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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1937
Page
7
WPA project workers at Blair Park and High Point College athletic field received their delayed pay for December after over a week of hardship. Negro workers faced the heaviest impact with hunger and fatigue reported. foremen aided several by advancing funds. Delays were caused by January 1 holiday and weather preventing work.
A French merchant ship was shelled by three insurgent trawlers off the northern Spanish coast near Elanchove but escaped damage and outdistanced the attackers. Spanish government airplanes pursued the Fascist craft after a radio appeal.
A long, humorous personal essay covers shaving woes from straight razors to electric devices, plus musings on human nature, driving habits, after dinner talks, and patriotism. It also profiles Rev. Henry Ruffan Walden Sr., a long serving Congregational minister and postmaster, detailing his career and community impact in North Carolina.
Raleigh January 2 Lee Denson head of the Weather Bureau warned the Neuse River would reach flood stage at Smithfield within 24 hours after heavy rainfall. The Cape Fear reached five feet at Elizabethtown and other rivers were rising though no warnings were issued yet. The Roanoke showed minor flooding at Welldon.
The W I C Circle of First Baptist met at Mrs Callie V Holmes on Hay Street. A kitchen shower for Mrs Holmes followed the circle social with games and a dainty repast for members and guests including Rev F R Mason and several others.
The Cherry Street Presbyterian church hosted a wedding reception Friday evening for Rev and Mrs Charles Henry White despite disagreeable weather. The Whites reside at 268 Underhill Avenue, with Mrs White returning to Louisville school this afternoon and Rev White reachable at 716 East Washington Street pending further notice.
The city’s collected trash is valued at about $1,000,000 annually for conversion into fertilizer and hog feed, highlighting a notable waste-to-resource effort.
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