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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1949
Page
9
Jaycees and Lions announce a door-to-door sale of brooms and rubber mats made by the Guilford Industries For the Blind in Greensboro. The three day sale funds club projects and aids blind persons as part of a pre clean-up, paint-up, fix-up campaign in Thomasville.
Thomasville Junior Chamber of Commerce delegates will carry 8000 chairs and 5000 doll-size panties to the national Jaycee convention in Colorado in June to advertise North Carolina products. Chairs cost by Thomasville furniture firms. panties by Carolina Underwear Co. Souvenirs stamped Souvenir of Thomasville.
Guilford Industries in Greensboro employs 32 blind people at a 15 year old non profit facility. Proceeds from a local broom mat sale to be held here will benefit the institution and its workers. Roy Carr says civic clubs statewide sponsor the sale prompted by an over stock of brooms.
A 13 year old Thomasville boy who confessed to staging nine break ins will be committed to the Eastern Carolina Training School at Rocky Mount after a county hearing. The youth admitted break ins occurred from September to January including eight forcible entries of doctors offices with cash and merchandise taken. He was picked up as a runaway in Kannapolis and confessed after being questioned in Thomasville. The welfare office cites lack of parental supervision and need for association with peers as reasons for commitment. A 14 year old Denton boy and a 15 year old Davidson County girl also faced commitments for separate offenses.
A fully loaded American C-54 airlift plane crashed in a ditch at Tempelhof Airport after skidding on a snowbound field. All three crewmen Lt Ke G Robinson of Seattle Washington pilot Lt William H McKee Picayune Mississippi co-pilot and Clifford E Tappe Minneapolis Minnesota flight engineer escaped unharmed. The aircraft was carrying ten tons of coal and other materials for German industry.
A mail-in offer from William S. Rice Inc. touts a new rupture support free of charge. The "Rice Method" claims to hold the rupture in place without rigid pads or straps, promising comfort and freedom of movement. Send name and address to receive a free treatise.
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