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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1942
Page
13
James Marlow and William Pinkerton report that three of four glass maker types prosper due to wartime demand. Fiber, tableware, and container glass boost output, with materials plentiful. Flat glass suffers as building and auto demand shrinks, prompting shifts to mirrors and window-conditioning to save fuel.
Raleigh June 25 Institutions including restaurants hotels and boarding houses may obtain extra sugar if they file a report proving increased business. They must cite meals served during the base period and meals served in the month before the allotment period to justify the increase, says OPA state director T S Johnson.
In Kinston on June 25, Frank Johnson 25 of Lenoir County received a two year prison term after pleading guilty to second degree murder in the June 10 fatal shooting of Private E N Shute of Haverhill Massachusetts stationed at the New River Marine Base. Shute died June 15.
News of Colored People reports Rev W L Smith pastor of a white Baptist church in the city will preach at Mt Vernon Baptist Church this evening with his choir and congregation. A calendar item notes community events including a birthday party for Wanda Marie Hunter and a planned Negro district Scouting Committee meeting to discuss the budget and a Negro summer camping program.
Members of the North Carolina Veterinary Medical Association arrived for the 41st annual convention in Shelby. Dr. J. E. Rick of Kansas State College will deliver the principal lecture and former Gov Clyde R Hoey of Shelby will speak at tonight's banquet.
Fragmentary OCR reads as a center feature titled This Time for Keeps with scattered times such as 7:53 and 6:10 and a 12:53 feature. Mentions Broadhurst and Mittles of Tabi Fracures in incomplete context.
Raleigh June 25 Pi Dry priority ratings are needed before contracts can be let on a 500000 project to replace the so called Floating road in Camden County near Elizabeth City Chief Highway Engineer W Vance Baise announced this yesterday in disclosing that the project had been approved by the Public Ready Administration.
Asheville hosts the North Carolina Conference of Weights and Measures. gathering begins this afternoon and runs through Saturday with the first business session set for tomorrow. Also reports from London note another Czech village wiped out by German forces.
Pvt Walter Ray Fowler, son of Mr and Mrs R D Fowler of this city, entered the armed services in January 1942. He trained at Fort Benjamin Harrison Indianapolis then Huntley Field Savannah and Fort Dix before going to foreign service. His address is Finance Det No 44 HQ and Headquarte Squadron 3rd ABG A P O 1067 care Postmaster New York City.
Raleigh June 25 William Vance Hofler of Durham is appointed state rationing officer to work with Guy Rawls of Raleigh who becomes supervisor of the state's 146 local rationing boards.
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