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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1961
Page
9
Braxton Younts notes the dogwood as the state flower while residents in the Piedmont enjoy spring weather and woods in bloom. Farmers anticipate warm days for planting. local farms feature twin ears of corn and a two headed calf once seen at the Teague place.
Miss Mabel Hunt researched Guilford and Deep River communities for her 1938 novel Benjie's Hat. The tale centers on a real boy William Hussey Idol and a hat made from rabbit skins at Beard's Hatter Shop in Jamestown. The piece links Hunt to Guilford County history and Quaker figures like Nathan Hunt and Beulah Hunt Hussey, with notes on early New Garden and Guilford College origin.
Four teen members of a Negro political group say they will be denied admission to a $20 plate Democratic party fund dinner in Columbia. Their leader argues Negroes are entitled to attend and notes the group did not officially endorse either major candidate.
Gary Don Merrill 17 of N Westwood Avenue was injured when his car left Blair Street, traveled 309 feet, struck an embankment, then slid 66 feet. The Piedmont Motors vehicle was demolished. Merrill had a bad chin cut, bruises, and lacerations after reportedly blacking out and was cited for speeding.
Firemen freed a near hysterical woman trapped in Ruth Looney’s apartment at 406 N Hamilton Street at 7 30 pm after 30 minutes inside. They used a ladder and removed door pins while her male companion watched calmly. Earlier they cleaned spilled gasoline in the 100 block of South Main Street from an overfull tank.
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