Unemployment Claims Fall In April At High Point Office
The High Point Employment Security Commission report shows 623 new unemployment claims in April, down from 762 in March and 1,038 a year earlier. Weeks claimed dropped to 3,106 from 4,287. job applications rose to 539 from 733. 202 people were placed in work, with manufacturing and clerical jobs making up most placements. youth under 22 accounted for 213 new applications and 54 placements, while those over 45 had 82 applications and 15 placements. The office notes the local economy is past the bottom with rising job openings and about 1,900 active job seekers.
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High Point
Employment Security Commission
William Hollar
ESC
Hollar
Guilford County
Wild Bill Donovan and the OSS Mythic Pioneers Before CIA
A recount of the Office of Strategic Services under Wild Bill Donovan, detailing daring exploits and the OSS culture. The piece recalls a stir as Navy officers tested security, OSS espionage tricks like false threats, and Donovan’s bold tactics that toppled errors and saved lives.
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CIA
OSS
Lincoln
Pinkertons
Wild Bill’ Donovan
Office of Strategic Services
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Beautification work described by Keith
Keith reports several beautification efforts over the past weeks including white pine plantings at Blair Park Golf Course and along Johnson Street. Additional plantings appeared in traffic islands at Westchester and Chestnut Streets and along Johnson Street with dogwood and crepe myrtles added. Attendance at city parks and recreation centers in April reached 41 319 with 26 658 at recreation centers, fishing at City Lake Park fell to 230 from 780 last year, Blair Park Golf Course golf activity totaled 2 454 versus 2 725 the prior April, and Easter Egg Hunt drew 2 000 participants along with 520 at City Lake Park camping workshop and 308 in a marbles tournament.
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Blair Park Golf Course
Johnson Street
Marvin Keith
Parks and Recreation
Keith
Westchester
Chestnut Streets
City Lake Park
Blair Park
Building Permits Rise In Guilford County April
Guilford County Inspections Department reports April building permits totaling 1 854 637 led by 81 new houses valued at 1 600 816. Non residential permits total 41 176 with 12 storage structures 10 610 five signs 2 700 a concession stand 2 200 a swimming pool 3 000 a woodworking shop 1 909 and a workshop 1 500 plus a picnic shelter and a chicken house. Dwelling repairs or improvements account for 90 195 and non residential repairs 119 200. Prillaman also approved 19 mobile homes placed across rural Guilford County.
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Greensboro
Guilford County
James Prillaman
Prillaman
Andrews High Spring Concert Set Wednesday
The Andrews High School Chorus will perform pop tunes of the year at the annual spring concert for chorus, band and orchestra. The event starts at 7 30 p m in the school gym. Songs include We ve Only Just Begun One Less Bell to Answer Oh Happy Day Jean and Bridge Over Troubled Waters. Mary Browne directs the chorus with Stanley Grady Jr on piano and Glen Parker on drums. The band is led by J Y Bell and Mrs Elizabeth Fouts. Open to the public.
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Andrews High School
J. Y. Bell
Elizabeth Fouts
FHA Banquet Set Tonight at Ragsdale High School
Future Homemakers Club of America members will host a Mother-Daughter Banquet at Ragsdale High School tonight. About 24 persons are expected to attend as Lewis Miller of Greensboro demonstrates meat cutting and cooking techniques and serves the meal.
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Jamestown
Homemakers Club of America
Ragsdale High School
Wanda Davis
Golf Clubs Stolen From Car Belonging to Emerywood Resident
Charles W. Scott reported the theft of a $350 set of golf clubs from the trunk of his car between May 2 and 8. Police noted additional vandalism at Wash A Rama where a coffee vending machine was pried open, leaving 15 cents. Travel Lodge machines also opened, with unspecified cash missing. Damages totaled $15 to the coffee machine.
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Charles W. Scott
Emerywood Drive
Scott
Wash-A-Rama
N. Main Street
Travel Lodge
S. Main
Northwood and Tomlinson School PTA Meetings Tonight
Northwood Elementary PTA meets at 7 30 p m in the cafetorium with I Wade Bunting from Guilford County Detention Services as speaker. Tomlinson School PTA gathers at 7 30 p m in the school auditorium for a student musical program and officer elections followed by a reception for volunteers in the cafeteria.
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Northwood
I. Wade Bunting
Guilford County Juvenile Detention Services
Tomlinson School
PTA
Student Eddie B Clinton elected to NC Central University congress
Student Eddie B. Clinton of 1714 West Ave has been elected as a member of the student congress at North Carolina Central University.
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Eddie B. Clinton
West Ave
North Carolina Central University
Panel Discussion All In the Family Moves to May 13
A panel discussion on education for family living titled All In the Family will be held Thursday night May 13 at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church, not May 6 as previously reported.
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Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church
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Wild Bill Donovan
Horace Schmahl
Donovan
Admiral
Schmahl
Navy
Adolf Hitler
Stanley Lovell
Lovell
Gestapo
Philadelphia
FBI
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Iowa
Jim
A Nate
Duster
America
Valiant
Plymouth
Chrysler Motors Corpora
Chrysler
Detroit
Chrysler Corporation
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