Santa Clause needs and wishes for High Point
The Enterprise City News Staff envoy to Santa lists requests for city officials and workers in High Point North Carolina for 1948. Items include gifts for Mayor Phillips city manager Hinson police chief Stoker and many others plus civic projects like a new hospital and school.
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Santa Claus
Enterprise City News
North Pole
Earl N. Phillips
Hamilton Street
Perry Street
Arch McMullan
Shore Neal
Jim Ellington
Lee Wilson
Lake Crowe
Grover Jones
Santa
Stoker
Johnson and Teague
Choo Choo Justice
E. K. Ingram
Tion
Joe Dobson
A. Lee
Pop
North Carolina
J. W. Lindsay
High Point
High Point, N. C
Liver Pudding Helps Decide Turkey Offer Tale
GOLDSBORO December 24 A Fayetteville grocer recalls buying 25 pounds of liver pudding he did not want and paying dearly. The Hedgepeth grocery tied the liver pudding to a load of turkeys in a Christmas sale dispute. The farmer later offered the turkeys without the pudding and a joke about tying the pudding to the birds followed.
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Goldsboro
Fayetteville
Cr. B. Graham
Hedgepeth Grocery
Hedgepeth
Graham
Flour Used As Hair Powder On Seagoing Sentries
A historical note records flour being employed as a cosmetic hair powder by marine sentries aboard ships. The practice appears linked to routine grooming and maintaining appearance at sea, reflecting period grooming standards.
Hospital Building Fund Receives Christmas Gifts
The High Point Memorial hospital building fund gained 5500 in unsolicited gifts over the past week. A local businessman gave 500, continuing a holiday donation pattern and urging others to contribute so work can start soon. The fund has about 900000 raised from roughly 136000 in recent months.
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High Point Memorial Hospital
W. R. Peters
Peters
Fire Destroys Burris-Hatch Movers Warehouse in Des Moines
A spectacular blaze tore through the Burris-Hatch Movers warehouse in Des Moines on Monday, destroying a four story building and causing estimated losses over 1 million dollars. Firefighters fought the flames as shoppers watched the dramatic scene with flames leaping over 150 feet into the air. The blaze consumed furniture, auto tires, electric refrigerators, and other stored goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Burris-Hatch Movers, Inc
Dicksha Invented by U S Marine in Japan Visit
The dicksha used in the Orient today was invented by U S Marine Jonathan Goble, who visited Japan in 1854 with Commodore Perry.
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Dicksha
Orient
U. S
Jonathan Goble
Japan
Commodore Erry
Foscue Urges Care Against Monoxide Gas
Henry A. Foscue safety service chairman of the High Point Red Cross chapter warns in winter about carbon monoxide dangers. He notes its presence in automobile exhaust and incomplete combustion of coal and kerosene. He warns of deadly garage exposure in minutes and advises safer coal sizing and furnace banking to prevent gas buildup.
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Henry A. Foscue
Safety Service
High Point Red Cross
Foscue
Two Convicts Escape in Waiting Taxicab
Two white convicts identified as Belvin Penninger aged 41 from Raleigh and John Goode 35 from Norfolk escaped in a waiting taxicab near a lumber loading site in Greenville. Penninger had 12 to 15 years for robbery with firearms. Goode had 3 to 5 years for conspiracy and larceny.
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Greenville
Raleigh
Belvin Penninger
Wake County
John Goode
Pitt
Penninger
Goode
Norfolk
Typhoon Moves Westward From Yap
A typhoon formed near Yap Island and was located 30 miles southwest of Yap, moving west at ten miles per hour. The 43rd Weather Wing reported 90 mph winds and predicted it would be 180 miles north-northwest of Palau by morning with high tides and heavy swells along the Philippines east coast.
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Tokyo
Yap Island
Guam
Philippines
Yap
U. S. Army
43Rd Weather Wing
Palau Islands
Marines defend Fort McHenry inspired the Star Spangled Banner
U S Marines joined the defense of Fort McHenry on September 14 1814 an action that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the Star Spangled Banner reflecting on the bombardment and the flag’s survival.
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U. S
Fort McHenry
Francis Scott Key
Illinois Bishop Plans Marriage Rating Test to Fight Divorce
Bishop Richard T. Loring of the Springfield Episcopal diocese will introduce a voluntary marriage rating test for couples considering marriage. He cites sexual maladjustment as the primary cause of divorce in 75 percent of cases and says economic issues and mere stubbornness also play roles. The test, created by Harvard psychologists, measures six personality areas to advise against marriage for generally unsuitable couples. Instruction for diocesan priests to administer the test will begin soon, with no start date yet set.
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Springfield
Ill
Richard T. Loring
Springfield Episcopal Diocese
Loring
Harvard University
Bishop Loring
Santa Claus plane crash in Miami cancels charity flight
Santa Claus pilot W. C. Wirick was injured when a light plane crashed at a private airport in Miami on Tuesday. He was unconscious and sent to a hospital. The annual Florida air pilots association Christmas party was canceled and the planned toy distribution postponed.
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Miami
Fla
Santa Claus
W. C. Wirick
Brown's
Florida Air Pilots Association
Mill Employees Adopt Family for Christmas
Employees at the Piedmont knitting room Plant No. 1 of Adams-Millis corporation adopted a family for Christmas. The father is ill and in a cast, the mother works but cannot support him and their three young daughters. The workers purchased complete clothing outfits for the family.
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Piedmont Knitting Room
Adams-Millis Corporation
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Service
Council
Silas McBee
Lois Welborn
Utilities
Perkins
D. C. MacRae
M. W. Nash
Florence
Margaret
Louis Fisher
S. C. Clark
Steve
Robert Bar
Herman Burrows
Gladis Kivett
Herb Wood
Revalua
A. C. Sawyer
The
Merchants Association
First Baptist Church
W. Wilbur Hutchins
Portsmouth
Mr. Hutchins
Jamestown
Tom Ragsdale
Hospital Building Fund
Merry Christmas
Wagger
Elwood Hotel
Merry
W. Washington ST
Eddie Clodfelter
Marvin Griffith
Jay Kennedy
Illinois
Main
Delite
Venetian Blind CO
S. Main ST. Speedway
Belk- Stevens Co
High Pants
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