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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1939
Page
12
The Thomasville city budget for 1939 40 totals 245423.56 with projected revenues of 114820.00 and a constant tax rate of 1.60. Expenditures cover general services debt service judiciary fire water and sewer street sanitation cemetery health and miscellaneous items.
Thomasville Rotary Club approves postponing Safety Week events from October 15 to October 22. Local groups including Lions Club Business and Professional Women's Club and police will participate, with talks from National Safety Council official Kirk Keegan and Raleigh Highway Safety head Walter Cutter. Committee members from each organization named for upcoming drive details.
The city lists estimated revenue by department including City office six thousand six hundred, debt service thirty eight thousand five hundred fifty, judiciary ten thousand two hundred twenty, water and sewer sixty nine thousand three hundred, and cemetery one hundred fifty. The piece also notes about eight million people in about fifty thousand U S communities lack railroad service and rely on cars for transport.
Max Terhune the star of 20 Three Mesquiteer films appears on the Paramount Theatre stage today. The versatile actor and ventriloquist will bring his dummy Elmer, showcasing his talents as card expert magician imitator radio and movie actor and whistler.
Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and the Charlotte branch met in Charlotte. After the business session they planned a luncheon where Dr. William P. Jacobs of Presbyterian College Clinton and a South Carolina Cotton Manufacturers Association official would discuss The Effect of the Current War on Textiles.
Funeral services for D. Frank Evans a 57 year old from Winston Salem were held at Green Street Baptist Church with pastors C N Royal and C W Glosson presiding. Pallbearers from Trophy Council No 29 Junior Order served. interment followed at Floral Garden Cemetery.
The High Point Teachers Forum will meet at William Penn High School this evening at 7 30. The main business is to accept the yearly program drafted by the program committee chaired by Mrs Janie Key Williams. The event invites broad attendance and local involvement.
Southern Railway officials led by E. E. Norris and E. R. Oliver visited the city to inspect the completed Grade Crossing Elimination Project. They praised the work on the tracks through the business district and noted the smooth finish.
Cut veal into serving pieces. Dip in beaten egg and bread crumbs. Season and brown in shortening. Place in a casserole and pour over with water and table sauce. Cover and bake or simmer as directed for a Thursday program recipe.
Recipe text notes boiling cabbage then layering in a buttered casserole with white sauce and breadcrumbs. Alternate cabbage and sauce, top with crumbs, bake uncovered.
A faded recipe describes baked carrot pudding using brown sugar grated carrot currants raisins candied lemon peel soda with hot water baking powder salt cinnamon and nutmeg. Mix and bake in a buttered casserole at 350 degrees for about 1 1/2 hours with rack arrangement noted.
Recipe fragments for a Cranberry Ice Box Cake with graham cracker crust and cranberry layers, a Molded Waldorf Salad with lime gelatin apples celery and nuts, and a Crisscross Peach Pie with peach filling and lattice crust bake at 425 F for 50 to 60 minutes.
A classic pie crust method using sifted flour and shortening cut in until fine like meal then added water to form a dough. If using Pastry Mix, substitute two cups of the mix for the flour and water proportions as directed.
Instructions for making bacon bran muffins with shorting sugar egg All Bran milk and flour. The batter mixes with dry ingredients fold in bacon and bake in greased muffin pans at 400 degrees for about 30 minutes yielding eight large muffins. Note sour milk or buttermilk changes baking powder.
Governor Hoey commuted the death sentence of James Cureton, a Forsyth County Black man, from gas chamber death to life imprisonment. He cited doubts about first degree elements after Cureton was convicted in March of killing another Black man.
Researchers show newborns display about 200 eye color hues under modern lighting, disproving the old belief that all babies are born with blue eyes. The finding expands understanding of early pigment development and genetic variation.
Report notes that several World War aircraft employed hollow-propeller shafts to fire explosives. It adds copper and alloys as major automotive material users after electrical industry and mentions an incident in Banks Island Pacific where a native injures a person with a hand crack. Scotland conducts jitterbug tests.
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