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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1930
Page
14
The article urges High Point readers to study a city display from the school commissioners. It compares Guilford county's costs, notes school equalization fund trends, and argues the February 4 bond vote will not greatly raise taxes. It highlights broader implications for state finance and future legislatures.
A scientist estimates a Florida skeleton map fragment dates back twenty million years, challenging the idea of the Americas as a new world. Evidence of ancient Central American cities and long-lived human habitation shows the continent is an old, civilization-filled land, with Florida’s find possibly the oldest man trace on this continent.
A federal agent toured fields around High Point to gauge a municipal airport site. The visit helped narrow options by ruling out several parcels and guiding local residents toward a suitable location. The expert recommended a tract of land no smaller than 400 acres for the airport project.
Citizens urge the city to actively promote a new High Point airport. They advise securing ample ground, choosing land, obtaining an option, and developing a definite proposal with cost estimates to determine official support. Private interest has led. formal city involvement is now recommended.
The Gastonia Gazette editorial warns against suppressing speech and questions how North Carolina mill executives and university trustees might view Frank Graham's call for a textile industry survey. It praises independent thought and condemns mob mentality while noting skepticism about a clique motive among trustees.
A column argues that Philippine independence has been delayed by U S. interests and investment concerns. It notes Senator Vandenberg's suggestion of a ten year test for autonomy and questions the moral basis for denying self rule while others claim it.
Louis Kiefer, who came to the United States in 1856, recalls life as a Mississippi river pilot and Colorado mining adventures. He believes today holds as much adventure as the past, arguing romance comes from within and can be found in any era.
Bruce Catton argues investigations cannot restore the dead after a school bus and train crash in Ohio. He warns modern life is dangerous and demands constant vigilance from cradle to grave in a high speed mechanical age.
A quirky note plays on science boasting of an unbreakable phonograph record while imagining bypassing it by sailing it out the back window at a neighbor's cat.
The Senate voted down the import duty on shoes. The article notes hope for future restrictions on the number of heels entering from Europe as a protective measure.
Duke University will award 43 graduate fellowships and scholarships for 1930 31 totaling at least 21900 dollars. Angier Duke memorial fellowship leads with 1000 dollars, plus eight other named awards and several 600 level fellowships. Applications close March 15 and recipients must assist in labs or departmental duties.
The University of North Carolina Glee Club earned first and last positions on the program for the Southern Intercollegiate Glee Club contest in Greenville, S C, February 7 after three separate drawings. Schools drawing ahead included Erskine college, Wofford college, Furman university and Guilford college in various order.
Rabbi Stephen S Wise renowned Zionist leader visits Chapel Hill to deliver two lectures on Jewish American topics Tuesday and Wednesday next week. He speaks Tuesday on Jew and Christian agreements and Wednesday on My Vision of America, with Tuesday address moved to the Methodist church due to Memorial Hall closure.
John Warren, a light heavyweight, succeeds his brother Add Warren, now a heavyweight pro, as a rising boxing star in North Carolina. The brothers build their reputations in local rings and attract attention for upcoming bouts.
Enterprise Bureau reports home demonstration agents reorganizing clubs for the live at home program. Counties such as Polk Rockingham Stanly Washington Iredell Greenville Beaufort Wayne and Martin show activity from 59 agents promoting health canning curb markets and garden contests with prizes and community aid efforts.
Jetter H. Williamson of Evergreen in Tatum township killed an 894 pound Poland China barrow. The two year old hog is noted as Columbus county's second most successful swine raiser.
Alaska as an organized territory is represented in the house of representatives by one delegate elected by popular vote.
Adjutant John OBeirne of the Salvation Army Post urges donations of old clothes and wearable shoes to help boys and girls endure the intense cold and snow. Call 4328 to offer assistance or arrange pickup.
Duke university faces the strong Carolina Bugs in Chapel Hill with only two veterans on the roster. Captain St. Amand at 125 pounds and Carper at 164 pounds return from last year as Duke builds a young team under coach Tex Tilson. Duke opened with a 5 to 2 win over South Carolina, while Carolina fields six veterans and Koenig, a new performer, as they seek the Southern Conference title.
The United States Mint reports producing 466,651,000 coins for foreign governments in the last fiscal year. This output supports international coin programs and currency exchanges managed by foreign partners.
A collage of quick vignettes from New York London Orleans Moscow New Haven and Atlanta Richmond outlining memorial dedications court observations executions cellist concerts and aviation themed feats. Names such as Joyce Kilme Park and John Coolidge appear amid mentions of Miss Augustine Agogue Anna Luboshitz and Dick Merr with fleeting notes on trains and public notices.
NOME Alaska Jan 30 A search for the bodies of Carl Hielson and Earl Borland in a lagoon 90 miles southeast North Cape Siberia where their plane was located last Sat by pilots Joe Crosson and Hal Gillam enters its fifth day. No trace of the bodies found as workers to uncover the wreckage in four foot trenches through ice and snow over an area as large as a city block. More men will be taken to the scene at 1000 as possible as the labor of digging through ice and snow is exhausting.
A note says Britain has a nuncio accredited to the Vatican but that the Vatican cannot appoint an apostolic nuncio to London due to legal restrictions. The situation involves church diplomacy and legal limits affecting cross border ecclesiastical representation.
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