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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1946
Page
5
Major Nial explains the VA loan program amendments adding an insurance option. VA insures 15 percent of total GI loan amounts and can pay lenders up to 1200 on an 8000 loan if a veteran defaults, freeing funds for more loans. He notes delinquent indebtedness loans aid economic readjustment for veterans within ten years after the war.
The seventh educational program of the season was presented at the Mary McLeod Bethune YWCA with a audience sing along and a prayer by Rev F O Bass. Miss E E Moore director of Christian education gave the main address at Wesley Memorial church. Music from a piano quartette and a boys sextette from William Penn High school accompanied the event.
In Manhattan Beach California Mrs. Ruby Bigelow treated a tar-gummed sea lion and released it. The animal kept returning to her home, waiting after each rescue and again entering the water only to reappear minutes later at her doorstep.
Insurance firms faced losses after the 1906 San Francisco fire burned thousands of buildings and caused extensive damage across the city blocks.
Thomasville scene reports the death of Thompson Whitener a Negro thirty seven from a large concrete bucket that broke loose at the Gray concrete pipe company on Randolph Street. He was underneath the hoist when the bucket weighed about a ton fell and crushed his chest. Doctor Sherrill said he died instantly at the hospital. Company officials said no safety bar was found in use after the accident.
City Manager Braden announced FPHA ratified the contract for 62 prefabricated houses for local veterans. The units will be built in Panama City Florida and shipped to High Point within days, with arrival timing depending on contractor transfers. Officials note delays and red tape may push completion well into next year for the remaining 138 units.
City to sell six land tracts at public auction next Friday at 11 at city hall. Tracts include lot 26 block 5 near Park and Commerce, several on English and Ward streets, and parcels on Forrest Avenue and Taylor Street with starting bids ranging from 150 to 5900 dollars. Direct or common deeds noted.
Mrs. Lillian Kimsey urged housewives to prepare for canning season as Greensboro hosts a pressure canner clinic on April 2 in the Agriculture building. Canners will be tested and parts replaced free of charge with payment only for parts. inspections may be unnecessary for previously tested units.
Tacoma story shows James Ruff, a two day line veteran, urging more help at the U S employment service office. He ends up hired by the same agency to assist others seeking unemployment compensation and filing.
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