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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1945
Page
8
Pfc. Robert Werth of Blackfoot Idaho tends eight dairy cows and poultry near enemy foxholes after inheriting a Alsatian family’s farm. He serves with the Seventh Army and starts days early to milk cows and feed livestock amid wartime duties.
A home front plea urges readers to write letters or ecards to servicemen abroad. The note from Edgar Snider encourages sharing updates weekly and expanding correspondence beyond immediate family, asking readers to send their names and addresses to Box 1582 for weekly mail.
Sixteen Melrose flossery boarders return to work after a walkout over hiring a non union worker. Thirty four Globe Parlor Furniture employees strike over proposed incentive bonus system in machine and mill rooms. W Sherman Swaim buys Nance Supply Co. and renames Swarm Supply Co. C B Beaver reelected director of Marietta Paint and Color Co.
North Carolina appropriations and revenue committees show a conservative tilt with a Missouri like scrutiny of budget requests and little tax reform. The big tax change is federal tax deduction before state returns. Home support for teacher raises signals approval, while Archdale regains town status and Dix Hill hospital conditions draw sharp critique. Senator Penny jokes about Raleigh hotel rates.
Six of seven defendants tied to the murder of R L Beck are bound over for trial after a Municipal court preliminary hearing before Judge Don MacRae. Hugh Gibson remains jailed in Georgia for a later preliminary hearing in High Point. Also arrested for illegal gasoline coupon handling are Walter L Morgan Kenneth Paul Edwards Archie Daniel Wright William Walton Walker of High Point and Willie Edgar Wall of Thomasville. Cora Bell Gilliam 14 year old girl is sought by police in connection with the case.
A long list of service personnel is noted for awards including the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Combat Infantryman Badge, and Oak Leaf Cluster. Promotions include ranks to staff sergeant, corporal, and technician fifth grade with postings across Germany England Italy and the Pacific. A local assault incident ends with two suspects charged. one bond set at 750 dollars while the other cannot meet bond.
Mr and Mrs Frank Sizemore returned from a week away to find a burglar had broken in and made himself at home taking a bath wearing a clean shirt and leaving dirty dishes behind He stole silverware jewelry and other valuables then departed James Conrad a local real estate man survived a hunting accident with a bullet through his tongue and throat while Collett his companion expressed greater fear Everett Hoffman a Navy censor blocked a sailor chess move in a long correspondence game and Mr Taylor noted a cut off chess move after the censor's action.
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