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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1945
Page
3
Column argues that obesity raises risk of death and disease, and that Lent reducing diets focusing on cutting fats can drop about twenty pounds by Easter. Readers are told to follow daily Lent menus, though initial hunger may occur. A reader asks about tuberculin patch test interpretations and staff notes such tests are unreliable after age ten.
A garbled query references an American statesman nicknamed Old Public Fune ceil mwrery and The Rock of Chicckaman. The era is unclear but hints at famed leaders and eras in U S history.
A compact list of diet items for Lent including juice, whole wheat toast, coffee, tomato stuffed with celery dressing, lettuce, rye bread toast, tea, bran muffin, custard, and soup with coffee. It notes no butter cream or sugar and mentions eggplant and custard servings.
A fragmented prompt lists three named figures: President James Buchanan, General George Thomas, and General Thomas Sumter. It includes a misquoted “Words of Wisdom” line about a candle and a corrupted Shakespeare reference.
A newspaper note advises avoiding risque stories in mixed company as a social habit. It warns that such tales can ruin a social career and harm reputations in everyday interactions.
Distinguishing birthday traits include pride and leadership potential while emotions run high. Exercise self-control to temper intense love and hate urges and pursue higher income by seeking a salary increase if warranted. Request one personal favor today if you can.
A historical note explains that a western Hudson Bay region was nicknamed the land of little sticks by Indigenous peoples due to sparse tree growth, describing the landscape and its naming origin.
North Carolina lawmakers return to Raleigh for a heavy work session as Charlotte teachers plan a floor fight to raise base pay. The joint appropriations schedule would start A certificate teachers at 125 dollars monthly, with increments to 162 after nine years plus a 10 dollar annual bonus, while Governor Cherry warns the plan risks a budget deficit. Open letters to assembly members add to the pressure.
The Navy Department lists 143 U S naval casualties with North Carolina names among the missing and dead. Charles Vernon Foxx from Maiden is missing, Ira Edgar Hoover of Thomasville is missing, William Clarence Puckett of Goldsboro is missing, Leroy Smith of an unspecified base is dead, and parents are named for each. Mars Odell Loftin of Seven Springs is noted as the mother of a casualty.
The forthcoming Bibliography of American Literature sponsored by the American Bibliographical Society will take several years to complete and will catalog the bibliographies of every noted canoe author to date.
Wake Forest with a 1- game win in 13 starts meets Café bag and High Point on Wednesday after Tuesday games at Morris Field against Davidson. The schedule includes Elon at DuPont Martinsville and Camp Lejeune events with Guilford at Appalac, Lenoir Rhyne at High Point and other Carolinas contests. Weather and moisture trends accompany the notes.
Illinois private from Oblong, John D r, uses sign language and vivid tales of New York and Chicago to persuade nine German captors to switch sides. The group, after shelling ceased, followed him back to American lines. Another soldier, Jack Roberts, discovers two letters left behind in Belgium found by Germans, prompting questions about whether German receptiveness or Army mail methods caused the reply.
Five soldiers in a field artillery battalion built a dugout with stove lights radio and bunks and inscribed Through these portals pass the world’s fastest mortals on its door. A blizzard buried them in several feet of snow and froze the door shut until fellow artillerymen could free it with help from the intact telephone line.
OWI reports gasoline counterfeiting nearly stopped but counterfeit food coupons and stamps have surged. Black markets in meat sugar and food stamps expand, driven by counterfeit currency and organized networks. cigarettes and liquor controls show real declines. nylon hosiery and racketeers also feature in enforcement notes.
Open hearings into alleged irregularities in college basketball and other sports begin today before Kings County Judge Samuel Leibowitz. The district attorney's office says Brooklyn College witnesses will testify about former players accused of accepting money to throw a game.
Water buffalos are domesticated in India and Malaya serving as beasts of burden and draft animals in agrarian settings.
Hewitt T. Wireless, a 1931 Gulf Coast Military Academy graduate and UT engineer, led a daring B 17 mission to attack Japanese transports during the Philippines crisis. He earned the Distinguished Service Cross, later rising to full colonel as part of the 21st bomber command in the Marianas preparing B 29 raids on Japan.
Asheville February report on 3 000 striking ENKA workers returning after the army peaceably took over the rayon plant to end an 11 day sit in. Col Curtis Pratt directs the restart of viscose production for army tire cord with 300+ chemical workers back on the 11pm shift. United Textile Workers aid notification. Moritz and Pratt praise cooperation.
In Danville Virginia directors delayed formal adoption of a 140 game Carolina baseball league schedule. A proposed four club exchange plan was sent to President T S Wilson for approval and release. The slate would start April 26 and end September 9 with salary limits raised to 2000 dollars per month. The Virginia club Danville. North Carolina clubs Raleigh Greensboro Burlington Rocky Mount Durham Winston Salem plus proxy Leaksdale are represented.
Pulpwood is described as a vital war material for Allied forces. North Carolina must supply 450 000 cords of pulpwood by June 30 to meet wartime orders. The text notes the state's forestry role before the war and links woodlands on farms to national emergency support and future prosperity.
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