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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1947
Page
2
The High Point Enterprise page notes an issue dated Thursday October 80 1917 with local notices and brief items typical of a small town newspaper.
New York Oct 30 The widow of the late president was invited by the Royal family to attend the Princess Frit h and Lieut Philip Mountbatten wedding in London on February 20. She declines due to duties as a member of the United States delegation to the United Nations.
Captain of Detectives W. Johnson said two high school youths found 8502.97 in checks plus 8718.14 in cash stolen from High Point Memorial hospital yesterday afternoon. The checks, bound with a rubber band, were found under a bridge on Locke Street. Investigators seek a man seen leaving the hospital after waiting in an ante room for hours before prying open a desk drawer.
The VFW post will greet the first contingent of Pacific war dead arriving by train in High Point at 10 50 AM. Local servicemen Pvt James A Reece Pfc Justice R Hawkins and ACMM Clayton M Holt died in the Pacific. Services for Reece Hawkins and Holt are scheduled with full military honors at their family plots and local funeral homes with burial at Floral Garden Oakwood Memorial and Springfield cemeteries.
Firemen were called to the home of M. T. Corn at 1222 Montlieu avenue yesterday afternoon where a cook stove backfired in the fire box exploded, tearing a hole in the kitchen wall and ceiling. The stove was destroyed and the house suffered significant damage but no one was indoors at the time. Mrs. Corn had left the kitchen moments before the blast.
The Denison Dam region in Texas holds a reservoir spanning 220 square miles. This large body of water supports local water management and recreation, reflecting the project’s regional impact and scale.
In a South African gold mine, hoists move shafts at about 3 500 feet per minute, more than twice the pace of New York City's fastest skyscraper elevators, highlighting extraordinary hauling speed beneath the earth.
Billy Dixon 12 of 32-A Clara Cox apartments sustained non critical head and leg lacerations when his bicycle struck a car driven by Winnie D Stanton 37 of Randleman at Willowbrook and West High. He was treated at Memorial hospital and released. Police said the bike was turning left onto High street from Willowbrook when the collision occurred. The bike traveled 53 feet after impact.
Police investigate a $173.64 theft from the office desk of High Point college dietician Mrs. E. C. Harvill after she left at 5 15 pm. The money vanished when a desk drawer top was unlocked with keys taken from the middle drawer.
Police arrested G. K. Williams, 36, of 740 English Street, on a charge of assault on a female after Mrs. J. B. Bodenhamer was involved in the incident.
A warrant charges Williams with accosting 15-year-old Betty Lou Williams at their home last Saturday while she was alone. Williams, a collector for Southern Merchandise Co, was released on a $500 bond with a municipal court hearing scheduled for the next session.
The city building inspector issued permits for construction totaling over 20 000 dollars. Two new one family dwellings are authorized for A M Thayer at 402 West Howell Street worth 7500 dollars and G K Wall at 1412 Bragg Street worth 5000 dollars. A heating plant upgrade at Rose Street residence owned by Mr and Mrs Robert T Fox is approved for 1030 dollars. An insurer estimates 200 deaths and 1000 serious injuries yearly from home cleaning. moths threaten pure wool garments and fabrics blending with yarns like rayon or octon.
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