hill Memorial association. Capt John T Daniels of Manteo, last survivor of the trio aiding the Wrights, attends with about 100 guests. Music by Elizabeth City high school band. Dinner at First Colonel Inn in Nags Head follows. A brief business session with officer elections ends the day.
The release covers 178 Guilford County servicemen reported killed in action since Pearl Harbor. Of Greensboro and High Point soldiers, 134 and 19 respectively are listed with addresses in Greensboro and High Point. The report notes the figures are not complete and shows names and addresses of many servicemen. The piece ends with an unrelated fact about a cat's eye curvature and vision.
Theodora Lynch is hailed as the most exciting new voice in concert and operatic worlds by the American Institute of Voice Teachers. She returned to the United States on an exchange ship after wartime internment in Europe while studying in Italy and working as a newspaper woman. She was sent to Siena prison with other correspondents when war broke out.
Senator-elect Clyde Hoey of Shelby addressed a N C State College audience on World Peace. He backed an international organization with force to sustain lasting peace, attacking isolationists and saying such peace is practicable, not a utopian dream, and should be realizable. Hoey will replace Reynolds in January and lead postwar peace planning.
Mary Zody 64 of Laudenville Ohio died early this morning at Wesley Long hospital Greensboro after a brief illness. Survived by husband Aaron Zody two daughters Mrs Glenn Derrenberger and Mrs W L McClelland and son Don K Zody. Body to be moved to Laudenville for funeral services at Green Cemetery Perrysville Ohio.
Horace Haworth, local attorney, shares a humorous tale of receiving a large peanut bounty. After hearing farmer Robert M. Martin describe a bumper peanut crop, Haworth sends a bag to his father and distributes a hundred pounds among colleagues, including Judge D. C. MacRae and court clerks.
Sheriff reports Horace Hill a 33 year old Negro parolee killed Lou Wilson 50 and her daughter May Horton 25 in Trenton yesterday. Hill wounded Aaron Wilson and was captured in a cornfield after being shot in the arm with buckshot.
About eighty five percent of American steel is produced by the basic open hearth method, a dominant process in the industry.
The British Empire is described as the world’s largest realm covering 13 43,952 square miles with a population around 500 775 000.
Hollywood figures prepare to honor Lupe Velez with funeral services likely Monday in Hills California. Johnny Weissmuller is named as former husband and pallbearer while immigration officials say no action against Ramond. coroner reports no inquest. Velez's will lists over 200000 dollars estate and trust provisions for her mother and secretary.
P W Grandjean area director for the Foing Commis rector Hinkel assistant cie er Ralph E Miller of the office of the United States Employment Service Claude R Sealey veterans representative at the employment fire have returned from Winston Salem where they attended a study course in handling war Veterans and a study of the G I Bill of Rights. Sponsored by the War Manpower Commission across the State to aid returning G I s. The yak a burden in Tibet will not eat grain but lives on burtsar a thick woody root used for fire wood.
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