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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1945
Page
2
Partly cloudy and warm today and tonight with scattered thundershowers. Then partly cloudy skies with a slight cool down Wednesday and Thursday. Eastern sections may be a bit cooler with more shower and thunderstorm activity tonight and Wednesday. Overall, temperatures average normal with little precipitation elsewhere.
In 1879 the first interstate pipeline reached completion, delivering oil from Pennsylvania fields to the Atlantic seaboard, marking a milestone in early United States energy infrastructure.
Charlestown, W Va July 10 report says apprentice jockey Bob by Edense won three times on closing day to tie Charlestown’s riding record of 72 wins in a career. The feat matches Buddy who now races at major tracks.
Furman University in Greenville announces return to intercollegiate football in 1946 after a four year layoff. H. R. Red Dobson, Furman star of the 1920s, named athletic director. Dobson to move from Spartanburg High School where he led athletics for about 20 years.
Guilford County records list multiple transfers including City of High Point to Paul Webster Smith and wife for a Sheraton hills lot, Vance to Chapman for Sunrise hill lot, Gold to Sanders for East Commerce Street lot, Harriss to Ruby Bartlett for Snow Park and Brentwood tracts, and Trustees of Davidson College to Horace Haworth for Tomlinson Street lot. Other transfers include Wachovia Bank to Haworth for Commerce Street, Taylor to Taylor for Forest Avenue, Giles to Primm for Fairfield Road, and Armfield families transferring on Freeman Mill Road and adjoining properties.
A stock tele query at Boston's Franklin Park Zoo asks when lions will be clipped. Visitors misunderstand lion grooming, learning an attendant will not clip the king of beasts. Toulane production today far exceeds WWI coal output, being tenfold higher and mainly synthetic from petroleum.
HAL BOYLE describes Hyde Park in London as a living freedom haven GIs miss after years away. He recalls the park’s marble arch corner, crowded informal rallies, Salvation Army speakers, cross-border chatter, and the relaxed grassy serpentine walkways where soldiers dream of return and reminisce about times in New York and Greenwich Village.
The 24 000 ton former Italian luxury liner Saturnia renamed Francis Y Langer and rebuilt in the United States as the largest hospital ship completed a nine day voyage from New York to Southampton to pick up casualties. Col Sherman L Kiser said the return trip would raise the total casualties shipped from Southampton to the United States since D day to 90 000, with 10 000 embarked last month.
A 51 year old blind man was sent to state prison for stealing a ham. When asked how he did it he admitted he could not see but claimed he could smell the ham.
Washington July 10 final figures in the seventh war loan drive will be announced tonight Mor Genthau will speak over the Columbia broadcasting system at 7 p.m. He resigned last week and will leave the cabinet after President Truman returns from Europe. The drive opened May 14 and closed July 7 with sales totaling 22 698 000 000 dollars.
In Peoria Illinois the beverage distributer’s collector left Wesley Bailey’s tavern with a heavy beer bill paid in 16 795 pennies. The unusual payment created a remarkable but simple cash transaction at the tavern counter.
The Okinawa farmer lay dead amid cabbages and carrots as memories of war drifted from mementos and a pre Pearl Harbor Japanese English text. The worn kimono and quiet, inscrutable face reflect a simple man faced with a global conflict and a fading empire.
If you feel stiff and achy from hard work or exercise, apply Relief External to sore muscles and feel soothing relief quickly. Clip this ad and bring it to Mann's Cut Rate Drug Store. first purchase price is 25 cents.
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