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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1943
Page
3
Washington report explains new rationing rules as blue coupons buy a can of peas with cash. About 1,000,000 volunteers stand ready in communities to assist shoppers with point rationing during March. Households should plan 48 points per person and use high point stamps first to ease month end.
A war training institute for girls and women opens tonight at 7 in the Thomasville city hall court room under Mrs. Frances W. Trigg, federal agent for trade and industrial education. Organizers say sessions run through Thursday with plant visits, to prepare women for increased roles in war production as men go to service.
Serial scene blends a frightening creature in Meath s world with two men plotting a midnight marriage flight. Joe the Cracker and Miss Meath confront a diamond tiara theft while R Chester Saxon and Jonah Logan debate Hildy Channing s plan to marry at midnight and flee to Greenwich, ending with a cliffhanger.
Relatives of 69 trapped miners wait in Bearcreek Mont as rescuers battle toxic gases with an air blower deep in the hillside. Five bodies recovered with seven more located. Rescue teams, including experienced miners from Butte, work in six hour shifts amid gas and poor conditions.
The Thomasville Rationing Board announced that 29 255 persons registered in eastern Davidson County for War Rationing Book Number Two during the week. Registration in Thomasville reached 9 831 as part of the same drive, noted as an excellent weekly total. A historical note mentions the first dairy cannery in the south opened at Starkville in 1926.
The Raleigh Enterprise Bureau offers weekly war effort questions and answers for civilians. Topics include allotments for dependents, transfers in essential work, and eligibility rules for soldiers and families. Answers reference official procedures and suggest contacting local offices or commanding generals for forms.
The WAAC accepts ages 21 to 44 inclusive. Women 55 cannot join WAACs but may seek war plant employment based on experience, with best guidance from the nearest U S Employment service office. Details on lumber and barn materials loans vary by project limits and War Production Board guidance. consult the local war boards in Charlotte or Raleigh.
Dr. P. E. Lindley of High Point College will deliver the sermon for the Thomasville union of Methodist churches at Community Methodist Church on Wednesday March 3 at 7 30 pm The event is part of the Week of Dedication with the address titled A Prayer For Spiritual Beauty and is led by local pastors and church officials.
Desert Training Center in California showcases a 85 000 man cast and a 30 000 square mile simulated Tunisian theater for 1943 desert maneuvers. Maj. Gen. Walton H. Walker and Col. J. B. Sweet oversee supply and combat drills across Red Army and Blue Army sectors with units from Los Angeles and other areas.
John R. Perry a Thomasville building and loan executive has been nominated for Davidson County commissioner to fill the vacancy from W B May The nomination followed a meeting of local Democrats chaired by George L Hundley and supported by civic leaders Perry a native of Thomasville is educated locally and active in the Masonic Lodge People Building and Loan Association the Community Methodist Church Sunday School and the Lions Club
New Delhi March 1 A British communique reports fifty Japanese soldiers killed and others captured after Royal Indian Navy coastal craft engaged two armored launches off Ramree Island near Burma. One launch exploded and the other sank. Ramree lies about sixty miles below Akyab Japanese base.
Local note recalls Bishop Edwin Penick addressing St Marys Church and Rotarians, plus local sports and civic items. Memory spans events from 1923 including Babe Ruth and Carl Mays signing with the Yankees and wartime veterans employment efforts.
Around Capitol Square dispatch notes a Senate bill introduced as a resolution urges law enforcement to enforce vagrancy laws more strictly. It cites gaps in eastern towns and industrial centers, urges production focus, and links to labor absenteeism amid high farm labor demand.
Diamonds played a key role for the Army and Navy in 1942 supplying thousands of carats of industrial diamonds. These diamonds sped grinding cutting and edging of lenses for military use, as reported by American Optical Company official S. T. Sheard.
A Thomasville court room hosts a Thursday morning March 4 conference to approve ride share plans for cities over 10 000 tied to war industry centers. R Walker Martin assists with state leaders and a large group of local citizens attend the session.
Question and answer column notes James Kelly and Jack Sun fought for hours and 15 minutes in M ourne Australia on October 19 1856. The entry also covers stamps in albums wartime aid Belgium refugees and coffee ration rules.
A report notes that diamonds grind lenses more quickly and accurately than prior abrasives. It states industrial diamonds, though not as costly as decorative stones, are finitely more valuable for improving vision and aiding the armed forces.
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