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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1944
Page
6
USO Valentines event at the YMCA Saturday night drew strong turnout despite BTC No. 10 orchestra’s absence. A makeshift setup used a ceiling speaker as junior hostesses and servicemen started the dance with a grand march.
The three day North Carolina Methodist Student Conference ended with a Saturday afternoon tea in the College library and a Saturday night banquet in the First Methodist Church dining room. About 300 student delegates from across the state attended, with a pioneer theme and brown yellow and green centerpieces. Duke University students, High Point College singers, and a Duke group skit were featured along with group singing and a youth division serving staff. Officers of the Christian Student Movement attended the tea in the college library.
A dense schedule lists numerous meetings and gatherings across clubs and organizations. Highlights include the ladies bridge at the club with Mrs Grady Goldston, YWCA membership luncheon with speaker C E Rozzelle, American Legion Auxiliary at Mrs G M Haley, garden dressings at the YWCA, and a USO dance at the YMCA gym with BTC band.
Weather did not dampen Voorhees kindergarten pupils as they gathered for a Valentine party hosted by Mrs. Elizabeth Voorhees. Students exchanged valentines, enjoyed a decorated cake, and were served refreshments.
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Barrett return to Washington after visiting Mrs Barrett’s mother Mrs James N. Paul. Mr. Barrett is an air craft instruments instructor in the Navy Department. Mrs Barrett works in Naval Ordnance. The Atkins return to Miami after visits with the Peace and Atkins families. Petty Officer 2/¢ Atkins is stationed in Miami with the naval forces and his wife is Katherine Peace. Capt. and Mrs. C B Faircloth of Philadelphia stayed with the Rapers on Oakwood Court. Mrs. Wilma Byerly Farmier recovers at High Point Memorial Hospital after a broken leg from a fall.
The Double M club will meet Tuesday at 3 15 p m at the WCA. Members will be entertained at a Valentine bridge party.
The Greensboro College Glee Club will sing at Wesley Memorial Church tonight at 7:30. Region Six Scouters' convention attendees Bunn W. Hackney Jr F J Sizemore and Henry Grady Owens were in Gastonia for the event.
General Harry Woodring is expected to resign soon as Wingate Hall at Wake Forest College is reported destroyed by fire this morning. The historic building, erected earlier, faced a devastating blaze.
Local news notes the attractive new High Point clubhouse should be finished early next month. Also a Father-Son banquet is planned at the Presbyterian hut Friday evening and health authorities report seventeen smallpox cases locally.
Secretary Ickes highlights Hawaii as a vital Pacific base under Nimitz with civilian readiness. Shelters, first aid, gas defense and block patrols cover the islands while self sufficiency in food and housing improves. Epidemics controlled and inflation steadied as civil affairs return to civilian authorities.
In a contract bridge column, West, dealer and vulnerable, faces a silent loss scenario. The narrative argues West could have turned the tide by an alternative defense, detailing how better signaling and card choice might have altered the outcome.
The Council of Jewish Women will meet Wednesday at 8 30 p.m. at the home of Mrs Milton Silver on Brentley Circle.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union will hold a meeting Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the First Baptist church. Members are asked to attend and discuss upcoming community outreach.
The Burbank Garden Club will meet Wednesday at nine o'clock in the morning at the CA. Hostesses for the event are Mrs. V. D. Sale Jr, Mrs. H. L. Fesperman, and Mrs. J. C. Teague.
Sunday services focused on Soul as the central topic with the Golden Text from Isaiah 61 10 and scriptural citations from Leviticus 26 2 11 12. The Lesson-Sermon drew from Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health highlighting Soul Spirit God and immortality and the removal of false sense of Soul to reveal eternal life.
Etherian and L.L.L. classes of Green Street Baptist church postponed tonight's joint meeting and social program indefinitely. In 1943 shipyards set records producing one fifth of world merchant shipping. WWI era U S meat and wheat contributions totaled about three billion pounds and 300 million bushels annually.
The report notes Hawaii faced tests on morale factors but has not shown weakness, highlighting resilience and steady performance under pressure.
See a comfortable two piece suit pattern by Anne Adams featuring a skirt and blouse with slacks option and a note pocket. Available in sizes 10 through 44 with the 4683 pattern. order now from High Point Enterprise Pattern Department, 243 West 17th St New York 22 NY for ten cents.
A congress of Yugoslav Royalist factions in the mountains during war urged postwar territorial expansion to include all lands with Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and to form a federal state with Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia as separate units. The government in exile in Cairo backed their stance and loyal to King Peter.
Southwest Pacific report shows 72 fighter aces with a combined total of 554 enemy planes. Top scorers are Col Neel E Kearby of San Antonio and Capt I Bong Poplar with 21 each. third is Capt Thomas B McGuire Jr of San Antonio with 17. Major Welch and Lt Cragg among the 14s. Cragg listed as missing in action. Other 10s include Capt Ernest A Harris Morriston Tennessee and Capt Paul M Stanch Audubon New Jersey.
Elsie Robinson praises Dr Grantly Dick Read's book Childbirth Without Fear as a needed liberation from taboo beliefs about birth. She argues birth can be beautiful and nearly painless with proper guidance, rejecting fear and recommending natural, undrugged delivery where possible.
The article advises on when to plant vegetables in February and around the last frost date. It lists crops suitable for outdoor planting such as cabbage kale lettuce and onions and notes timing differences for hardy crops like beets carrots and peas. It highlights starting tomatoes and peppers early due to cooler weather and suggests buying seeds now.
Americans and other U S nationals held by Germans in North Africa and Italy will be exchanged for Germans captured in those theaters. The group includes news correspondents and relief workers and South American officials. They will sail home aboard the Swedish ship Gripsholm, with the exchange to take place at Lisbon and the refugees expected to reach the United States late this month.
Eugene W. Hall of Pender county dies in a Wilmington hospital from burns suffered earlier. The incident occurred in the city, with reports noting treatment and the tragedy affecting local residents.
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