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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1949
Page
2
About 220 truck drivers parked their rigs on a Pennsylvania turnpike stretch in Irwin to protest the legislature’s failure to pass a bill increasing allowable truck weights. Drivers said the move was their last resort after the House approved the measure and the Senate highways committee shelved it.
Rev. Harlan Harris of Shelby spoke to the Rotary Club urging selfless service. He compared transformation of raw materials to personal change and cited Alexander the Great as a cautionary tale. He urged business leaders to guide Christian circles and noted YMCA campaign support and new Rotarian members T. E. Stubbs and Carey Ilderton.
London April 22 Protestant church leaders urged King George to prevent Princess Margaret from meeting Pope Pius XII during her Italy tour. The princess, 18, sails next week for a month in Italy, with Rome reports suggesting a papal call. Buckingham Palace offered no comment.
Draft board clerks describe a group of men released this morning as delinquent among delinquents after failed attempts to obtain their questionnaires. Names include Claywood Priddy Colfax Jesse Adams Jr D R Thomas Marcus White Richard Hines Howard Young Carl Speer James Ball Raymond Dunn Clinton Chambers Arthur Houser Samuel Johnson Eddie Simon Jr. May 1 is set to turn the list over to Federal authorities if contact is not made.
Dr. Carlyle Campbell president of Meredith College will deliver the morning sermon at First Baptist church. Rev Albert Hale is away in Thomasville conducting a revival and will not preach. In the evening Rev T L Sasser missionary of the Piedmont Baptist association will speak.
The Pastors Aid of First Baptist meets tonight at 5 p.m. in the church dining room. The United Ushers Chorus will sing at St Matthews Holiness on Taylor Street Sunday at 5 p.m. Rev J E Melton and the Pilgrim Congregational Choir will worship Sunday at 3 p.m. St Matthews Missions will present a quartet program Sunday at 3 p.m. at the church.
Several hundred achievement awards were presented to restaurant employees and managers who attended at least three of four days of food handler instruction classes. The program, run by the city health department, featured lectures and films with final class set for 7 30 p m at the AFL union hall.
High Point city health department conducts cryoscope tests to detect added water in milk from all producers and distributors. Dr. Loren Wallin says results affect grade ratings and ongoing checks will continue with spot verifications at regular intervals.
The High Point Ministers association designates Sunday April 24 as Bible Teaching Day to raise 12 000 for four city public school Bible teachers three white and one colored teaching 3 750 students about 1 800 would lack Bible instruction without this effort Roscoe Sowers, council treasurer, to receive pledges.
Circle No 2 of Ward Street Methodist presents the three act farce Willies School Daze at 8 o clock in the Junior High auditorium. Rankin Memorial Methodist sponsors. Miss Josephine Pope directs music between acts. WBIG announcer Bob Jones will attend and award cakes and pies to lucky-number holders. Tickets at the door. Proceeds aid church charities.
In a night break in at the Anvil Brand Shirt Company on South Main Street a thief or thieves took about ten dollars from the office. Foreman Frank MecCollock reported the incident to police and said the culprit climbed a tree to reach a second story window and entered through the window. No further details were available at noon.
Chadbourn publisher of the Columbus County News dies unexpectedly from heart trouble. An alumnus of Duke University, he began his career as editor of the News Reporter in Whiteville.
Cottage prayer meeting of Albertson Road Baptist Church will be abandoned this week in favor of a revival service tomorrow and Sunday. Mrs. Nora Hemrick Caudell of Winston-Salem will preach both days including the Sunday morning worship at 11. There will be special singing.
High Point pair James H Matthews and Phyllis Hedrick obtained a marriage license declaring their intent to wed.
City building office issues permit to H. M. Armentrout for a one story frame two family dwelling at 113 Hoskins Street with a construction cost of $3,000.
Between noon yesterday and noon today the fire department answered five reports. At 5 05 p.m. an oil stove blaze occurred at 205 Gordy Alley with no damage. At 5 57 p.m. a short circuit in wiring at 309 Baptist Street caused no damage.
In a telegram to Eugene Gorman of Esso Standard Oil, Scott demanded an explanation for a price boost in gasoline despite record profits. The message was sent from Raleigh on April 22.
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