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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1944
Page
9
Dr Clendening answers a questionnaire criticizing football's impact on health and physique. He cites high injury rates, limited athletic benefit, and notes that semi professional football fails to train most students while track and baseball fare better. He urges a system making fitness compulsory and laments the sport as a spectator drill.
U S Seventh Army report lauds eight American GI s for clearing and repairing a muddy road under fire as Maj Gen Edward H Brooks, newly in command, visits frontline positions. Brooks, a New Hampshire native, is described as exacting yet supportive, often working from division posts and writing to family.
Navy Chaplain Paul R Hoover officiated a double proxy wedding in Jacksonville Florida uniting a couple located elsewhere in the United States and another in the Pacific The unusually remote ceremony relied on travel papers that had circulated worldwide three times before the rite could be performed. Buy Christmas Seals and Prevent Wartime Rise TB.
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