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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1955
Page
9
Polling places showed heavy Democratic turnout with 210 votes by late morning at one site, about two thirds of the 1953 total. Officials urged careful tallying, noting three peak voting periods and potential close races as voters flocked under warm, sunny weather.
City Council members joined Mayor George A. Covington in adjourning a morning session due to lack of quorum. They plan to reconvene tomorrow to pursue permissive legislation from the North Carolina General Assembly expanding planning and zoning powers within a one mile radius beyond the corporate limits.
Duke economist Frank DeVyver will speak at the High Point Industrial Management Club Charter Night tonight at 6 30 at the YMCA on Using Staff Departments. Bill Peterson of Melrose Hosiery Mills introduces him as the club presents its charter with National Council affiliation and talks of a Reading Pa conference May 5 7. The 200 plus members from 30 industries include Adams Mills Ama Desk Amos Hosiery and many area firms. Guy Kinney presides with Paul Frye giving the invocation and music by Gay Henry Asbury and Shelby.
Miss Jackie Pugh of High Point College will serve as vice president of the college clubs division for the North Carolina Home Economics Association. Elected at the weekend workshop at Mars Hill College, she also holds the position of secretary of Epsilon Sigma Omicron and is vice president elect.
Market officials report a brisk start at the Southern Furniture Market as exhibitors note strong buyer visits and early orders. Attendance reached 1,520 by noon with buyers from Lexington and Virginia showing interest, and some plan visits to Western North Carolina markets.
The High Point Musical Arts Club offers a 150 scholarship for the 1955 56 year to local high school seniors planning to major in music or Conan students from High Point studying music. Applications due Monday. auditions for all entrants set for May 2 at the high school auditorium with the winner announced later.
Thomasville Merchants Association directors are scheduled to meet Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Chamber of Commerce headquarters, announced President Jake Jerman today.
Charles Benson Childs 24 of 409 Willowbrook Sr. recalled as undercover FBI agent who fought Communism. He testified in Junius Scales trial in Greensboro after meetings with Miss Muriel Bulwinkle a Senior High School English teacher.
Ann Sowers of 811 Centennial Ave and High Point High School senior earns a $500 1955 56 nursing scholarship at the University of North Carolina, renewable for three years if conditions are met. She holds an outstanding scholastic record and extensive extracurricular roles including NHS Beta Club Masque and Gave Who's Who and student council PR board.
Richard K. Black of 603 Richardson Street has been named a national aide-de-camp in the Veterans of Foreign Wars recruiting class. The award recognizes members who recruited or reinstated at least 50 new or former members. Commander-in-Chief Merton B. ee announced the appointments as part of national recruitment honors.
Firefighters responding to Brinkle Auto Parts Co on Lexington Road last night extinguished a small blaze in a junked automobile. No damage was recorded.
Frozen food locker operators from across the state gather for the eleventh annual North Carolina Frozen Food Locker Association convention at the Sheraton Hotel. About 50 hams enter the ham and bacon show. NC entries won six of ten prizes last year in St Louis.
Friendship weather forecasters report little change in current conditions. Partly cloudy skies and warm temperatures are forecast through Wednesday with highs of 84 today and 88 tomorrow and a low around 63. Overnight minimum dropped to 55.
The Brotherhood of Emmanuel Lutheran Church will meet at 6:30 p.m. in Felp Hall for supper hosted by Circle 1 Women of the Church. The Rev. George R. Whittecsr of St. James Lutheran Concord will discuss The Congregation and Her Outreach Evangelism. He is a Midwest native, trained at Midland College and Western Theological Seminary, and served Zion Lutheran Beloit and First Lutheran Tulsa before moving to Concord in 1950.
The text offers a prayer asking God for mercy and strength to confront crime in the nation. It urges courage to challenge people toward a spiritual rebirth, asserting only a change of heart can curb the impulse to plunder and harm. It is attributed to Channing H. Tobias of New York City, NAACP chairman of the board of directors.
The A Cappella Choir under Richard Cox performs sacred music in the new High Point College Auditorium on Thursday at 8 30 pm. The program features Bach Jesus Dearest Master, Russian liturgical pieces by Tchesnokov Kaikovsky Gretchaninov, carols and folk songs, Beethoven Hallelujah, and a Helena Smith solo group with Ernestine Fields as accompanist.
The Piedmont Community Concert Association plans its third annual membership drive next week led by vice president and campaign chair Mrs. Frank Wood. Mail memberships and checks to 611 Monthew Ave to ensure 1955 56 season access. current memberships support high school auditorium capacity and past stars like Tucker London Prim rose and the Ballet Russe. Adult memberships are six dollars with three dollars for students.
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