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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1945
Page
8
A column piece threads anecdotes on love and mathless dilemmas of soldiers returning home. It recalls civic aid during the Great Depression, a woman rejecting self rising flour, and a World War I reemployment letter saga about Jack Billings seeking work in Chicago, ending with a blunt note on ancestors vs. ability.
A Greensboro tale recounts a fake gold brick scam where a stranger sold a bogus $5,000 brick for $1,000. A jeweler exposed the con, the swindler fled then resurfaced as a successful business figure. A separate gag involves a western assayer exposing a worthless backstory to a widow.
COLORADO SPRINGS Santos art of New Mexican peasants has risen in value and esteem. A santo carved from cottonwood can fetch up to 1000 dollars, a jump from about 40 dollars ten years ago. The Taylor Museum collection at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center holds over 300 santos, the largest in the world, with parts shown in major museums nationwide.
The St. Louis Kiwanis squad captured the first Midwest amateur boxing team title with 26 points. Kansas City earned 20, Minneapolis 17, and Oklahoma City 14 as Ray Mastilovich faced Butch Gose for the sportsmanship award in the light welterweight bout.
In Sydney, Australian war brides return home to say America feels like an “absolute bedlam” with fast living and selfish trends. Yet many Aussie girls engaged to Americans still plan to marry and ship out to the United States, despite disillusioned testimonies.
Aviation News magazines describes a system that televises engine ignition faults without touching the engine. A row of peaked figures shows spark plugs in firing order and any fault alters the display.
Horizontal and vertical clues list for the daily puzzle by Eugene Sheffer with a complete set of across and down entries including theme hints and publication note from King Features Syndicate. The sheet shows clue numbers, hints on word lengths, and the postscript about average solution time and source.
Pattern 4938 offers a cheerful apron with ricrac trim or embroidery transfer. Sizes Small to Ex. Small cover 14 to 46 with yardage and ordering details from Enterprise Pattern. Also promoting Anne Adams Pattern Book for Fall and Winter with eight accessories and printed instructions. Greenland noted as a Danish possession.
Davidson county Welfare board rejects state merit council review of its dismissal decision for welfare superintendent E Clyde Hunt. The board asserts its appointing authority grants full rights to decide. merit council and supervisor allegedly cannot probe actions behind the board’s findings.
Charleston police seek a musical thief who stole a homemade violin and an alarm clock from a trailer home of Carl L. Kennison. No other items were taken.
In Sterling Illinois Dixon scored two long kickoff returns for a pair of touchdowns as Sterling defeated Dixon 32 to 7. Schultz sprinted 90 yards for Dixon on the second half kickoff and Keiser ran 86 yards after a Sterling return on the next kickoff. The Cranbrook fireman tale describes a vacationer helping put out a camp blaze with locals.
William A. Tomlinson executive vice president of Tomlinson of High Point appeared as the featured guest on the Magazine of the Air radio program sponsored by Kresge Newark New Jersey. The event marked Kresge Newark’s 75th anniversary as a leading retail firm inviting top manufacturing executives to discuss the romance of their products. Tomlinson was invited as a representative furniture manufacturer on the national scene.
Having qualified as administratrix of the estate of R F Pendergrass deceased this is to notify all persons having claims against the said estate to present them by October 7 1946 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery All indebted parties please pay immediately This 6th day of October 1945 Mrs Bettie C Pendergrass administratrix 1107 Tipston St High Point NC 10 6 13 20 27 11 3 10 Guilford County In the Superior Court High Point Division In the matter of the will of Pearl H Pittman deceased You and each of you are notified that Walter W Hoover has entered a caveat to the paperwriting purporting to be the will of Pearl H Pittman deceased and has bonded for the proceeding The cause is transferred to the Superior Court of Guilford County High Point Division for trial at the December 10 1945 term You will appear and be proper parties if you choose This 11th day of October 1945 J P Shore Clerk Superior Court Guilford County 10 13 20 27 11 3
The Government of Canada operates through three main branches: the federal parliament and provincial legislatures, the federal and provincial executives, and the judicial system.
Executor of the estate of Mrs Dora E Richardson in Guilford County North Carolina requests all creditors and claimants to present their claims by September 22 1946. Debts to the estate should be paid promptly. This notice dated September 21 1945. John W Richardson executor Waller Wright Attorneys 9/22-29 10/6-13-20-27.
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