Bicycles Bring Safety Problem in North Carolina
North Carolina faces a rising bicycle presence on roads as the Highway Safety Division urges cities to license and register bicycles to aid theft recovery and rider safety. Motorists bikes and license rules extend to small motorized cycles with age and driver license requirements. The division supports bicycle clubs to promote safe riding practices statewide.
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Bob Thompson
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh
Motor Vehicle Commission
North Carolina
Roddie Ward
Enforcing bicycle laws shifts to new courts and sidewalks
With rising adult cycling, cities explore modernizing ordinances and curbside tribunals. Some towns consider using welfare officers or students as judges in youth bicycle cases, while adults remain in traffic courts. Ward advocates sidewalk riding in residential areas to spare riders from auto traffic.
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Ward
Army seeks cameras and lenses for motion picture use
The War Department announced an urgent need for 35 mm motion picture cameras and lenses. It asked owners to sell or donate equipment and to send full descriptions of age condition and price expectations to the Signal Corps Photographic Purchase Board in Long Island City New York.
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Washington
War Department
Army
Signal Corps Photographic Purchase Board
25Th Avenue
Long Island City
N. Y
Beyond the Blue Horizon at Center theatre
Dorothy Lamour stars in Paramounts Technicolor jungle film Beyond the Blue Horizon with Richard Denning Jack Haley Patricia Morison Walter Abel Helen Gilbert and Elizabeth Patterson A new tune A Full Moon and An Empty Heart features in the picture and a man killing elephant serves as the jungle menace to recover papers that would prove Dotty heiress status The film marks Lamours 24th screen role and follows earlier her jungle adventure Carnivals and tropical romances at the box office narrative tone intact for this era.
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Center Theatre
Dorothy Lamour
Dotty
Detty
Richard Denning
Jack Haley
Patricia Morison
Walter Abel
Helen Gilbert
Elizabeth Patterson
la Lamour
United States
Abel
Haley
Tis
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Lack of Tires May Curtail State School Buses
North Carolina may see bus service reduced next school year due to tire shortages after the Office of Price Administration rejected a 7,000 tire request for Imises. Secretary Nathan Yelton of the State School Commission warned some buses will be out of service and mileage will be curtailed while officials assess impact. The commission had moved from local rationing boards to a lump request with the OPA.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Nathan Yelton
State School Commission
Office of Price Administration
Luqtacious Love Revealed By Censor Note In War Letter
Sebring Florida tale from Hi-Life shows a soldier’s sweetheart receiving a Pacific front letter with a censor slip inside reading Your boy friend stil loves you but he talks too much signed Censor. The slip highlights the wartime censoring quirks reported by Hendricks Field publication.
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Sebring
Fla
Hi-Life
Hendricks Field
Pacific War
California
J Randolph Jones Reengaged to Conduct Jersey City Orchestra
J Randolph Jones, nephew of Mr and Mrs Grover H Jones of Lexington Avenue High Point, will conduct the Jersey City Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra for the 1942 1943 season his fourth year since the Philharmonic began. The season starts November 20 critics hail his interpretation and praise him as one of the few truly great young American conductors.
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J. Randolph Jones
Grover H. Jones
Lexington Avenue
High Point
Jersey City Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Philharmonic
Jones
Metropolitan Music
Jose Kurbi
Four Motor Vehicles Registered in 1895
The report notes that only four motor vehicles were registered in the country in 1895, highlighting the rarity of motorized transport at the time and signaling early adoption trends in a nascent industry.
Baltimore aunt of Mrs. Tabb dies after short illness
Mrs. William Preston Turner of Baltimore, aunt of Mrs. W. L. Tabb of 500 Parkway, died at her home after a brief illness. Mrs. Tabb, who spent summers with her aunt for years, left for Baltimore to attend funeral services. Turner had many High Point friends and was widely known there. Costa Rica is about the size of West Virginia.
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William Preston Turner
Baltimore
W. L. Tabb
500 Parkway
Tabb
Turner
Sugar mill ownership in Cuba shifts to Americans
About 55 percent of Cuba's sugar mills are owned by Americans, reflecting a substantial shift in control of the island's sugar industry. The figure indicates a dominant foreign stake in critical agricultural infrastructure and production.
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Cuba
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