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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1937
Page
11
Motorists claim police are lax enforcing parking laws along East Washington Street near track grading. Vehicles park at odd angles, especially at night, with workers and digging operations creating dangerous dusk conditions. Authorities face calls to act to prevent accidents.
The 16th annual Southern Mid Summer Furniture and Rug market closed after a two-week run with more than 2,000 buyers attending. North Carolina led with 446 stores, followed by Virginia and South Carolina. 22 states represented. Trade was steady as prices held after recent increases. staples surged while novelties were spotty. 170 firms exhibited in the Southern Furniture Exposition building, with Tomlinson of High Point in its own space.
A Saturday night affray on South Main Street between two Black women ended with one woman disrobing the other. Bessie Hope fled to a department store, asked for a dress so she could go to police with a warrant for Annie Massey who was bare foot. Both were jailed on affray charges.
Dean Lindley announces High Point college will host Carl Sandburg Marjorie Hillis and Maurice Hindus in a year long lecture series. Hillis opens in October or November with On Being A Brand New Author. Hindus scheduled for February with insights on Soviet Russia. Sandburg closes in April with an Evening of Poems Songs and Philosophy. Season tickets may be available.
The Old Plank Road Council member Byron Haworth was elected Grand Sentry of the Grand Council at the Winston-Salem con clave. The local council gained a historic honor as no officer from a council under a year old had previously reached this level. Haworth is among the few eligible for Grand Regent.
Local political insiders say the next solicitor of the 12th judicial district could be a High Point attorney if aspirants fail to crowd the field. Greensboro figures like H L Koontz are expected to run, but High Point lawyers push for a unified local bid. Candidates include Walter E Crissman Gaston A Johnson Rupert T Pickens Thomas Turner Jr Parker Waynick and others, with negotiations aimed at a single candidate backed by Guilford and Davidson counties. The goal is a harmonious selection carried into campaign.
John Henry White Jr of 111 Hillcrest Drive won a Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild fourth prize. He earned 825 dollars for best junior division model car design in North Carolina. He plans to buy a bicycle with his prize money.
R B Terry president of The Enterprise improved in general condition yesterday at Presbyterian hospital New York where he has been a patient since Thursday. Doctors have not yet amputated his left forearm though phlebitis threatens that outcome. Rawley, enterprise general manager and secretary treasurer, showed little change at Burrus Memorial hospital after nearly three weeks.
Construction on the Permanent Kivett Drive Bridge is stalled by dirt-haul trucks from the Wrenn Street cut and by Tomlinson railway track issues. Engineers anticipate four more days of grading before the temporary bridge work and rail crossing are resolved.
Spectators line the streets beside the tracks as heavy equipment works on a temporary Main Street bridge. A. H. Guion company drives forty foot piles while crowds admire the construction across ages and backgrounds.
Magistrate C. C. Muse absolved no one and declared the old man guilty, noting his seasoned “puddle-hole” fishing ways. He ordered the man taxed with the costs as fourteen fishing hooks bearing witness to the case.
July building activity in High Point fell about 30 percent from a year earlier. Nine new residences were issued permits at an estimated cost of 44915, while 10 nonresidential permits totaled 65200. Repairs to 13 residences and eight nonresidences carried costs of 3865 and 33892 respectively. Permit fees totaled 63 75 versus 86 50 in July 1936.
The annual junior Y M C A trip to Washington will occur August 6 to 8. Edgar Hartley announces the youth group will depart from the local Y at 7 a.m. Thursday and return Sunday night at 8. en route they stop at Virginia historical sites and in Washington visit multiple landmarks including the Smithsonian Pan American building Old Ford Theatre and Mount Vernon boat trip on the Potomac. On return they visit Virginia caverns.
The eighteenth annual Reitzel reunion will be at Richland Lutheran church four miles east of Liberty on Thursday August 19. Relatives and friends are invited and asked to bring basket lunches for a picnic luncheon. Program begins at 10 30 oclock. C J Reitzel Jr is president and Miss Rebecca Smith is secretary.
Secretary Perkins refused to grant a wage differential the North Carolina average 38.8 cents versus 37.6 in Pennsylvania. North Carolina mills claim higher Piedmont wages and Southern distance justify higher pay. The move spurs discussion on regional wage differences and labor organizing among hosiery workers.
Seidman & Seidman report a 45 percent payroll gain in furniture during January to June 1937 versus 1936. New orders up 33 percent, shipments 40 percent. June output strong despite seasonal dips and disputes. Unfilled orders on July 1 down 15 percent from June 1, but 47 percent above July 1, 1936. Plant operations index fell to 79 in June from May 89.
Employees of the Stille-Young corporation and their families enjoyed a picnic at Oakhurst near Greensboro yesterday afternoon and evening. About 65 persons attended starting at 3 PM with a barbecued meal. Major R. M. Cowan of the Salvation Army entertained with sleight of hand and moving pictures of the British coronation and west Canada scenes. The event was directed by John H. Kalte, manager of Stille-Young.
Two youths who recently made the Good Confession will be baptised at the close of the evening service at the North Hamilton Street Church of Christ. Rev. Dennis Helsabeck announced the ceremony, noting the rite fulfills Christ's command in Mark 16 16.
Regular church service at Central Friends church will be held this morning at 11 o clock as announced last night.
A. W. Kearns of 415 Cable Street displayed a Yard Long bean at The Enterprise yesterday. The bean measured 23% inches in length and was grown in his garden.
High Point aims to lead a large delegation to the 1938 North Carolina Moose convention in Asheville August 28 29 30 with E D Hedrick as state first vice president and Mrs Mary Collingsworth and Albert Ladner Jr among speakers at opening sessions. The three day program features Women of the Moose events ritual contests initiations trophies and a farewell banquet with Senator Robert R Reynolds as association president.
Mrs Miranda Nollen 78 of Gastonia died recently. Funeral services were held in Gastonia with survivors including two brothers J B Towery of High Point and H Towery of Bostic a sister Cynthia Melton of Bostic and sons Benjamin and Edward Nollen of Shelby Reuben Nollen of Florida Raymond Nollen of Tonia and Raymond Nollen of Gastonia plus daughters in law Mrs Lawrence Reddings of Gastonia and Mrs Margaret Black of St Augustine and Mrs Ethel Burnett and Bird Nollen of Gastonia Twenty eight grandchildren and eight great grandchildren survive.
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