City Lake Pool clears 8105 from season operations
The city reports a net revenue of 8105.83 for 96 days of operation at City Lake swimming pool and park. Total receipts include 116,743.79 from swim privileges and 2,418.68 from concessions and pavilion rents, while total expenses reached 12.85.
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City Lake Swimming
Tv Council
Reece Snyder
Chiof Parks and Recreation
Snyder
on-Salem
Greensboro
Sal
Burlington
Asheboro
Army
Carolinas
Mately
Reconversion Held Back By Labor Shortage In High Point
Ralph E. Miller states High Point faces stalled reconversion as war workers resist lower pay and unskilled jobs. He notes demand for unskilled labor in veneer plants, logistics, construction, and cotton mills, with veterans still seeking suitable positions and many returning workers idle.
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High Point
Ralph E. Miller
Umning
Miller
Mrs. Sara Gallimore Gregg Dies in Lexington
Mrs. Sara Gallimore Gregg, 84, died at the home of Everett Hunt in Lexington after a weeklong illness. Funeral services are set for Friday at 1 p.m. at the Lexington Methodist church with burial at Ebenezer church cemetery at 2 p.m. Surviving are two sisters Mrs. Cora Edwards of Lexington and Mrs. Minnie Lawson of Countiful Utah and three nephews Johnny Gallimore Denton Charley Kerns Lexington and Hubbard Cowan Lynchburg Va. The text ends with a note about dyed eggs as camouflage for egg eating animals.
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Enterprise
Denton
Sara Gallimore
Everett Hunt
Lexington
Methodist
Ebenezer Church
Cuentas
Nerces
Cora Edwards
Minnie Lawson
Countiful
Utah
Johnny Gallimore
Charley Kerns
Hubbard Cownan
Lynchburg
Local Plants Need Workers and a Postwar Surge
High Point manufacturers released a survey showing a need to add 2,374 workers within 45 to 60 days and potentially 2,500 to 3,000 in coming weeks. The Associated Industries of High Point reported 67 firms representing most local employment capacity foresee full civilian production after the war and little unemployment.
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High Point
Associated Industries of
Ritten
Joe A. Johnson
Manufacturers’ Association
Noble T. Praigg
National Committee For Economic Development
New York
CED
Craigg
Henry Wallace
Office of Price Administration
Washington
Poison Drink Cases Set For Coming Week
Guilford superior court will hear a one week term starting Monday with four local Negro defendants John Archie Marie Nelson Willie Phifer and L R Thomason charged with manslaughter in July poison alcohol deaths. The calendar lists numerous cases including theft assault burglary robbery and drunkenness with trials through Wednesday and notes a grim wartime statistic: for every 100 men inducted into the U S army there were no tooth extractions and 740 filings.
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Guilford Superior Court
John Archie
Jim Nelson
Marie Nelson
Willie Phifer
L. R. Thomason
East Washington Street
Luther Leach
English Street
King's
Esso
Royal Garfield Jennings
Buster Hooks
Clyde Staley
Vancy
Henderson Bailey
Anderson Brown
John Howard Hodge
J. H. Hodges
James Marley
O. F. McCormick
Ira Bottoms
E. Harris
Gladys Vestal
Ben Lassiter
Francis P. Fox
J. B. Williams
Brantley French
Sam Small
Grady Carroll
Meek McGill
Gray Shackelford
Robert Coffer
C. W. ‘Kirkman
James Monroe Carroll
James Carroll
Joseph T. Howard
Gene Ronald Sipes
Freddie Lee Jones
Marion Weaver
William M. Nowell
James Franklin Hunsucker
Rad Harold Hunsucker
Franklin Cecil
U. S. Army
Penny Hall to House 75 Girls at High Point College
The college uses Penny Hall on the East campus for the first time to accommodate a large rise in female enrollment this fall. Penny Hall will house about 75 girls and is nearly full. Mrs. George W. Perry, widow of Rev. George W. Perry, will be house mother and brings broad experience in youth work and education.
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High Point College
Penny Hall
George W. Perry
Jarvis Memorial Church
Greenville
Women’s College of the
War work availability praised by plant managers
Plant managers praised workers entering service or transferring to other centers for war work, noting that experienced staff can start work immediately without delay.
Horne and Hurt Cleared in Receiving Charge Case
In a Marietta municipal court session Judge Don C. MacRae dismissed all charges against S. W. Horne wholesale grocer and S. S. Hurt warehouse operator in the receiving of paint stolen from the Marietta Mint and Color Co. The state failed to prove a case and there was no evidence they knew the paint was stolen. Hugh Childress Co. owner English Street also acquitted. Several defendants waived hearings and were bound over to the October term. Ralph Starnes granted a continuance to September 24.
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Don C. MacRae
S. W. Horne
S. S. Hurt
Marietta Mint and Color Company
MacRae
Horne
Hurt
Hugh Ildress
Hugh Childress Company
English Street
Ralph Starnes
Vick Paint and Paper Company
Americans Freed From Shanghai Camp Group Reports Escape
Americans liberated from a Shanghai internment camp include Bernard whose wife is listed as living at 954 Hill Street in Rocky Mount North Carolina. The group said they escaped starvation only by receiving Cross shipments.
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Shanghai
Bernard
Hill Street
Rocky Mount
N. C
Two Cars Stolen From North Main Street
Police and state authorities search for two missing vehicles after thefts on North Main Street. A 1940 Chevrolet owned by James M. Green and a 1938 Chevrolet sedan belonging to R. E. Betts were taken from in front of homes and Betts Drug Store. Officers believe the cars were driven out of town soon after.
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North Main Street
James M. Green
R. E. Betts
Betts Drug Company
State Highway Patrol
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Ity Lake
Negro Pool
Negro Park
Ome
Everett Hoffman
Ann Russell
Hoffman
Insurance Companies
Mid - State Adjustment & Collection Agency
Harry W. Brooks
Wachovia Bank
Christ
Bruyere
Meerschaum
Enuine Leathe
Wagger’s
Parker
Eversharp
Soir Rsa
RSA SA
ES RA A
Rorre SE
Elwood Hotel
Tember
William H. Dorn
Dorn
A. E. Nelson
Marietta
Nelson
W. H. Norris
Carlos Johnson
Asheborone
Burris Leonard Meacome
Edward Jackson Davis
S. N. Allen
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