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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1948
Page
2
Washington Jan 28 Republicans begin effort to pass a 1948 income tax cut. About 7,000,000 low income payers would owe nothing in 1948, while rates drop from 100 to 10 percent for the richest. Total cut proposed to $6.3 billion, with veto risk from President Truman.
Tuberculosis seal sales in the area totaled 9925.33 after Christmas, the highest on record, per Mrs. S Paul Ingle sale chairman to the High Point Tuberculosis association directors. Eighty percent funds stay locally with the rest to state and national groups. Charles Mendenhall presided. Charles Loflin named to the board to fill Dr Willis Sensenbach’s term. Virginia Ryan outlined a Guilford county census plan and reported a year of association activities including a Negro health institute, relief for families, X ray survey, literature, and a sterilizing lamp purchase.
The United Furniture Workers CIO executive board votes 14 to 13 to file non Communist affidavits as required by Taft Hartley. President Morris Pizer says the decision awaits ratification at the union convention in Chicago starting June 7, with local units allowed to decide on filing by local officers.
Mobile will open its 17 mile azalea trail for the twentieth year on Sunday February 22 with a debutante ribbon cutting at Bienville square. An azalea festival will be held for the first time to welcome an expected influx of visitors, said Jack Lewis president of Mobile Azalea Trail Inc. The trail remains a community project with residents planting flowering shrubs along street fronts.
John Czarnecki, a Poland native and High Point college student, spoke about Poland’s wartime losses and postwar struggles. He described Warsaw’s destruction and the underground army’s split between communist and democratic factions, noting Russian influence and limited resistance. He praised the U.N.’s role and UNRRA aid, with Carter Holbrook introducing him at Herman Smiths meeting.
The odds against a poker player making a straight flush before the draw are 64 973 to 1. The text implies the draw odds are about one and one quarter to one in favor of the house or against the player, but the exact second figure is unclear from the fragment.
Warsaw reports Poland and eastern European states have moved from words to deeds in industrial and economic recovery. Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia and Russia aid timing aims to unite via streamlined production and power projects, with coal and machinery flowing to fuel growth and employment.
Mrs. Burley J. Miller of High Point learned last night of the death of her aunt Mrs. W. L. Howie who died yesterday in Monroe at the home of Dr and Mrs Marvin Smith after two months illness. She is survived by three daughters Mrs Claude Benton now in Monroe Mrs Marvin Smith and Miss Rachel Howie both of Monroe along with several grandchildren and great grandchildren. Mrs Miller left today to attend the funeral services to be held tomorrow afternoon. The hour and place were not yet determined.
In Green Cove Springs Florida on January 28 a pirate gold quest valued at 4 million dollars shifts from digging to screening. Workmen will sift dirt from a 30 foot shaft to confirm any valuables found by G B Mobley using his divining rod, who said the instrument indicated there is something in the pile.
The regular mid week services at First Baptist Church are set for tonight at 7:30 PM. The group gathers in the young people's auditorium for a 15 minute worship then splits into rooms to discuss topics led by Lloyd Thayer Lauback and others about prayer receiving power through the Holy Spirit and fostering friendship.
Westerly high school basketball team boasts a 99 win in 100 game streak, marking one of the most impressive records in New England interscholastic sport history.
Radio schedule lists programs across networks with a dense lineup from 6:15 pm to midnight including news, comedy, drama, music, variety and talk shows. Notable items include The House Party, Abbott & Costello, The Big Story Drama, Bing Crosby Variety, Jimmy Durante Show, and News & Dancing Hours across CBS ABC NBC and Mutual outlets.
Three High Point college seniors Miss Charlotte Churchill James Brown and John Richardson gradu ated Magna Cum Laude in the first semester commencement exercises according to registrar N P Yarborough They will pursue religious education at Duke University Churchill active in campus religious and publication work Brown intends ministerial work at Duke Richardson overcame visual impairment with braille reading assistance from roommate James Brown and is a state school of blind graduate Arthur Williams and Miss Dorothy Jane Magoon also earned Cum Laude honors
Whitey Kurowski agreed to a 1948 contract after a 30 minute meeting with owner Robert Hannegan in St Louis. The star third baseman was part of a Cardinals move announced last night.
In Nevada City a superior court jury convicts 24 year old Army deserter Joseph L. Hardy of murder in the Kiss of Death slaying of J W McLain near Truckee. The jury recommends life imprisonment. Lois Hardy, 20, awaits appeal while confined at Tehachapi prison. Louis Hunt Hardy aided the crime by holding McLain. Robbery motive cited.
Boston Mayor James M. Curley suggests a plan to convert heavy snow in Boston into dry ice and ship it to California to aid drought affected crops amid the city’s winter weather.
An advertisement warns that a persistent three days cough may signal danger and lead to chronic bronchitis if untreated. It promotes Creomulsion as a non narcotic remedy that reaches the bronchial membranes to loosen phlegm and soothe inflamed tissue with a money back guarantee.
Cambridge University debating society discussed the Pilgrim Fathers landing at Plymouth Rock with a twist. The negative won 113 to 101 in Cambridge England on January 28.
The United States electric railways carried about 15.3 billion passengers in 1922 and only about 8.5 billion in 1940, reflecting a sharp decline over the period.
Harold J. Franklin, a 25 year old laboratory technician for a chemical firm, tests mosquito repellents by submerging his arm in cages of 3000 mosquitoes for a minute and counting bites. If bites total about 60 he repeats the process with another group and uses insecticide if needed. He served as a chief pharmacist mate in the Navy.
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