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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1943
Page
2
The State Office of Price Administration releases questions and answers on rationing processed foods. Topics include agent handling of stamps, replacing damaged or lost items, exchanging canned goods, saving stamps, and ration book returns for service members and merchant mariners.
March 31 marks the first point ration holders with War Ration Book Two receive 48 points for March. Canned fish seafood and canned meats sales are suspended. A meat rationing program is being prepared to ensure equal access. Tomatoes lettuce spinach and beans sold only at or below prior five days’ prices. March 10 requires institutional and industrial food users to register with Local War Price and Rationing Boards. penalties apply if not. Coupon updates include Coffee via Coupon Number 25 valid to March 21 and Sugar coupons valid through March 15 with Stamp Number 12 through May 31. Typewriter rentals allowed before May 1 without new certificates. Tire inspections and shared travel rules apply. initial tire inspection deadline March 31 with six-month followups.
Governor Broughton names a twelve member State School Board with diverse denominational representation and varied occupations. Four holdover members join four new appointees, including Henry Dwire of Duke University. secrecy surrounds the selection and confirmation followed a joint session vote.
Pattern 4353 offers three simple frocks for children sizes 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. View B takes 1 1/4 yards of 35 inch fabric while other views are border printed and sun dress styled. Order includes size, name and address with sixteen cents. spring pattern book available for ten more.
McKenny On Bridge notes apply at local War Price and Rationing Boards for a purchase certificate. June 15 is stamp 17 in War Ration Book One valid for shoes with exceptions for casual footwear. Stamps must be torn at sale in presence of the seller. mail orders allow detached stamps. Rubber boots and rubber work shoes sales are frozen. a local board certificate is required for industrial footwear.
The article describes a duplicate bridge hand where most tables reach four hearts. A West player leverages a singleton king to defeat the heart contract by steering into a favorable club lead and a later finesse. It advises using the singleton king to hinder opponents or, as declarer, exploiting easy finesses when available.
London reports circulated that a powerful German fleet concentration was forming in the Trondheim area Norway. Ships named include the Tirpitz Graf Zeppelin Scharnhorst and several Hipper class cruisers and destroyers. Observers say Doenitz may seek an attack on Russian supply lines while others caution the reports lack disclosed sources.
Lieut. Bert D. Morris, a flying instructor at Hutchinson Naval Air Station, is ill with measles. Before joining the Navy he was actor Wayne Morris.
Word list puzzle presents clued items across horizontal and vertical sections. Entries include military insignia references and common vocabulary such as age wager grandparental and jade terms, with final solution linking to a U S Army insigne motif.
The text outlines deductible losses for farm operations, including shrinkage, storage deterioration, and crop destruction, with exceptions for inventories. It covers livestock losses, insurance remedies, depreciation, reimbursements, and treatment of farm losses when combined with other trades, plus rules for recreational farming.
Cecil Bell an industrial engineer for the North Carolina state Department of Conservation and Development will resign March 15 to join the National Carbon Company. He may be stationed in Winston-Salem, with plants already in Morganton Charlotte and Winston-Salem.
North Carolina state officials assign March war bond quotas totaling 9.5 million for the state with Mecklenburg leading at 631 400 and Guilford scheduled for 486 407. The list names each county quota alongside Guilford and Mecklenburg as top contributors.
Raleigh report notes the 1943 North Carolina Manual provides concise government and history data. Officials praise its completeness while non privileged visitors regret free copies aren’t for purchase. The publication evolved from a simple roster to biographics and election returns.
New Orleans reports Ocean Wave, Warren Wright's chestnut colt, is entered in the Louisiana Derby against seven rivals for 15 000 dollars, 1 1/8 miles, carrying 126 pounds. Rival counts include Pops Pick 116, Amber Light 120, with Joe Burger 120 and others in the field. A strong showing is needed to threaten Count Fleet and the Derby field on May first.
The Fort Riley report tells how Corp. Conrad Fiorentino of East Orange New Jersey woke at a barracks commotion mistaking it for reveille. He dressed quickly but found it was only 10 p m. The next morning he failed to appear at reveille having overslept.
Sterling Douglas a third class aviation machinist's mate in Long Beach rushed to aid a Marine digging a foxhole after a Jap bombing alert near Guadalcanal. A bomb exploded 30 feet away injuring Douglas but the Marine was unharmed.
A dense listing of radio programs across the day with multiple networks. Entries include “All Out for Victory” and “People's War” alongside musical variety shows, operas, news, and dramatic presentations. Notable groups include The Metropolitan Opera, Cleveland Orchestra, Washington News, London Comes on the Air, and Chicago Dance Orchestra.
New Delhi March 6 RAF bombers escorted by fighters attacked villages held by Japan in the Akyab area of Burma. They shot down one Japanese fighter and damaged others with another destroyed near Kudung. A bombing raid targeted Thazi Junction railroad yards with bombs bursting in the area. One British plane was lost.
Saimus T. Valentine, a Nashville attorney and recent Army major commission, resigned yesterday as a member of the state board of charities and public welfare.
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