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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1943
Page
5
Draft boards report a flood of 3 A registrants in non deferable work who may be reclassified to 1 A for immediate military service. U S Employment Service amplifies efforts to place men in war jobs while local boards note low inquiries for deferable positions.
Contributors may donate by attending a dance sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce at the Armory from 9 to 12. Proceeds go to the Red Cross. Service men from Sedgefield expected to attend. Tickets at multiple local drug stores and shops or from Red Cross or JCC members.
This page provides beet, chard, and carrot growing directions from the U S Department of Agriculture Extension Service. It lists beet varieties Early Wonder and Detroit Dark Red with March April September planting, spacing 18 to 24 inches, 1 oz per 100 foot row, and harvest when eggsized. It covers chard varieties Lucullus and Fordhook Giant with thinning to 12 inches and notes cool season growth. Carrot varieties Imperator and Chantenay with 18 to 24 inch spacing, 1 oz per 100 foot row, planting depth 1 to 2 inches, thinning to 2 to 3 inches, and harvest when roots reach about 1 to 3 inches in diameter.
Frank Kominsky a 13 year old East Side student discovered 13901 dollars in a junk heap on Monday noon. After nervy classes he told his family and his father urged reporting it to police. If unclaimed in six months the money becomes the finder’s reward.
London reports describe a new morale scare the Squander Bug a microbe of wasteful spending. National Savings Committee warns Britons to resist frivolous purchases while recounting American travel and wartime price quirks.
The long time prisoner General Henri Giraud escaped Konigstein Fortress and kept his defiant stance against Germany. His steadfast refusal to bow to political expediency helped unify French leaders toward a possible accord with General Charles de Gaulle.
President Roosevelt announced a Russian American conference on current and postwar war problems. Details on dates locations and principal participants were not disclosed. He and Eden shaped the pattern for further talks with other United Nations and emphasized general objectives over formal pacts.
State Guard officers recently returned from Fort Bragg State Guard School will conduct training here for unit members. A uniform program will be launched immediately to share the ten day course content. Captain Clyde A Morrison announced openings in the 22nd Company for ages 18 to 45. enlistment is at the armory Thursdays 7 30 or 9 pm for one to three years. Officers who attended the school were Captain Clyde A Morrison Ist Lt Merlin H Watson 2nd Lt Willie P Morehead and 1st Sgt John T Bruton.
Funeral services for L. W. Shoemaker 64 of High Point were held at Hebron Baptist Church near Harmony after his death in Winston-Salem. Burial followed in the church cemetery. Survivors include his widow Hattie, an adopted daughter Christine, two brothers Oscar and Eugene, and two sisters Myrtle Cochrane and Rebecca Gregory.
In Jacksonville on March 31 Walter Lee Dail of Greenville faces a $15,000 bond for the May term of superior court after a coroner's jury found negligence in a crash near Richlands that killed five people, two women and three children, all in the car.
Fort of Tazas and his men faced heavy fire as he was shot in the chest. Giraud’s two sons serve as French Army officers while a third died in a 1935 plane crash. His daughters’ marriages tie to French officers. Though not a politician, he prefers front lines, yet will toil under UN command to ensure Germany’s total defeat.
High Point High School students Winifred Marshall Nancy Hill upheld the affirma tive while Winston-Salem opponents Lamar Welfair and Bobby Helm debated the sales tax question before the student body. Separate notes report a horse show attendance Pinehurst a broken arm and a church society meeting.
Indian trusty James Comes At Night serving a 60 year term for a 1935 train derailment vanished from Montana State Prison. Guards seek his location and suspect he fled after dark leaving no clear trail.
The second annual Carolina Relays at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill has been postponed. Athletic director R. A. Fetzer announced the opening spring track season event will be rescheduled, but a new date was not provided.
J. E. Brooks of Kansas City planned eight rose bushes and called his and a neighbor’s dogs. Eight digs formed soil holes as the dogs unearthed a bone each time, making ready sites for the bushes.
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