Junior High Girl Reserve elects Miss Jane Roach
Miss Jane Roach was elected president of the Junior High Inter- Girl Reserve Council at the YWCA afternoon tea meeting. Mary Sue Briggs led new songs during club programs. officers completed the year’s work and shared in a club program. Jamestown Modern Book met with 45 attendees. Ruth Anne Horney presided. Mrs Henry A Foscue and Mrs Robert Cameron presented a musical program. The VFW Auxiliary will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at West Broad Street home with all members urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Roach
Y. W. C. A. Suny
Y Girls
Mary Sue Briggs
Sarah Page
Dot Ken
Ruth Neighbors
Reaves
Helen Martin
Jean Walton
Ty Jo Hedrick
Jane Roadh
Jamestown Modern Book
Armfield
Ruth Anne Horney
N. Williard
Flenry A. Foscue
Robert Cameron
High Point
Gershwin
Local Birth Announcements Highlight High Point Memorial Hospital
Several couples report the birth of children in February at High Point Memorial Hospital. Brenda Gail Helmstetler is born to Grady Helmstetler and Opal Hill. Charles Gur ney Hayworth to R. W. Hayworth. James Way Brady to Grayson Way Brady and Hilda Mae Jackson. Shirley Marie Diggs to Reese A. Diggs. a daughter to Fred E. Sappenfield. and a daughter to W. B. Robbins in Jamestown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grady Helmstetler
Chestnut Street
Brenda Gail
Boulevard
High Point Memorial Hospital
Helmstetler
Opal Hill
Trinity
R. W. Hayworth
West Bay Street
Charles Gurney
Washington Street
James Way Brady
Grayson Way Brady
South Main Street
James Way
Brady
Hilda Mae Jackson
Fred E. Sappenfield
Barker Street
Jamestown
W. B. Robbins
Route One
Weekend Guests and Visit Notices Across North Carolina
The community lists several weekend visitors and travel updates. Frances Dean and Betty Lou Frazier spent the weekend in Hickory with Rev. and Mrs. G. E. Miller. Mrs. Dale Kearns stayed with her mother-in-law in Greensboro. Mrs. O. M. Bundy hosted her daughter from Alabama. Mrs. Arthur Upshaw and Mrs. Bundy returned home after visiting Mrs. Morton Murry in Greens. Seaman Paul Freeze, stationed at Bainbridge Maryland, visited Jamestown. Lydia Thrift and L. D. Ridge visited sons Wallace Ridge Otis Thrift stationed in Jacksonville Florida. D. R. Staley’s wife returned from Fort Lewis to join Lt. D. R. Staley there. Hester Morgan and Hoyt H. Morgan traveled to Norfolk to visit aunt Hattie Brewer. Mary Idol hosted Miss Phyllis Dyer of Leaksville for the weekend. Ltd and Mrs. George Y. Watson returned from a wedding trip to Watson’s home at 322 West Russell Street after marrying February 10 in High Point.
Contract Bridge Rising Above Adversity
A bridge column discusses a 219 North deal where poor trump breaks cost the contract. It analyzes how timing of trumps and heart management could have saved the game, noting an opening heart lead and safe diamond finesses as key ideas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
Declarer
East
Arer
South
How Old Are You The War's Call To Action
A wartime exhortation urges women and men to assess their true age by imagination and deeds not cosmetics or fashion. It calls readers to support troops, donate blood and bonds, and confront the moral priority of service over vanity, noting the urgent need on farms, factories, and fronts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth Avenue
Grandpa
Washington
MacArthur
Luzon
Jamestown Women Hold Bible Class and Local Meetings
Woman's Bible class met Tuesday with Mrs. E. D. Idol and Misses Mann McFadden Sublette hosting. Dr W O Goode spoke on The Earth Is the Lord's. Greek Orthodox met 200 in Woodmen Lodge. Jamestown Good Fellowship held an auction. City of High Point sale notice for March 1945. Hubert Weise, ex German air defense chief, reportedly committed suicide in Berlin after being ousted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamestown
E. D. Idol
Katharine Mann
Bessie Mae McFadden
Ora Sublette
J. R. Armstrong
Red Cross
W. O. Goode
Miss Mann
Lincoln
J. G. Fletcher
Woodmen Lodge
Jamestown Good Fellowship
T. H. Bundy
P. C. Futrelle
London
Hubert Weise
Germany
Berlin
Weise
Reich
O Men and Women in Service Collins at Home
Cpl. and Mrs. Max Collins visit their parents in the city and plan to return to Independence Kansas on February 26 where Cpl. Collins serves with the Army Air Forces. He has been in service since October 1942, trained at Gulfport Mississippi and Chanute Field Illinois, later stationed at Independence Field Kansas. Mrs Collins is the former Miss Sara Routh Warner.
Far From Home in the Marianas Aboard a Navy Transport
In the Marianas our narrator recalls being 5000 miles from America and 12000 miles from friends at the German front. He describes the Pacific theater’s vast geography, the journey from Honolulu, and the Navy routine aboard a four masted Douglas transport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marianas Islands
America
Sidi Bou Zid
Venafro
Troina
St. Mere Eglise
Kwajalein
Chichi Jima
Ulithi
Pacific
Marianas
Honolulu
Caliornia
Naval Air Transport Service
Max Miller
Pearl Harbor
Max
Thurber
Joseph Mitcha
McSorley
Western Pacific
Ration Roundup for Meats Fats Sugars and Shoes
Details on Book Four red stamps and blue stamps with goodness through various dates for meats fats and processed foods. Sugar stamps 34 and 38 cover five pounds with specified expiry dates and a May 1 update. Oil gas and shoe coupons outline validity across regions and periods including heating season provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
Midwest
N C E A Seeks Reconsideration Of Teacher Salary
The High Point branch of the North Carolina Education Association legislative committee, supported by United Forces of Education, unanimously urges Governor Cherry and the appropriations committee to reconsider the proposed teacher salary scale. Miss Nina DeBruhl says merit supports the request as veteran teachers stay only if fairly compensated, warning of a potential exodus harming state children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
North Carolina Education Association
United Forces of Education
Cherry
Appropriations Committee
Nina DeBruhl
Famous Red General Cherniakhovsky Dies Of Wounds
Moscow announced that Gen. Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky Russia's youngest general died of battlefield wounds from East Prussia. The 37 year old tank commander led victories in Minsk Wilno Kaunas and East Prussia and would receive a hero's funeral in Wilno. Divorces in Iowa rose with 25 percent awarded to couples married since the war began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky
Russia
East Prussia
Moscow
Minks
Wilno
Kaunas
Des Moines
INS
Iowa
State Health Department
Surprising Kwajalein Welcome After Long Pacific Flight
The narrator recalls a 3500 mile Pacific journey ending at Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands. Johnston Island appears tiny yet developed as a major airfield where Americans live and work. Kwajalein, a bustling modern air base, hosts soldiers and planes amid a salty sea of darkness and fatigue.
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Mo St
Marianas
Johnston Island
Honolulu
Pacific
Kwajalein
Marshal Islands
Mid- Pacific
Sam
Abaca Rush Aims to Ease U S Rope Shortage in Philippines
U S Army and Navy experts forecast early relief from the rope shortage as abaca or manila hemp from Leyte Island is fast tracked. Navy contracts the Leyte Samar output while Civil Affairs shifts laborers to speed the first crops, with maturing plants ready in nine to twelve months.
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Philippines
INS
America
U. S. Army
Navy
Leyte
Manila
United States
Tacloban
U.S
U .S. Navy
Leyte- Samar
Philippines Civil Affairs Unit
Home and Garden Club Meeting Wednesday
The Home and Garden club will meet with Mrs. L. B. Heil at her Rotary Drive home Wednesday at 10 o clock in the morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Home and Garden Club
L. B. Heil
Rotary Drive
High Point Notice of Public Sale of Property
Public sale notice from Guilford County records lists Lot 1 Block 6 Gurley addition as subject to最低 20 down and 11:00 sale time on March 5 1945 with deed book reference and official seals dated February 13 1948. Arnold J. Koonce signs as clerk. Limited readable lines reference city and county.
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City of
High Point
N. C
High Point Township
Guilford County
North Carolina
Office of Register of Deeds
Arnold J. Koonce
N.C
D. C
Also Mentioned on This Page
Madeline Hoover
JYWCA
Jamestown Book Club
Charles Gurney Hayworth
Sappenfield
Nelson
TREN
Frances Dean
Betty Lou Frazier
Hickory
G. E. 8. Miller
Dale Kearns
L. M. Kearns
Greensboro
O. M. Bundy
Mrs. Sherrod Isbury
Alabama
Arthur Upshaw
M. Bundy
Morton Murry
Greens
Paul Freeze
Bainbridge, Md
Lydia Thrift
L. D. Ridge
Wallace Ridge and
Otis Thrift
Jacksonville, Fla
D. R. Staley
Fort Lewis
Hester Morgan
Hoyt H. Morgan
Norfolk, Va
Hattie Brewer
Mary Idol
Phyllis Dyer
Leaksville
Northwestern Mutual
W. Page Harris
Heinz
E. Simms Campbell
North
West Pass
I A
Elsie Robinson
Women IN Service
Ernie Pyle
N.C.E.A
U. S
Mil
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Clark Gardner
Osage, Iowa
WPA
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