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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1937
Page
5
The Department of Conservation and Development shows a yearlong rise in activities and programs reflecting expanded state oversight and project execution across conservation, land management, and public works. Officials report heightened enforcement, increased grant activity, and broader community engagement.
The 1937 annual review shows the Department of Conservation and Development expanding work across fish and game, forests, minerals, and water. Advertising as well as commerce and industry divisions boosted inquiries, plantings, forest protection, reforestation, hatcheries, shad propagation, turkey rearing, and new state parks development.
The Enterprise Bureau reports North Carolina's average car age is four years with about one quarter over eight years old and a similar share two years old or less. A study by the Division of Statistics and Planning analyzed 39,000 vehicles from the 1937 registration, noting roughly 10 percent are 1929 models and an average car value near $200 with about $60 yearly tax per vehicle.
A Raleigh column surveys quirky state notes. Senator Bailey faces national mockery over a ten point manifesto while Colonel Hobbs admits ample funds sit idle in banks. A egg grading law debate resurfaces and curious rural tales from Dudley Bagley mingle with a Mt. Mitchell bear story as Christmas lights glow nationwide.
Hilton park hosts a yearly Christmas display featuring a huge live oak decorated as a living tree. It attracts wide publicity and serves as a centerpiece for the city’s holiday gift distribution to local children.
Betsy the cow, after Merchants' Bank took her on a note last fall and placed her on a farm, fails to produce milk while still consuming feed. The note and farm status reflect a troubled investment in Kansas City.
Senator Pittman announced the senate foreign relations committee may seek changes to strengthen the neutrality act in the upcoming session. He urged exploring more definite standards for embargoes against warring nations and suggested a broader policy with clearer rules for enforcing embargoes.
Virginia insurance official M E Bris tow received a telegram naming him president of the National Association of Building and Loan Supervisors. He queried the association for clarification. He had been elected president two months earlier at a Los Angeles meeting he did not attend.
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