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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1945
Page
3
A reader voices concern that after a victory the auto expert warns old cars may need to last 2 3 years longer. Another reader reports Gulfpride and Gulflex offering longer road life before a new purchase.
A reflective column compares words as ideas carriers to deeds that guide action, cites Lincoln and Hitler, notes hunger worldwide and spiritual need in America, and urges forgiveness and service. It ends with a light chat about a Mrs Murphy and Mrs Clancy mishearing a jeep as a female Jap.
The notice outlines valid ration categories Blue Stamps Red Stamps Sugar and Fuel Oil and Gasoline coupons with expiration dates in June August and July. It requires car owners to write license numbers on each coupon and to present mileage records when applying for gasoline rations.
A roster of personnel reclassification in progress shows multiple shifts between service categories. Individuals including Johnie M. Michaels, Leo H. Guyer, and others move among 1-A, 2-A, 4-F, and related designations, with several advancing to 1-C Disc. or Ind states and several entering 0 status transitions.
Marine private Johnny Turnage of LaGrange North Carolina earned hero status on Iwo Jima. He crawled toward a bunker under heavy fire throwing grenades then charged the ridge firing until mortally wounded. His sacrifice cleared the way for his platoon and left six enemy dead in his field of fire.
In Charlotte on May 14 George F Thacker district price executive of Charlotte OPA headquarters announced five meetings with apparel manufacturers across western North Carolina to discuss OPA rules. The meetings will be held in Charlotte Asheville Hickory Winston Salem and High Point next week.
The OPA raised lard shortenings and cooking and salad oils to 10 points per pound, effective at 12:01 a.m. yesterday, as part of a program to ease feeding liberated Europe. The agency also labeled over 3,000 price violators for possible income tax prosecution, aiming to recover illicit profits and deter evasion.
A draft Senate food inquiry recommends a food czar to centralize controls, higher subsidies for meat packers, and new subsidies to cattle feeders. President Truman stated a resolve to find a way to share American food with those in need.
Public auction will sell Lots 15 16 and 17 Block M Willenbar Terrace Plaza High Point Township Guilford County NC at 11 00 A M May 21 1945 20 down and balance over 60 months terms City Hall High Point reserves right to reject bids Arnold J Koonce Mayor
The item lists three Q and A prompts about US politics and Civil War history. It answers: 1 Nine women in Congress, 2 Senator Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee as president pro tem, 3 General Joseph Hooker nicknamed Fighting Joe. It includes Words of Wisdom and a May 15 horoscope urging perseverance and social activity.
May 12 reports a wedding at Louis Bromfield's farm near Mansfield Ohio with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall to wed May 21. Separate public sale notices in High Point North Carolina cite multiple properties to be sold at auction on May 21 1945, including Snow Park Plaza and Willenbar Terrace lots, with precise lot lines and recording details.
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