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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1939
Page
9
A Piedmont High Point Enterprise item describes the 1939 electric ranges introducing rapid heat, reduced electricity use, and improved controls. It notes silent kitchens, deeper tops, better insulation, and thermostatic regulation that make broiling baking and roasting nearly automatic, with the deep well cooker enabling complete meals for a penny or two.
The City Council adopted a new electric rate schedule with residential reductions generally ranging from 24 to 37 percent. It lists the Duke rate and new tiered charges: 70 cents for the first 19 kwh, 6 cents per kwh next 20, 3 cents for next 70, 20 cents for next 100, 2 cents for next 100, and 1% cents for next 300 kwh. brackets indicate usage for lighting, appliances, and appliances with refrigerator, stove, or water heater. The present Duke rate remains 80 cents for the first 10 kwh, 4 cents for next 40, 20 cents for next 80, and 2 cents for all over 130 kwh.
The Journal article details a 1936 airline initiative to screen pilots and crew through extensive exams. It covers metabolic, blood, X-ray, hearing, night vision, and vital sign checks, plus health checks for radio operators and service staff. Periodic reexaminations ensure ongoing fitness and safety standards.
The article describes a stove that lets a housewife place ingredients in the cooker, set the controls, and return at dinner to a fully cooked meal, enabling hands-off preparation. This invention highlights convenience and time saving for domestic use.
While marching, penguins switch tobogganing and sliding on their bellies to vary the trek. The playful activity disrupts the monotony of their long journey.
FHA officials propose curved base as a simple modernization to end cleaning trouble at wall junctions. The Property Improvement Credit Plan offers funds borrowed from qualified lenders to carry out the curved base installation.
The Youth's Council of the First Methodist Protestant Church will sponsor tonight's service at o'clock. The High Point College Christian Endeavor Society presents the program on "Go Ye Into All the World." Participants include William Rennie Jesse Swinson Vaughn Boone A C Lovelace Jr Cleo Templeton and Rev Charles Sharpe. Miss Lea Joyner will give an illustrated lecture on India missionary work.
Florence Gottwald twenty six of Camden New Jersey who was shot five times in the chest last December after returning a suitor s Christmas gift was released from Cooper Hospital today as cured Emil Mascher forty six a WPA employee is awaiting grand jury action on charges of feroneous assault and battery with intent to kill Recently perfected as a safety device was a centerline barrier consisting of corrugated sheet steel having deep slanting ruts which grip the left front wheel and deflect the car to the right
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