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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1948
Page
2
WHPE presents Fun For The Ladies a local style radio show hosted by Nick Lawrence. Broadcast from the Sheraton hotel ballroom Friday at 10 a m the event invites all WHPE covered ladies to attend. Prizes given Mondays included a ladies suit sweater blanket handbag scarf Coca Cola luncheon tickets and flowers. Coffee courtesy of the Sheraton hotel.
Guilford county coroner Dr. W W Harvey rules the death of Walter R Ray Pearman Jr 23 of Greensboro a suicide found in a parked car on a rural road. A hose was connected to the exhaust and brought inside the vehicle the body found by a passerby.
The report shows a 43 percent rise in wage rates but workers may earn less due to fewer hours and less premium pay. Shifts toward lower wage consumer goods work and differences between non manufacturing and factory earnings are noted. Retail hourly wages rose 38 percent postwar, while finance, insurance and real estate grew 23 percent.
City fire statistics show October 1948 losses per capita at $1.08 versus 10 cents in October 1947. Building losses climbed from $1,374 to $12,160 and contents losses from $2,530 to $29,407, while total losses jumped from $3 to $41,567. Alarms rose modestly from 42 to 48.
McGrath says Wallace out as political shifts loom while Leslie Biffle and Barkley land at a submarine base to brief the president. Barkley dodges politics amid cabinet chatter as reporters hunt for admin changes. Bobby Layne becomes NFL’s youngest starting quarterback at 20 with the Chicago Bears.
Commissioner Sam Leonard reported requests for permanent improvements across state institutions. The plan includes Stonewall Jackson Training School $180,000 Morrison Training School $297,000 Eastern Carolina Training School $50,000 Dobbs Farms $290,000 A and T College $7,308,620 for new improvements plus $1,520,000 to supplement 1947 allocations due to higher costs.
J Earle Freedie, 47, began a 20 to 25 year prison term after pleading guilty to second degree murder in Forsyth Superior Court. He admitted shooting his 29 year old wife when she pointed a pistol at him.
Rep Kearny of New York, chairman of the House veterans subcommittee on hospitals, plans a touring inspection of Southern veterans hospitals starting next week. He will visit Atlanta Norfolk Augusta Winston Salem Oteen Lake City Bay Pines Miami and Biloxi.
High Point will have six justices of the peace under a state law limiting JP seats to one per 1000 population and a legislative special act. The county elections board certified six Democrats Arthur R. Harrison Eugene F. Seagraves A F Edwards N M Cates H C Simmons and W E Herndon as the elected JPs, all outrunning six Republican rivals.
Reports say Chinese forces plan a stand against a Communist advance in Peiping and Tientsin. Foreigners flee while some Chinese hope a nonbloody occupation. Jittery residents seek plane seats out, as nerves ripple through the ancient capital and surrounding areas.
Earl Shreve president of the U S Chamber of Commerce warned that business will be in the doghouse for the next four years as he left for Paris to attend an International Chamber of Commerce council meeting. A separate foreclosure notice in Guilford County North Carolina details a land sale by substituted trustee E L Davis Jr at 11:00 A M on December 6 1948 for Lot No 4 of the J A Reavis Property in High Point Township.
Allen Jay School held a Monday night meeting in the auditorium. Dr. Loren Wallin of the High Point Health Department spoke on tuberculosis detection treatment and cure. Virginia Ryan presented two TB education films. Chapel times 8 30 to 8 45 will occur each morning. Week themes include strengthening the foundations of freedoms. Thursday Rev Orvill Dillon will speak on Learning To Live Together. Friday Vera Idol will discuss Improving the Educational Program. A Friday tea at 1 30 hosted by home economics is open to parents. Patrolman Barr will close with a talk on Highway Safety.
Cloudy mild today with showers and winds in the east portion. West will clear and grow colder tonight. East clears and turns fair and rather cold by Thursday with mountain lows around 26 and central range near 52. Sunrise 6 52 am, sunset 4 46 pm.
Official records list 24 hour temperatures and rainfall across multiple cities including Asheville 62 Memphis 35 Atlanta 12 Meridian 74 Augusta 38 Miami 82 Charlotte 51 New York 34 Denver 47 Detroit 38 Evansville 22 Freaven 68 Galveston 42 Jacksonville 78 Wilmington 64 with varied rainfall amounts such as 2.18 inches shown for Station Masita Shien Angeles and other locales.
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