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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1948
Page
5
In Raleigh on January 19 the article outlines lighting standards for the state Mechanical Inspection. It covers tail lights stop lights parking lights passing lights and two auxiliary driving lights with precise visibility and alignment rules for safe night driving.
Dr. Daniel Poling defended universal military training as peacetime not conscription and not like wartime service. He spoke at the 22nd women's patriotic conference on national defense, where delegates urged quick action on the training bill. The three day conference drew 898 delegates from 31 organizations including the American Legion Auxiliary and American War Mothers.
Editor Stanislaw Mikolajczyk recounts a Moscow meeting with Wanda Wasilewska and other Lublin Poles in August 1944. He claims they told him there was no fighting in Warsaw while the city suffered and Nazi forces killed about 200,000 Poles, with Stalin and Molotov pressuring for Allied restraint. He describes pleas to aid Warsaw and the offer of a compromised Polish government, and notes his eventual departure for Tehran.
Bernarr MacFadden, 80, publisher and self styled physical culturist, entered Florida's gubernatorial race joining Attorney General Tom Watson and Richard Oper in the official candidacy after paying fees and taking the oath before Secretary of State R A Gray.
Under a 1947 deed of trust Sam M Fidler and wife Sue Fidler mortgaged property to Owen Reese trustee. By order of the holder the lot 12 in Farlow and Jarrell Development in High Point is offered for sale to the highest bidder February 9 1948 at 11:00 A M in front of the Guilford County Court House steps. The sale is subject to unpaid taxes and the buyer must deposit 5 percent in cash.
A foreclosure sale is set for February 5 1948 at 11 30 a m in High Point Guilford county North Carolina. The property includes lots 200 201 and 202 in Moffit Heights in High Point township. It is subject to unpaid taxes and street assessments with a 10 percent cash deposit required.
Across North Carolina twelve people were killed in violent incidents over the weekend. Victims include Bernard Proffitt, Chester Ray Proffitt, Easton Earl Proffitt in Watauga, Edwin Craughan of Yadkinville, William Lorenzo McCaskill of Rockingham, Eric W. Roberts of Winston-Salem, Wilbur Pegg of Seaboard, Ervin Porter of Charlotte, Cecil Williams of Avon, Isabel Orr Tarrant of Charlotte, Henry Boyd Jr. of Wilmington, and Fay Melms Wentz of Charlotte with various accidents and a fatal fire.
Camden New Jersey January 19 two sailors aboard the dredge USS Delaware found an envelope floating in the Delaware River containing four $1,000 bonds and fifty four $5 bonds valued at $5,350. They alerted police and the owner, August Halicks, who reported the bonds stolen the previous Friday. Halicks gave a reward to the finders, amount undisclosed.
Detroit January 19 General Motors Buick division chief Harlow H Curtice said there will be no price increases on the 1948 Buick line despite higher material costs.
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