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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1936
Page
5
The Enterprise outlines the ninth budget piece detailing $355 955 for personal services in the city budget. It breaks down salaries for regular, extra, weekly, and other compensations, with the police and fire divisions receiving the largest shares.
The document outlines annual personal service appropriations across multiple city divisions including streets parks recreation water utilities and administration. It details salaries for foremen operators laborers clerks and managers for facilities such as ball fields golf courses swimming pools city lake park and Blair Park, plus divisions like the municipal court city attorney office engineering abattoir cemetery and public buildings with totals per division and notes on part time positions and allowances.
New York report from Dun and Bradstreet shows virtually all lines of business ahead of last year. Retail sales rose aided by Columbus Day promotions while wholesale activity and reorders improved. Automobiles aided momentum though durable goods makers faced equipment limits. national retail sales were 9 to 22 percent above 1936 levels with regional gains ranging from 12 to 30 percent.
The western district North Carolina Teachers association opened its two day convention in Asheville with a business session and a laymen's banquet. A centennial pageant celebrating educational progress in western North Carolina was staged last night and will be repeated tonight. Panel discussions group conferences and talks by educational leaders will mark the event expected to draw about 2 000 attendees.
An autopsy on H. Otis Matheny to determine if silicosis caused his death was performed after his family alleged exposure at a local cottonseed oil plant. The full report was expected several days later, per state industrial commission orders.
L. J. Fisher Jr of the Guilford County Board of Elections announced Ben L. Herman as registrar at No. 1 precinct. The confirmation follows a routine personnel adjustment within the county election authority.
The name Badgers for Wisconsin natives comes from early lead miners who lived in burrows like badgers. The Constitution’s preamble is cited as containing the phrase more perfect, noted as a grammatical error.
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