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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1944
Page
3
A columnist cites a schoolteacher that about 40 percent of primary students bite nails or suck fingers. He notes attempts with quassia to deter the habit, finding success when continued a week but not after three days if ineffective. The habit declines with age and social pressure.
WW II dispatch from Germany details humorous soldier anecdotes among American troops. Notables include Otto Kaiser and Thomas Gill at a spring foxhole turned washing station, Capt. Cole collecting cups, and Pfc. Murphy reading comics under fire. Minor war miscellany ends by noting Norway daylight and Italy’s ancient libraries.
Public auction to highest bidder for cash or terms at least 20 down and balance over 60 months. Sale at City Hall High Point at 11:00 A M November 20 1944. Property includes Howell Street Tracts 81 and 2 and J Elwood Cox Plat Lots 44 and 45. City reserves right to reject bids. Arnold J Koonce Mayor.
Arnold J. Koonce mayor announces public auction on the 11th day of Y 1943 for Lots 5 and 7 in the College Heights Plat as recorded in Guilford County NC Book 4 page 158 with no less than 20 down the balance to be paid for the property.
An article cites wartime England seeing a surge in illegitimate births and divorces from 1943 levels. Prewar illegitimacy stood at 26 739. 1943 rose to 43 105. Divorce cases rose from an average 550 to 2 250 in 1943, prompting church and medical concerns on youth, morals, and future home life.
North Carolina agricul ture officials advocate keeping livestock in the general farm program. Leland Case, in charge of Extension animal husbandry at State College, argues that farmers should not abandon livestock during changing markets and should maintain herd or flock sizes within feed limits. He notes past cycles of expanding and pulling back from livestock and urges steadiness through good and bad times.
Growers confront feed and labor shortages as farmers are urged to cull herds and flocks to keep only the best individuals. The practice aims to stabilize operations and improve long term livestock development and progress.
The War Department awarded Bronze Stars to North Carolina servicemen S/Sgt. Jasef I. Hager Sherrills Ford Cpl Charles W. Lemons and Hendersonville native Homer P Lyda in a November 7 release. The notices appear amid a mix of local property and city notices dated 1943 and 1944.
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