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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1944
Page
7
The War Food Administration outlines a $290 million soil conservation program for 1944. Farmers adopting soil protective practices like fertilizer optimization windbreaks cover crops and erosion controls may receive payments. The WFA notes prior payments began in 1936 and last year totaled about $194 million.
A touring rooster valued at 250 dollars was stolen from a roadside show in Ontario California causing the sideshow to shut down after the theft.
Listen World by Elsie Robinson uses cow country imagery to argue that salt is essential to life. The piece draws parallels between cows craving salt and humans needing hardship, humiliation, and competition to keep spirits and character from growing soft.
East’s cautious two clubs overcall would have been better. West opened a short suit with clubs and the diamond contract proved unbeatably strong once South stopped clubs. Local notes mention Miss Sue Yates visiting relatives and the Jordan family hospital stays and a sick child at home.
The River Missionary Society presented a Friday night program. Mrs. Seifert spoke on Friends missionary work in Oklahoma and the group voted to donate to the Edgar T Hale memorial fund for a water system at a hospital in Africa where Hale served.
Sunbeam cheer inspires morning coffee readers to order Anne Adame cotton pattern designs. Item 4589 offers misses and women sizes up to 42 with fabric needs listed. Include size, name, address, and style number with twenty cents. pattern book adds ten cents.
The Burlington Mills Corporation and its New York subsidiary report to the SEC that three officials were paid more than $170,000 during the past fiscal year. J Spencer Love of Greensboro, president, earned 170811 dollars. William Klopman and Dumont Bunker, vice presidents, received 170011 dollars each.
Charlotte February 10 The Rev Herman F Duncan pastor of Elkin First Methodist will move to Asheboro First Methodist to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Rev M L Smathers in a recent automobile accident Dr J L Stokes of Franklin will take Elkin pastorate Bishop Jare Purcell of Charlotte said the Franklin appointment has not been made yet Tuberculosis is among the three leading causes of death ages 15 to 49.
Michael J. Quill, head of the Transport Workers Union, charged Gov. Thom as E. Dewey with playing politics in the reduced 1944-45 budget proposal. He spoke at a public hearing before the legislature on the $371.8 million plan, opposing a $7.8 million cut in education aid and missing pay raises for some state workers.
An official report, requested by Mayor LaGuardia, calls the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children shelter conditions wretched and alleges the society failed in every aspect of its operations, risking harm to thousands of children.
British Royal Air Force creates the Looker to replace the Gremlin as the ever watching on airfields and on USAAF grounds. The Looker stays hidden behind walls and greets pilots with a quizzical stare. A second Looker mark two, the Mysterious, appears among RAF crews.
A front page of the Delaware Gazette was accidentally pied minutes before printing. Publisher W. D. Thomson ordered reassembly with pictures and ran a center page notice explaining the harmless looker drawing. The Looker is described as a simple cartoon figure with a circular head and basic features ready to travel.
Federal social security managers from 10 states and the District of Columbia met in Charlotte to review wage record maintenance and use at a regional conference. Dr. Herbert R. Harper, adviser to UN relief and rehabilitation chief Herbert Lehman, outlined postwar relief and rehabilitation plans.
A clipped note in the press room indicates the Gazette was altered to prepare a makeshift page so missing news will be published tomorrow.
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