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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1937
Page
9
Robert Moore Collins a longtime AP Europe and Far East correspondent and former AP bureau chief in London died at 69 after a long illness. He retired in 1925 following paralysis. In Bournemouth England the report ran March 30.
Miss Frances McGregor of Cleveland County home service is appointed assistant state 4-H club leader in Raleigh officials announced on March 30.
Acting postmaster David T. Cox will take over in Winterville tomorrow, succeeding Montgomery T. Spier who resigned.
The University of North Carolina tennis team meets Lehigh Wednesday at 3 p.m. in Chapel Hill for the fourth match of the season under Coach John Renfield. Likely singles players include Captain Ramsay Potts Archie Anderson Johnny Foreman Eddie Fuller Frank Farrell and Gordon Robinson. Doubles may pair Potts with Fuller and Henderson with Farrell along with Robinson and Foreman.
With two wins in as many starts Carolina’s varsity golf team will face Cornell here Friday. Penn State was to play today but the match was postponed at Penn State’s request. Coach Chuck Erickson will start the same quartet Dupont Kirven Dick Hicks James Gifford and Ben Wyche.
Senator J. W. Bailey of North Carolina will address the University of North Carolina Human Relations Institute on the administration judiciary proposals. The event continues through Saturday night with last night’s speaker Dr. E. W. Zimmerman analyzing economic internationalism.
Representative Clifton A. Woodrum of Roanoke Virginia proposes trimming government costs. He argues that with a reasonable time and revenue growth the federal budget can balance, warning that failure leads to inflation or higher taxes.
Employment picked up in High Point last week per the weekly report by Irene W. Price, manager of the local office of the North Carolina State Employment Service. A total of 89 placements were made, 79 in private employment and one in public. Demand was strong for odd jobs and part‑time work. Of rate placements, 27 were permanent.
General Manager W. P. Hamrick announced a 7 percent wage raise for 2,200 textile mill workers in the Pacific group at Columbia boosting weekly payroll by 2350 dollars. The increase took effect yesterday and similar raises were implemented at Glencoe and Columbia mills.
A late night fire in the press room at The Dunn Dispatch threatened the plant but the Dunn fire department contained the blaze. Publisher L Busbee Pope said the 23rd anniversary edition would publish as scheduled today.
Officials of the C W Francy American Legion post announced plans to erect a 7500 dollar club house and post offices building in this city.
Union County Agent T J W Broom said today that conservation checks totaling 176 421 73 have been paid to farmers in Monroe County.
Within the last century in parts of France the custom involved shaping a child’s skull by binding the head to create a long, sugar-loaf form. The practice began in infancy and persisted across generations, drawing attention from anthropologists and medical observers for its cultural roots and health implications.
The annual meeting of the North Carolina Master Plumbers Association will be held at State College on May 4.
The method checks if cotton fabric is sized by rubbing between the fingers. Sized fabric feels solid and crumples less when tested, while unsized material remains more flexible.
Marketability of a house is affected by its design. Good architecture never dates. Freakish and tricky styles in architecture date a house and hasten obsolescence of its design. Modifications and adaptations of established styles are as to be desired than pure design.
TWA plans six new Boeing aircraft each with 82 passenger seats and four crew. Planes will fly at 20 000 feet with four engines producing 4 820 horsepower and a speed up to 260 miles per hour.
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized, conditionally, new carload rates for crude rubber from Atlantic ports Baltimore Boston New York Philadelphia Richmond Norfolk to Eastern trunk line and central territory without long and short haul rules. Also approved similar rates for cast iron pipe fittings from Alabama Georgia North Carolina Tennessee to Western trunk line, and for imported paper from Virginia South Atlantic Gulf ports to Southern territory, all lacking long and short haul observance.
The High Point city lake at Jamestown will shut to fisherman for 40 days starting tomorrow night to protect spawning season. Warden W. L. Hull announced the closure as boats are repaired and preparations made for a May reopening. H. J. Scarborough and Dolph Welch caught a six pound bass today.
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