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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1940
Page
11
A Senate committee tabled the Hatch bill regulating political activity of state employees paid with federal funds. The measure would have restricted campaign contributions to $5000 and limited political activity by those workers. The vote and further discussion were not announced.
Yesterday Wharton wins Pepper Boy, but Uncle Willie exposes rule violations and Sherry questions a possible payoff. Shep Grant warns about claiming rules as Wharton vows Derby glory and Sherry confronts a volatile, racing era.
Puzzle clues reference a famed Oriental scholar and a set of across and down terms. Answers span topics from teaching methods to natural elements, with thematic hints at historical figures and linguistic notes.
Earl Fletcher, spring’s first victim of the posse picking urge, was bitten by a rattlesnake while gathering wildflowers near the dam where he works as an engineer. He is recovering.
In Paintonrock Wyoming three daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Morris wed within the first four months of the leap year. Mrs. Morris herself also marked a leap year wedding.
Real estate transfers list in Guilford County includes E E Mendenhall Jr and wife to James G Snipes Jr and wife and to Charles A Helmstetter and wife in Ardale Heights, Gate City Motor Co to H H Rankins and wife, Hallie Jones and Ira Shankle and wife on Thissell Street, and other plats on White Hall Street South Spring Street Ellington Street Ensiey and Bessemer Heights plus transfers in Gilmer Township among R G Dawson and R E Lowdermilk and others.
A short political quiz presents five true and false statements about past presidential elections. Statements reference Hoover versus Al Smith in 1928 Roosevelt in 1912 Cox in 1920 Hughes against Wilson in 1916 and a Granby token from 1737.
Walter Hildreth a 61 year old former teacher was accused in court of shoving Mrs Christian Febiger s Pekinese off the sidewalk. He claimed he forced the dog aside because she was on the right and could not pass. Magistrate Jacob Dogole fined Hildreth ten dollars for disorderly conduct upholding sidewalk rights for dogs.
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