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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1949
Page
3
An elderly civil engineer suffers a sudden stroke at the height of his career and is bedridden. He is admitted to Manhattan Beach Veterans Hospital in Brooklyn, joining forgotten- men veterans and meeting women who spend days with him.
In San Juan Capistrano the swallows have returned to the Mission buildings marking their third week of March arrivals. Father A J Hutchinson notes they come in small contingents, with nests reused by returning birds, and migration may shift due to insecticides. The piece also recounts veterans hospital stories of aphasia therapy led by Gray Ladies, highlighting courage and recovery milestones.
Advice on moving shrubs with soil balls and water, best timing in late fall and winter, and pruning tips to control size. Lists broadleaf evergreens suited to foundation planting such as Dwarf Azaleas Boxwood Japanese Holly Nandina Danae Mahonia Cotoneaster Creeping Gardenia Barberry Wintercreeper Eunonymus and larger options like Glossy Privet Abelia Chinese Holly Osmanthus Photinia PyacanthaQuuba Camellia Capejasmine Yaupon Showy Jasmine Southern Waxmyrtle Rhododendron Pittosporum Clevera Viburnum. Discusses using deciduous plants and thinning by half after five years. Then notices a 1946 High Point North Carolina civil action for absolute divorce involving Walter Spencer and Elsie J. Spencer with filing in Municipal Court and required appearance.
Raleigh March 21 Advocates debate how North Carolina should aid counties in school construction with several bills. A Ward bill proposes a fifty million dollar bond issue distributed by size, population, and need. Amendments would allocate funds by geography and provide an equalization pool under the state board of education with state supervision to set minimum standards amid racial and potential federal aid concerns. The subcommittee will report next Tuesday as it works through the details.
The Hoover commission urged a cabinet rank Department of Public Welfare and Education and a united medical administration by merging federal medical care. It warned against duplicative costly services and said 24 million people rely on government health programs.
Raleigh March 21 The clash between executive and legislative branches deepens as committees reject changes to the anti-closed shop law while administration bills are amended to curb governor authority. Senate delays rural road bond and tax bills. a new US senator election bill targets the governor. Revenue act approved but costly spending obstacles remain. April adjournment hopes fade.
Raleigh reports the 64th day of the 1947 session shows the Senate on pace with 334 bills introduced and the House with 898. Total introduced to date reaches 1323, compared with 1260 in 1947, with ratifications also tallied and committees extending meetings as the end of the session nears.
Cobblers humorously canonized as St Monday, the festival of cobblers. They believed the feast of St Crispin always fell on a Monday, so they celebrated the patrons feast each Monday, keeping the playful legend alive.
Tall oil is recovered from pine logs used in pulping and is widely used in cutting, boring, and grinding oils as well as in producing paints varnishes linoleum soaps and other products.
Oil shale as a fuel source is often misnamed. The material described may be limestone marlstone or dolomite and does not necessarily contain oil.
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