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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1944
Page
13
A Camp Rucker trainee at the coca cola machine pours nickel after nickel as a sergeant watches. The lad stacks about a dozen bottles before the sergeant advises stopping, but the trainee protests that he is on a winning streak.
At Laurinburg Maxton Army Air Base Col Warner Corey pioneering a crash skid for gliders improves rough terrain landings. His steel tubing frame and mahogany runners prevent nose damage, cutting repairs as gliders returned from uneven fields.
Colonel nose placements led to a homegrown solution by Corey who designed skid units for gliders. The first unit cost 150 dollars and withstand tests showed fabric and plywood damage limited. Corey earned a Meritorious award and his aviation interest dates to World War I. His two sons serve. a third, Cpl. Warner L. Corey Jr., was killed in May 1943 en route to the Pacific.
A Pittsburgh officer issued 12 parking tickets in a round up only to discover the next day that the lot included a city owned car three private cars owned by city detectives and eight owned by police officers. The Red Cross blood bank says it only wants blood donations. Officials note items left by donors include umbrellas hats and glasses.
Ace Bush, 31, AP war correspondent, was killed when a Japanese bomb hit Tacloban, Leyte, as he covered the Pacific invasion. He joined AP in 1939 and reported from Australia and New Guinea before his death. survived by wife Fae Cornish Despain and daughter Margaret Ann.
Air Service Command announces a safer life jacket for airmen who bail out over water. The jacket includes a special neck design to keep the head above water if unconscious, addressing drownings when pilots slip from life jackets.
The United States established its first national forests in 1891 marking the beginnings of federal forest conservation. This milestone reflects early government action to protect timberlands and public natural resources.
Huffman Manufacturing Co receives approval to start making bicycles with a maximum 44 pound weight. Six models will roll off the line featuring balloon tires chain guards and a rear kick stand for parking.
University of Michigan researcher Dr. Lee R. Dice reports owls are not sighted in complete darkness. After hundreds of tests the director of the laboratory of vertebrate biology states owls are as blind as a bat and rely on other senses in low light.
Patrolman Elmer Hadley, on a Colville to Fairbanks patrol, spotted a fat grouse on Main Street. He fired, missed, and the bird circled stunned. He retrieved it, took it to a restaurant, and posed with the bird for a photo with a camera flash.
Mrs. Dolly Madison, 80, pleaded not guilty in court after an incident in New York involving six bottles hurled from a hotel room at a sound truck attempting to mobilize voters for Roosevelt. The complaint was filed by a man aboard the truck who said he was trying to register voters.
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