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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1949
Page
6
Edward V Mitchell notes a front page push for a new High Point Y M C A at Main and Russell streets with a goal of 135000. Civic clubs unite with Associated Industries to match funds, mirroring a past community effort and promising a health club and modern facilities within a year.
One contestant in the Pick The Winners contest failed to meet the deposit deadline yesterday as he tried to place his entry in The Enterprise box. The late attempt disrupted the planned closing time and may affect status of his submission.
Sternation called in Friday afternoon claiming they deposited a Sears Roebuck receipt in the box instead of the Pick the Winners slip. A key to the box was recovered and the receipt saved from the year’s most entries for the prize.
A humorous snippet notes husbands now use modern excuses such as taking an airplane flight to a distant city when late. The piece hints that next time the husband arrives late he plans a more elaborate excuse.
A guide recounts a canoe excursion down Deep River with observations on the trip and local scenery. The report highlights the route taken and the experience of navigating the waterway.
The Burlington and Durham high schools prepared for Friday night state championship gridiron play in Burlington. A radio announcer praised the bands and drum majorettes as the highlight of the scene, calling the spectacle grand and finest.
Two birds resembling pigeons with larger bodies and semi webbed feet were brought to The Enterprise office, one found in a ditch near High Point and the other captured after tapping a store window. The editor, feeding the lone surviving bug to the bird in a jar, named it a marsh hen. Mac Moore weighs in that Duke’s first half vs Carolina was stronger than Notre Dame’s, based on his football observations.
In Thomasville on Sunday at 1 p.m. residents must place scrap paper and old books on the curb in separate bundles for collection. The Jaycees sponsor the paper drive and the Rotarians sponsor the book drive. If rain interrupts, the drives shift to the following week.
A Thanksgiving Day blaze burned about 3000 acres of woodland in the Gatlin Pocasin area of Martin and Edgecombe counties. Ranger S M Wooten of Rocky Mount said the cause is undetermined after the fire raged all day Thursday into the night with no damage estimate given.
The final of four High Point historical plays titled Storekeepers and Bargains in Old High Point will air this afternoon at 4 30 over WHPE. Authors are George H Hobart and Alice B Hobart with Mrs James T Warren directing. Steve Clark, High Point historian, supplied most material and is praised by Mrs Matt Wall for making the project possible.
A Foreign Office official was suspended amid belief he is a communist. A spokesman declined to provide details or his name, saying only that the man has been given two weeks leave.
Fisheries alongside agriculture supply the largest food source for humans with an annual catch around 30 billion pounds. The statement highlights the global importance of fishery yields in nutrition and food security.
Lemuel W. Wright, an American inventor, created the first machine for making solid-headed pins in 1824, marking a milestone in pin manufacturing technology.
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