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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1936
Page
8
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin announced May 12 1937 as the day for King Edward VIII to be formally invested with royal authority in a coronation ceremony in London.
Funeral services for B Kaplan a 59 year old Gilead merchant who died Tuesday night at his home after a brief illness will be held Friday at 11 in the Jewish cemetery near the city. He is survived by his wife three daughters and a son Dr Frank Kaplan of Troy New York.
The state board of health reports last week there were 12 scarlet fever cases, up from 11 the prior week and 16 in the same week of 1935. Pellagra also showed an increase in reports.
Elected lagara cases jumped to 22 last week from 15 the prior week and stood at 26 the similar week last year. Typhoid fever remained at four weekly for two weeks, down from six in the May 25, 1935 week. Infantile paralysis showed one case in each of the last two weeks, versus 17 in the May 25 period a year ago signaling a major outbreak.
Wilson Mills aviation instructor at Rollins College and Miss Connie Righter of Princeton set a new light airplane distance record. They flew from Miami to Winston-Salem in about 11 hours and 50 minutes, beating the May 20 record by 18 miles. Mills piloted solo in a yellow stripped monoplane without landing lights.
A statewide fiddlers convention will be held in Randleman at the high school auditorium Saturday evening. Open to the public, the event is sponsored by the local Eastern Star chapter and touted as the finest over, with prizes for best bands and instruments including violin guitar banjo and quartet. Bill Parker of Greensboro will MC.
The highway and public works commission voted to buy about 200 acres near Woodlawn McDowell county to quarry stone for highway use. The land has been under option and removal could start in 60 to 90 days. The rock will yield about 20 percent agricultural lime as a by product. Bids on 16 construction projects were received and will be canvassed tomorrow.
John A. Arey of North Carolina State College reported that a Greensboro textile dairy herd of 107 cows produced 8 984 pounds of milk and 340 pounds of butterfat per cow in the year, among the highest state records since records began.
Davidson football candidates will report for practice on Tuesday September 1, as announced by Coach Doc Newton. The notice comes from the Davidson grid practice schedule dated May 28.
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