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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1944
Page
5
The Office of Price Administration plans an Aug 1 drive to boost car pooling among home to work drivers with extra gasoline rations. Motorists will be urged to join pools with neighbors to rotate car use, easing tire and fuel shortages as auto numbers decline. If not in a pool, renewal of extra rations will be limited to 30 days.
The board bars further extra rations for the ousted envoy and requires him to show signatures from people in his pool to prove its existence. Ration boards will assess each case on its merits for renewals, with special cases receiving special consideration.
Ensign Mack Cross and fellow trainees use a simulated gun on a movie screen to practice gunnery, aiming at zooming enemy planes with an electronic eye and scoring hits. The exercise builds speed, accuracy, and coordination for real flight anti air combat.
A regional conference of tobacco growers and warehousemen from five flue cured states voted to call a ballot on a holiday opening to pressure the OPA to announce a 41 cent price ceiling for untied tobacco. Georgia and other states weighed delays, while South Carolina led efforts to postpone openings.
A tent store at the crossroads of two Indian Territory routes in McAlester, Oklahoma, grew into a key regional city junction. The site marked the meeting of the California Trail and the Texas road, fueling development.
Kate Marcellus, longtime San Diego court reporter, ends 31-year tenure with a record of 133,152,000 words captured. Officials note her place in local reporting history as she leaves the bench.
Pvt. Sherman Hicks of High Point has been transferred to the medical enlisted technician school at Brooke General Hospital San Antonio Texas. Prior to service he worked at a hosiery mill and now his wife and son live at 601 Kennedy Street. Pfc Albert R Meredith son of Mrs Nealy Meredith 806 Tate Street High Point has been promoted to corporal effective July 1 while stationed at Moses Lake Army Airfield near High Point his wife Ochia Meredith lives on Route 2 High Point.
Pvt. Jesse D. Steele son of Mr and Mrs J H Steele 1101 Marion Avenue has been assigned to the RAF training command radio school at Sioux Falls Army Air Field Sioux Falls South Dakota for training under the 8 D designation.
Pvt Ray Wood formerly of 903 Mangum Street in this city has been promoted to Private First Class. He is now stationed at Camp Barkley Texas at the Army Service Forces Training Center.
Mr and Mrs F A Sechrest of 1712 Branch Street report four sons in military service. Sons listed include Melville A Sechrest an engineer aviation fire fighter stationed in southern Italy and James C Sechrest with an army medical unit who recently returned to Camp Barkeley Texas after a recent assignment.
Charles E. Wilson, executive vice chairman of the War Production Board, is shown by the Treasury as earning $167,916.64 in 1942 as General Electric president. He also drew $77,916.64 salary and a $90,000 bonus. The prior year he earned $175,000. The Treasury lists Wilson as earning $303,166.16 as president of General Motors, including $150,000 salary, with $276,433.94 in the preceding year.
Pat Alarcon removed one heart then another and then a third from a hog he was dressing. The three hearted hog had lived a normal life before slaughter. Thailand's crop diversification program is proving a great success.
Aviation Cadet Henry Sechrest spends a 15 day furlough with his parents in Orangeburg South Carolina after returning to camp. Pvt Sechrest also spent time with family and G M 3/¢ Gerald D Sechrest is now stationed in Cuba having previously served in the Virgin Islands.
Capt George Webster, for years living with his aunt Mrs A S Caldwell at 531 Parkway, is reported to have landed with the Fourth Marine Division in the Saipan invasion. He is detained in a field hospital with a minor foot wound.
Mozambique advances its railway modernization plan as part of a broad development push. In Ireland this year nearly 20,000 workers will harvest peat to supply fuel, reflecting regional energy and infrastructure efforts.
In a wartime medical column Dr. Logan Clendening explains jeep seat as an infected pilonidal cyst often arising in lower spine skin folds. He links repeated trauma and Jeep usage to cyst formation, notes thousands affected, and cites Italy’s hospital strains. The piece also answers questions on cleft palate and harelip correction viability.
African villagers in Kawamba district collected nearly 9,000 pounds of rubber in 15 months to aid the war effort. The drive is organized by local chiefs, with a letter from a former townsman serving in Iran.
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