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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1929
Page
3
High Point post office handles record holiday mail as crowds fill the lobby and sorting rooms. Postmaster O R York notes volume exceeds last year and credits staff, two dozen helpers, and extra trucks for rapid service. Over time, clerks sort and route packages, letters, and cards to trains and homes to keep mail moving.
Despite ads urging early mailing many gifts remain unsent to friends of local people. The title will not recede until Christmas Day as postal workers continue to serve the public with courtesy and a smile for the season.
The city churches prepare Christmas services with Rev. Carl W. McMurray of Morningside Presbyterian preaching at First Presbyterian in Atlanta. A large Christmas program fills morning and evening services with choirs, cantatas, pageants, solos, and carols. Additional sermons planned at First Methodist Protestant and Welch Memorial, with community choirs and children performing various Christmas tableaux.
Police pursued a suspect after a fleeing man nearly collided with a wall. The car overturned at the Dennis and Woodrow intersection. the driver escaped but was later caught. A second man, Nalls, was found bleeding and hospitalized before treatment and release.
State Officials bureau of sanitary engineers and State Board of Health said yesterday that the plant was operated and supervised efficiently for over a month, reflecting the board engineers' ideas on proper operation despite questions about odors.
Mr Mills said odors from the plant were detectable only within about 1000 feet and tied to sulfur dye breakdown from city textile mills. He noted the city owns most property within that radius and stated the odor is not bad or harmful. Nearby property of C E Frazier and Gurney Frazier was bought by the city for $40,000 shortly before three suits were filed.
Community drive near the municipal building packs baskets for colored residents. The Colored Health club led by Anne Saunders explains contents and distribution while lists of donors including Mrs. Jesse Harris and various local groups and businesses are recorded.
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