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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1942
Page
6
A reader asks five questions about bowling rules marks and etiquette including how strikes and spares are recorded on score sheets what constitutes a perfect score how pins fall and terms like split turkey and foul hit and whether playing on hardwood alleys affects play plus etiquette on adjacent lanes and shouting during delivery.
Fred W. Greene outlined a six point education program for North Carolina at a local North Carolina Education Association meeting. Key proposals include a state wide nine month term, continuing teacher contracts with tenure safeguards, salary increments to offset living costs, a five day sick leave for teachers, higher compulsory attendance from 14 to 16, and stronger emphasis on vocational education to help students learn to earn. The session at the Friends church was led by Elizabeth Kelley with Chas. F. Carroll and Mrs. Kelley presiding.
An advertisement warns a three day cough signals danger and urges Creomulsion as the potent remedy. It claims Creomulsion targets the lungs with beechwood creosote and other medicines, contains no narcotics, and offers a money back guarantee if it fails to help the cough that disrupts rest and sleep.
Hundreds of tons of foodstuffs are sent to Herault and Gard to quell ongoing food demonstrations that have spread from Montpellier and Sete to Nimes Aries Ares and Agde. Interior official Raymond Grimal says some protests have taken a political turn against the Vichy regime and promises energetic action if they recur.
City records show High Point collected about 32 171 loads of garbage rubbish and other refuse in 1941. Estimated average load around two tons, hauling about 69 cents per load and incineration about 10 cents per load, total sanitation cost about 39 5 cents per ton. Overall city sanitating costs reached 40016 dollars.
Lindsey D. Morgan 26 of SOS Willowbrook Street High Point completed primary and basic flight training at the naval air school in Jacksonville Florida and was selected for six weeks of advanced training at the Naval Air Station Miami He earned a BA from the University of North Carolina and is headed toward Wings of Gold and an ensign commission
Allen J. Parker, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Parker of Emerywood Apartments High Point North Carolina, finished thirteen weeks training at Camp Croft and is transferred to Maxwell Field. He served in Company B 34th Battalion a rifle unit during his training.
Dr W T Tice was re elected chairman of the Junior Board of Stewards and Walter Hester was re elected secretary treasurer at the First Baptist Church monthly meeting. The board conducted a long session handling several matters of church affairs.
Mire. Fannie Green Drake 37 of route five Burlington died Monday in a Greensboro hospital after years of declining health. Funeral at Calvary Baptist Church at 3 pm burial Pine Hill cemetery. Native of Cobb County Georgia widow of Robert Francis Drake member of Calvary Church. Survived by four daughters Mrs Mary Godfrey Grantville Ga Mrs Jerrine Newton High Point Mrs Gladys Hucke Mrs Faye Watkins four sons Bernard A Henry G DeWitt RK and Guy 8 Drake Burlington three sisters and three brothers all of Georgia and 14 grandchildren
Mrs. John Q. Shives, 41, died after a long illness at an Asheboro hospital. She leaves her husband of Trinity, three sons from two marriages, sisters and brothers in North Carolina. The body remains at J. C. Green and Sons Funeral Home in Thomasville pending funeral arrangements.
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company announces a voluntary payroll deduction plan enabling about 65,000 full time employees to buy defense bonds via payroll deductions. Bonds issued through Federal Reserve banks and post offices, mailed to purchasers. The plan aims to simplify bond purchases and build a wartime reserve fund for employees.
Radio listings show a full day of programs from 6:00 PM to 2:48 AM including The Tom Mix Serial, Captain Midnight, and The Lone Ranger repeats. Features span music, drama serials, news segments, and variety hours with stations Midwest and East regions highlighted.
A satisfactory wage agreement was reached after a 2.5 hour meeting yesterday between a committee for seamless hosiery manufacturers and the High Point Independent Boarders Union. Grady H. Morton announced both sides were in complete harmony and that a follow up round-table discussion will continue.
Any person desiring knowledge of newer mussions can meet in a group with Miss Ada Johnson home economist to study Family Feeding Problems on Thursday at 7 30 p m The meeting place is Main Street Methodist Church The privilege will be granted to...
Young mothers invited to attend the college features on Tuesday at 1 45 am in the College Administration building High Point. Those seeking college credit for the nutrition course will pay a fee and take an exam. A volcanic plug is plastic lava squeezed through openings in the earths crust and there hardened. Man has printed books only about five hundred years.
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