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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1948
Page
2
December 14 is tentatively set for Thom asville bond issue election City Manager R M Cooksey said the date awaits New York bond council approval The plan seeks $200000 for water lines $150000 for parks $130000 for streets and $20000 for sewers to finance city improvements.
Tokyo dispatch reports Gen Douglas MacArthur accusing Soviet Russia of using half a million Japanese prisoners as slave labor to build its war potential. Soviet diplomat Generalov rejects the claim, while repatriates describe oppression and hardship, with Yoshikazu Amano recounting two years eight months in Siberia and harsh conditions on the railway.
Fragmentary weather notes mention Carolina area and a crude forecast. It references tonight and Sunday with vague sunrise and sunset times and a calendar context.
The Lions club celebrates its 10th anniversary with a Ladies Night dinner at 7 30 p m in the Women's Club building. The William C Miller post No 2756 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars turns four on Wednesday with a low key observance at the VFW hall. The post was chartered October 27 1944 and 14 of its 17 charter members remain active. The late Robert Little was the first commander.
A Democratic rally for High Point township is set for Friday night at the County Building. Township chairman Herman Burrows says he hopes to have a speaker announced by tomorrow. The meeting will be the final chance to muster party spirit before the elections.
Paul Harris of Thomasville, secretary of the Davidson county board of elections, estimated this morning that 1,200 names were added to the registration books at Thomasville's seven polls before the three week period closed Saturday. About 200 new names were added at each poll. Most registrants in the final period joined as independents or Republicans. Next Saturday is challenge day and the general election will be held on November 2.
For the second time in a week, deputy sheriff Burch Payne investigated telephone cables broken by rifle fire near Midway. A .22 caliber rifle caused about $3,000 in damage to both a small and a large cable on power poles. The cables are in the same group reaching into Guilford county, damaged last Wednesday, with investigators intensifying the probe.
Frankfurt dispatch reports more than 28 000 Germans applied for emigration to the United States the day after official word that regular emigration had resumed Only 28 000 Germans will be admitted annually under the permanent resettlement quota indicating high demand and strict annual limits
In Pueblo Colorado a walk along Union Avenue reveals a window shopping survey showing 35 pistols and over 50 knives displayed in shops. About half the blades are four inches or longer, highlighting street level weapon exposure.
In New Haven 300 skilled women at the A C Gilbert Company assemble complete miniature locomotives on an assembly line. The Huskies of the railroad roundhouse scoff at such a powder puff brigade yet these workers make full model trains.
Raleigh reports on the opening of the second day of the Fourth District dental meeting. Dr. John E. Butler of Atlanta and Dr. Harold W. Kroch of Washington spoke on creating a North Carolina dental school at the University, noting a critical shortage of dentists. Dr. J. W. Tew of Clayton was to be installed as district resident-elect, with other officers to be chosen. Dr. E. C. Current of Gastonia urged the university dental school to close the gap between supply and demand, citing Tar Heels average access of about 30 minutes per year to see a dentist.
Southern Pines October meeting of the North Carolina Association of Broadcasters featured FCC chairman Wayne Coy predicting growth for television with about 1000 stations in seven to eight years. Cosgrove of Avco-Crosley forecast one million TV workers and 12 million sets in use by 1951. North Carolina AP Radio Association plans regular news exchange meetings. officers named include E J Gluck Frank Jarman W R Robeson Jr Paul Hansell and E Z Jones.
The society plans to ask the 1949 general assembly to appropriate about 1,500,000 dollars for a school plant and to provide funds annually as part of operating expenses.
Thomasville reports Richard Eugene Jarrell 24 bound over to Davidson County superior court after Denton recorder found probable cause in a robbery case. Weldon Bass of Spring Hope accuses Jarrell and a taxi driver of robbing $280. Bass also cites Jarrell for assault. Jarrell pleaded guilty to assault and faced court costs. he also faces a future charge of being away without leave from the U S army after trial. LeRoy Arms Worthy, about 45, of 204 street, linked to a robbery charge against the taxi driver. the case was not advanced with leave.
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