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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1927
Page
8
The new high school building uses fireproof materials with terra cotta trim and terrazzo floors in lobbies. It will be U shaped with an auditorium wing seating over 1,300 and a gymnasium for two courts with seating for more than 900. An east front administration suite houses offices and a large fireproof vault. The cafeteria will offer hot meals at near cost and be run by the school.
The new high school building features separate boys and girls locker and shower rooms, visiting team facilities, a mechanical drawing room, wood shop, food and sewing laboratories, biology and science labs, a large library with study halls, auditorium and gym balconies, and third story chemistry and physics labs. Ventilation and automatic temperature control run throughout with basement heating plant and landscaped surroundings.
The Enterprise Bureau reports a sharp rise in demand for cotton pickers with hundreds needed. Farmers from Johnston County seek 200 workers by early next week and many counties request similar numbers. Commissioner Frank D. Grist notes early cotton opening and a supply gap, while some city laborers refuse cotton work despite lists of idle workers. Families are often sought and provided housing and provisions by farmers.
Foresters from North Carolina and Virginia will form the Great Dismal Swamp Fire Protective Association to begin a fire protection program in 170 000 acres within the swamp with about 70 000 acres in North Carolina. The effort is a cooperative plan funded by state forest services federal support counties and landowners aims to curb forest fires.
The master plan calls for three forest fire lookout towers a full communications system and a forest warden force. Forester Mc Cormick will visit soon for talks with other principals about starting the program. System to be operable before the fall fire season.
Chicago approves a $1.7 million bridge project to span a corridor with no river. The plan includes digging a channel later to allow the Chicago River to flow where railroad tracks currently lie.
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