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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1945
Page
5
Portland Oregon couple Ben Grasser a catcher and his bride wed at home plate during a lull between softball games. They walked up the aisle of players beneath an arch of crossed bats to exchange vows in a humorous sport themed ceremony.
In the first half of 1945 the United States shipped 275 million dollars worth of food and other agricultural products to the United Kingdom under wartime aid programs.
Major league scouts watch Notre Dame right hander Jack Brett who endured a tough season. He pitched nine flawless innings in a game lost on a defensive error and later threw a one hitter in a 1-0 defeat due to poor fielding.
Marie Tussaud, founder of the Madame Tussaud wax exhibition in London, is noted for her figures on display in Paris. The article mentions her influence in the wax museum world and her international reach.
Washington reports General Omar Bradley, newly in charge of the Veterans Administration, urges staff to promptly grant every benefit and opportunity to veterans. He stresses service not charity, acknowledging he is new to VA duties and will learn quickly with employee help while underscoring the sacrifices of veterans.
In the early west readers learn rus tlers are cattle thieves Pancho Villa is the famed Mexican bandit Old Ironsides is the Constitution. A 13 year old Harold Thorne in Rockford Illinois traps five rats in a baited rat trap. A 1940 note compares Japan’s population density to the United States.
A 1945 King Features syndicate piece reviews a study by Geoffrey Taylor and P N Chhattani on 50 anemic patients drawn from 17 000 meat eaters and 1 188 vegetarians. It finds vegetarians had higher anemia rates and macrocytic cells, while meat eaters showed microcytic anemia.
Margaret Hauser formerly of High Point now edits Scholastic magazine in New York. Her Redbook piece Why They Want to Leave Home draws on a 53,000-student survey from the Institute of Student Opinion. Hauser also authored Bib and Tuck and Boy Dates Girl and wrote a popular student handbook.
George M. Trautman president of the American Association said the American Association International and Pacific Coast leagues may seek to place their circuits in a new AAA class at the December meeting in Columbus Ohio. The three AA leagues would join the Southern Association in applying for the upgrade with a final decision due by November 1.
A Kansas City barbershop visit ends with a surprise as a stranger in the chair is told the President is nearby, exchanging a handshake with Truman amid a curious crowd and guards at the door. Police detectives recount other odd scenes as students avoid school and Halloween pranksters disrupt parkways in Kansas City.
In San Francisco on October 3 a commerce directive states that those who do not receive the notice must write immediately to the office of surplus property. The terse directive emphasizes prompt action by affected parties.
In Spokane on October 3, off duty Police Capt. Lee Markwood and Sgt. Dan Mangan watched a nervous driver fight to back from a space. They soon learned the scene was disrupted when J. W. Wolf reported his car had been stolen.
In historical discussions the turnip is traced to Europe or western Asia as its likely birthplace. Scholars debate which region first domesticated the root crop and how its cultivation spread across medieval gardens and fields.
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