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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1940
Page
12
The annual Y W C A Membership Invitation will run May 20 for a week inviting women and girls of High Point. The local Y W C A has 348 voting members and over 730 club members with a 35 member board guiding policies and programs.
The article describes Travelers' Aid services in High Point aiding stranded travelers and checking records for branch agencies. It covers YWCA Book Club activities with four departments and events, World Fellowship banquets, and various programs. It notes housing appeals for American Legion delegates and outlines Girl Reserve clubs and Health Education programs including swimming, basketball, and tennis.
The Southern pine beetle is a major enemy of pines in the South with an estimated loss of over fifty million dollars in forty years. Weather drives outbreaks. hot dry spells bring damage while rain or cold falls suppress it. Resin scents attract beetles from miles away, guiding safe pruning windows to roughly eight cooler months and four months of caution.
Dr. W. A. Lambeth district superintendent of the Methodist Church will preach at Shady Grove Methodist Church Sunday at eight o clock and lead the third quarterly conference after services. Shady Grove is part of Main Street Methodist Church with Rev. W. A. Barber as pastor.
Ten recent chapter elections held in the Presbyterian College chapter of Alpha Samba Tau social fraternity. Harry Mitchell of Tallahassee, Fla., was elected president.
Hon. O Max Gardner of Shelby and Washington DC will give the commencement address for The McCallie School in Chattanooga Tenn May 27. Twenty North Carolina graduates receive diplomas including Gardner Jr and several other NC students.
At Camp Beauregard Louisiana during army war games involving 70 000 troops at least nine people have died in two weeks with about 200 injured. Latest death is Private Marion Caudell electrocuted when his scout car radio antenna touched a high tension wire. Other accidents include a punctured intestine for Sergeant Cheslock and neck and abdomen injuries for Private First Class Jacobs from a blank cartridge explosion.
Dent succeeding Reynolds Griffin of Greenwood, Richard Meisky of High Point NC elected vice president Thomas Beardsley of Donaldsor ville GA secretary and Charles Timmons of Columbia treasurer in an official regional gathering.
Premier Luang Bipol Songgram of Thailand cabled 14 year old King Ananda in Switzerland advising whether to study in the United States or return to Thailand.
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