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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1947
Page
9
Bermuda’s economy burdens G I’s with steep rents and bills while a strong American presence supports local life. A typical service family pays about $125 monthly for rent and $30 for electricity, with water and bottled supplies costly. The island relies on import taxes and U S aided projects, yet remains a pricey, service-dominated base.
The units are uniform in size and easy to paint with desired color. They do not require long or short pieces for wall construction. All units pass an A strength test and bond completely with mortar joints. Suitable for flues chimneys and masonry walls.
A. A. Wilkinson, associate editor of the Durham Morning Herald since 1945, is named director of the Woman's College News Bureau. A native of Asheville and Duke graduate, he previously led Duke University News Service and wrote a North Carolina column. He succeeds Orville Campbell, who starts a minting business in Chapel Hill.
The Veterans Administration announced the establishment of registrar offices at all veterans hospitals to relieve doctors, nurses and technicians of routine paperwork and related tasks.
A news item reports that American households hold an average of two radio receivers. The figure reflects typical family ownership and suggests broad radio penetration across the nation.
Four Salt Lake City wives describe leaving fashion design, acting, and secretarial careers to raise families. They say home life keeps them in touch with the world and that college educations were not wasted. Notable figures include Lucille Oblad Stringham and Norman C. Williams family ties. Fire flies are members of the large beetle family.
Peter Messale files a mandamus suit in Elizabeth City to force the city council to issue a beer license. Eight council members are named as defendants after a prior meeting denied Messale a license amid protests from nearby merchants.
NBC and 160 affiliates agreed to stop airing detective or crime series before 9 30 p.m. New York time starting January 1948. The plan, approved at NBCs first annual convention in Atlantic City, aims to reduce exposure of juveniles to crime suggestions.
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