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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1945
Page
3
James Burns Pardue with 2 years 4 months in the army and Garland Edward Snider with 4 years 7 months 27 days of service were discharged and reported to Local Board No. 5 in the past week. Also mentions early territorial history of a region later called the Countries with Celtic and Dutch ancestral peoples.
Jerry Wayne welcomes Hildegarde on the Borden Show as Jeff Alexander leads a half hour of music. The program airs tonight on WMFR at 8 30 P M.
A humorous column on sheep shearing and wool, comparing sheep to humans, with tangents about lawn mowing, World War I White House lawns, and meat rationing. It weaves in regional diction, a folk Irishman, and a Roosevelt reference while musing on pigs and eggs.
A boy in a zoology class defined the sheep family as ram the daddy dam the mammy and lamb the kid in a humorous quip illustrating basic animal terms. The anecdote shows classroom humor about animal vocabulary.
Mary’s lamb tale fades as lambs head to market. Physicians tout lamb as superior for human health in this brief note from a bygone era.
A revised official booklet detailing all United States postage stamps from 1847 to April 1 1945 includes descriptions illustrations plate numbers and quantities issued for commemorative and air mail stamps. Postmaster S C Clark says the new booklet is issued through the superintendent of documents at 30 cents per copy with paper binding and delivery included. Mail orders for this booklet should be ad-
North Carolina State Exchange clubs board meets at the Sheraton hotel with Sam A. Jones of Raleigh presiding. A local club hosts the 11 a.m. meeting and 1:30 p.m. luncheon led by R. T. Craughon. Plans for the state convention will be refined and the convention city chosen.
A report notes 81 percent of earth's inhabitants earn less than $10 per week per breadwinner and 53 percent less than $4. It mentions moths causing electrical short circuits and directs remittance to the Superintendent of Documents in Washington DC for booklet orders, listing postal notes money orders or checks as acceptable forms, while stamps are not.
Radio listings show program corrections by networks after late changes. The schedule includes the Leopold Sphaing Cone diary reading Trans Atlantic call notes, Plano Playhouse Trio, Fifteen Minutes Newscast, Church of the Air, America United forum, and various music, drama, and news segments across time slots from 12:30 to 9:15. The listings name multiple performers, programs, and affiliations, reflecting a dense, era-specific broadcast lineup.
The article notes sharp splits in Washington as Truman pushes to assert American and world rights against Moscow while old Roosevelt allies and leftists oppose or doubt his plans. It highlights Hillman’s propagandizing for Bretton Woods and the dissolution of wartime agencies and the burden of postwar policy on party factions.
J I Groome, longtime Congoleum Nairn sales representative for the Carolinas, is appointed district manager with Atlanta headquarters, to begin June 1. The Atlanta district covers the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and much of Tennessee. Groome holds civic posts including vice president of Emerywood Country Club and president of the Southern Sales Club.
McKellar and Stewart staged a lengthy Senate clash over David Lilienthal and TVA. They denounced Lilienthal as a scalawag, then backed off from opposing his confirmation citing affection for Truman. They pressed the issue before committees and in the Senate, but ultimately withdrew.
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