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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1927
Page
2
Enterprise Bureau reports continued warm weather is driving boll weevils from winter quarters. Entomologist R W Leiby of the State Department of Agriculture notes the first weevils have crawled out as of March 22 in Raleigh.
Entomologists report high winter survival of cotton boll weevils observed March 13 to 16 in Aberdeen and Edgecombe County cages. Fifteen of 7500 weevils left winter shelters to search cotton, suggesting potential for significant future crop damage if summer moisture is ample and temperatures stay favorable.
Raleigh March 22 The North Carolina College baseball season opens this afternoon with State College and Springfield Massachusetts College scheduled to play on a damp field. Springfield travels to Elon for a game tomorrow.
The 1927 North Carolina General Assembly enacted laws raising state bank capitalization to 25000 dollars and placing insolvent banks under state bank examiner control. Governor McLean and bankers say the measures protect depositors, reduce losses from receiverships, and strengthen the statewide banking system.
Bob Hathaway testifies about the Darrow trip with Faith Lane and Cherry Lane Wiley. He recalls Cherry breaking the engagement, the elopement rescue, and the later dance escort as legal proceedings proceed toward Dr Paxton’s timing note on Ralph Cluny’s death.
Dedication services will be held at the new Springfield Friends church on Sunday April 3 with three sessions. Rev Lewis McFarland of High Point will speak in the morning, Dr Elbert Russell of Duke in the afternoon, and Rev Milo Hinckle of Greensboro in the evening. Col William Blair of Winston Salem will preside and share a brief history of the church.
Hollywood sheiks and Atlantic City revue girls will crowd Main Street 10 years from now in a prophetic survey by Dr Louis I Dublin a health authority with a global data project for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co The study foresees longer lifespans higher earnings and beauty as a market asset with babies surviving longer and improved personal hygiene shaping future society.
The United States announced termination of the Mexico smuggling convention signaling a failed effort to secure a commercial treaty with Mexico. The notice came from the State Department on March 22.
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