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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1947
Page
5
A reflective essay cites Burke, Washington, Emerson, Henley and Jesus to explore coping with despair. It offers solace through faith, prayer, friends, and service, urging endurance, renewed strength, and helping others as a path from darkness to light.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover announced agents will persist in investigating all draft evasion cases from the life of the selective service act. He said the bureau will keep on tracking down violators despite the draft law being dead. The article notes Colombia's area surpasses that of Germany, France, Austria, and Belgium combined.
Jimmy Cross an 18 year old resident of the Amason mill section confessed to stealing from three Denton area retail stores totaling about 1600 dollars. He was captured after an extended investigation into thefts occurring around midnight March 24 with loot recovered in a pine thicket near High Point mill. Authorities from Thomasville and Davidson counties pursued the case and consider where Cross will be tried.
Local program for crippled children at Cloverdale school struggles as Easter Seal donations come in slowly. North Carolina League for Crippled Children provides salaries for teacher and nurse. funds are short. High Point League for Crippled Children organized to take over aid. Woman's Club public welfare department runs the first local Easter seals sale. Lois Welborn serves as local league treasurer.
Edwin Pate of Laurin and Frank B. Turner of Raleigh are the candidate for president of the North Carolina State College general alumni association. James A. Graham and Roy L. Williamson vie for the position of first vice president. Ballots will be mailed to select officers. Also noted, J. F. Linthicum announces a Baltimore plant to chemically process over a million board feet of lumber monthly.
Lebanon Methodist church plans a candle light Communion service Thursday at 7 30 led by Rev C W Bates. Friday 8 pm junior choir presents Thomas and the Risen Lord cantata drama. 11 am Sunday sermon The Grave in the Garden with new members expected. 7 30 pm senior choir performs The Thorn crowned King. Easter morning flowers honor or memory of loved ones arranged by Mrs Glenn Lambert.
The AFL Tobacco Workers Union warned Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp of a strike next Tuesday at plants in Louisville Petersburg and Winston-Salem unless wage talks make progress. About 1,400 workers in Louisville and Petersburg and 500 in Winston-Salem would be affected. The union seeks a 23 cent hourly rise including a five cent fall giving last fall. the company offers a 10 percent increase.
The Ringling circus departs its winter quarters in Sarasota for New York where its official 1947 opening is set for April 9 at Madison Square Garden.
RALEIGH Some men collect pipes others collect guns. Senator Charles H. Jenkins keeps a large collection of about 100 ties. He favors colorful designs and matches handkerchiefs. He notes ties can sell for 1 000 to 1 500 though he has never paid that much. Jenkins jokes with colleagues but wears a new tie daily and never keeps a cleaned one.
Monroe residents celebrate a $1,000,000 plus gift from the federal government comprising the water system sewerage disposal installation and the incinerator at Camp Sutton. The city has also placed bids on additional projects and equipment.
City Clerk E. H. Broome stated the water treatment plant and electrical and telephone systems are slated for acquisition shortly. Barracks and other surplus buildings were sold privately after the peak wartime operation, when the camp housed 30,000 soldiers.
An attendant is tasked with collecting and destroying all doodles left by the Nations committee members. The move aims to clear visual clutter and preserve orderly proceedings at the meeting venue.
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