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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1945
Page
14
Elsie Robinson writes on brutal domestic violence sparked by drunkenness describing a wife left to endure a brutal husband and the community's callous reaction. She condemns the public as cruel and warns against treating abuse as humor or a private matter.
Total national crop production is projected to exceed the long-term average yet remain shy of the 1942 and 1944 bumper years, with figures higher than any year outside those peaks. Analysts cite favorable weather and expanding acreage as key factors driving the rise.
Several children from local families mark summer birthdays as their fathers serve overseas. Marvin Nichols turns one as Judy Walker’s family notes her father in the army abroad. Linda Adams and Danny Bromfield observe second birthdays while their parents await return from overseas assignments. Santina Lisacchi turns five as her father serves in Germany. Addresses and family details are listed.
Pattern 4868 offers a dainty frock with side buttons for self use in children sizes 2 4 6 8 10. Includes easy to sew and iron fabric options with dainty ruffles and a 2 yard 35 inch length for size 6. Also references Anne Adams 1945 Summer Pattern Book and free hat bag gloves patterns.
Raleigh reports that Harley and Homer Ferguson, NC natives from Haywood County, originated flood control ideas on Raccoon Creek. Their father taught them work ethic and channel improvement, leading Harley to West Point and a U S Army career and Homer to head Newport News shipbuilding.
The OPA announces price adjustments to ensure ample low priced woolen and knit goods for the nation this winter. District director L. W. Driscoll notes knit cotton and woolen hosiery underwear and outer garments are affected. Actions include restrictions on robbers and a planned rise in herringbone twill through joint OPA and War Production Board efforts. Wholesalers and retailers must share cost increases for heavyweight cotton knitted underwear rather than wholesalers bearing the full burden.
Jess Stacy, seven time Downbeat pop piano poll winner, debuts as bandleader on Victor with Daybreak Serenade and Its Only a Paper Moon featuring Lee Wiley. Perry Como teams with Russell Case for Till the End of Time and Did You Ever Get That Feeling in the Moonlight. Tampa Red and Artie Shaw deliver blues and jazz sides on Bluebird and Victor labels.
Larry Stevens with orchestra conducted by Mahlon Merrick delivers a polished debut on Victor. Stars In Your Eyes from Pan American heads for the hit class while I Don’t Want To Be Loved has romantic appeal. Stevens’ voice and Merrick’s arrangement create a strong, toe tapping Shaw rhythm backed recording.
Miss Sara Alice McCaskill and Pvt Thomas Craven wed in a living room ceremony in Thomasville. Rev J A Cox officiated. Bride wore white eyelet with white carnation corsage. The bride, a Thomasville High School graduate, resides at 509 Welborn Street. Pvt Craven, a Trinity High School graduate, is stationed at Camp Gordon, Georgia.
SalisburyRotarians at a dinner meeting ready to hear talk on six million jobs found six immediate openings instead. A waiter shortage forced the club's steward's committee to serve 75 diners and carry one dirty dish to the kitchen.
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