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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1945
Page
10
Party leaders rely on long service records and slogans as Republican and Democratic campaigns stay quiet. Both parties emphasize good government and avoid direct attacks to preserve calm election mood in High Point. Registrations are being checked as 15 precinct books open during the week at registrar homes.
Jamestown High School debuts the comedy Meet the Duchess in the school auditorium on May 3 and 4 at 8 p.m. Frances Branson plays Elsie Blake with Homer Smith as Ronnie Ward, plus a full cast including Joy January and Betty Ward in a tale of small town to Hollywood intrigue.
Miss Alice Caldwell, executive director, leaves Tuesday to study the Columbia volunteer office in South Carolina. She aims to learn office structure, community setup and agency relations to improve local services. The office will stay open nine to one during her absence, and she will return at week’s end. The canning sugar registration volunteer schedule for Wednesday, May 2, is set by schools and the volunteer office.
High Point prepares to form a unity council with a draft constitution. Mrs. C. T. Ingram Jr. and Horace Haworth lead a committee as Lyman Ford of Community Chests and Councils plans to address the May 17 meeting at the county building. The document envisions a 12 member board plus officers and a broad civic membership.
First Methodist church marks its 50th anniversary with Bishop Paul B. Kern of Nashville speaking at 8:00 tonight on Yesterday and Tomorrow. A double quartet provides music as the series continues with Dr. Frank S. Hickman and Pastors’ luncheon featuring Bishop J H Straughn. Local churches join in tonight's joint service.
Lt. Thomas M. Holt of Oak Ridge, recently liberated from a German prison camp, will sing the offertory solo at Wesley Memorial church during the 11 o clock service. His selection is Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled. Holt, a former Rangers member captured in 1942, spent time in Italy and a German camp near the Polish border before liberation by the Russian army. He is the son of Col. Earl Holt of the Oak Ridge Military Institute.
High Point eyes final push to meet 45 000 pound clothing quota for United National Clothing Collection. Bruton and VanLoan report progress with schools, receiving stations, and Jamestown district boxes, while volunteers from Hi-Pic club and Salvation Army assist packing and sorting.
The High Point Memorial hospital fundraising drive to reach 750000 will continue for a week. Campaign head B Hall said about 218000 was reported yesterday, bringing the total to 468000 with 100000 from a 1943 building trust and 150000 from Duke Endowment funds.
Births in Germany during the first half of 1944 increased by eight percent compared with the same period in 1943, according to official reports from wartime authorities.
Andrew Corbett, a hospital orderly at High Point Memorial Boulevard unit for 34 years, awaits the $750000 building fund campaign and a larger, fully equipped hospital. He recalls starting in 1911 under Dr. Burrus, with early cramped conditions and brick veneer upgrades later joining a two unit 118 bed facility.
Junior High students present an abridged Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera on Thursday May 3 at 8 p m in the school auditorium Emile Serposs leads the music department assisted by Thelma Connell with script and acting The cast features Jean Walton Irving Silver Harold Johnson Clyde Connor Betty Jo Smith Buddy Vaughn Jake Froelich Mary Eller Coffey with Salient chorus and stage crew including Roger Morris and Claude Kimrey The show satirizes the British navy and ranks in a deck setting on the H M S Pinafore with Buttercup’s popular number Poor Little Buttercup and notes on Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration and rivalry.
Willie Lee LeGrand, a local Black man, will stand trial for the slaying of Thurlis Henry Smith who was shot here March 23. The case opens next week's criminal session of the High Point division in Guilford County Superior Court at 10 o clock Monday morning. Also ante Butler, a local Black woman, will stand trial for arson for allegedly setting fire to a garand and servant’s guar.
Purchasers in High Point have bought $111,881.25 in E bonds toward a city quota of $725,500 within the Seventh War Loan effort, as released by Frank Sizemore. Total buyers reached 2,864, with 2,858 applications for smaller denomination bonds.
Frank J. Sizemore received a letter from 1st Lt. F. L. Irwin praising a Fort Bragg wounded veterans group visit to High Point on April 11. The letter notes cooperative hosiery and furniture mills tours and VFW home hospitality, adding eighty tired but happy soldiers left more convinced of their country.
L G Pritchard assistant director of the state veterans division will return to the local employment office on Wednesday May 2 to interview veterans their wives and relatives about pension claims and other issues. The new law allows widows and some children to receive compensation. Claude R Sealey of the US Employment Service will arrange appointments. Pritchard will be available 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM.
The local court calendar committee will meet at the county building Monday afternoon at 2 for the civil term calendar. Members are urged to attend and the meeting will convene promptly.
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