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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1933
Page
5
The American Legion Auxiliary will hold a regular meeting Friday at 7 45 PM at Mrs J C Welch home on Greensboro road. Associate hostess will be Mrs W J Bennett Mrs Jack Burris and Miss Elizabeth Welch. Thomas W Sprinkle local attorney will speak on Fidac work and aims. Election of new officers will follow.
The notice lists several residents traveling to Baltimore Washington and Lexington along with others recovering from appendicitis at Burrus Memorial Hospital. It notes Mrs Juanita Lambeth improving after surgery and Dick Hughes ill post operation.
A 10 to 15 percent wage increase is announced for 800 employees of the Virginia Lincoln Furniture Manufacturing company with Bristol and Marion plants. The May 16 raise was 10 percent.
General Italo Balbo visited the World’s Fair with a small party, blending in by changing from uniform to a dark suit. He toured midway and auto scooter attractions, impressed with a baseball throwing contest and target shooting, but declined to join a nightclub act, leaving the grounds abruptly.
Atlanta July 18 The new code raises pay and payrolls in the Southern textile sector but triggers temporary layoffs at Bibb Manufacturing in Georgia with about 1500 workers expected to be affected. Augusta and Salisbury mills also cut shifts and staff under the 80 hour week. Richmond Hosiery Mills protested to President Roosevelt, warning the broader impact on workers as about 50 000 southern laborers may seek reemployment under the 40 hour week and minimum wage provisions.
State employes face mandatory 38 percent pay cuts from 1930 levels, with possible upward reclassification to higher scales. Assistant Budget Director Frank Dunlap conducts department by department reviews to spot deserving workers for adjusted pay within available appropriations, though most gains are unlikely and upward moves balanced by downward reclassifications.
A federal employment office location here near the first of August has been announced. The notice identifies Gastonia as the site and indicates the services will be available to aid job seekers.
John Creel, 45, lay fatally wounded from buckshot fired through a window at his Durham hospital as police questioned Clyde Blackwell of Carrboro. Blackwell was held after officers found a freshly discharged firearm at his home.
Officers report tracks leading to Creel's window matched his footprint pattern. Blackwell, once a cash register salesperson, is now employed at a local mill. English is the official language for Philippine courts.
A public health advertisement urges purification of the body as a basis for health. It promotes Calotabs as a cleansing remedy taken weekly over several weeks to stimulate the liver kidneys stomach and bowels with 10 cent and 35 cent packages available at dealers.
The Carolinas Branch of Associated General Contractors of America will hold its annual summer meeting in Wrightsville Beach on July 21 and 22. Executives plan a Friday directors and finance session and a Saturday general session with speakers including EB B Jeffress A J Maxwell L P Slattery Prof W G Geile Edward J Harding and Col Walker Taylor. Earle Whitton will respond to the Wilmington address. F L Shackleford presides.
The North Carolina association of chiefs of police opened its annual two day convention in BEACH with Chief Joe A. Lane of Wilmington presiding. President J. G. Wooten of Winston-Salem said he could not attend.
About 7,000 Cleveland County children will begin school next week as schools reopen early for a summer recess during cotton picking time.
The 3rd annual Piedmont Kennel Club show will be held in Charlotte next. Organizers invite clubs and entries for a regional event featuring conformation and canine judging across multiple breeds.
The seventh annual institute for Southern social work will be held here next Monday through Saturday, with sessions and discussions planned across multiple days by regional professionals and students.
The burning of 23 000 obsolete freight cars of the Southern railway system has begun here as part of the railway's restructuring efforts. Officials say the burn addresses safety and environmental concerns while clearing space for new rolling stock.
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