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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1933
Page
3
Seven boys and three girls aged two months to 10 years will be ready for adoption in the final three months of the year. One boy and two girls are under a year old. John J. Phoenix of the Children's Home Society of North Carolina announces the September report.
Smithfield, Oct. 6. A car crashed into a tree near here killing Rupert R. Durham 22 of Clayton the driver and Virginia Crosby 30 of Raleigh and seriously injuring Estelle Smith 19 of Raleigh who suffered a broken jaw and a fractured shoulder A receipt on Durham shows he bought the old model roadster yesterday with a $12 50 initial payment Police found whiskey near the body
There were two legal adoptions during the past month, a total of 32 for the year, while seven foster homes were accepted for placement of children, one being placed. 28 children placed in foster homes so far this year. On September 80 there were five infants in the dormitory, seven older children in the dormitory and two in boarding school. There were three infants received by the society during the month. Since the society was organized a total of 2,854 children have been placed in foster homes, while there have been 904 legal adoptions.
In September 1933 the 16 southern states reported a $33.8 million total for building and construction projects, the highest monthly total since October 1932. The South also posted a $178.709 million peak for contracts to be awarded, surpassing the prior monthly record by about $13 million, signaling a rapid expansion in industry and infrastructure.
September totals reach 17.68 million in awards for industrial and engineering projects with 5.6 million to plants and 8.13 million for levees dikes and revetments. Road and bridge contracts hit 12.435 million versus 5.553 million last August. Multiple small industrial firms boosted the September sum while NSW rice growers in the Murrumbidgee irrigation area adopt modern implements.
In London the escalators of the new Holborn Tube station move at 180 feet per hour, a measured speed noted during the station’s early operation. The figure highlights mechanical efficiency in this new transit project.
In Chapel Hill on October 6 the University Emergency Student Loan Fund extended loans totaling 22 517 to 323 students this fall. Applications rose due to the end of state scholarships, with selections based on scholastic standing character and security offered. Loans require a student signature and two endorsers who are worth the loan amount above exemptions.
New Bern police hunt suspects after a theater robbery of 28 cents a brief case from an oil company and a bottle plant loss totaling between 300 and 400 dollars.
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