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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1937
Page
11
A new Civil Service collection agency aims to aid creditors in recovering delinquent city employee accounts. Merchants report several letters urging prompt payments. Previously political appointments were harder to pursue for debts owed by staff.
Two unmasked men robbed National Food store manager J. L. Peace at West Green and Oak last night around 8:30. They forced him to open the cash register and take money and checks while a second thief searched his pockets. Police have little information and released no suspect descriptions beyond heights and attire.
Dr H Conrad Blackwell of Richmond arrives in High Point Monday night to address peace efforts. On Tuesday he speaks to the Ministers association at 10:30 am the Civitan luncheon at 12:15 pm and a Wesley Memorial church class at 7:30 pm. He will discuss Dictatorship Versus Democracy and America and World Peace. The Civilitan luncheon requires 75 cent reservations. Blackwell is a Virginia native and long time Methodist pastor with credentials from Randolph Macon Emory and Duke.
Charles F. Carroll Jr newly elected superintendent of High Point city schools will be guest of honor at an informal dinner in the junior high school cafeteria Wednesday at 630 pm the city school board hosts to allow white teachers and employees to meet him Clyde R Erwin state superintendent is expected to attend and speak briefly C F Tomlinson school board chairman will be toastmaster.
Five prominent doctors from across the state will present papers on medical subjects at the Eighth District Medical Society meeting. The one day event at the Sheraton hotel includes lectures on life insurance medicine, thoracic surgery, prenatal diets, pediatric nephritis, and a concluding banquet with Dr. Paul Ringer as speaker. Officials of the society preside and arrange next meeting details.
A youth delivering a 1937 Plymouth from Arrow Service Station to Hendricks Brothers Furniture on South Wrenn street crashed into a pole after taking a circuitous route via Hillcrest drive. Police charged him with reckless driving and driving without a state permit.
A Chamber of Commerce committee met Southern Railroad officials in Washington to obtain about $100,000 for improving local rail track mood. The trip cost members time and money, and they found no hotel rooms available during blossom time in the capital.
A page twenty feature discusses waning attention to political issues as public interest fades. The piece notes the shift in focus among voters and highlights what remains salient for ordinary residents.
Four young white men were jailed after a late night fight and cutting spree that started at the South Main passenger depot and ended at Ben Swartzberg's Smoke shop. Among the injured, Robert Alderman and W C Caudell were treated at Guilford General hospital with cuts. Alderman brothers and Gallo were charged with assault with a deadly weapon or affray, bond set at 300 and 100 dollars respectively. Caudell attributed the brawl to the Alderman brothers' attack and spoke with police before court Monday morning amid reports of a knife and rock used in the fray.
The High Point Ministers association meeting moved from Monday to Tuesday morning at 10 o clock. Secretary Edgar Hartley said the session will occur at Wesley Memorial Methodist church with Dr H Conrad Blackwell, area director of the Emergency Peace Campaign, as speaker.
High Point Paper Box Company announces expansion with a Thomasville branch to service the area. The new unit on Turner Street will be 60 by 100 feet, occupy by May 1, and employ about 40 additional workers, using idle local machinery for folding paper boxes.
The Baptist Training Union of the First Baptist church will host a training school with afternoon and evening classes this week. Junior Union meets at 3:30 pm on weekdays studying Studying For Service led by Rev A Lincoln Falk. Senior and Intermediate meet at 7:30 pm studying More Than Money and Witnesses For Christ respectively. A Friday banquet closes the course at 6:30 pm.
The annual health examinations for hundreds of pre school children seeking entry to public schools began at Emma Blair School led by Dr. R A Herring city health director. The High Point Council of the Parent Teacher association sponsors the drive with efforts to continue through April and May across the city.
Readings from recent non-competitive civil service exams for High Point police and fire departments reveal questions on hose length per pumper station counts hydrant totals booster pump pressure sprinklered industries and Master smash fire boxes. Police queries cover city size distance to major NC cities legal principles and search warrants.
Lloyd Royals, 16, of 218 Lindsay Street, jailed on $350 bond after his car crashed into an electric light pole while en route to Hendrix Brothers Furniture on South Wrenn Street. Police say speeding caused the wreck near Hillcrest Drive. he faces $300 bond for reckless driving and $50 for driving without a state permit.
An ad in yesterday's The Enterprise stated the High Point Civil Service Commission would offer a golf professional examination to fill a municipal golf course vacancy. The secretary ordered the ad not to run, but an error caused its publication. the advertisement should be ignored.
The North Carolina Association of Electrical Contractors outlines six district meetings across the state this week. Topics include fair and noncompetitive trade practices, local group organization, licensing law explained by the 1937 General Assembly, and a lengthy code of ethics. Hobart M. Bryant from High Point serves on the board of directors.
Flossie Hart Wallington also known as Hattie Miller a Black woman charged with killing her husband on March 31 1929 in Reidsville was bound over to Rockingham County superior court by the Recorders court today.
Guilford county tax supervisor T R Short reports High Point township 1936 tax collections up about five per cent over 1935 as of April 1. Total levies increased from 289 313.96 in 1935 to 323 932.32 in 1936 with higher receipts and lower uncollected amounts, reflecting improved payments after several sluggish years.
March in High Point brought a wide temperature range from 28 degrees to 72 degrees. The month recorded 1.61 inches of rain across five days with a peak of .78 inches on the 15th, plus two inches of snow and hail and sleet on that same day. Seventeen clear days, seven cloudy and seven partly cloudy.
Chief of Police W G Friddle says motorists may seek damages from pedestrians who walk into moving cars. He cites two recent pedestrian accidents on English street where victims were blamed, urges warrants for reckless driving instead of assault, and asks pedestrians to cooperate to curb fatalities.
The High Point chapter, Order of DeMolay, will confer the majority degree on four candidates at 2:30 this afternoon at the Masonic temple. The candidates are Thomas H. Taylor J. W. Hutton Robert Cook and J. B. Hensley. The ceremony marks attainment of age 21 signaling entry into manhood and the public is invited.
West Virginia unit WV F W Will meet at 310 North Main Street Monday at 7 30 PM The post urges all members to attend as the degree team will practice that evening.
Governor Clyde R. Hoey will headline a three day statewide Baraca-Philathea convention in High Point. About 450 to 500 delegates from across North Carolina will attend with sessions at First Methodist Protestant Church and First Baptist Church.
J. K. Stone, 76, a Thomasville justice of the peace, asked The Enterprise to state he was not the J. K. Stone involved in a bus crash near Thomasville yesterday.
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