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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1942
Page
6
The piece outlines interagency clashes over airfield approvals, Doolittle raid insights, and public relations issues in wartime. It notes FAA/C.A.A. tensions, potential investigations, and critics arguing political motives behind runway authorizations and publicity maneuvers in Washington.
Anne Adams unveils Pattern 4032 4035 two waistline styles surplice bodice with compact layout saving fabric. Size 36 uses 2 7/8 yards of 39 inch fabric. Available in sizes 34 36 38 40 42 44 for fifteen cents plus one cent mailing. Send order to High Point Enterprise Pattern Department New York.
Two YWCA groups hold meetings plus a called board of directors and finance committee session. Finance panel meets Tuesday at Adams Memorial to discuss the year’s budget while the directors’ meeting is set for Thursday at the Y building. Various clubs meet tonight and through Friday with speakers, ice cream making, surgical dressings and a theater party on the slate.
Mrs Linville IX. Martin of Winston Salem newly elected national president of the Junior Leagues of America will visit and address the High Rains Junior Service League at the July meeting at ten thirty in the morning in the League rooms at the Adams Alumical YWCA building A board meeting will precede the general meeting at nine thirty
Mr and Mrs Harry Krabbe announce the marriage of their daughter Ruth Irene to Walter L Hargett Jr lieutenant United States Army Air Force on Thursday July 9 1942 The vows were said at Church of the Resurrection St Louis and the couple left by plane for New Orleans for a brief wedding trip returning soon to Albany Ga where Lt Hargett teaches air navigation at Turner Field
Oak Hill Friends Christian Endeavor Society met Sunday to discuss Save Thyself Last with leader Miss Elwanda Gurley and participants including Frances and Jacqueline Burton Madeline Gurley Hilda Workman and Lucy and Vera Lee Marsh. Springfield Friends Senior Endeavor discussed Love Thyself Last with Beba Cox leading and Irene Parker reading a poem Others. Mr and Mrs Ray Welhorn announce birth of daughter Nancy Raymonde on Sunday July 3.
Asheboro announces the engagement of Virginia Lee Cox to George M Moorefield of Baltimore Maryland for August 21 at First Baptist Church Asheboro The bride elect attended Asheboro High School and Wake Forest College The groom to be is a Wake Forest graduate and draftsman for Glenn L Martin Company in Baltimore Details on celebratory gatherings and local social events are noted with out of town guests and party hosts.
Announcement of the marriage of Mrs O M Andrews of High Point to J R Carson of Greensboro on Friday July 10 1942 at Danbury North Carolina. The ceremony was at 11 am at the home of Elmer Petree with Rev J L Love officiating. The couple will live in Greensboro after a brief stay in Virginia. Carson is county superintendent of Stokes County Education Board.
Mrs. C. M. Hauser and her daughter Mrs. Dick White plan to depart for New York after a month-long visit with relatives and friends in the area. Mrs. White, former Miss Margaret Hauser, accompanied her husband Pvt. White, stationed at Biloxi, Mississippi, and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, with stops in High Point. she is on vacation from Scholastic Magazine where she serves as associate editor.
Eleanor Welch leaves for Camden Maine to join the Harp Colony of America. She will perform in a Maine concert with an eleven harps ensemble under director Carlos Salzedo. En route she visits the G A Muenzar yacht on Long Island and spends days at Dartmouth College. A Magi not Line model with Price Reduced sign was shown in a Landon show window.
About People Miss Ollie Rimmer returns home Friday after two weeks in Norfolk Virginia. Lindsay Rimmer, of Norfolk, who visited his mother Mrs. Macey Rimmer on Tipton Street, leaves for Norfolk after a week in town. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hester and three sons come home from a week at Mabile Beach South Carolina. Rebecca and Jor Hester visit cousins John and Mary Oates in Fayetteville during their parents' absence. Mrs. Frances Yates and Kittie Joyce spend Sunday in Winston-Salem at the Children’s Home with Annie Laurie Daniels. Mrs. Bill Bailey and Rebecca Anne return from Newport News after two weeks with athletic director husband in the Naval Reserve. Miss Mary Alice Boles visits Iris Odean Ward and Charles Ward plus relatives in town.
The Lottie Moon Circle of West End Baptist Church will meet this evening at eight at Mrs. D. R. Ledrick 406 Rotary Drive per this morning's announcement. Williams Harrison Dempsey, the Manassa Mauler, was the third in his family to bear the name Jack Dempsey. Two of his brothers used the name in boxing before him, all adopting it from the great middleweight fighter Jack Dempsey, the Nonpareil.
Oakland police officer Melbourne Enders speaks of hunting a burglar who entered his home and took his handcuffs, service pistol ammunition, a police call box key, and his shiny whistle. The case highlights the officer’s personal stake in solving the crime.
Radio program listings show a dense schedule with varied acts and news segments from 6:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. including The Ben Bernie Musical Show, Denver's String Orchestra, Hedda Hopper on Movies, Fred Waring’s program, Amos and Andy, Lone Ranger repeats, and late news. The list also notes multiple orchestras, serials, and war time updates threaded between musical performances.
Thomasville July 13 Special Boyce Sechrest 16 son of Mr and Mrs Lee Sechrest residents of Hinkle Street is in City Memorial Hospital in critical condition following a hit and run bicycle automobile collision on Fisher Ferry Street Sunday night He was taken to the hospital in a Russell ambulance with skull base fracture and numerous cuts and bruises Dr C H Phillips said the youth was precarious and unconscious Officers arrested Gaither Cheek near Hanestown brought to Thomasville jailed to await trial on hit and run driving and possibly more serious charges Cheek resides in Thomasville but has worked in defense in Norfolk Sea He has two prior drunkenness arrests and may face a local court hearing this week
The 19th annual encampment of the North Carolina department United Spanish War Veterans opened in Charlotte. Thomas A. Price of Charlotte, department chief of staff, and Mrs Ava Toms of Shells, auxiliary president, presided at the first general session.
In South Africa rising costs hit vegetables as ships calling at ports and expanding military camps drive demand. Prices climb amid heightened maritime traffic and strategic stationing, with growers watching supply and costs closely.
New York columnist Albert N. Leman argues that Congress and Allied leaders face a crucible as Wehrmacht momentum presses Kursk and Kharkov. He warns that only rapid reinforcements and a genuine second front can prevent Soviet collapse, while domestic gas and fuel shortages hit Eastern farmers and urban firms alike. The piece blends strategic analysis with wartime homefront concerns and morale questions.
Sam Holt, chairman of the Southern Appalachian Tournament in Asheville North Carolina, confirms the event dates August 28 29 and 30. The piece recalls a hand from a past championship where Sam's early plays and clever tenace lead to a favorable ending amid critique that East should have let spades ride.
A clipped local obituary notices Nazi dead on the Russian front. Subscribers mail arrivals with notes. A Norwegian song fragment shows a Gestapo query about drunken troops stealing a car and plunging from a pier, a fisherwoman’s shrug and reply about England bound troops.
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