Airport Authority Asks City For Funds Mills Here Urged To Speed Production
High Point industries are urged to boost wartime output as large-scale production declines due to skilled workers in military service. The High Point action committee and U S Employment Service will conduct a week of attendance checks to gauge factory use of capacity and direct mobilization of textile production for essential war needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peron
High Point Enterprise
High Point
N. C
Price F Airport Authority
High Point Or Action Committee
Arnold J
United States Employment Service
Joh E. Miller
Truman
Japan
Tthe War and Production Committee
War and Production Committee
Point
High Point Marine Devine Faces Return After Iwo Jima
Pfc. Charles H. Devine, foster son of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Dickerson of 704 Morris St, is home on 30-day convalescent leave from the naval hospital in Charleston, after combat fatigue treatment. He recalls Iwo Jima battles and narrow escapes, praising his fellow Marines and planning to visit friends after rest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H. Devine
Marshalls
Saipan
Tinian
Iwo Jima
L. H. Dickerson
Morris Street
Naval Hospital
Charleston
D.C
Shall Hole
Devine
Two Jima
Pearl Harbor
States
Postwar Planners Set To Review City Future Plans
High Point officials convene Monday at 11 to study the Postwar Planning Commission recommendations. Mayor Earl N. Phillips and council members will discuss eight committees, funding aims, and urgent projects including bridges, water mains, sewers, electric service, housing standards, and hydroelectric plant leasing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Hall
Kirkman
City Council
Earl N. Phillips
Amos Kearns
A. Lewis
E. Leroy B. Ness
Arnold . Koonce
D. Cox
S. C. Clark
P. E. Ee
Louis Voorhees
Ed Mendenhall
J. E. Millis
George Hutchens
Robert Parker
W. C. Idol
Rev. Wilson
Weldon
James Bulla
S. E. Burford
Charles L. Amos
Arnold J. Koonce
Roy S. Braden
Willowbrook
Perry
Hamilton Street
Pitometer Company
Underwriter's Association
Milk Fund tops $1000 in drive with Scouts aid
Milk Fund day boosted the Junior Service League total to 1158.71 with the Girl Scouts and a South Main street booth adding 105.36. Plans to raise more funds follow a goal of 2500 as citizens are urged to send donations and checks payable to the Junior Service League Milk Fund.
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Junior Service League
Girl Scouts
South Main Street
Junior Service League Milk Fund
Jean Anderson
Betty Jean Tysinger
Mitties Jane Henry
Carleen Walker
Carry Robertson
Peggy Hedrick
Imogene Warner
Lois Ballard
Peggy Ginger
Virginia Rhodes
Helen’ Garris
Mery Pate
Juanita Iling
Ann Vancannon
Cepot
Wilma Ann Kearns
Richardson's Department Store
Wine. Raymond
Ve Cole Sherrod
John Clinard
L. F. Voor
Bowne
Local Library Receives 36 New Books for Readers
The South Main Street library announces the arrival and cataloging of thirty six new fiction and miscellaneous titles. The lineup includes Come Spring and The Upstart by Edison Marshall, Shadows Under the Stars by Dorothy Black, and many others from authors such as Arthur Train, Ludwig Bemelmans, and Boris Sokoloff. Ray Bolger, the Boston born dancing musical comedy star, is noted in a brief biographical line.
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South Main Street
Ben Amos Williams
Edison Marshall
Ambrose Flack
Dorothy Black
Jennifer
Margaret 1I Nichols
Mr. Tutt
Arthur Train
Angler's Island
Helen Reilly
Ludwig Bemelmans
Young Bess
Margaret Irwin
Earl Wilson
Young Jefferson
Claude G. Bowers
Friedrich A. Hayek
Philadelphia
A. Leslie
Bradford Scott
Kelly Roos
Mary Howard
Love
Vivien Grey
Jan Smith
Clarence Kelland
Grace Livingston Hill
Frances Lockridge
A. Fielding
Frances Moore
Tom Curry
Boris Sokoloff
Erle Stanley Gardner
Margery Allingham
Leslie Ford
Hulbert Footner
Ruth S. Wallis
Pleasant Valley
Louis Bromfield
Frederick Wakeman
Personal Cables Accepted Now For Czechoslovakia
In San Francisco a UN cable desk displayed a sign announcing personal messages to Czechoslovakia. Hanna Mandelik, a Prague refugee now with the Office of War Information, sent a cable after six years of waiting, expressing both relief and longing for family.
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San Francisco
United Nations Conference
Czechoslovakia
Hanna Mandelik
Prague
Office of War Information
Hanna
Gift Bond Plan Pushes V-Mail Seventh War Loan
Directors of the Seventh War Loan campaign urge purchases of gift bonds to boost the quota of 3 737 000 and send morale boosts to overseas servicemen via V-Mail. Buyers receive a bond reproduction to fill with denomination, date, serial, owner name and address, plus a personal message. Postage applies unless the sender is a service member. Continued on Page 10-Sec, B.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chaser
Uci
United States
Council Weighs Paramount Theater Lease And Youth Center Plans
High Point officials consider renewing the city owned Paramount theatre lease with North Carolina Theatres Inc. The youth center adopts a summer schedule starting June 11 under a new board with Mrs Louis Voorhees as chair.
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Paramount Theater
Hamilton
Recreation Department of
City
Civil Service Commission
Recreation Department
Louis Voorhees
Louis Voodees
Margaret Briggs
Melvin Hayes
M. L. Patrick
Curtis Smithdeal
Kenneth Redman
Brooks Reitzel
High Point
Earl N. Phillips
Finance Committee
Public Works Committee
Roy S. Braden
Grover Jones
Paramount Theatre
The
North Carolina Theatres, Inc
Everett, Zane, and
Muse
City Lake Park
Eleanor S. Clifton
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Hedrick
North Hamil
High Point Asked to Fund Greensboro High Point Airport Improvements
Greensboro High Point Airport authority asks City of High Point for 25000 to pave facilities and fund improvements. Greensboro and Guilford County also considered contributions but details not set. Authority cites need for a larger admin building more space for weather bureau and public facilities to remain competitive and avoid subsidy reliance.
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Greensboro-High Airport Authority
City of
Anaes Roy S. B
Phillips
Guilford County
Greensboro
Airport Authority
Airport Au Ity
C. L. Amos
C. Kearns
High Point
Hall
Sedgefield
Cone
J. T. Martin
Wea
Republic
Wood Named Surgery Chief at Staunton Hospital
Col George T Wood Jr of this city becomes chief of surgery at Woodrow Wilson General Hospital Staunton Va on May 25 He served in World War II with the 38th Evacuation Hospital receiving the Legion of Merit He trained at Jefferson Medical College interned at Germantown Mayo Clinic and will relocate his wife and four children to Staunton after securing living quarters and follows Col Leonard F Bush who left for other duties.
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George T. Wood, Jr
Woodrowson General Hospital
Staunton
Wood
High Point
Charlotte
NCG
Africa
England
Arzew
Tunis
Italy
I Army
Anzio
Cassino
Florence
George T., III
Douglas Wood
Staton
Jefferson Medical College
Philadelphia
Germantown Hospital
Mayo Clinic
Leonard F. Bush
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Boths
Charles Devine
High Point Marine
Yadkin River
Relp Rouse
Nesmp
Juliette Low
America
World Friendship Fund
Kitty Marsh
Brownie
Helen Dallas
Ann Dowd
Olive Forbes
Girl Scout Friendship Fund
Shirley Rogers
Betty Portee
Peggy L. Blair
Lila L. Gripper
DE Dury Ta
Milk Fund
Ray Bolger
V-Mail
Seventh War Loan Campaign
Youth Center
Col. Geo. Wood
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