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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1930
Page
8
State Auto Toll for 1929 reports 690 deaths and 4 983 injuries from motor vehicle crashes in North Carolina, with 3 501 official accidents. December alone accounted for 68 deaths and 429 injuries, mostly from collisions, while drunken driving caused five deaths.
Notaries public commissioned today include J. L. Bivens Marshville Miss W Lyndell Drum Charlotte George L. Farmer Wilmington M L Ham Morven J B Hellen Vanceboro Richard A Nelson Grifton Ben W Souther land Jr Mount Olive R L Kornegay Mount Olive Mise Addie Jones Lexington Charles E Williams Lexington A A Walker Jr Charlotte Z C Gardner Raleigh James B King Louie bur E K McConnell Albemarle W A Trotter Reidsville
North Carolina secretary of state records show new corporation certificates filed in Raleigh. General Tires Incorporated of Charlotte seeks 100000 authorized capital stock and 300 subscribed. Tri-County Oil Company of Spruce Pine lists 50000 authorized and 6000 subscribed. M. System Store of Pinetops Incorporated plans 5000 authorized and 300 subscribed. Bledsoe Realty Company of Asheville adopts 1000 shares no par value. Columbus Chair Company of Tabor aims 50000 authorized and 7000 subscribed.
In Cleveland at Benjamin Franklin school boys and girls in class 6-6-B were separated to study if single sex groups improve learning. Some students remained with mixed groups while outcome comparisons await graded tests. Principal Miss Bessie Dalton notes boys greeted the plan with enthusiasm and girls accepted it as normal.
Dr Modinos reports experiments in relieving narcotics craving using serum from reactions near the injection site. He describes preparing a vaccine by processing substances from the drug addict and injecting the serum in attempts to curb addiction described to the Academy of Medicine in Paris.
Detroit patrolman reports Thomas McDonald with feet through a department store window. McDonald blamed heavy gambling losses at the horses and confessed to smashing the window to seek jail lodging instead of going to work.
In England a stubborn stone with an inscription curseth any who remove it. Despite unemployment, laborers refused to move the stone, halting progress as the curse phrase deterred action.
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