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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1945
Page
20
A Christmas play titled A Candle In a Window will be presented by fourth through sixth graders at Emma Blair School on December 18 at 7 30 PM. The school choir will sing carols during the play and second and third graders will perform earlier with fourth graders leading devotional.
Governor Ellis Arnall announces Georgia will be out of debt once cash in the treasury covers all obligations. He cites a $35.96 million gross debt and $25.80 million net obligations three years into his term, noting the 1945 constitution safeguards support sound finances.
Mrs. J E Sides seventy died at home after a lingering illness. Funeral services at Stallings Memorial Church will be held Saturday with time to be announced. She was the widow of J E Sides and member of Stallings Memorial Church. Surviving are four sons four grandchildren a stepdaughter and four brothers and a sister.
In a Ships Magazine report, fewer than a score of the 16 760 ships escorting Atlantic convoys during World War II were sunk. The text notes wartime convoy losses as sailors recount the long campaign and the defense of Allied supply lines.
Tomlinson of High Point held a Christmas party for over six hundred employees at the National Guard Armory. The program included long service honors for Old Guard twenty years Rising Tide ten years and Powerhouse five years plus music addresses and Christmas gifts. A vacation plan with pay for one year plus notes on productivity and shop conditions were announced by executive vice president William A. Tomlinson.
George S. Arthur 84 of Tryon died at his home after a 10 day illness. Native of Ardrey Scotland he came to Asheville at 25 and worked at the Vanderbilt estate before managing the Brokaw estate near Trinity. Funeral Saturday at Tryon then service in Greensboro Kanes Chapel Sunday. Burial in Groometown Cemetery. Surviving are six sons all in Greensboro two daughters and eleven grandchildren one great grandchild.
In Dublin a Wexford flour miller who lost a leg in 1918 faces a fare dispute over his artificial leg. He was charged excess on the spare leg returned from England because it wasn’t listed as personal luggage. He refuses to pay the extra on the new leg he bought.
Sort trips were required as units of the Atlantic fleet and ships in convoy cruised more than fifty million miles, marking extensive escort operations and sustained naval endurance.
The article notes that a novice misinterpretation in a bridge deal doomed a three notrump contract. West led clubs, declarer lost ace, and South relied on a diamond finesse that failed when the queen was offside. North’s reluctance to rebid a strong suit left six spades as a laydown against any defense.
R M Ziegler advertising director of the News and Courier and Charleston Evening Post and president of the Carolinas Advertising Executives association announced the midwinter meeting will be held at Chapel Hill North Carolina February 22 23 Howard Cooper advertising manager of the Greenwood Index Journal will be program chairman The association includes daily newspapers from North Carolina South Carolina and eastern Tennessee.
Ralph Sinclair, 11, found a bright parrot on Laguna Beach after noticing a seagull on a beach. He brought it home but cannot locate the owner's details as the bird refuses to talk and no help is available.
The fragment notes North's excellent support for a notrump contract and suggests a different bid of four spades if he had avoided hero worship. It frames a bidding decision in a bridge hand context.
The article reflects on Christmas carols including O Come All Ye Faithful written in 1841 by Canon Frederick Oakley and The First Noel of uncertain origin. It notes carols as key to Christmas spirit and mentions church choirs preparing special programs this year.
A Finney Detroit police report states Mary Parlis 27 said Helen Armstrong 25 stabbed her with an ice pick during a dispute over Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra records. The incident followed a request to play Sinatra due to their Christmas program. The First Baptist church Candlelight Service and a high school actette performance were noted in the same report.
The document lists 1 prayers as the answer to a question about what o stands for, 2 information or information is given for met amorphosis, and 3 dactylogy is described as the use of the finger at. It also includes wisdom on how a minister should be a real man and etiquette guidance about guiding a female companion across streets along with a December 17 horoscope noting mood swings and advice to focus on routine tasks.
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