Chimps Johnny and Nancy Move Into Office Cage
In Pittsburgh Highland Park zoo director Edward J House houses two chimpanzees named Johnny and Nancy in his office while their apartment is cleaned. The pair, bought in New York for 1400 dollars to replace Sammy who died at 16, arrived by private automobile. An unrelated note mentions alligators with twenty teeth per side.
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Pittsburgh
INS
Johnny
Nancy
Edward J. House
Highland Park Zoo
New York
Sammy
Johhny
City Schools Enrollment Shows Small Decrease From Last Year
On the third day of school in High Point the total enrollment reached 7 396, down 108 from last year but 277 more than two years ago. Nineteen new students have enrolled since opening day, with first grade at 841, up 67 from last year and 20 above 1945 46. Brentwood and Oak Hill show gains, Oak Hill adding a teacher.
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High Point City
C. F. Carroll
Brentwood
Oak Hill
Carroll
Veterans’ Housing Project
William Penn High School
Florence High School
William Penn
Greensboro
Ada Blair
Cloverdale
Elm Street
Emma Blair
Johnson Street
Ail Oak H
Ray Street
Fairview
ATS
Leonard
Baw Street
Dr. Rogers Joins Burrus Clinic With Dr. Brockman
Dr. Max Pae is now associated with Dr. H L Brockman in the Burrus clinic surgery practice. He trained at High Point College and Duke University Medical School, served in the Navy medical corps in the South Pacific, and held residencies at Duke Hospital. He is a member of the AMA NC Medical Society Guilford County Medical Society and Burrus clinic staff. He is married to Nancy Leonard of Salisbury.
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Max P Ae
H. L. Brockman
Burrus Clinic
Rogers
High Point College
Duke University School of Medicine
Alpha Omega Alpha
Duke Hospital
Navy Medical Corps
South Pacific
Marines
American Medical Association
North Carolina Medical Society
Guilford County Medical Society
Nancy Leonard
Salisbury
High Point City
Enrollment surge at Allen Jay prompts extra teachers
On opening day Allen Jay School reported 867 pupils, 40 more than last year, with 69 more registering by day two for a total rise of 109. The growth stems from new housing nearby, easing crowded conditions that last year forced classes in libraries and storage areas. Two additional teachers are now expected.
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Allen Jay
T. Bennison
Bennison
Allen Jay School
Library Adds 88 New Books During August
The High Point public library added eighty eight new titles in August per librarian Miss Elizabet Gurley. Leading requests include The Moneyman by Thomas Constain and Prince of Foxes by Samuel Shellabarger along with a long list of new works by Ernie Pyle Hartzell Spence John Horne Burns and many others.
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High Point Public Library
Elizabet Gurley
Thomas Constain
Samuel Shellabarger
Home Country
Ernie Pyle
Hartzell Spence
the Gallery
John Horne Burns
Mrs. Candy
Robert Tallant
Hillyard House
Kathleen Norris
Herbert A. Kenny
Elswyth Thane
Herbert Shappiro
W. Somerset Maugham
Frances Sarah Moore
Dennis Gray Stoll
Countee Cullen
Carol Morris
Rona Randall
Eli Colter
Mally Lee
Elizabeth Kyle
H. O
Fritz” Crisler
Edward Fenton
James B. Hendryx
Laula Grace Erdman
Martha Albrand
Cecily Bowman
Patrick Uentin
Zané@ Grey
Theodora du Bois
Berta Ruck
Rebecca Marsh
C. S. Forester
Robert J. Kuhn
Sara Ware Bassett
Edward Wagenknecht
Paul D. Green
Custer
Tom Curry
Don Cameron
Dorothy Rivers
Robert Hichens
Kay Hamilton
John Caples
Mildred McNeilly
P. H. Newby
P. G. Wodehouse
Mary Burchell
Elisabeth Ogilvie
Peggie Gaddis
Caroline
Elizabeth Carfrae
Purple Water
Frances Crane
Upton Sinclair
Lewis Browne
Weed Prices Irregular On Main Belts
Prices on eastern North Carolina markets remained irregular for the second week of sales with border belt fluctuations from 50 cents to 6.75 per hundred pounds. Declines outpaced increases as logs primings and cutters stayed in demand, bought $1 to $3 higher. Eastern sales averaged 42.71, down 63 cents from the prior week. border belt averaged 44.65, down 6.65 from opening week. Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor remarks on hostilities suspension amid peace era.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
South Carolina
Federal
State Departments of Agriculture
Border Belt
Vocational Illiterates: Millions Ill-Prepared Workers Cited
New York reports that at least ten million Americans in a sixty million workforce are vocationally illiterate. Dean Rufus Strohm of the International Correspondence Schools notes one in six workers is a dud due to missing schooling or incomplete related training. The piece also cites a claim that arable land today accounts for four percent of the earth’s surface.
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New York
INS
Rufus T. Strohm
Faculty of
International Correspondence Schools
Welcome Relief From Stomach Gas and Sour Food Taste
After meals you feel bloated and miserable. SSS Tonic is claimed to increase gastric juice flow and aid non organic stomach distress, improving digestion and blood nutrition. It touts 88S Tonic formula, urges readers to buy at drug stores and promises better health and energy.
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Max P. Rogers
Pittsburgh Plate Glass CO
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Angela Thirkell
Olive Higgins
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Pat McGerr
Stuart Cloete
Richard Powell
Feike Feikema
Hamilton Cochran
Edna Lee
Emily Eden
Erle Stanley Gardner
Minnix Walker
Anne Duffield
Taxco
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Henry Morton Robinson
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Will Ermine
Robert Lewis Taylor
Natalie Shipman
Bad Nye
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Aaron Mare Stein
Gerald Kersh
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Hitler
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Vienna
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Richard Sherman
Maxwell D. Taylor
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