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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1931
Page
3
Raleigh dispatch notes two rivals emerge for North Carolina house speaker in 1933. Rep. R Floyd Crouse backs a luxury sales tax, hoping to win support from MacLean aligned allies, while Rep. Gregg Cherry opposes sales taxes. Observers expect Harris to face Cherry, amid rising anti tax sentiment statewide.
Joseph Szawacs constructs a foot driven glider in Lincoln Nebraska. The craft uses a single large rubber tired wheel with gear toothed side flanges as the main frame. Pedals power the wheel for takeoff while a propeller at the aft propels the glide.
North Carolina health officials report a drop in the death rate to 9.7 per 1000 in August, marking healthier times than in two decades. Pellagra deaths have fallen sharply, with 138 deaths in May 1930 down to 40 in May 1931, tied to better diets and public health education cited by Dr. James M. Parrott.
The Emergency Committee for Employment at City Hall offers a 2039 office line to match residents with cooks cleaners grounds repair work. Mrs W E Price or an assistant handles calls to coordinate suitable local help and relieve unemployment.
Dr Parrott credits the live at home program with reducing pellagra by promoting garden planting and home livestock. He estimates about 75 percent of pellagra decline stems from people growing vegetables and eating fresh eggs milk butter and meat, calling the program one of the best public health efforts.
Lexington September 23 The Briggs Jackson Funeral Home is the new business to open in the city about October. Thomas G. Briggs of Silver Hill township bought the equipment of Lexington Funeral Directors Inc from C A Hoover, receiver, and will partner with W Jackson of High Point in the new undertaking.
Raleigh Sept 23 A special session of the general assembly to discuss cotton acreage reduction is unlikely says State Senator Rivers D Johnson of Duplin county who opposed the MacLean luxury tax forces in 1931 He argues no definite plans exist among cotton growing states and opposes laws setting farm acreage or family size Gov Gardner also reports growing opposition to a special session noting Texas and South Carolina have not yet achieved decisive cotton action
Texas introduces a bill to cut all state employees salaries 25 percent while Governor Sterling backs a 10 percent reduction. South Carolina bills seek 50 percent cuts for state officials and employees and to withdraw state aid from the State University system. The clerk caught Galvin. he is jailed and has no use for an alarm clock.
Denver report says J L Galvan stole an alarm clock from a drug store and tried to walk away. The clock rang revealing the theft and Galvan dropped the clock as the clerk confronted him. Local authorities began processing the incident.
Latest aviation figures show Mexico has 137 licensed civilian aviators and 42 non military planes to fly. The country trails the U S District of Columbia, which has 82 private planes and about 265 civilian pilots.
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