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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1945
Page
3
The health department logged 2349 immunizations and 635 communicable disease cases treated in the year. It reported 12,106 miles traveled, 12845 clinic and field visits, 2200+ infant and preschool visits, 115 births, 318 total deaths, and extensive tuberculin testing and animal inspections.
Popular bandleader Artie Shaw returns to the dance band field with a new orchestra backing Victor releases. Let's Take the Long Way Home features Imogene Lynn on vocal with a Paramount song from Here Come the Waves, while Lady Day showcases Swing.
Sammy Kaye and his Orchestra debut Saturday Night Loneliest Night in the Week with Nancy Norman on vocal refrains. The flip I Don’t Want to Love You Like I Do features Billie Williams. Early t ban hit Don’t Fence Me In is cited as a peak for Kaye with sturdy dance tempo and appealing vocal turns.
The building office in Spector issued seven aleration and repair permits totaling 3060 dollars. E W Heelas received two permits: 900 for repairing and reroofing at 616 West Green Street and 150 for finishing a new room at 221 Woodrow Avenue. Other permits went to Wachovia Bank for Lindale Dairy reroofing and repair at 124 West Lexington Avenue 160 dollars R B Gantt remodeling at 413 Taylor Street 600 dollars J H Hartsell reroofing at 118 Markley Avenue ? Dave Walden new room and porch at 923 non Street 400 dollars and Ruth a ol yr dwelling at English Beveet 250 dollars
Pvt Travis B Bowick of the 339th Polar Bear unit receives the Good Conduct Medal and the European Campaign ribbon. His wife and son, Travis Dean, reside at 512 Denny Street. The unit helped breach the Gothic Line and advance toward the Futa Pass area, 3400 feet east of Highway 65.
2nd Lt Lawrence von Metcalfe, son of Mrs W G Metcalfe of Point NC, reports for duty at Amarillo Army Air Field. He was commissioned on November 20 and had been a flying instructor at High Point before entering the service. Henry Ford startled the world in 1926 with a fireworks week for employees.
S Sgt Howard J Carmicheal has returned from duty outside the continental U S and is hospitalized at Northington General Hospital. He served 16 months in the Infantry in the European Theater of Operations and received the Purple Heart. He joined the Armed Forces on June 6 1942 and is the son of Mr J T Carmicheal of Guilford North Carolina.
Pvt. Ray Lee son of Mr and Mrs Henry Lee of 202 Fisher Street received a medical discharge from the U S Marine Corps on January 10 He entered service in June 1944 and will work at the Fairfield Shipyard in Baltimore Md He and his wife have relocated to Baltimore Bertrand Russell noted English philosopher mathematician and sociologist belongs to one of England's oldest families
CENTER Pvt Worth Pugh has spent 12 months in Greenland and returned to spend a furlough with his wife Lucile Joyce and their son. He is the son of Mr and Mrs J R Pugh. RIGHT Prec T R Robertson has arrived safely overseas per word to his wife. He trained at Camp Swift Texas.
United States strategists foresee heavy fighting as General MacArthur closes on Luzon Lingayen Gulf while Japanese forces, divided into pockets across the archipelago, delay major engagement. Filipino guerrillas disrupt supply lines amid Allied advance. Stalin's conference with Roosevelt and Churchill looms as wartime decisions shift to Axis defeat. The FEPC pushes for colored workers on Washington DC transit, facing Southern and regional resistance and fears of racial tensions aiding enemy aims.
Dr. Benjamin Fine education editor of the New York Times will be a principal speaker at the District IV conference of the American College Publicity Association to be held January 30-31 at The Woman's College Greensboro. The event includes education interpretation talks and a dinner session, with participation by college publicists and editors from North Carolina Virginia Maryland Delaware and the District of Columbia. High Point College represented by N M Harrison attends as part of the Itene Ehia group.
John C. Thompson Ph.M. prepares for duty with the amphibious forces aboard an LST at Camp Bradford Virginia. He is assigned to the crew of an LST at the Amphibious Training Base and undergoes the strenuous training for beach hitting tank carriers.
Bill J Thornburg formerly of High Point has reached Welch Convalescent hospital Daytona Beach Army reconditioning center after four years in the Southwest Pacific. He holds the Purple Heart for combat injuries and previously worked for New River Coal Company in Minden West Virginia before enlisting in September 1940 at Fort Hayes Ohio.
A local theatre preview lauds the Navy two reeler Brought Into Action with high praise for its war photography and lessons in duty. William Moody discusses poet William Vaughn Moody and reflects on patriotic themes and lines about soldiers and the Philippines.
War Department informs Mr and Mrs M L Bumgarner of Thomasville that their son Private First Class Carl N Bumgarner has been wounded for the second time in France. He entered service in April 1943, went overseas June 1944, and first wounded October 13 with Purple Heart. A second wound occurred December 27 and he remains in a overseas U S hospital. His brother Lewis M Bumgarner G M 30 serves in the U S Navy in the South Pacific.
David Casey told police that after another car bumped him from behind he jumped out with a pencil. The other driver pulled a gun, Casey said, grabbed the pencil, and drove away.
Hobson from Point, North Carolina, promoted to technician fifth grade while serving with an Ordnance Maintenance Battalion at the Peninsular Base Section in Italy. He joined the Army August 1, 1942 and has been overseas since February 8, 1943. He is married to Inez Hobson of 405 Carter High Point NC and son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Hobson of Rock Hill, South Carolina.
First Lt. William R. Gorman son of Mrs. Alice P. Gorman Monthey Avenue has returned after five months overseas in the Mediterranean theater aboard the U S hospital Blance F Sigman He is temporarily treated at Stark Hospital Charleston South Carolina
W. D. Pritchard son of Mr and Mrs J H Pritchard of 216 West Street has been promoted to captain and now holds the rank of major. He is stationed in Washington DC with the Air Forces. A local high school graduate and NC State College alumnus, he is listed among early mobile registrations.
An advertisement touts Ru-Ba Compound as a two week treatment for rheumatic and arthritic pain. It advises mixing with water and lemon juice, drinking twice daily, with promises of relief within 48 hours or overnight and a money back guarantee if not improved.
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