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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1946
Page
12
The column recalls a pair of anecdotes from Emporia Kansas and Missouri about housing, veterans, and work. It contrasts roving journeymen printers with modern linotype and reflects on veterans seeking shelter and the mixed behavior of tenants and landlords. It notes generational views on marriage and social norms.
The civilian production administration approved $2,000,000 of construction for Bob Jones College in Alabama. Senator Kvacek said the CPA had originally provided $3,000,000 but did not approve four buildings including a library. The college is moving from Cleveland, Tennessee.
The article promotes picnics by noting outdoor cooking enhances flavor and suggests two novel snacks to try. It encourages readers to bring both items to a future picnic and to decide which they prefer.
A recipe note describes Mor canned meat prepared as Mor Kabobs with onion and bacon on skewers, Mor Roll-Ups using Mor slices around pickle and cheese, then roasted over coals. The wording implies simple, portable picnic fare with quick assembly and roasting.
Finish your picnic with potato salad shoestring carrots celery tomatoes green onions and fruit desserts. Kebab and rollups cook over glowing coals for even heat and no char. Allow extra outdoor cooking time and let each guest cook his own food for fun.
Cambridge University experts report a strictly rationed diet free of luxuries can be healthy once adapted. The wartime style regimen limited meat one pound weekly, cheese four ounces, sugar five ounces, and no butter, with potatoes up to three pounds daily. Participants included five Cambridge and London graduates led by a 21-year-old medical student.
Lorrain Ohio reports a high school biology teacher turned part time shoe clerk started a foot health program for 4000 pupils. Joseph McKee aims to model a foot saving education after finding foot defects common among youth in World War I. He measured students’ feet and advised parents on proper shoe sizes, boosting proper fit.
The American Petroleum Institute states that four barrels of oil were consumed for every new barrel discovered during 1940 through 1945. This statistic reflects early wartime energy efficiency and exploration costs amid expanding output.
A Panamanian tanker George R. Henry is grounded on a sand bar near Morehead City. Tugs tried to pull it free then a Norfolk barge was brought in to take on part of the asphalt cargo in hopes of lightening the vessel enough to float off. The grounding began last Saturday.
The report notes an on road average of 41.2 miles an hour across the measured route. The detail implies a traffic or travel efficiency reading for the specified segment.
Mrs. Orrin Morgan of Arlington Texas owes her life to repeated donations of RH negative blood. After a 1944 birth revealed her rare blood type, Dr J M Hill and Baylor hospital staff developed a safer RH negative transfusion system. During a recent automobile accident Hill drove 56 miles to Weatherford Texas in 45 minutes with the correct blood aiding a rapid recovery.
Very few thunder storms occur along the Pacific coastal regions as atmospheric conditions limit convective activity near the shore. Weather officials note stable air masses and cooler ocean breezes reduce thunderstorm development.
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