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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1943
Page
10
R L Honbarrier, president of Colonial Motor Freight, is free on $1500 bond after an Easter Monday party at the firm’s South Main Street warehouse left a truck driver critically wounded. Ridge held traffic manager WU Aldridge for the firm also under detention.
Horace G. Ilderton, incumbent in the Second Ward, withdrew his request for a recount of the Second Ward council race by telephone at 10 o clock as the Municipal Elections Board prepared to consider his protest. Ilderton trailed J. B. Fink by 40 votes with W. L. Hunt leading. ballot books had been opened when the protest was filed.
The Charlotte Office of Price Administration announced new rules allowing Victory Garden owners to receive up to 300 gallons of gasoline for garden travel if they cultivate 1500 square feet or more, cannot reach the garden by other means, and arrange car sharing to reduce mileage. The measure targets urban gardeners with inadequate city plots and involves Department of Agriculture coordination.
W. B. Turner of 900 East Street was shot at the warehouse after a dispute with Honbarrier during a drunken spree. Turner, in critical condition, received a transfusion and surgery lasting nearly two hours. Honbarrier surrendered after the drive-by confrontation and faces charges of attempted murder and accessory.
At the Piedmont Model Airplane Club meeting held Monday at 243 East Washington Street plans were laid for a tri city model airplane contest to be held in June. The event will include Greensboro High Point and Winston Salem with invited contestants from nearby towns and rural districts. Club members volunteered to help High Point civic clubs with airplane spotting.
The North Carolina Highway Safety Division announced revocations for the past week, including Johnie Surmons of High Point among the individuals whose licenses were canceled.
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