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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1942
Page
5
The article explains how to start and plant cool season vegetables like cabbage kale lettuce and spinach up to 6 8 weeks before last frost and how warm season crops such as tomatoes peppers and eggplant should be started 6 8 weeks later. It advises starting seeds indoors in a sunny window and transplanting after danger of frost with frost protection for early yields.
L D Boone of Grenada Mississippi is highlighted as a master point competitor. The column notes Boone’s rise from Southern regions to Masters Individual success and recounts a decisive bridge hand where he navigates bid and play with prudence. It concludes with a contrast on meat consumption across nations.
Washington February 2 The AP reports the transfer of full authority to set up rationing programs to Price Administrator Leon Henderson signaling broader federal control over retail goods. War Production Board moves end nylon silk and cotton duck to military use and require canners to reserve summer pecks for armed services while reforms target shoe eyelets brass reductions saving materials for shells. News outlines new forms PD-1A and PD-25-X to simplify priority material access and details ongoing metal, chemical, and textile allocations under numerous general preference orders and amendments.
Winston-Salem hosts the AAU banquet where the Teague Memorial awards will be presented to Duke football halfback Steve Lach and Estelle Lawson Page of Chapel Hill. Major Bernie Bierman and Wallace Wade will also be honored or featured. Wade will introduce Bierman. The event is led by the Winston-Salem Junior Chamber of Commerce and draws attendees from both Carolinas.
Farmers with a surplus of lespedeza seed are urged to place it on the market as early in the year as possible, reflecting wartime agricultural measures and the push to mobilize available resources for immediate use.
Manteo North Carolina Sunday report says an automobile crashed through the railing of Wright Memory Bridge on Saturday. Frank Grice of Elizabeth City Brigit Wise of Nags Head and Curtis ONeil of Colington were believed drowned. Wise’s body was recovered and a broader search was launched for the other two. Grice was last seen holding a piece of wreckage.
The Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers Association asserts newspapers fulfill a twofold duty during total war: inform the public with complete, accurate news and aid advertisers in reaching readers. It argues wartime news boosts ad reading, benefiting brands and dealers now and in postwar years.
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