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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1943
Page
7
Army Navy boosts and allied efforts transform New Guinea bases. Roads improve, tents screen, and staff cars resume duty. Olive drab Red Cross workers, Australian police, and U S generals enforce order while planes roar in from dispersed airfields. Civilian life returns amid ongoing military logistics and morale programs.
Washington hearing opens on military manpower with Senator Downey opposing further enlarging armed forces. Major points involve selective service leadership and local draft boards autonomy amid calls for a general investigation by House Chairman May. Keesling cites 446 million fathers to be inducted by next year and totals of over 11 million since start, with attrition noted through casualties and discharges.
In a full dress rehearsal of invasion plans, all British services completed a giant amphibious exercise in the English Channel. The joint communique said the full scale drill was successful and offered valuable lessons to service and civil authorities. Separately Wisconsin reports its annual lumber cut at over 8 billion board feet.
A reader praises Kellogg's All-Bran as a gentle regulating remedy for chronic constipation replacing laxatives. The letter urges regular use with ample water, claiming improved elimination and lasting relief, and stresses authentic All-Bran made by Kellogg in Battle Creek.
In Panama Canal Zone training for airborne troops with towed gliders has operated covertly for six months. Capt. W H Taylor Jr and Lieut L T Nellist led demonstrations showing gliders launching from tow planes, with troops exiting en route to bush cover.
The W S C S Circle No 3 requests all choirs and participants in the church musical parade to send their selection names to Miss Gladys Robinson or Miss Marie Carter by Saturday evening September 11. Also notes a semi monthly Civic Club meeting at Frank C Hall's home and a tea event at St Mark Church at 4 pm. Pfc Edward Tyson visits with family before returning to Fort Bliss. Mrs Marie Garrison from Yonkers visits town. Miss Doreya Roger returns from visits in Duquesne and Detroit.
A quirky report notes grapes thriving inside the Arctic Circle Breadfruit growing in Oregon Figs flourishing in Colorado and crocodiles observed in tropical streams of South Dakota The piece highlights surprising agricultural adaptability across diverse climates.
The High Point City Council enacts taxes on real and personal property and polls for fiscal year July 1 1943 to June 30 1944 to fund city operations debt service school debt street maintenance and utility improvements. It sets poll tax at 1.00 per eligible resident and imposes per 100 real and personal property valuations across operation debt service and school debt funds with detailed allocations and schedules for various funds and projects.
City Council adopted the 1943 44 budget ending June 30 1944 with a 108 050 grade crossing improvement item and a total budget figure of 15 297.93 to be filed for public inspection. The ordinance directs departmental expenditures per detailed estimates and requires publication and newspaper distribution in Guilford County.
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