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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1946
Page
8
A fragmentary column surveys Walter Winchell era reminiscences and modern media figures. It notes Churchill quips, Attlee and Laski politics, Bert Lahr’s remarks, Doubleday sales triumphs, and a nostalgia for longtime columnists and the craft’s past.
Ezra Pound, back from Italy, faces traitor charges in a Washington case. He accepted 200 lire per broadcast while promoting Mussolini. Kathryn Duffy notes quips about Hirohito and MacArthur in military circles as a myth-take era winds down. Ex ambassador Pat Hurley is mentioned as forgotten but not gone. The piece echoes wartime humor and political shifts in Washington.
DETROIT Jan 8 The CIO united auto workers reached a unprecedented bonus wage contract with Kaiser Frazer Corp presenting the model for disputes in the industry. The pact bases wages on Ford Rouge levels and matches GM raises, creates a year end pool of about 1.5 million for Kaiser Frazer production workers, and bans unauthorized work stoppages from earning bonuses. It also includes a union shop dues checkoff and a veterans clause deemed the most favorable ever drafted by both sides.
Three insertions advertise a free room for rent to ease housing. Furnished bedroom available at 642 Willowbrook Street with the note rent is waived until January 15.
Thomas Jefferson Penn, 70, died of a heart attack Sunday in Hot Springs Virginia. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at Chinqua Penn, his plantation home near Reidsville. He belonged to a tobacco family once prominent in the Penn brand and was a former member of the New York Stock Exchange. Survivors include his widow and three sisters Mrs Alec Cameron of near Richmond Virginia Mrs Elmo Willets of Schelney Pennsylvania and Mrs Paul Schoellkopf of Buffalo New York.
Funeral services were held today for Curtis Bean who died from injuries sustained when his motorcycle collided with a local bus just off town on U S highway 1.
Raleigh Jan 8 Funeral tomorrow for Charles A Wallin 59 contractor and civic leader who died at his home after several months illness.
This fragment presents a crossword style grid with clues across and down covering numerous definitions from exclamation of repugnance to feminine names and monetary units. It includes numbered entries from 1 to 57 with vertical clues interwoven, typical of an editorial puzzle page.
Readable items list a nine piece walnut dining set and a 1945 Harley Davidson motorcycle in good condition for 375 dollars. Cash only. Address shown as 726 South Main Street. Contact phone 9634.
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