City Officers Teach Civics At High Point School
City Mayor Grayson and council members explained city government structure to senior high students. Knox outlined franchise values and civic participation while detailing departments and commissions guiding the municipal corporation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grayson
Knox
C.S. Grayson
Roy Briggs
Second Ward
Glenn R. Ward
Paul Williamson
Third
R. H. Sechrest
Fourth Ward
E. M. Knox
United States
City of
High Point
Municipal Corporation
Welfare Board
Park Commission
Library Board
Juvenile Commission
Board of Adjustment
Planning Commission
School Board
Law
Finance
Public Safety
Department of Law
Department of Finance
Department of Public Safety
Shoes of Opponent Comes With Oath and Socks
Lexington North Carolina February 26 When J Rey McCrary becomes district attorney for the middle federal district he will assume the role once held by William Cicero Hammer who served eight years as district attorney and later in Congress Hammer died in 1930 The two men once campaigned across the district by horse and buggy thirty years ago during which a ford washout soaked McCrary McCrary recalls Hammer offering red socks to his drenched foe a gesture that helped him win the race and now he may wear the same socks when taking the oath
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
N. C
J. Rey McCrary
Middle Federal District
William Cicero Hammer
Congress
Hammer
McCrary
Horee
South River
Cooleemee
Hind
Nightmare Claim Sparks Police Call In Portland
Seven year old Margaret Middlemiss cried out that her parents had been murdered and woke neighbors at 3 45 am. police found Mr and Mrs Ernest Middlemiss asleep in their home as the child’s nightmare prompted a night fright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
Margaret Middlemiss
Mama
Daddy
Chris Neilson
Pace
Ernest Middlemiss
Margaret
Public Welfare and Utilities Departments Defined
The text outlines that the department of public welfare covers recreation and welfare organizations while the department of public utilities comprises the abat toir sewers water and electric power sectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Public Welfare
Department of Public Utilities
Dr Kenneth Geddie Addresses Kiwanis on Underprivileged Child
Dr Kenneth Geddie spoke to the High Point Kiwanis at the Elwood hotel noon meeting on protecting underprivileged children. He urged strict milk and water regulations, vaccination to prevent communicable diseases, and parental responsibility for timely physician care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Geddie
High Point Kiwanis Club
Elwood Hotel
Geddie
New York City
Kiwanis
L. L. Stookey
Carolinas
Robert E. Les
Winston-Salem
L. C. Matton
Leutenant
Benjamin J. Huntley
Winston- Salem
Claudius Dockery
Greensboro
Samuel H. Jordan
L. C. Courtright
Kiwanian
Raleigh
Roy Spearman
D. Ralph Parker
Rural Philosopher Analyzes Causes of Low Mood
Mike Clarke a rustic philosopher writes to a banker from Jugtown Randolph County about his financial woes. He recounts buying a Ford and a radio instead of a farm and cows, spending cash in 1928 and credit in 1929, and wasting future wages on installments. He claims he now lives on a cash basis but has no cash and seeks government relief while hedging political support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike Clarke
Clarke
Jugtown
Randolph County
O. K
Red Wing
Red
Paris Zoo Gift to Natural History Museum Revealed
The government received a zoo from Bois de Vincennes to the Paris Natural History Museum. It includes five female elephants and a baby, 18 lions, 80 monkeys, nine zebras, three Cape elands, four guns, three oryxes, four giraffes and four buffaloes. The exhibit will open near the permanent Musee des Colonies and be finished by December. During construction, animals remain open to visitors at Bois de Vincennes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Bois de Vincennes
Natural History Museum of
Musee Des Colonies
Bois Dé Vincennes
Mrs Hoover Cruises South Atlantic Aboard Sequoia
Beaufort, Feb 26 The First Lady of the Land Mrs Hoover and a party travel on the motorship Sequoia after a secure train trip from Washington to Charleston The group plans a relaxed voyage down the coast toward Miami as springlike weather enhances the scenery aboard the vessel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaufort
8. C
South Atlantic
Miami
Washington
Charleston
Harrelson urges NC resource development to boost income
Col. J. W. Harrelson, director of North Carolina Conservation and Development, says a targeted program of forestry, inland and commercial fisheries could, in a few years, raise landowner income by 100 million dollars annually, a figure comparable to state tax totals. He spoke to chamber officials from multiple cities about promoting the state to attract tourists and industries. The plan emphasizes wise development over false economy to unlock regional wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goldsboro
N. C
North Carolina
J. W. Harrelson
State Department of Conservation and Development
Chamber of Commerce
Charlotte
Greensboro
Raleigh
Wilmington
Rocky Mount
Kinston
New Bern
Wilson and
Goldeboro
Col. Harrelson
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J. Ray McCrary
K. B. Geddie
Kiwanis Club
Piggly Wiggly
MAZDA
Carer
Welch's
Ereeet
North Main
Richardson Street
Egypt
Jeune Water
Louisville
Atlantic
Frank Cushing
Seattle
Wash
Andrew Loos
Fairfield
Conn
Floyd Bennett Field
New York
Dixie
Harrelson
Revilla Gigedos Islands
Pacific Ocean
Lower
California
Switzerland
Lausanne
REXAL
Mann’s
Kolynos
Jergens
D. C
Castoria
Bayer
B.C
Tub Woodbur
Epsom
West
Diesestadinan
Three Flowers
Caldwell
Lydia E. Pinkham
KOTEX
Opeka
Squibbs
Thomasville
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