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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1939
Page
3
The U S Chamber of Commerce urged that relief be returned gradually to states, arguing federal relief is costly and inefficient. It said relief should center on local units, with federal aid only where state resources are inadequate, and emphasized cost reduction and local self sufficiency.
Miss Della Stroup of Thomasville is appointed home demonstration agent for Randolph County succeeding Miss La Una Brashears who becomes district home agent at large for the Tennessee district with headquarters in Chattanooga. Stroup, Greensboro Woman’s College 1930 graduate, has taught in Selma and Mills Home High School and served as diet supervisor in orphanage kitchens.
The Trustees of Guilford College apply for a permit to erect a gasoline service station on their property on the west side of South Main Street between Commerce and Green Streets. A Board of Adjustment meeting is set for Thursday December 21 1939 at 1 30 P M in the City Hall Council Room to hear the matter. Public participation is invited for or against the permit.
A General Interest note explains how in vacuum tubes all objects fall at the same speed while in air air resistance slows taller bodies more. It cites a 190 pound man reaching 175 ft/s from a mile high, a 100 pound person at 130 ft/s, and a final fall speed of 18 ft/s with a parachute. It adds a promo for a leaflet titled Cities of Europe.
In Thomasville a teenage Negro boy reportedly saved around 85 dollars in a tin can from odd jobs and planned Christmas purchases, first buying five dollars worth of firecrackers as he began shopping in the city.
A large turnout filled the Community Methodist Church on Sunday night to hear Handel's The Messiah sung by local choir members with five Winston-Salem musicians. Professor Harry Parker directed, Mrs. Charles F. Finch accompanied, and soloists included Katherine Swaim soprano Lindsay Hoover alto Harry Parker tenor and Joe Fowler bass.
Goldsboro resident B. G. Thompson, long a major cotton planter, is described as perhaps Eastern North Carolina’s top lespedeza grower. He harvested 250 acres of Kobe lespedeza for seed and 350 acres of high quality hay, averaging 19 bushels per acre for seed and yielding 750 tons of hay, with Wayne County farmers quickly adopting his farming approach.
Interest in raising own workstock is shown by farmers across the state as reported by Fred M. Haig professor of animal husbandry at State College.
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