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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1943
Page
2
U. S. Department of Agriculture urged all Americans to grow Victory Gardens in 1943 to boost national food supply. Citizens with any fertile ground or access to community plots should plan now to grow and preserve vegetables, easing civilian and military food needs and supporting war production.
A nervous young man learns relaxation comes from laughter at the circus, where a clown named Rinaldi helps him cope with stress. The piece then surveys Hollywood stars and their wartime sorrows as actresses’ public glamour masks private anxieties for loved ones overseas.
In a Portland Maine shipyard, a treasure chest of stowage money hidden in a Liberty ship echoes a shipbuilding tradition. Employed at Samuel Goldwyn Studio donate coins while Lou Gehrig’s life story was filmed as The Pride of the Yankees. Also, MGM supplies wooden bodies for Victor’s Detroit factory assembly line in a mock automobile sequence for America. Edward James rose from bread lines to screen writing, remarking on a rough path to literary work and dough.
Millions in 30 years find fast relief from itching using Peterson's Ointment a cooling astringent formula. One user says itching relieved and sleep returned. 35 cents a box 60 cents with applicator money back if not delighted all druggists.
The page notes a high school wrestling event in High Point with Salisbury High School facing the local team on the school gym floor. Also listed are juvenile court cases, a furniture move to 218-220 East Washington Street, Rudy Vallee performing in Winston-Salem at Carolina Theatre, and a mid winter piano recital at the country club. Hoover opposes expanded powers for Roosevelt and 80 deaths from freezing across the East and Midwest. Twenty years earlier, block sale of C. & Y. Railroad, White and Blue Minstrel at Normal School, and First M. P. Church contract valued at 130000. Prohibition agents seize three cars in Wilkes County with whiskey.
The article surveys rising prices and mounting economic strain as labor unions demand wage boosts and policy clashes between President Roosevelt and party leaders risk undermining the war effort. It notes Farley's political stance, UN stockpile debates, and shifting Allied morale amid resistance in occupied Europe.
The piece argues new Western policy must better understand Soviet constraints and reduce mutual suspicions after Casablanca. It warns that delaying trust could push Russia toward independent security moves and threaten Europe, including Poland and the Baltic region, if Moscow is not reassured.
Hugh Horton of Williamston declares for lieutenant governor in 1944 and seeks senatorial support. A veteran legislator from Martin County, Horton has served in the House in 1935 37 and 39 and in the Senate in 1941 and again this year. He is a Baptist Shrin er and Elk and sits beside Gov candidate Gregg Cherry in the Senate. Other potential candidates include John Larkins of Jones County. Women guards increase at Raleighs women's prison as manpower shifts continue. A Wake County bill renames the Historical Commission to the State Department of Archives and History while also changing Insurance Commissioners title to Commissioner of Insurance.
Several broadcasting stations sponsor an amendment to state libel laws to bring radio under the same protections as newspapers. The measure would grant announcers and broadcasting companies the right of apology and withdrawal and the defense of establishing truth of the alleged libel, as now enjoyed by editors and newspapers.
Rep David Dellinger of Gaston, long time reading clerk from 1915 to 1929, asked to try out his voice at the reading desk Monday night. Members agreed he had not lost his old punch on the job.
Reports indicate a large turnout for the public hearing on the Price state liquor referendum Thursday afternoon. The bill sits with the committee on propositions and grievances and may move to the finance committee if reported favorably. General opinion holds the measure unlikely to pass through both committees. Col. Bob Davis of Halifax County is noted in the luncheon scene.
Senator Rivers Johnson proposes making the cardinal the state bird after a statewide poll by bird clubs. The cardinal led with 4 547 votes, the dove second with 3 255, and over thirty birds were on the ballot with no other reaching half the cardinal tally.
The Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill invited the North Carolina General Assembly to visit it, as part of a bill by John Umstead. The trip would be arranged by designated committees, but no action has been taken yet.
Tanabi declares Bicho an illegal pastime and exempts all winnings from taxation. In Mexico, Huatusco opens a civil and military landing field large enough to handle big planes ferrying coffee from the nation’s coffee center.
China shipped 3 778 bales of silk to the United States in a recent month most of the material used for military articles.
Radio schedule revision lists program changes due to networks delaying updates. Highlights include The Jack Armstrong Serial, Captain Midnight repeats, War news and comment segments, and various orchestras and musical shows across the evening lineup.
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