Practice blackout set for High Point area by Friday midnight
Civil defense chief Charles F. Carroll warned High Point residents that a wartime blackout will occur between now and Friday February 26 at midnight. State and local offices exempt. instructions urge schools to darken buildings and shutter lights while rationing registration proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll
United States Army Service Command
High Point
North Carolina
Charles F. Carroll
High Pointers
Army
Civilian Defense Office
Iion
High Point Defense Corps
Migratory thrush name used for the American robin in colonial days
Historical notes indicate early colonists referred to the American robin as the migratory thrush, reflecting its perceived behavior and classification in colonial-era taxonomy.
City Council Weighs Civil Service Bills Stand
City officials debate support for two civil service bills before the General Assembly as Mayor Kirkman fights flu and council members consider a Monday or Tuesday meeting to take a stand. Sechrest contemplates calling the session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charley
General Assembly
O. A Kirkman
R. H. Sechrest
Sechrest
Kirkman
W. L. Hunt
J. G Groome
W. R. Grant
C. A. Lewis
Lewis
Council
Democratic Executive Committee
Clyde Shreve
Commission
Shreve
Robert Moseley
J. B. Lovelace
Elwood
Ed Hudgins
O. A. Kirkman
Shreve, Caveness
Moseley
Turner
Desperate Need for Office Workers In Capital
Col. Floyd A. Rains warns Washington faces a desperate demand for qualified office staff as armed forces grow. He cites heavy paper work for casualties and next of kin notices and says 200 clerks were needed last Thursday, about 400 by today. Examinations in High Point proceed to steady staffing for Washington posts.
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Col. Rains
Washington
Floyd A. Rains
ADGO
Washington, D. C
Headquarters Service of Supply
Edmund Burrows
U. S. Civil Service Region
Winston-Salem
Civil Service
T. W. Winslow
Woodrow C. Furr Promoted To Captain At Camp Chaffee
Woodrow C. Furr of the 48th Armored Regiment, 14th Armored Division, has been promoted from first lieutenant to captain at Camp Chaffee Arkansas. He is the son of Mr and Mrs G C Furr of 615 Colonial Drive and is a graduate of High Point High School and North Carolina State University. He received his commission from ROTC on May 31, 1935.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodrow C. Furr
48Th Armored Regiment
14Th Armored Division
Camp Chaffee
Arkansas
Capt. Furr
G. C. Furr
Colonial Drive
High Point High School
North Carolina State University
Burl— Mills Corp
Greensboro
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Confusion and War Talk in W A Bivins Column
W A Bivins discusses wartime unity and partisan tensions, noting Taft and Roosevelt era politics, British Labor doubts, and weariness of public sentiment. He cites Abraham Lincoln and Isaiah to urge common cause and sincere purpose amid fears of postwar claims and minority group friction. He closes with a Farmers’ reminiscence from Bill Nye on 19th century labor.
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Taft
Ohio
Roosevelt
Fred” Ingram
F.D.R
England
Labor
O.K
John Bull
America
Abraam Lincoln
Humanity
Earth
Russia
Balkan
Latvia
Estonia
Lithuania
Europe
Luther Kearns
The
Enterprise
Isaiah
Bill Nye
Local Service News Henry Soyars Promoted to Private First Class
Henry Soyars son of Mr and Mrs R C Soyars 415 Gatewood Street promoted to private first class this month. He is stationed at the Army Air Force Basic Flying School Greenwood Mississippi. Cadet Roscoe Yates Jr left for Miami Florida for basic training in the U S Army Air Force. Cadet Yates is the son of Mr and Mrs C R Yates Thomasville Road and was a Senior High School student.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Soyars
R. C. Soyars
Gatewood Street
Army Air Force
Greenwood
Miss
Yates
Roscoe Yates, Jr
Miami
Fla
U. S. Army Air Force
C. R. Yates
Thomasville Road
Tomlinson Widow Becomes Executrix of $113 882 Estate
Mrs May Lovelace Tomlinson widow of C F Tomlinson former treasurer of Tomlinson Furniture Co and president of the H P T D Railroad qualified as executrix of the will the estate valued at 113 882 with Wachovia Bank and Trust Co as trustee Real estate 12100 personal property 101 782 The will gives widow the residence and household effects and the remainder held in trust for her and children until the oldest reaches 25 with equal shares for each child when 25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
May Lovelace Tomlinson
C. F. Tomlinson
Tomlinson Furniture Company
High Point
H. P., T. & D. Railroad
Tomlinson
J. P. Shore
Superior Court
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
Baker to Join Enterprise News Staff March 2
Bill Baker, information specialist for the state highway commission, resigns his Raleigh post to join The Enterprise news staff March 2. A Duke University graduate, he was with the news bureau of the board of conservation and development and recently assisted United Press covering the General Assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Baker
State Highway Commission
Raleigh
Enterprise News
Baker
Duke University
News Bureau
Board of Conservation and Development
United Press
General Assembly
Bucknell Caps and Daggar Do Rehearsals Switch
Bucknell University's Cap and Daggar Dramatic Society rehearses a play titled Knickerbocker Holiday and shifts to a women heavy cast for Ladies In Retirement as a different kind of rehearsal and plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewisburg
Bucknell University
Funeral Rites for Henry L. Ingram Led by Legion
The funeral for Henry L. Ingram 46 North Carolina Department Commander of the American Legion was held at First Methodist Church Asheboro with Legion officials present. He died Sunday of a heart attack at his wife’s home. Surviving are his widow two sons his mother and four sisters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry L. Ingram
Asheboro
North Carolina
American Legion
First Methodist Church
Legion
L. A. Watts
Raleigh
Paul Harding
Tor
R. L. McMillan
Seedlings damaged by freezes need immediate resowing
Extension Agronomist E. R. Collins of North Carolina State College says recent frosts likely killed or weakened young tobacco seedlings and recommends resowing beds immediately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. R. Collins
N. C. State College
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WMFR
Victory Coal Co
N. Wrenn St
High Point Roofing & Heating Co
H. M. Blankenship
L. C
W. Ceell
N. Mam &T
Johns-Manville
Parker - Brown Lumber CO
Vhone
Oak Street
Navy
Marines
Coast Guard
City Council
Adjutant General's Office
Burrows
Census Bureau
U. S
Col
Ola
Fountain
Pepsi-Cola Company
Long Island City, N.Y
Pepsi Cola Bottling Co
Winston-Salem, N. C
Goodyear
Ration Board
Goodyear Service Store
North Main St
W. A. Bivins
Ft Ad
ICE Delivery Company
West Broad Street
Rationing Board
Hiatt Tire Company
West High
L. E. Wames
Lawrence E. Ljames
Newport News
Peoples Tabernacle
G. M. Allison
A. L. McGhee
Fairmont Baptist Church
Roy Boone
J. R. York
Roy Hedrick
Hubert Williard
Oscar Lee
Thurman Cook
Basil Hussey
Walter Trotter
Pleasant Grove Cemetery
Sandra Kay Abbott
Ray J. Abbott
Archdale
Abbott's Creek
Sam Miller
R. H. Walker
Richard Hassell
Rex Carter
Ernest J. Swanson
Jamestown
No. 87
H. G. Peters
Guilford Memorial Park Cemetery
Piedmont Oil & CO
Nat Walker
Walgreen
A. Clyde Smith & Sons Telephone
Kernersville
Gate City Motor CO
Wrenn St
Roger
Lauby's
Saogens Credit Jewelers
S. Main ST
ROYAL
High St
Siceloff Ice & Fuel CO
Bnet Tte Finance
N. H. Silver Co
South Main Street
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