Quiet Thanksgiving Observed Citywide Busy Weekend Ahead
High Point observed a quiet Thanksgiving with most offices closed and schools out for a long holiday weekend. The Carolina Virginia Turkey Day classic attracted many travelers to Chapel Hill as residents spent time with families and the police reported normal celebration activity at noon. In Fort Worth the OPM announced windmill production and rope allowances for ranchers, enabling manufacture of up to 360 feet of first quality manila rope for lariats.
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High Point
Chapel Hill
OPM
Fort Worth
Tex
Great Plains
Polish inventor’s kitchen experiments end in house blaze
Philadelphia. Charles White, 75, spent ten years on an automobile polish project. He plans to keep testing but out of the kitchen. A batch boiled over yesterday, starting a fire that destroyed his four room home.
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Philadelphia
Charles White
Falls Church
RFC
Defense Homes Corporation
Brownwood Soldier Receives Discharge and 15 Cents
In Brownwood Texas Johnny Fowler a private in the 41st Infantry at Camp Bowie received his discharge plus 15 cents transportation expense. Bus fare home was 10 cents. Most discharged soldiers get money for the wife home and nothing more. Fowler also got coffee.
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Brownwood
Texas
Wip
Johnny Fowler
Fowler
41St Infantry
Camp Bowie
Thanksgiving Visit From Sister in Charteston WV
Mrs. R. L. Waynick hosts her sister Mrs. T. A. Kay of Charteston West Virginia during the Thanksgiving holidays. Mrs. Kay arrived yesterday and will stay through Sunday.
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R. L. Waynick
T. A. Kay
Charteston
West Virginia
Prayer Service Hosted at 1511 Long Street by Vance Hill Group
Friday prayer meeting led by Vance Hill meets at F. B. Briggs home 1511 Long Street with Mrs. Nora Adanix as speaker starting at 7 30. Announcement notes date and location for attendees.
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Vance Hill
F. B. Briggs
Long Street
Nora Adanix
Funeral Rites for Mrs Victoria Evans Held in High Point
Funeral services for Mrs. Victoria Evans 75 well known High Point woman who died at her daughter Mrs G W Searce 1008 Stanton Street were held Wednesday afternoon at 1 30 o clock from the Pentecostal Holiness Church Highland Avenue The pastors Rev T T Lindsay Rev C F Noble and Rev George Liner led the rites The choir and a ladies quartet sang several hymns and the cemetery service followed at Floral Garden Cemetery Granddaughters carried flowers Pallbearers were grandsons of the deceased Interment was at Floral Garden Cemetery
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MBS
Victoria Evans
High Point
G. W. Searce
Stanton Street
Pentecostal Holiness Church
Highland Avenue
T. T. Lindsay
C. F. Noble
George Liner
Southside Baptist Church
Jesus
Myrtie Johnson
Imogene Williams
Mary Dan Shean
Nellie Gray
M. A. Sechrest
H. 0. Sechrest
Yassie Yazel
Reid Scarce
Ted Scarce
Chester Rose
Floral Garden Cemetery
Middle Belt tobacco prices drop two cents a pound
Raleigh Nov 20 Average prices for most grades of middle flue cured tobacco sold yesterday were 32 a hundred lower than Tuesday, according to the North Carolina, Virginia and Federal Agriculture Departments. Bulk of offerings was common to fair leaf and nondescript with figures ranging from lemon leaf good to best crude as listed.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Virginia
Fedoral
Colorful Canyon in New Mexico Holds Wide Ruins
Colorful Canyon lies in northwestern New Mexico and covers 20 269 acres of prehistoric ruins sagebrush and cedar trees and vivid sands.
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Chaco Canyon
New Alexico
Lieut Arch Morrow Receives Commendation for Service
Lieut Arch S Morrow of High Point is awarded a certificate of commendation for outstanding work with the Seventh Field Artillery Observation Battalion at Fort Bragg. As medical detachment head he maintained health for about five hundred men under campaign conditions, contributing to the battalion’s noted efficiency during First Army maneuvers.
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Arch S. Morrow
High Point
Seventh Field Artillery Observation Battalion
E. J. McGaw
Fort Bragg
John Wilson
Arch 8
Morrow
Lieut. Wilson
Wilson
William Penn High Beats Dudley 20 to 13 in Greensboro
William Penn Tigers defeated James B. Dudley Memorial Panthers 20 to 13 at Memorial Stadium in Greensboro. The game opened 7-0 then 14-0 before Dudley fought back late. The win likely secures the North Central Conference title for William Penn and marks the end of a storied high school gridiron career for several seniors.
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Penn Downs
Dudley
Willian Penn High School
Tigers
James B. Duddley
Tiger
William Penn
William Penn High School
Thomasville
Church Street High School
Gordon L. Starks
Thomas W. Hushes
Carl Chavis
Phillip Moore
Herbert Staton
Freel Dawson
Howard
Doc”. Curry
Lee Maley
J. T. Milter
Valuable Antiques Destroyed In Fire at Randolph County Home
A fire destroyed a newly built Randolph County home on the former W. Gould Brokaw estate near High Point. Most antique furnishings were lost. only the iron sate and a safe with papers survived. The blaze, likely from an electric short, raged between 1 and 4 p. m. Tuesday while Mr. and Mrs. Dave Bouldin were in High Point.
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Dave Bouldin
W. Gould Brokaw
Randolph County
High Point
Brokaw
Kosh
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