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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1951
Page
24
A new children's play area was completed at Memorial Park in Thomasville at the Salem Street entrance. The land, donated by C. L. Harris and John S. Kennedy, adds swings, a slide, a see saw, a pend box, and benches to the park.
Britain embraces a new peanut fiber called monkey nuts used to produce synthetic wool. Noon auctions launch at a plant in Scotland with 10,000 tons yearly output planned by 1952. Moths avoid the ersatz, while real wool still demands blending and testing continues.
A dense schedule lists multiple radio programs and TV lineups with times, shows, and hosts across ABC CBS NBC and local channels including Abe programs, News Commentaries, The Symphonet Harmonie Orchestra, Jane Morgan, Roy Rogers, Jack Benny Show, Beulah, Calvacade of Bands, and WFMY TV listings detailing sign ons and late night offers.
Baltimore fire razed the Cross Street market a wooden shed three quarters of a block long near Charles and Light Streets. The blaze spread to 13 row houses and caused burns to one elderly woman and smoke injuries to six firefighters, a policeman, and two residents. No deaths reported. Firemen evacuated residents through ladders and smoke-filled hallways. The market previously housed candy groceries meat fish vegetables and flowers with heavy refrigeration equipment.
The High Point Civil Service Commission will accept applications by 5 P.M. tomorrow for five city jobs including athletic supervisor water and sewer foreman and three fourth class patrolmen. Applicants filing by the deadline may take a service examination at the recreation center. Age limits are 21 to 31 with at least a high school education and more details are at the Civil Service Commission office.
Castor oil serves as a key raw material for paints varnishes lubricants and nylon. The earliest trees appeared in the Permian Age about 235 million years ago.
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