Thomasville High Students Stage First Eighth Grade Election
The eighth grade held its first student council election with four winners. John Welborn is president, Robert Younts vice president, Roberta Hinkle secretary, and Preston Yates treasurer for 1959 1960. Senior and junior races noted with candidates for president vice president and secretary. Campaigns begin tomorrow as the growl er notes bake sale funds and yearbook arrival awaits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Welborn
Robert Younts
Roberta Hinkle
Preston Yates
Senior High Students Plot Election and Cheer Leading Changes
The student body plans elections for 1959 60 with candidates for president vice president and secretary treasurer. A girls group selects varsity and junior varsity cheerleaders from a field of finalists. Pemni can staff members and advisor attend SIPA at Washington and Lee University. Richard Kemp and Tommy Burton named all star football and basketball players for West.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pemnican
Southern Interscholastic Press Association
Washington and Lee University
Lexington
Judi Yow
Ginger Marsh
Nancy Clinard
Josephine Dunbar
Louise Tapp
Miss Tapp
SIPA
High Point High
Richard Kemp
Tommy Burton
West
Senior Banquets Highlight Ledford Jamestown High Schools
In the High Point area Ledford and Jamestown high schools held senior and junior banquets Friday night. The Ledford banquet featured Linda Berrier crowned empress and Gene Pender emperor with the theme Oriental Gardens. At Jamestown the event was at the Woman's Club in Thomasville with Don Morton Ruth Ann Lyerly and Ray Atchens among the senior and junior leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point Area
Ledford
Jamestown
Ledford School
William Alcon
Joanne Cameron
Sammy Foust
Ruth Stough
Tommy Eller
Linda Berrier
Gene Pender
Oriental Gardens
Registration Rise In Thomasville City Vote Draws Attention
Thomasville registrars report a jump in new voters with 164 registered yesterday across four precincts, lifting total new registrations to 284 this week from 40 last week. Officials warn many residents in newly annexed areas have yet to register ahead of the May 5 city election.
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Thomasville
New Thomasville
B. W. Stone
City Hall
H. G
Colonial Drive School
Deaths and Funerals for Davis and Bowman
Miss Margaret Elizabeth Davis 74 died Friday morning in Memorial Hospital Thomasville. Funeral Saturday at 4 PM from Koonee Funeral Home with entombment at Guilford Memorial Mausoleum. Jessie M Bowman 58 widow of Everett M Bowman died Thursday in High Point Memorial Hospital. funeral Saturday at 4 PM from Emmanuel Lutheran Church with interment at Oakwood Cemetery.
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Margaret Elizabeth
Bessie) Davis
Koonee Funeral Home
William P. Price
St. Mary's Episcopal Church
Jimmy Armstrong
Don McRae
O. B. Bonner
J. Roy Sullivan
Davis
Beeson Hardware Co
Memorial Hospital
Thomasville
Guilford Memorial Mausoleum
Jessie Bowman
Jessie M. Bowman
Everett M. Bowman
Emmanuel Lutheran Church
Harry D. Hawthorne
Claude Gantt
Brantley Hucks
E. W. Price
Louis Millier
William D. Gibson
Robert Silman
Oakwood Cemetery
Beard Growers Unite in Thomasville Satire
Thomasville writer Frank Warren details social jabs and humor from growing a beard. He recalls remarks from strangers and friends, including a wife compliment, plus light notes on a local political race taft Hartley quip and a jail incident with a 23 year old.
Hardy divers Honolulu
Honolulu sanitation board says the harbor is so polluted that readings are not taken and local boys who dive from arriving ocean liners to collect tossed coins appear to have built immunity to waterborne disease from the polluted harbor ideas of the report.
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Honolulu
Shooting Victim Harold Garrett Recovering After Early Morning Shooting
Harold Garrett 17 of Blair Street was shot during a pistol game at home about 7 am. Doctors described his condition as good. Vernon Garrett 24, Harold's half-brother, is held without bond as investigators review the case. The gun, said to have been stolen, allegedly belonged to Kelvin Robinson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Garrett
Blair Street
Vernon Garrett
Harold
Kelvin Robinson
Street
Funeral services for Lacy Thomas Johnson
Funeral services for Lacy Thomas Johnson 58 who died at his Randolph Street extension home will be held this afternoon at 4 from J C Green & Sons Funeral Chapel with Rev Frank Jordan of Memorial Methodist Church officiating Interment follows at Holly Hills Cemetery Honorary pallbearers include Thomasville Lions Club and Thomasville Buck Club Active pallbearers listed Johnsons survivors and friends The passage ends with unrelated notes about polar bears and metric length standards.
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Thomasville
Lacy Thomas Johnson
Randolph Street
J. C. Green & Sons
Frank Jordan
Memorial Methodist Church
Holly Hills Cemetery
Thomasville Lions Club
Thomasville Buck Club
Tom A. Blair
L. Roy Hughes
Ford M. Myers
John R. Perry
Carlis T. Kennedy
W. F. Perkins
Lindsay Loftin
Clifton R. Reed
Funeral services for Mrs Alice Haney in Rankin Memorial Church
Mrs. Alice P. Haney aged 74 of 516 Barker Street died Thursday at 8 10 p m in High Point Memorial Hospital Funeral services were held Saturday at 3 p m in Rankin Memorial Methodist Church with Rev J S Higgins officiating Interment was at Oakwood Cemetery Pallbearers were H Edward Emerson Howard Ring Jodie L Bull Paul Haney Lacy A Webb and Bane W Barneycastle
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice P. Haney
Rankin Memorial Methodist Church
J. S. Higgins
Oakwood Cemetery
H. Edward Emerson
Howard Ring
Jodie L. Bull
Paul Haney
Lacy A. Webb
Bane W. Barneycastle
Haney
Barker Street
High Point Memorial Hospital
Funeral services for John Carroll in Roanoke
John Carroll 72 a former restaurant owner died in Roanoke Virginia. Services held this afternoon at 3 from St George Greek Orthodox Church with Rev George Thalasinos officiating. Interment is in Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery with body remaining at Koonce Funeral Home until the hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Carroll
Roanoke
St. George Greek Orthodox Church
George Thalasinos
Oakwood Memorial Park
Koonce Funeral Home
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Mign Romr Enterprise
Unagy
April Ly
High Corner
George Ann Batten
John Holton
George Ann
John
Jean Smith
Evelyn Long
Library Club
Mary Lib Wilson
Nell Hoyle
Bobby Jordan
Nell
Mills
Bobby
Donald Jones
Larry Leonard
Sam Harris
Sam
The
Lost and Found
Growler
Ing
Kathryn Allmond
Broadway
Woman's Club
Dramatics
Florence Unlimited
April Sechrist
M. G. Allmond
Charles F. Lambeth
National Honor Society
THS
Gen. Wm. Moultrie
Mt. Pleasant
S. C
Wade Mecum
Bible Club
Buddy Bulldog
Student Council
Rosemary Heer
David Williams
Myra Bullock
Or “Veep
Nancy Culler
Charlie Shapard
Carole Kearns
Joyce Groome
Carole Simeon
Judy Grayson
Linda Weisner
Becky
Main Street
Margaret Davis
Beard Growers
Frank Warren
Enterprise
High Point
Abraham Lincoln
Episcopal Men's Club
Lucien Malone
Bob Smith
Glenn Hall
GO Commodore
HP Yew Co Med
Main
Mth
Perth
Pera Eee
Wrighty Am
Lacy Johnson
W. W. Parker
Carolina
Washington St
Mechanics Electricians
Courany Vaneees
Palm Beach
Pegram
BurTon Inc
S. Main
Alice Haney
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