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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1931
Page
5
Eleven workers trapped by flood in a 100 foot tunnel section and a 37 foot shaft near Milwaukee were rescued by 25 firefighters after six hours. They sheltered in two compression chambers, smoked and joked while awaiting rescue, and all were later treated at a hospital.
Miss Goldie Anderson and Miss Beatrice Stevens were selected as Boots and Babe in a Bay City Daily Times contest. Edgar E. Martin, the strip artist, served as judge. The winners will attend the Eastern Michigan Water Carnival in Bay City on August 30 as guests of the newspaper.
Editors and publishers from the state gather in Morehead City for the 59th annual North Carolina Press association meeting. The program prioritizes recreation with bathing fishing and boating. Coast guard and fisheries boats enable shipboard sessions and a Swansboro fish fry.
In Lexington on July 20 two white men named Fred Jackson and Jack Thompson were jailed in Davidson county on auto theft charges. Each could not post $1,000 bond after a local court trial following their arrest near the post office. They allegedly stole John Kirk’s Dodge sedan, were chased to the Southbound Railroad, and captured by Chief Talbert. Authorities fingerprinted them and sent prints to Washington for identification.
George Olen dorf of Springfield Missouri was elected imperial outer guard by the Shriners at their Cleveland convention. If the system of annual progression holds, he will become imperial potentate of North America in 1942.
North Carolina officials and experts praise a ten year development plan proposed by Mr. Taylor. Gov Gardner and Dr Frank Graham call the program constructive aiming to mobilize resources in education industry agriculture and tourism to raise prosperity.
Two men died and several were injured in weekend North Carolina crashes. Theodore Lynn a 66 year old peach grower and father of two Durham policemen was killed near Durham in a collision with Grady Thomas of Asheville. Roger Atkinson a 46 year old highway foreman died near Elizabethtown in another crash. Bill Blue of Rocky Mount and Vernon Hart of Tarboro were among those injured and State Senator W G Clark suffered cuts and bruises.
New powder MELLO GLO claims to moisturize without drying skin and to conceal large pores. It is touted as purest and finest with color approved by the U S government. Offered at Mann Drug Store and Eckerd's as READ ENTERPRISE WANT ADS.
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