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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1945
Page
3
The Associated Press outline lists foods and staples with stamp validity windows including meats fats and processed foods blue and red stamps. It covers sugar shoes gasoline fuel oil and heating year rules with dates and regional validity changes through spring and summer.
Sergeant Bill Devlin, a 7th AAF Liberator waist gunner from Portsmouth Ohio, credited the portable emergency radio transmitter nicknamed the Gibson Girl with saving his life after his bomber ditched 100 miles from base. He clung to the device for 18 hours in shark infested seas and heavy surf until rescue.
Community notices from a Black Baptist church describe a Friday Bible class taught by Rev. R. D. Camp, a February 5 Dorcas meeting at Mrs. Laura Lowry’s home, a February 4 room representatives meeting for Wm. Penn High School, and YWCA youth activities including scrapbooks for a hospital and a club meeting with knitting emphasis. Pfc. James T. Warren is reported seriously wounded in Belgium.
The lines include Shakespeare quotes from Romeo and Juliet and a reference to a college song about Cayuga Lake. The user asks for the quotation's source and the origin of the rose line. The last item mimics a test answer about Romeo and Juliet and Shakespeare.
An old item quotes Thomas Jefferson advising patience when anger rises counting to ten or a hundred before speaking. The brief sits as a moral weather vane without other context or events.
Horoscopy notes polite conduct for children and personal cultivation. It urges patient effort, diligence, and restraint in business and domestic matters while Saturn influences the zodiac. The forecast warns against deception and urges early rest and thoughtful speech as a birthday indicates refinement and social charm.
Tonight's program features noted speakers and audience participation on whether Congress should pass a work or fight bill. The Reader's Digest sponsors the event with WMFR at 8:30, promising lively discussion and civic engagement.
Hosannah tents plan 7 30 p m gathering at Odd Fellows Hall led by Mrs Anna Harriston Mt Vernon Willing Workers meet tonight at 7 30 with Mrs Boulware at Hoover street basketball game Wm Penn High vs Palmer Memorial Institute Sedalia N C at Wm Penn Gym 7 30 p m Calvary Gospel Singers perform Sunday at 3 p m at Seventh Day Adventist church public invited
A late night network correction alters daily programming from 6:30 PM to 11:15 PM Eastern War Time. Featured segments include The Jack Armstrong Serial, Captain Midnight repeats, World News, Burns comedy, Dinah Shore, Abbott & Costello, and The Rudy Vallee Varietee with news and comments throughout.
Pvt. Joe Marez of La mar Colorado earns the Distinguished Service Cross for valor near St Lo France. He aided a wounded man under heavy fire despite being unarmed and was wounded in the head while saving a life. Marez is one of six brothers in service.
Judicial authorities will launch a five year project to construct new prisons and renovate existing ones across districts in 1945. Twenty eight overcrowded jails are slated for initial repairs and improvements.
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