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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1944
Page
3
In Normandy soldiers face a juvenile candy racket as French children beguile passing convoys with smiles and brief appeals. A girl in a white dress delays trucks by offering gum and candy from a small box, while boys stage showy diversions to corner sweets from troops.
Brookfield writer recalls a collector delaying a paper call due to a subscriber who owed only 4 nickels. She cooked a fresh chocolate pie, he bought a slice for 10 cents, and the pie provided 15 cents to settle the bill. A nearby Ipswich find, an inch-long tube, is blamed on a 3,000-year-old Babylonia seal discovery.
MOYOCK July 18. Robert Nels Swanson USNR was killed when his navy land plane crashed 10 miles south of Moyock Monday afternoon according to the Fifth Naval District. Next of kin is listed as his father Nels Swanson of Galen store Deer Lodge Montana. GOLDSBORO July 18. John Mattern former captain in the German Air Force and now a private in the U S Army Air Force stationed in Greensboro will address the 189th District Rotary International convention here Thursday night. The convention will wind up Friday afternoon.
In Middlesex a 12 year old Earl Boone died from Rocky Mountain spotted fever marking the second fatality in three weeks. two other Middlesex cases have recovered. In Wilmington mayor Bruce Barclay Cameron, 58, died at Temple University Hospital after a Philadelphia trip for an arm operation. his widow, mother, three sons and two daughters survive. The body will arrive tomorrow morning.
ABC liquor sales across four North Carolina counties totaled $1 659 100.95 in June compared with $1 317 730.60 in May. The report highlights statewide gains in alcohol revenues.
Mrs. Albertine McKellar, ex U S Public Health Service official, was appointed health education consultant in the state department of public instruction funded by a 10 000 grant from the Kellogg Foundation to the state. Lacy Alexander McDaniel, 33, was held on charges of raping and stabbing Mrs Charles R Harris Jr in Greensboro. police report the victim is a 26 year old mill worker and the suspect admitted the crime.
Pfc. Nick E. Langley of Henderson North Carolina received the Soldier's Medal for saving a fellow soldier from drowning at Camp Campbell Kentucky on March 27 1944. He swam to the submerged man and surface-dived until locating him then towed him to shore and helped administer resuscitation with another soldier's aid.
Colorado state college station finds hogs prefer cooked beans over raw culled pinto beans. Hogs relish a piping hot dish of baked beans. beans normally thrown away as unfit for human consumption.
Raleigh July 18 The state press association meeting highlights strong newspaper service in North Carolina. Emphasis shifts to news reporting and editorial writing with more women at work in selective service era. Home ownership of papers remains, supporting a focus on news over cost.
Raleigh dispatch notes attorney general digest on justices of the peace double office holding and related rules. It clarifies six month absence from township forfeiting office, election validity when registrars aid a candidate, limits on dual offices like county commissioner and school board, and rules on doctor initials, police qualifications, beer licenses, and entry rights for process serving officials.
North Carolina beer drinkers paid about nine million dollars in taxes last year, with the federal government receiving roughly six million, the state two point eight million, and counties and cities about one hundred forty thousand. The article also notes political shifts, absences of state leaders, and concerns over military voting addresses.
University of Chicago sociologist Prof. Ernest W. Burgess reports that rising education levels have shifted marital quarrels from raw physical cruelty to what he calls more civilized hostilities. He cites nagging, extravagance, and in husbands the cold public indifference to wives and reliance on mothers for advice as common forms. He warns that chronic financial stinginess and criticism can trigger anxiety and mental distress, while noting that even cruel behavior persists in enhanced forms with education.
An advertisement touts Tromone as a medical formula combining vitamins and hormones to restore vitality, vigor, and youthful pleasures for men in middle age. It claims renewed spirit and approach to life, urging readers to follow label directions and noting Mann Drug and druggists stock the product.
Weekly roundup of rationing news covers book 4 point values for processed foods meats and fats sugar canning sugar and shoes. It notes fuel oil and gasoline coupon renewals and urges car owners to record license numbers on gasoline coupons as issued by the ration board.
Washington July 18 The Office of Price Administration announced a five percent price increase for unpainted wood household furniture to raise earnings toward the 1936 1939 level. The order allows no retail price rise yet but will be discussed at a forthcoming meeting in Washington.
Dr. Logan Clendening describes the liver as the body’s detoxifier and storage, noting its key roles in fat and protein metabolism, vitamin storage, and blood quality. He explains cirrhosis from alcohol, hepatitis toxins, and a liver diet high in carbohydrates and protein with total 3000 calories. He urges abstaining from alcohol and outlines a reader-friendly plan for those who feel liverish.
During the 1930s to 1940, the United States expanded its highway network by more than a si miles while British troops adopted insecticide impregnated shirts to guard against typhus carrying lice.
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