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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1946
Page
4
A long reader column shares a controversial suggested city utility notice urging timely November bill payment to avoid service cut off. It includes satirical passages on Christmas, quotes from Thomas a Kempis and Oliver Goldsmith, and a nostalgic vignette about travelers recalling Christmases past.
A collage of quotations on love by George Eliot and Hal Boyle contrasts with a Cincinnati river area feature on illegal Kentucky gambling. The piece describes night clubs, mixed-age patrons, slot machines, bingo games, and the social dynamics of wives waiting while husbands gamble, ending with a light remark about a child’s win and riverboat nostalgia.
In Anderson South Carolina a car collided with a Carolina Stages bus carrying 33 passengers just outside city limits. Dead are Ernest W. McGill 48, his 14 year old son Ern est Jr, and his sister-in-law Ada Parks. Several others injured.
Mrs. M. B. Stroupe of 509 West Bay Street received word that her brother Clyde Smith died in Tampa Florida from a heart attack. Funeral services were held Tuesday in Tampa. He is survived by two sisters and a brother in Mount Holly and his Tampa resident widow.
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