Red Cross Collection Drive Planned Across Week
Local Ameri Red Cross chapter readies a bottle drive to support the 1945 Red War Fund. Milk containers will collect donations during National Red Cross Week with volunteers from High Point College, Boy Scouts, nurses aides, Girl Scouts, Junior Red Cross, and other groups assisting on scheduled days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ameri: Red Cross
National Cross
Chavter
Eramett V. Stone
High Point College
Jo Chapman
B.W. Hackney
T. D. Tyson, Jr
Mabel Burnett
Claude Kinney, Jr
Lydie Horton
Red Cross
Junior Red Cross
Motor and Staff Assistance Corps
Penetro Nose Drops Use and Caution
Two drops in each nostril shrink membranes and ease a stuffed nose. Cold symptoms improve with use. Caution: use only as directed.
Local American Legion Auxiliary Chapter Collects Canteen and Sewing Helpers
The local chapter and its American Legion Auxiliary members plan a Monday canteen collection day with final collections by the chapter production corps. The corps includes volunteers who sew knit and make surgical dressings, with the Pentagon Club joining as a dedicated surgical dressings unit since the need arose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion Auxiliary
Pentagon Club
Funeral Rites for John W Sechrest In Thomasville
Funeral services for John W Sechrest longtime Thomasville resident were held Sunday at Emmanuel Reformed Church. Rev W C Lylerly Rev J A Palmer and Rev Odell Leonard led the service with choir music and flowers from church groups. Interment followed in the church cemetery family plot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Sechrest
Thomasville
John W. ‘Sechrest
Emmanuel Reformed Church
W. C. Lylerly
J. A. Palmer
Odell Leonard
Charlie Myers
Jesse R. Myers
Jesse E. Myers
Marshall Black
Fletcher Black
Nelson Harris
Jesus
Clyde W. Black
Fred Bodenhamer
Addie Ree Myers
Woodmen Camp Invites Members and Visitors to Tuesday Meeting
Woodmen of the World Piedmont Camp No meets Grey Tuesday night at 7 30. The membership urged to attend and all visiting sovereign cordially invited. Glenn T Smith Council Commander and Johnson financial secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodmen of the World
Piedmont
Grey
Eastern Airlines Cuts Passenger Fares Across System
Eddie Rickenbacker, president of Eastern Air Lines, announced reduced fares with the Civil Aeronautics Board to take effect May 1 1945. The system-wide cuts average six and a half percent below current rates with a five percent discount on round trips and circle trips. The reductions follow prior cuts from March 5 1945 offering five percent travel card discounts and government employee allowances.
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Greensboro-High Point
Eddie Rickenbacker
Eastern Airline Company
Civil Aeronautics Board
Eastern Airlines
Pearl Harbor
Funeral services for former NC county superintendent Edmondson
Frank A. Edmondson 62 longtime educator dies after months of illness in Charlotte hospital. He retired last year after nine years as Beaufort County superintendent, previously serving eight years in Mecklenburg and 12 in Avery counties. Funeral services are held this afternoon.
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Charlotte
Frank A. Edmondson
North Carolina
Beaufort County
Mecklenburg County
Avery County
Judge Refuses Youth Probation After Car Theft Case
Two sixteen year old boys who stole a car and wrecked it for fun were each sentenced to 18 months in prison in Guilford Superior Court. Four youths were implicated with Robert Taylor and Robert Bronson facing mixed outcomes as the judge criticized probation leniency. Catherine Randall a 16 year old pleaded guilty to forgery of her employer name on checks and awaits probation consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. J
Guilford Superior Court
T. D. Stokes
C. N. Cox
Robert Taylor
Clement
Cox
Taylor
Robert Parker
Howard Johnson
Robert Bronson
Bronson
Johnson
Stokes
Harry Brooks
Royal Oak Avenue
Catherine Randall
Rites for William E. Wood Planned at Welch Memorial
William Edward Wood 78 a High Point resident for 34 years died Sunday after four years of illness He worked 25 years with Welch Furniture He leaves a large family including four sons and three daughters and grandchildren The funeral at Welch Memorial Methodist Church will be Tuesday at 2 30 p m with interment in Floral Garden Cemetery and Junior Order pallbearers and Trophy Council members assisting
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Edward Wood
Osborne Street
Welch Furniture Company
Mr. Wood
Stokes County
Edmund
Jenny Samuels Wood
Marian Frances Hampton
L. T
W. W
P. C
E. A. Wood
C. W. Hoover
J. R. Cox
H. H. Kivett
High Point
W. A. Cecil
Mary McGee
Greensboro
Welch Memorial Church
Trophy Council
No. 29
Welch Memorial Methodist Church
T. E. Strickland
Hoy L. Fesperman
First Evangelical and Reformed Church
Floral Garden
New York Tops Milk Output in 1944 Production
Albany based report cites Curtis C. Brown, president of the New York State Milk Distribution Association, stating that New York produced about 3.069 billion quarts of commercial milk for fluid consumption in 1944, the largest among states.
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Albany
N. Y
Ins
New York
Curtis C. Brown
New York State
Thousands Of Old People Seek Social Security Cards
Everett A. Hoffman reports 11 640 persons aged 70 plus applied for first cards in Q3 1944, including 2 500 women. An additional 14 942 applicants aged 65–69, 6 000 women, plus over 574 000 youths 15–19 gained cards. Over 1.3 million account numbers issued nationwide in the quarter. many had farm or domestic work not counted for benefits. Some women had never worked or stopped before the Old Age and Survivors Insurance system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everett A. Hoffman
Social Security Board
United States
Hoffman
Shoes To Be Scarce For Civilians In 1945 War Drive
Civilian shoe supplies in 1945 will be tighter than during the war start, says J F Jones, chief clerk of the War Price and Rationing Board. Armed forces' demand soars, with military wear rates and leather use mounting as civilian production falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Almetta Brooks
J. F. Jones
Office of Price Administration
Jones
United States
Pacific
Mrs Wilkinson 75 Dies in Greenville S C
Mrs Annie B Wilkinson aged 75 mother of Dr L L Wilkinson of High Point dies in Greenville S C after missionary work with the Presbyterian Church in China Surviving include Dr George R Wilkinson Greenville S C James R Wilkinson U S Consul General Washington D C sister Mrs G C Sutcliff Victoria Australia brother Dr George D Barr Orlando Fla Funeral services set for Greenville Tuesday with burial there.
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Annie B. Wilkinson
L. L. Wilkinson
Greenville
S. C
Washington
D. C
G. C. Sutcliff
Victoria
Australia
George D. Barr
Orlando
Fila
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Ie Cross
Albert
South Main
P. P
N. ZT
Garner
Agency
le Fourers
Optometrist
Wachovia Bank
Pepsi-Cola Company
Long Island City, N.Y
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co
Winston-Salem, N. Y
Coast Guard
William R. Morrow
Atlantic
Coast
John D. Williams
Milford
Delaware
Morrow
Deborah Morrow
Brently Circle
Davidson College
Wilma J. Prevo
Wilma Joyce Prevo
Pfc
J. Haywood Prevo
First Baptist Church
Wilbur Hutchins
Lenaale
Ernestine Hedrick
Carl G. N. Cronstedt
Emile H. Sersang
Harry Monroe
Adams‘Millis Corp
O. S. Harvell
Fred Bunni Loflin
Linda
Dowdy
Gray
Nea
Glenn T. Smith
Council Commader
UPGAK
Johnson Financial Secy
Frank Edmondson
Mr. Thomas
Great Silver Fleet
W. E. Wood
Welch Memorial
GENE
ICE Delivery Company
West Broad Street
Wagger's
Elwood Hotel Corner
Numa F. Reid Lodge
Bee” Miller
B. F. Thomas
Fraley Field High
Point
N. C
Johns-Manville
Parker-Brown Lumber CO
Oak Street
dohns-Manville
Nat Walker
Walgreen
Ee Ghote
Hamilton
Hedgecock Lumber CO
Ward Street
Security National
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