High Point City Budget Seeks Surplus Transfer for Postwar Needs
City Manager Roy S. Braden urges keeping the tax rate at 1.21 and moving 75,000 of the cash surplus to the capital reserve fund for postwar construction. A 130,000 capital outlay is planned plus upgrades in equipment, facilities, and salaries as part of a 2,222,491.52 overall proposed expenditure for the coming year.
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Roy S. Braden
Capital Reserve Fund
Willowbrook
Perry Street
Perry
Broad Street
Greensboro High Point
Naheus
OGD Ec Cduwsdeacon
Braden
Council
High Point
Virginia
United States
Council Approves Purchase Broad St Lots By Davis
The city council approved sale of lots at the northeast corner of Broad Street and Oakwood Court to McKinley vis and wife for 2250. The sale followed foreclosure for delinquent street assessments after auction at city hall. Council members debated other lot sales and asked for clearer bookkeeping on foreclosures. The council deferred tax date changes for wholesalers to Aug 1 and approved using City Lake pool for a July 28–29 swimming meet.
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Broad Street
Oakwood Court
McKinley Vis
Council Ld
Curtis Ihdeal
Smithdeal
Hedrick Street
R. C. Boyce
Amos Kearns
Leroy Briggs
Boyce
Briggs
Kearns
Mr. Briggs
Braden
Iites
Columbus Discovers Hispaniola Island
Columbus reaches and claims Hispaniola, the Caribbean island later split between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The discovery marks a pivotal moment in exploration and European contact with the Americas.
City Plans Tin Can Salvage Drive For High Point
High Point votes to launch a tin can collection campaign led by John R. Peacock with state salvage officials George K. Snow and R. E. Zimmerman praising a more organized effort. Mayor Phillips urges city workers to cooperate, with a quota of one carload of tin salvage.
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High Point
George K. Snow
R. E. Zimmerman
State Salvage Office
Snow
John R. Peacock
City Public Works Department
T. C. Kirkman
Maylor
Phillips
Peacock Snow
Greensboro
Funeral Rites Held for Mrs Ida Kimsey in Mechanicsville
Funeral services for Mrs Ida S Kimsey 51 wife of Thomas W Kimsey were held Wednesday afternoon at four oclock from Mechanicsville Primitive Baptist church Rev William C Livingston Church of God on Asheboro Street and Elder J A Fagg of Winston-Salem officiated Interment followed in the church cemetery She is survived by her husband a daughter Mrs W L Trivett a son George Sherrill a stepdaughter three stepsons four brothers and four sisters Also noted is a remark on annatto seed coloring used in butter cheese margarine and chocolate.
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Ida Kimsey
Ida S. Kimsey
Thomas W. Kimsey
Asheboro Street
Mechanicsville
Local Girls Stage Yard Musical for Milk Fund
Barbara Heelas and Betsy Lewis organized a backyard musical to raise funds for the Junior Service League milk fund. The event yielded 3.60 and was added to a $2,395.39 total, with the drive needing 104.60 more to reach the 2,500 goal, alongside extensive donations from neighbors and families.
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Barbara Heelas
Betsy Lewis
Junior Service League
Milk Fund
Barbara
Betsy
Fe CO
A. B. Huff
J. W. Herdon
Frank Dalton
H. L. Brock
Creasses Csu
Martha Ann
Sandy
Mendenhall
Isie Cscs
P. A. Warner
J. O. Hall- Egon Beckiévictus
Willard
Mine Sweeper Sa lute Lost In Borneo Sector
The 945-ton mine sweeper Sa lute was lost in the Borneo area due to enemy action. About 100 officers and men were aboard. six were killed and three missing. Lt. John S. Nichols of Garden City NY commanded the vessel and is presumed safe.
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Washington
Borneo
John S. Nichols
Garden City
Long Island
N. Y
Nichols
Sixty-Eight Local Men Headed to Fort Bragg for Induction
Sixty-eight registrants from local selective service boards leave for Fort Bragg for final induction. Board four contributes 27 men and board five 41 men, with named inductees listed for each board and several transfers out of town for processing.
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Fort Bragg
Selective Service Boards
James Ray Irwin
Arthur Marion Barnes
Donald Reid Crouse
Thomas Clyde Hartley
Charles Howard Peatross
Walter Lee Edgar Snider
William O'Neill Swiggett
Henry Murrell Sawyer
Lonnie Lee Owens
Frady Wilson Hall
David Roscoe Younger
James Floyd Morgan
Garland Leon Byerly
Elmer Keller Duncan
Arthur Merritt Gentry
Jesse Queeee Driggers
Obadiah Cole Illips
William Valentine Peeler
Wayman Melvin Thompson
John Richardson Haworth
William Henry King
Harvey Lee Perdue
Billy Eugene Hall
John William Branson, Jr
Madison Eugene Ling
Ha Lee Harlan
Eston Harrison Highfill
Hal Arthur Kennerly
Max Underwood Smith
Samuel Wilmouth Bruce
Louis Thomas Proctor
Charles Eonstone
Clyde Phillip Green
Robert Pete Cook, Jr
James
Clifford Wall
James Odell Bowman
Charles Wesley Smith
van Haywood McSwain
Billy Hutchens
James Joseph Teachey
Grady Drow Hill
Wayne Harold Morgan
Jackson Reid Dale
Omas
Kenene Burchette Johnson
Janklin Hicks
Bruce Gordon Whitley
Zeno Clifton Tucker
Board Five
Urgent Need For Textile Workers In High Point
Ralph E. Miller of the local USES office urged workers with cotton mill experience to contact the office for job referrals in High Point. Mills seek learners and trainees for semi skilled machines with pay rising as skill increases. applicants must be 16 or older, with men and women needed.
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Japan
Enema
Ralph E. Miller
Local Uses
War Manpower Commission
High Point
Miller
Miler
Used Fats Now Vitally Needed In War Efforts
Officials urge American households to collect used fats totaling 250 million pounds to bolster war supplies. Rewards of red points and up to 4 cents per pound are offered for fats delivered to butcher or grocer.
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War Food Administration
Fat shortages loom as 1945 hog crop seen smaller
Officials warn that 1945 hog slaughter will not match 1944 levels, reducing lard output and domestic fats production. Cattle slaughter may also stay flat, while demand for fats and oils remains high and imports will be limited. Tran’s note mentions a 1400 year history.
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Ouncil
Broad St
Davis
Main &T
Center Theatre
Washington High Pointe
Thomasville
Wachovia Bank
Island
Hispaniola
Columbus
North State Machine Shop
Grimes Street
Southern Motor Company
Main St
North Main
Tropical
America
Nat Walker
Carnet
Stanley
J. C. Penney Co
N. Main
van S&s. Reddick
Gov
L. M. DeLegal
Sect
Paye Point
Fraley Field
High Point Wnc
Oaks
AGENC
Parker-Brown Lumber CO
Oak ST
J-M
Christ
Pepsi-Cola Company
Long Island City, N. Y
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co
Winston-Salem
F. Thomas
Tran
Becky
E. Commerce St
Cnreine
Walter Barker
N. Wrenn ST
City Motor
English Motor Co
Roeback and CO
N. Main 8
High Point, N
W. C. Johnson County
D. W. Hoskins
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