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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1945
Page
8
Four Gypsies charged with larceny are freed on bond of 300 dollars each from Catawba county jail. Jailer Ralph Pitts recalls a chaotic stay as 19 Gypsy children accompanied the adults, causing damage and noise in the jail.
More than 3,000 officers and men aboard one of the navy's large aircraft carriers wear out 100 pairs of shoes weekly. A fully equipped cobbler's shop on board repairs them.
The city council weighs converting the Paramount theatre, currently leased, into office space for city employees and to house the city library. The lease ends early next year, and an estimate on remodeling costs has been requested. Meanwhile record rainfall totals hit High Point with 8.94 inches over five days and 3.75 inches in a 24 hour span.
Sixteen High Point men with 80 to 100 points each were pictured in the Florence redeployment area in Italy after two months awaiting transport home. The roster includes Billy Woodall J K Clary Lewis T Smith and others. Ships in the Pacific hold many more High Point men. News also notes Bernard L Miller Jacob C Robbins Charlie Allen Ralph Trogdon Boyd Hamilton Wesley Frye Alvin Howard William Simmons and Arthur Williams. Two Hinson brothers met in Manila after months apart.
Last week 9 percent of local hosiery mills joined a walk out bringing total plants with boarders out to 12. The dispute centers on wages and use of non union workers and Black boarders at the Adams Millis Piedmont plant, with pay tied to piece rates and war orders. Federal and state labor officials aid talks as unions demand maintained postwar pay levels and management cites wage raises. Plants affected include Covington Slane Melrose Silver Koi Amos Guilford Thomas Crowd and Kearns. Piedmont and Triangle already on strike.
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Effective October 1 advertisers must submit ads in the office by 11 00 A M for same day insertion Ads for Sunday must be in by 4 00 P M Saturday Report ad changes before these times Telephone 4564.
Last week contracts were issued for five new buildings costing over a quarter of a million dollars. W K Stewart and Son begin a $30 000 masonry block at Wheeler and South Main for Minnesota Mining. Plymouth Hosiery mills start three buildings at Willowbrook and Russell for a new hosiery unit ready early next year. Colonial Motor Freight awards a East College drive trucking terminal to W B Delk. Parham Darr wins Dedmon Produce plant including offices storage and loading facilities.
A Salisbury widow's three sons suffer muscular dystrophy and after Duke Hospital specialists said they could not help, the community raised funds through the Southern Furniture Exposition to buy a wheelchair. Sherwood Forrest planned delivery, then supporters added gifts. Locals praise High Point College’s new coach Ralph James at a dinner, and twenty one men left for induction at Fort Bragg from two draft boards last week.
Thirty five discharged veterans reported to the draft board during the past week. The list includes Ernest Adams Charlie A Wooten Hoyle F Lopp Theodore B Wilson Clarence O Gaddis Chester B Rice Charlie P Tomlin Baxter M Phillips Monroe Dumas Willie J Coleman Woodrow T Southards Bowman R R G Bailey Joe Charles Springs Albert W Steele Henry G Kimsey John L Fowler Levester Best Louis C Trexler Jr Hovie H Wilson James L Shaw George B Banks David J Steele John T Ellis Edwin B Brown Eldridge E Pegram Willie P Harrell Charles S Saunders Ellis D Melton Lidor Jones Jack W Brown Arthur C Johnson Jr Roy F E White John T Southern James C C Evans and William G Kennerly
In Thomasville authorities seized twenty nine gallons of whisky and convicted Gaither Cauble of Salisbury and Ray Bartlett Drury of Baltimore on transporting charges with fines totaling 175 dollars. M L Bumegarner paid 25 dollars for practicing law without a license. Two stolen cars were found abandoned and undamaged. John H. Kalle was named chairman of the Lions International executive council in Chicago.
Earl N Phillips proposes a city museum in High Point to showcase relics from pre Revolutionary days to World War II. The Mendenhall house and Quaker Meeting house in City Lake park are being considered, with the two story Mendenhall offering more space and potential low-cost conversion.
A reported third case of polio in High Point within two weeks was reclassified after Charlotte polio clinic doctors ruled Peggy McCain daughter of Dr Mrs Walkup McCain of 800 Sunset Drive did not have infantile paralysis but neuritis.
First Lt. Albert D. Ridge a medical officer of 401 Colonial Drive has been officially declared dead by the War Department following his missing status since September 2 1944.
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