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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1949
Page
28
Mecklenburg and state ABC agents continued a major crackdown with 23 arrests in a raid targeting illegal liquor operations. The article notes a past crack in 1947 when whiskey sales were legalized and references additional law enforcement actions.
The Methodist Youth Fellowship at Wesley Memorial holds a Palm Sunday themed worship service this afternoon at 5 30 featuring the chapel choir of 30 voices directed by Mildred Crowder. A solo from Handel's Messiah sung by Anne Bain and several ritual leaders will guide scripture and poetry with offerings aiding a Polish war orphan program.
Final rites will be held for T 5 Vergil Eugene Hicks 26 in Southside Baptist Church at four o clock Sunday conducted by Rev W H Barker Burial in Veterans plot Floral Garden Park with full military honors from High Point Post 619 Veterans of Foreign Wars Hicks served with the 23rd Tank Battalion 12th Armored Division killed in France December 10 1944 Also funeral announced for Harvey Lee Stone 60 at Koonce Funeral Home Sunday at 4 30 p m Rev R L Smith to officiate interment Floral Garden cemetery
S/Sgt. Hiatt Howard Kearns 20 son of Mr and Mrs G Howard Kearns of 1007 Albert Street killed in action near Coblenz Germany December 2 1944 while Waist gunner on a B 24 bomber. Funeral at First Methodist church Sunday at 3 pm with Rev Kenneth Goodson. Burial in Floral Garden Park cemetery. Military honors at the grave by High Point Post 619 VFW. Body moved to residence Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Mrs Louella Brown aged 75 who died Thursday evening will be buried after funeral services Sunday at 2 30 pm. The service from Koonce Funeral Home chapel will be led by Rev F L Conrad and two local pastors Rev Kenneth Goodson and Rev Wilson O Weldon. Interment will be in Oakwood Cemetery.
Carrick a service station owner and flower shop operator joins Snider in confirming bids for City Council Ward One. Snider, longtime civic leader and national Junior Chamber figure, emphasizes service without promises while stressing local development and beautification.
The 1949 Cancer program promotes learning danger signals and periodic physicals. Brown and Joe Leslie chair High Point efforts with mail or coin-box donations to The Enterprise or county headquarters. Red Sword Day is set for April 30 with Girl Scouts YMCA volunteers distributing emblems.
The text notes that the first complete English Bible in Brazil was printed in large volumes. It mentions a bird that enters a crocodile’s mouth unharmed after the reptile allows it. It gives 1947 US birth figures and that jeans get their name from the Spanish town Jean famed for textiles in the 16th century.
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