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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1944
Page
7
Elsie Robinson reflects on how war reshapes American education and youth. She recalls high school memory, the pull of college, and the pressure to adapt curricula to a postwar world, questioning whether traditional campus life can prepare students for reality.
Oak Hill Parent-Teacher Association met Tuesday evening in the auditorium. Mrs JBastian and her grade presented Highlights of Our Country. LaRue Hunt introduced the program. Officers W L Watt and W G Spered led business. Joe Talbert announced an April PTA meeting. Mrs Watson elected to head the Oak Hill association.
The Peo St. PTA will hold a Family Night this evening at the Johnson Street School. A street band will perform and Dr Williamson of the Presbyterian church will speak on Security in the Home. About 2,000 plants yielding fibers to man are mentioned in context.
Home canning advice and a sample menu encourage using stored canned fruits and vegetables to stretch supplies. A note highlights expected good crops, urging careful canning and balanced meals, with a menu including tomato or juice spaghetti with clams and molded vegetable salad.
A bridge puzzle presents South as dealer in a double dummy four spades contract. West opens clubs, dummy king and South ace must be played first. After a sequence of trumps and discards, cross-ruff and ruffs secure the remaining tricks, yielding an unlikely four spades against any defense.
Anne Adams Pattern 4643 offers a trim smart outfit suitable for home, work, and outdoor use. Includes misses and women sizes 10 to 20 with options such as large pockets in denim and contrasting details. Transfer patterns for embroidery are included. patterns cost twenty cents and a pattern book adds further styles for ten more cents. Send orders to High Point Enterprise Pattern Department in New York.
The Navy and Interior Secretary Ickes announced plans to test ultra sensitive submarine equipment off the California coast. It aims to locate fish schools and gauge size and direction around the clock in all weather, using aides to Ickes who coordinated fisheries.
London reports Production Minister Oliver Lyttelton told the commons that 1944 is a year of change as Britain reshapes output to meet attack needs by boosting specialized invasion equipment and new weapons while reducing production of bombers and fighters less suited to upcoming conditions.
Washington reports total American casualties at 162 282 with 37 853 dead. Secretary Stimson notes Feb 23 army losses at 121 458 including 20 592 killed and 47 318 missing or wounded. Navy Marine Coast Guard totals broken out.
In Panama a carrier pigeon named Honey, a veteran of 672 flights, was part of a four bird mission across the Isthmus during Canal Zone maneuvers. The bird returned injured after 16 days, with hyphenated harness gear and claw marks, and was noted as a survivor among the “enemy” air attack tests.
U S Bureau of Mines will drill this month to test reopening large scale mining in the Deep River coal belt North Carolina. Governor Broughton said work is part of a broad resources survey using state and federal funds. Brassert & Co. reported no unusual risks and a 46 000 000 ton potential reserve. old Coal Produ cts shafts in Sanford are in use producing about 30 tons daily bought by local users.
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