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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1938
Page
9
Maxwell and Major Falk announce road patrol policies aimed at stricter road presence and uniform enforcement. They emphasize regular highway patrols outside towns to improve safety and curb reckless driving, noting North Carolina’s highway death rate remains high compared with other states.
A Raleigh or Sir Walter Hotel report notes misconceptions about 1937 tax laws allowing classification. It cites prewar taxation on slaves and solvent credits at 40 cents per $100, plus odd levies such as 1 and 50 cents on gold and silver headed canes, two and a half cents per mile for deadheads, and fixed rates on harps and pianos, regardless of value.
Leigh reports on candidates for the 1939 General Assembly including J. H. Lepark, Hill Paylor, Kimzey, B. Vogler, Jeter L. Hayes, and Niam H. Jordan with plans to seek seats. Mentions focus on Roosevelt, Reynolds, and bond debates, a North Carolina veteran’s hospital aim, and Exum’s murder conviction awaiting clemency. Virginia Dare birth certificate copies noted in London archives. Groundhog’s shadow referenced as bad weather omen.
Moscow officials postponed a scheduled interview with Mrs Ruth Marine Rubens of New York by Loy W Henderson as authorities set time and place. The United States sought to resolve the mystery of the woman’s trip to Russia on a passport obtained fraudulently and her arrest on December 9 on espionage suspicion.
A sluggish market mainly held the middle of the road in New York trading. Only a few favorites advanced while declines to two points were largely pared. By the fourth hour the ticker moved little with stretches of near motionless tape for minutes at a time.
Chicago markets report butter at 637,715 weak creamery specials 68 score with 30 31 and 92 80, firsts 88 89 2645 29 seconds 84 87 26 27 standards 90 centralised carrots 30 exits 6 580 unsettled fresh graded extra firsts local 16 percent cars 16 percent and current receipts 15 percent.
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