High Point Girl Joins Army Signal Corps Training
Vera Juanita Gillis of High Point is among 115 North Carolina girls appointed to the U S Army Signal Corps through NYA war training centers. They’ll work at Fort Monmouth New Jersey in general development laboratories as radio trainee repairmen after six months earning 1440 and then 1620 annually.
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North Carolina
United States Army Signal Corps
National Youth Administration
NYA
Warren T. Davis, Jr
Signal Corps’ General Development Laboratories
Fort Monmouth
N. J
Greenville
Sardis
Ellerbe
J. Roshka
Asheville
United States
Signal Corps
Vera Juanita i Gillis
High Point
NVA
Sardis Center
Charlotte
Ellerbe Center
Richmond County
Greenville Center
Pit County
Raleigh
Durhamy
William J. Speed
Dale F. Keller
State Department of Education
Local youths qualify for aviation cadets in Winston-Salem
Edwin G Watkins Jr and Isaac H McKinney both of High Point and Carroll A Stearns Jr of Burlington qualified before the Aviation Cadet examining board in Winston-Salem for appointment as Aviation Cadets in the United States Army Air Corps. Mrs E E Young of Seattle considers following her hunches after an early morning aspirin saved a mising spare tire incident. About eighty percent of market milk in the United States is pasteurized.
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Edwin Goode Watkins, Jr
Emerywood Court
Isaac Harding McKinney
Guilford Avenue
High Point
Carroll Adams Stearns
Church Street
Burlington
Aviation Cadet Examining Board
Winston-Salem
United States Army Air Corps
Seattle
E. E. Young
Nazi Nervous Over Allied West Offensive Rumors
London dispatch reports the Free French press says Germany is nervous about a potential Allied push in the west. Fortifications along the Rhine are being strengthened and anti-commando units are to be stationed at major coastal points including St Nazaire. Tex readers hear about a judge and a mess hall lemon pie contest with a broadcast prize after the winner’s pie recipe.
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London
Ser
Germany
Maginot Line
Rhine
St. Nazaire
Camp Walters
Camp Meeting Officers Named in Colfax Camp
The Colfax Wesleyan Methodist camp meeting at Shady Grove tabernacle opened with prayers and evangelistic services by Dr. Wiseman and Rev. H. K. Sheets. Officers for the coming year were elected: Gentry president, Hill first vp, Clement second vp, Shaw third vp, Wand fourth vp, Stone fifth vp, Lance secretary-treasurer. An evang elistic sermon by Dr Wiseman closed the eight o clock services with music led by F B Dennard.
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Colfax
Shady Grove
Wesleyan Methodists
North Carolina
Virginia
South Catolina
Wiseman
H. K. Sheets
Enid
Okla
J. A. Clement
Altavista
F. B. Dennard
High Point
Paul R. Rayle
Draper
C. RK. Gentry
Roanoke
TF. L. Hill
Charlotte
J. A. Clemente
J. E. Shaw
Randleman
J. A. Wand
Gastonia
D. C. Stone
Radford
Lyman F. Lance
Peter Wiseman
Wilmore
Nine Month Term For Local Negro In Court`
Thomasville records show Walter Lowery, a Black man, sentenced to nine months on three charges including disorderly conduct, assault on Officer Lashley, and resisting arrest. Appeal filed. bond set at 500. Other local cases include driving while intoxicated fines, revoked licenses, and multiple drunkenness sentences with various terms.
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Thomasville
Walter Lowery
Carl Wison
Bill Lashley
Willie Ledwell
Thomas H. Jackson
John Jackson
High Point
Lexington
Bob Gerald
Randolph County
Jackson
Gerald
Marvin Croust
Joe Sims
Wendell Hall Baileys
T. E. Hedrick
Raymond Jarrett
J. W. Hiatt
Greensboro
Hiatt
Borrowing Trouble San Diego Marine Life Trade
Life in the Marine Corps at Camp Hilton records hunters scouring nearby lands for king snakes and rattlesnakes. The San Diego Zoo reportedly plans to acquire rattlers in exchange for a cheetah from India to serve as a mascot.
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San Diego
Marine Corps
Camp Hilint
San Diego Zoo
India
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Marjorie D. Jackson
Ithe
Kreenville Nya
Anna Belle Bond
SPES
Det
Jett
Malcolm Fowler
Lillington
Doris Forbes
Ethel Elayton
Jacksonville
Kathleen Corey
Ethel Louise Clayton
Bottled
Ander Authority
Coca-Cola Company
Coca-Cola Bottling CO
Washington Street
Thomasville Court
Dad
Harllee
van Heusen
Harllee’s Men's Dept
Pop
Harliee’s
Charllee’s
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