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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1937
Page
7
Miss Louise McMillan hosted a Fine Arts department gathering with Ts Romulus Skaggs Mrs Teer and Miss Sallie Me assisting. Charles B E Phillips presided as plans for a tea event emerged during the afternoon program featuring Gershwin’s opera and Bess.
Rose Parrish and Freeman hosted a joint bridge evening at the home of Dr and Mrs with four tables of contract bridge. Prizes included a novelty ash tray and a salad course. Attendees listed include Jack New, A H Freeman, Mrs Lineberry Eliza im Miss Eliza im, Joe Mallory and several others.
Mecklenberg commissioners backed a liquor referendum via petition county option after formalities. A July 21, 1982 emergency tax issue extended to September 1936, totaling 722. A federal tax of 0.04 on lubricating oil raised $61,600,747 for the same period.
An old medical advert promotes Marmola and Slims as fat burners, asserting excess fat results from a gland and that a daily fluid can burn food like a furnace. It urges readers to ask their druggist for Marmola, claiming universal proof and ready-made packages.
Raleigh reports a proposed bill would create a Highway Safety Commission under a Governor appointed Public Safety Commissioner, expanding patrols to about 800 and shifting control from the Department of Revenue. The plan aims to boost efficiency and use patrols for emergencies, while lawmakers debate potential patronage and leadership changes.
The revenue act allows deductions for gifts to eligible organizations meeting religious charitable scientific literary or education purposes or for welfare of animals or children. Individual gifts to corporations trusts or foundations must benefit within the U S and not inure to private individuals. Deduction limits are 15 percent of net income for individuals and 5 percent for corporate gifts, with certain exclusions and conditions.
The Kernersville Woman's Club met at the Community House for the February session with Miss Sallie Matt Marshall presiding. Reports were given by secretary Mrs J Bodenheimer and treasurer Miss Gertrude Vance, and officers were elected for the new year.
The North Carolina Jersey clubs meet in Charlotte on Saturday morning with State Commissioner of Agriculture W Kerr Scott set to speak. Officers for the coming year will be elected and other business conducted.
The proposed revenue department bill sparks friction in the highway safety and patrol offices. Officials doubt Commissioner Maxwell supports the measure, though it is seen as an administration move. The bill’s fate remains unclear amid internal department tensions.
In Deep River section news, Rex and Ed Thornton and family shared an old fashioned opossum dinner at Mrs. Thornton's parents near Jamestown. Local visits include Mrs. Jeffrys Traynham from Abbott's Creek visiting her ill mother Mrs. W. F. Wheeler, and Pauline Thornton staying with Helen Smith in High Point.
Raleigh Feb 18 The state board of agriculture announced the appointment of Dr J Dorton of Shelby to manage the state fair. Dorton is president of the North Carolina Association of Agricultural Fairs and was among six applicants.
A log crushed Joe L. Poore CCC camp foreman fatally, as reported from Lenoir on February 18. The accident occurred at the CCC camp site when the log toppled, causing his death.
George Ross reports on R. M. Smythe in New York, a firm trading in obsolete stock certificates as decorative wallpaper. A 40,000 dollar sale paid for removing stock from a physician's home, illustrating the speculative lure of dormant paper. Hemingway and Dos Passos are rumored to head to Spain to join the Loyalist cause.
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