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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1943
Page
6
Calendar notes a Kenserbury club gathering at Mrs J W Lindsay 207 Hillcrest Drive replacing the planned site with Mrs Carson Burns. Also listed are New Year dinner dance at Emerywood Country Club music by Bill Chandler and his orchestra.
Emerywood Country club hosts a New Year’s Eve dinner dance tonight at the clubhouse from 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. Bill Chandler and his orchestra will provide music as members and their out of town guests bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new. A capacity 150 attendance marked last night’s family dinner night with a themed setup and plated meal.
Mailed from Maxton North Carolina on December 31 the Presbyterian Junior College announces resumption of classes January 4 at 8 a m for the second semester beginning January 25 enrollments are now being received and the college notes its support for service members families during Christmas holidays
The USO club plans a New Year’s Dance at the YMCA gym, with dress optional. Mrs. Charlotte Guy leads the event, starting at 8 15, for senior hostesses and their husbands. An BTC number 10 orchestra provides music and Intermission long-distance calls, funded by the American Business Club, are performed by service men.
Mrs Leota a George and William W Dunlap married in York South Carolina on December 2. The bride, daughter of Asheboro residents J W Morgan, wore a blue suit and joined the Woman's Army Corps stationed in Wilmington. The groom son of Carlisle Pennsylvania residents J M Dunlap attended the University of Pennsylvania before enlisting in the U S Army and serving in the Wilmington area. The couple reside at 120 North Fourth Street Wilmington North Carolina.
Mrs. Mary C. King of Asheboro and Walter L. Wright of Seagrove were married December 19 at the Cheraw Presbyterian manse in South Carolina. Rev. McCain officiated. Mrs. Wright, born in Rae Ford, has lived in Asheboro six years and worked for Hudson Belk. Wright is a farmer and lumber dealer in Seagrove. they will reside there.
YWCA holiday events feature two dances with club activities. The Selly Y club hosted a supper for twenty members, while the Jolly Y club planned a New Year Eve dance with thirty service men as guests and a midnight supper.
The piece humorously notes wartime scarcities in 1944 affecting infants and mothers. It describes shortages of diapers safety pins and bath tubs while suggesting babies protest through a playful petition to Washington coauthored by many infants.
Mr and Mrs W T Barnard and son Jimmy return to their home after holidays in Rome Georgia with Pvt David T Powell stationed at Mt Berry College Cadet Corps. They were joined by Mrs R T Powell Mrs M F Smith and Miss Jace Hiatt and traveled via Greensboro and High Point.
Mr and Mrs L E Fausnett of 608 Kearns Street announce the birth of a son Jack Edward on December 29 at Guilford General Hospital. Mr and Mrs C W Misenheimer of 1009 Asheboro Street announce the birth of a daughter Cynthia Dianne on December 28 at Guilford General Hospital.
In a contract bridge play both sides vulnerable, the declarer avoided a trump queen guess by not leading the suit. He cashed clubs, ruffed, and used precise discards to guard against over-ruffs, eventually shutting out the trump queen despite East or West leading later.
Mrs J B Wardell Jr of 313 Barker Street is improving at home after a week with influenza. Virginia Brooks of Richmond Va visits her mother Esther Brooks at 304 Steele Street for holidays. Sgt and Mrs Thurman C Wall return to Madison Wis after Christmas with family. Mrs Arthur Ellison is a Burrus Memorial Hospital patient. Jimmy Carroll son of Bob Carroll of Silver Valley improves at Burrus Memorial after serious illness from influenza complications.
The Woman's Missionary Union Circle No. two of South Side Baptist Church will hold a regular meeting Saturday at six o'clock at the home of Mrs. Ada Sykes. A prayer meeting will follow at seven twenty that same evening.
The class of 1925 from Thomasville High School held its annual reunion at Miss Leola Sullivan’s home with associate hostesses. Charles Moore of Washington, D. C. and M. T. Lambeth spoke, Tom Steed performed magic, and refreshments in green and white were served to twenty five attendees.
Cairo wire reports the royal Yugoslav government in exile says Partisan forces led by Marshal Tito have suffered irreparable losses with 14,000 guerrillas cut off in the Dinara Alps as German and Ustachi pressure mount. The statement claims resistance has eroded major towns and fighters retreat in small, disintegrating groups toward western Bosnia.
In Memphis Tennessee Frank Sharbonno has grown his own tobacco substitute for five years. He starts seeds in a cold frame, transplants in early summer, and harvests in October. The home grown crop is cured and prepared for pipe smoking.
Pattern 4567 offers a name or initials embroidery option with transfer sheet. Cut fabric saving simple pieces from rayon for junior miss sizes 11 through 18. Size 13 requires 31/8 yards of 35 inch fabric. Order by mail with size name address and style number for twenty cents.
A civilian population of 21,000,000 is indicated for eight southeastern states based on No 4 ration books. North Carolina leads with 3,426,091 followed by Georgia 3,047,725 and Virginia 2,809,349 as Alabama Florida Mississippi and others trail. The drop from No 2 books reflects many entering the armed forces and shifting populations.
Elsie Robinson reflects on a transformation sparked by faith as Mary finds quiet radiance in recovery. The piece contrasts old despair with renewed resolve, asserting faith is a simple choice to act with belief and seek help, echoing biblical call and miraculous linkage of human will and divine power.
The FBI reports a rise in auto theft activity amid fuel and tire rationing. Investigators note thieves use shorter hops and more frequent moves, signaling evolving methods in stolen vehicle operations.
FBI records show automotive recoveries for a five month period ending November totaled 2,988, up from 2,235 in 1942. The oddest case involved four men stealing a saw from an abandoned site, hauling it to Tennessee and selling it as junk for 31.80 dollars.
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