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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1939
Page
10
The article extols advances in 1939 electric refrigerators emphasizing humidity control, improved cold-making machinery, and miniature cold storage within units. It highlights longer storage life, preserved flavor and health value, elimination of wrapping, and faster ice cube production for at home use.
Experts urge couples to buy durable large items for long use and save on cheap pieces. The piece covers furniture budgeting, linen closet essentials for two, and how modern refrigerators improve efficiency, temp control, and food preservation.
Five Coldspot refrigerators were selected for the Cradle nursery in Evanston Alabama, part of a new $150 000 facility with modern hygiene features. H E Hutto Sears manager notes germ killing ultraviolet barriers and infant milk safety. The Cradle founded 16 years ago by Mrs William B Watlrath cares for thousands of homeless babies.
Westinghouse announces its 1939 line of Corex heating units featuring Columbian Alloy steel tops for lower electric cooking costs and shorter oven times. The super oven bakes biscuits in eight minutes from a cold start, with dual top and bottom elements and stored heat efficiency. Automatic controls, signal lights, and a minute minder streamline meal prep for homeowners.
German toy makers say organized boycotts in key foreign markets are damaging their business. Producers cite reduced orders in major trading partners and warn of slower growth unless markets reopen.
Kelvinator unveils a new Polarsphere cold-making unit in its 1939 refrigerator series. The hermetically sealed dome unit adds rapid freezing, ice production, and quick frozen foods, with 12 refrigeration speeds and a vacation setting. A lower priced model with about six cubic feet capacity and 63 ice cubes per cycle is also announced for low income families.
The Why Not Memorial Association and Homecoming Day will meet at Fairgrove Church near Seagrove on Sunday May 21 with a 10 30 am memorial service in the cemetery and an 11 am memorial address by Rev C L Spencer followed by a picnic dinner on the church grounds.
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