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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1932
Page
6
The Christian Endeavor Society will hold four business meetings at the hut next Saturday starting 9 o'clock pm followed by a four hour session and refreshments. After, Endeavorers go to the church for a New Year service at about 11:45 pm open to all.
Mrs B L Hodge and daughters Duree and Mary Frances return home on North Hamilton after holidays with relatives in Salisbury. Mrs H A White and others attend a Greensboro tea honoring Miss Margaret Buck of Norwich Conn. Edgar Rogers of Stuart Va visits Miss Etta Gallimore and Marvin Gallimore at 500 Fast Green St. Annie Jenkins returns home on 1213 Ragan St after holidays in Asheville and Waynesville. Mrs W D Stroud returns from Winston Salem where her mother Mrs W H Gaither, injured in a fall, is improving.
At Memphis the cotton states debated a compulsory 50 percent curtailment plan for 1933 amid Georgia and Arkansas counter proposals. The group backed a 60 percent cut by legislation, while others urged federal loans, mortgage moratoriums, or a full 1944 cotton production halt. Arkansas urged using federal holdings to pressure reductions. South Carolina questioned the plan’s effectiveness.
Actress daughter helps an unemployed actress by boosting local payroll as full time operations resume in the Erlanger mill with a wage cut averaging 10 to 12 percent. The cotton textile industry returns to fall operations, Nokomis reopened after months of closure, and Wennonah and Dacotah run near capacity.
Erlanger cotton mill will resume full time operations next Monday after seven months of a shorter schedule. The revamped plan adds two 55 hour shifts and 800 to 850 workers, increasing from three and a half days to six days of employment weekly.
Theodore Johnson of Raleigh is selected as Professor of Industry at North Carolina State College. A noted consulting engineer, he previously taught at Denison University and Cornell. He begins January 1 and will study textiles relation to engineering and survey state industries to boost the college’s usefulness.
Robins 26 of High Point attempted suicide by swallowing bichloride of mercury tablets in Goldsboro city jail after noon Wednesday. He was rushed to Goldsboro hospital in serious condition. Arrested on a worthless check charge, he told jail janitor he planned to bathe with the tablets and left a note for his mother Mrs J W Robins High Point. He has been unemployed. his wife works in South Carolina.
Lloyd Huntleys Orchestra under Music Corporation of America will play this afternoon and tonight for dances at the Piedmont German club and the High Point Country club. The group, formed in 1923 at Colgate, is famed on European and American circuits and features thirteen college students known for fox trots and waltzes.
New York society women return from Paris with cosmetic kits embracing greens purples blues and oranges to match outfits rather than hair or skin. A new trend uses life masks and plaster busts to test jewel toned looks with tailored powders lipsticks and eye shadows for each hue.
The Durham debate centers on dog ownership for families aided by charity. Tax collector H N Dupree seeks to deny dog rights due to unpaid dog taxes, while welfare superintendent W E Stanley argues dogs offer loyal companionship for the needy. The final decision remains unresolved.
Four colleges in the Western North Carolina Conference are merged into two new entities. Davenport and Greensboro become a single women’s college to operate at Greensboro’s plant, while Rutherford and Weaver form a junior co-educational college temporarily in Davenport’s Lenoir facility.
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