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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1945
Page
3
More than 130000 letters pass daily through the post office with stamp sales averaging 144 cents and daily parcel post lines growing. New temporary workers sort stacks of mail while greeting cards flood the lobby as the holiday rush peaks.
NEWS OF COLORED PEOPLE YMCA board meets at 8 P M urging all directors to attend. Hartley of the central Y will speak. Theodore Walker reports on the Atlanta conference. The senior choir at First Baptist church also rehearses at 8 P M.
J. H. Womble 79 died shortly after eight this morning in a local hospital after four weeks of declining health. Born February 21 1866 in Moore County he was a son of Jesse H. and Catherine Womble and had lived in the city for forty years. Surviving are his widow two sons Earl V. Womble and G H Womble two daughters Mrs Aaron Cook and Mrs Thomas E Dodamead. Funeral services are set for Friday at 3 p.m. at Koonce Funeral Home with Rev Paul Hardin and Rev W Wilbur Hutchins. interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
Federal and state agricultural officials in Raleigh met to set 1946 crop production goals for North Carolina farmers. G. T. Scott, chairman of the USDA council, said the goals guide farmers to balance national requirements with farm production capacity. Thirteen state and federal agencies took part in the policy discussion.
The North Carolina motor vehicle department announced a 35 percent increase in automobile license plate sales over the same period last year. In the first 17 days of the pre-1946 sales period, total sales reached 111,293.
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