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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1938
Page
7
Guilford County commissioners voted to abate alleged nuisances from loud activities and to forbid music or dancing from midnight Saturday to Monday morning at roadhouses in the county. The panel also tightened licensing for rural establishments and set a $100 posting requirement for operators.
State Triad Bureau grants charters to two firms. Color and Chemical Inc of High Point operates textile dye and chemical sales with 50000 capital stock and leaders Fred Wilson John J Francis and Woollen. Piedmont Color and Chem Co located on wine road beyond Highway 10A, new venture with Wilson as president, Francis as vice president, and Woollen as chairman.
Jo Padway, AFL-CIO counsel, charges the Labor Board with bias and aims to weaken craft unions. He cites a Serrick Corp closed shop order and claims the Board invalidated it to force bargaining with a United Workers Union while diminishing union rights via alleged process phony reasoning.
Leigh, July 29. Government weather alerts warned residents of a rising flood along the Neuse and Pamlico regions. Seville near Kinston faced rising water as the Neuse flooded lowlands, threatening crops and bridges. Nouse at Smithfield was forecast to reach 5.4 feet as rivers climbed. Goldsboro, the Roanoke, and other towns reported rising levels with warnings of possible damage into next week.
Melrose Hosiery Mills Inc has entered into a stipulation with the Federal Trade Commission to halt misleading hosiery labels. Discontinue labeling as wool when not wholly wool and require clear disclosures for mixed contents. Silk and rayon terms also to be corrected to avoid misrepresentation.
Greensboro July report by Dr. R M Bule shows sharp drops in Guilford County communicable diseases. Whooping cough falls from 42 in June to 5 in July. measles from 48 to 2. diphtheria zero in July versus 3 in June. Scarlet fever 1 both months. typhoid 2 in July and 1 in June. venereal disease 25 in July and 27 in June.
Reid Walker a 58 year old prominent farmer from Carraway Creek near Farmer is recovering from severe hip injuries after a mule threw him on the highway west of Asheboro. The animal bolted after a passing van frightened it and the incident occurred Tuesday.
The Wilsonian Democratic club of Forsyth county endorsed Gordon Gray publisher of the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel as candidate for president of the Young Democratic clubs of North Carolina at a meeting last night. In New Zealand, tradition bars native men from eating with women. seven married men prepare meals and live apart from their wives in barracks.
The United States has a population nearly three times that of Great Britain and experiences more than five times as many fatal road accidents.
In 1936 an American tire company produced 15 000 units of tire cord totaling 600 miles of material enough to circle the earth at the equator 730 times, illustrating industrial scale in that era.
An earthquake described as a sharp surface shock woke residents in upper Manhattan the Bronx parts of Westchester and the Palisades area of New Jersey. No damage was reported. Many callers said the quake woke them from sleep as it rattled homes and streets. The event followed an earlier metropolitan tremor on July 1 by about a year and eleven days.
The Social Security board reports full crediting of each employee's 1937 wages to their old age insurance accounts. Employers reported wages semiannually in 1937, now quarterly, with filings to the Internal Revenue Service and checks by the Bureau of Internal Revenue before recording by the Social Security board. A six month lag remains between reporting and account updating.
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