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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1950
Page
10
Washington reports that wartime farm price gains have faded with 1949 prices near parity and 1950 expected to run about 10 percent below 1949. Net farm income fell from a 1947 peak to 1949 of 14 billion dollars and is forecast to drift to 12 billion in 1950.
Raleigh reports that many school teachers will receive two pay days in January due to teaching three weeks in December and finishing a full month later. The state faces accrued indebtedness of seven to eight million dollars to teachers and a cash squeeze as the public school payrolls total about nine million dollars a month.
Prices for firewood and charcoal in Penang climb as Hong Kong purchases large quantities from Malaya. Mainland China supply has halted since coastal Reds seized control, causing a local shortage and higher costs. The government owns 31% of typewriters for staff use across three machines.
In Milan area, a centuries old cannon borrowed from San Cesario by Spilamberto nearly sparked conflict. San Cesario withheld its return after a fiesta restitution, prompting an attempted night theft and threats to seize church bells. Local guards were called to protect the cannon.
Miss Joan Edwards reports she fell asleep at a Chicago theater and woke to find the venue dark deserted and locked. She called police to gain exit, saying a similar episode happened 14 years ago when she was six.
During a three week period the Federated Church shared worship with the Baptists while both churches redecorated. After the Federated Church work the Baptists used the Federated building for services.
Nightly dispatch reports calm on both fronts as latest communiques arrive from the town’s belfry. Officials indicate no new developments and call for continued vigilance amid routine operations.
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