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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1949
Page
20
Health advice warns self dosing with vitamins can cause illness. Vitamin A overuse linked to loss of appetite weight loss skin issues bone changes and liver enlargement especially in children. Doctors recommend balanced diet and physician guided dosing with vigilance for adverse symptoms.
High Point built a distinct traffic division during a population surge. Captain J Roy Teague commands eleven officers including two patrol car men five motorcycle officers a school driving sergeant and two maintenance staff. The unit handles accident investigations traffic control parking meters and signal maintenance while downtown officers still write tickets. About 60 percent of police work ties to traffic and the city averages about one accident per day. The division marks 25 years since its first motorized vehicle and foresees replacement of old two wheelers with three wheel work horses.
The 11th annual Ladies Night in Thomasville featured a charity dinner at the Woman's Club with turkey and trim mings. Lions staged pranks including an auction where the foretelling high bid led to playful humiliation of members and guests, with items ranging from wax jobs to live animals.
Lion Bill Thompson allegedly skipped passing cigars at a Lions Club meeting after a new baby. Lion J O Walton kept paging Mrs Thompson during Ladies Night and presented 15 to 20 cigars while an ads filled program mocked members occupations. Seventeen members were fined for not advertising.
A late night skit at the party spoofed four ladies at a bridge game. Actors Homer Beck S Rice George Arnold and Hal Harrison delivered sharp gossip and set the room in gales of laughter.
Local automobile dealers will observe Know Your Automobile Dealer Week from October 31 through November 5. E B Gamble president of the local association said the event highlights contributions of the industry to High Point and promotes customer awareness of dealers services and new models.
Copenhagen officials plan to welcome seamen from visiting trade ships as tourists. They aim to encourage sailors to explore the capital and attend concerts and sporting events, turning visits into extended cultural experiences.
The Brotherhood of the United Evangelical Lutheran Synod of North Carolina will hold its twenty-seventh annual convention at St John s Church in Salisbury on Tuesday November 15. The day includes devotions registrations addresses by Zeb B Trexler and Dr P D Brown among others and ends with an evening banquet headlined by Dr Luther Mauney.
A man reporting a broken window and a stolen sports jacket in Philadelphia said another jacket and a pair of trunks were taken from his car trunk. While he spoke, a chromium sun visor was also stolen from the front of the vehicle.
The text notes forests stay warmer at night than plains because trees slow heat escape.
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