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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1946
Page
2
Fair weather with cooler conditions overall and warmer trends in the far west. Friday brings partly cloudy skies and higher temperatures.
George W Woodle of 608 South Hamilton Street is in High Point Memorial Hospital with knife wounds from a fight with W L Edwards. Edwards says he acted in self defense and Edwards was issued a warrant for assault. Total life insurance payments to U S policy holders and beneficiaries in the first 11 months of 1945 were 2 427 557 000 collar buttons.
The children thank friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy during their father Ed Daniel's illness and death and appreciate the many beautiful floral offers.
A union plan to refer a new measure to members comes amid a citywide blackout. Mayor O'Dwyer says coal and fuel oil shortages have forced five days of school closures and hospital readiness for pneumonia care. Outdoor displays stop and transit heating ends as defense agencies mobilize 45 tugboats to fuel city needs.
Los Angeles February 7 USC announces admission restrictions narrowing entry to evening classes for rehabilitated veterans and former USC graduate students. Enrollment tops 9000 as the university prioritizes returning servicemen and former students for continued study.
Police anger rises as city council increases patrolmen pay only to the maximum 160 dollars monthly, leaving minimum at 135. Chief J A Lowdermilk notes delay until July for any further raise and cites High Point near Raleigh for bottom police pay in North Carolina.
President Truman announces emergency rules to curb domestic wheat use to aid starving populations abroad. Farmers will be urged to feed less wheat to livestock while flour shifts to a darker, lower quality bread. The move follows a government survey showing a 61 million bushel shortfall in stocks.
Gary Ray Laprad infant son of Mr and Mrs R C Laprad of 413 Fisher street died last night at 10 in a local hospital after birth a few hours earlier Surviving are the parents the paternal grandparents and the maternal grandfather John Wel born all of this city Funeral services will be at Oakwood cemetery Thursday at 3 pm by Rev ee and interment there The first dairy school was founded at the University of Wisconsin in 1891.
Dr Gideon I Humphreys president of High Point College spoke to Thom asville Rotary about The Veteran Plain GI Joe He urged support for veterans rights including education and decent living noting wartime debt and GI bill access North Carolina must aid returning service members Visitors included Wilson Weldon Bunn Robert Holliday Dr J Bill Womble and Bill Foster Former member Harry Browne Finch rejoined after Army discharge as captain.
The United Nations Security Council reached a compromise after debate on British troop involvement in Greece. Soviet vice commissar Andrei Vishin refused to demand an immediate withdrawal or link to world peace. British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin also backed off. Chair N J O Makin announced the council noted charges and denials, with the sense that Britain's presence does not endanger international peace and security, effectively closing the matter.
In New York a 3500 tugmen strike paralyses harbor operations as fuel shortages trigger wartime style rationing and a civil emergency. Army and Navy move to man seized towboats while wage talks pause after a four day dispute, with 1.445 million idle nationwide and Metropolitan Museum attendance climbs to 1,826,353.
An old advertisement touts Bron-chu-line Emulsion as a real cough medicine for adults. It claims quick relief from coughing and irritation, urging consumers to ask a progressive physician or druggist and to purchase a bottle at about 65 cents.
New York trading sees a 3 to 5 point skid in buoyant liquor shares dragging most sectors while steel issues resist the move. Prominent decliners include Distillers Hiram Walker American Distilling Schenley National Distillers American Airlines Chrysler International Harvester American Telephone Kennecott American Can Caterpillar Electric Power & Light Goodrich Southern Pacific N Y Central with gains for U S Steel Bethlehem Republic Steel General Motors Philip Morris American Smelting and Wilson & Co. Cotton textile market stays largely inactive with scattered orders for print cloths and sheetings as ceilings loom. Cotton futures open higher with March at 25. eee normal. Noon prices up 10 to 35 cents a bale. March 25.47 May 25.46 July 25.45.
Lester Harvey Southard age 42 of Point Sh, land employe Inc., died at 6 30 last night after a two year illness. Born in Reidsville May 13 1903 he is survived by wife Grace Angell, three brothers Alford Southard John Southard Melvin Southard and three sisters Jessie Collins Agnes Moore Annie Tucker. Funeral Friday at 3 pm from his residence conducted by Rev Roberts of Thomasville with burial in Floral Garden Cemetery. The body will be returned to the residence at 2 30 this afternoon.
The plan would create a federal body with power to halt strikes or lockouts for 30 days while disputes are resolved. It would use courts to enforce cooling off orders and curb violence in picketing, ban certain boycotts, and limit union status for supervisory workers unless they manual labor. Supporters said it would prevent jurisdictional fights. opponents said it erodes workers rights.
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