Sappenfield Fired Over Tennis Court Row With Mayor
Reece Snyder, acting director of parks, removed Fred Sappenfield as Blair Park Golf Course manager for insubordination after an argument with Mayor Arnold J. Koonce over Blair Park tennis courts. The mayor refused to pay the 10 cent court fee citing deplorable conditions. Sappenfield sought police help to arrest the mayor and his brother when denied. Snyder noted staff policy of free access for city officials and cited labor shortages on the courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reece Snyder
Parks and Recreation
Fred Sappenfield
Blair Park
Arnold J. Koonce
Synder
Snyder
Sappenfield
Police Department
Recreation Department
Parks and Juvenile Commission
Child Dies From Drinking Lye
Charlie Winford Crisco two year old son of Mr and Mrs Charles W Crisco Seagrove Route One died at Randolph Hospital this morning from pneumonia resulting from drinking lye. The mother was making soap when he drank a quantity of lye. Surviving are the parents and one sister Bernice. Funeral services will be held at Union Grove Baptist Church Sea grove Route One Wednesday afternoon at 2 oclock. Interment will follow in the church cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheboro
Charlie Winford Crisco
Charles W. Crisco
Seagrove
Route One
Randolph Hospital
Eumonia
Bernice
Union Grove Baptist Church
Crotts Arrested By Thomasville Police
Thomasville officers arrested George David Crotts of High Point route two on Monday for drunken driving speeding reckless driving and violating prohibition laws. Maye Kidd of High Point was charged with drunkenness and violating prohibition laws. A quantity of whiskey found in the auto was disclaimed by both arrestees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
George David Crotts
High Point
Willie Loflin
Fred Boyd
Maye Kidd
Death Notices for Joe Whitehead and Elwood Cox
Joe C Whitehead 67 of Leaksville died of a heart attack at his daughter's home in Ramseur He is survived by his wife Elizabeth Bowden two sons Paul Whitehead and J A Whitehead and seven grandchildren Funeral will be held Wednesday at 10 am at Ramsearl Baptist Church. Elwood M Cox 83 of Asheboro Route 1 died after 18 months illness at his home Survived by wife Cora E Henson three daughters Bertha Cox H C Harrell Ora Cox three sons Arthur Cox Graham Cox and Earnest Cox and six grandchildren Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe C. Whitehead
Ramseur
Leaksville
Ho Fk
W Rley
Ist Baptist Church
Elizabeth Bowden
Paul Whitehead
Reidsville
J. A. Whitehead
Fieldale
Ramse Ral
Or Baptist Church
Elwood M. Cox Ramseur
Elwood M. Cox
Asheboro
Cora E. Henson
Bertha Cox
H. C. Harrell
Greensboro
Ora Cox
Arthur Cox
Graham Cox
Earnest Cox
Parrish Funeral for Collene Parrish Held at Tabernacle
Funeral services were held at Tabernacle Methodist Church for Collene Parrish daughter of Mr and Mrs Ross Parrish of Tabernacle community who died Saturday night at 9:45 pm. Survived by parents two brothers Paul and Odell and sister Doris all of the home. Interment in church cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheboro
Collene Parrish
Ross Parrish
Tabernacle Community
Tabernacle Methodist Church
Paul
Odell
Doris
Seventy-eight Davidson Men Leave For Army
Seventy-eight men from the eastern half of Davidson county left Thomasville by bus for Fort Bragg for a final examination for active military service. Those passing will receive a 21 day furlough before entering service. The list includes Isaac Dewey Rollins Jr and many others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Davidson County
Fort Bragg
Isaac Dewey Rollins, Jr
Thomas Baxter Leonard
Harvey Eugene Hege
Roscoe Martin Mendenhall
Emmitt Asbury Ward
Harvey Thomas Wright
George Thomas Joyner
Dewey Preston Adams
James Charles Hedrick
Joseph Carl Hilton
Daniel Smith Cheek
Allison Joe Hancock
Carl Edmond Watford
Teddy Roosevelt Wallace
Arvel Gordon
Eric Goodman
Linley Franklin Perryman
David Jackson Leonard
Tommy Talton Crawford
William Gilbert Murdock
Fred Rudolph Womack
George Washington Green
Paul Milgard Gallimore
James Lawson Taylor
Claude Elmer Bass
Joe Cephas White
James Casey Snyder
Ola Jarrett
Garmon
Hennisey Berry
John Henry Walton
Riley Jart Walker
John D. Hillard
Claude Buford Lee
John Mantel Scott
Millard Philmore Garner
Thomas Ludwig Peacock
Jacob Wilson Beck
Willard Everett
Sechrist
Lola Lee Clodfelter
Ervin Myers
Harvey Odell Clodfelter
Thomas Woodrow Crowson
William Boyd Welch
Clarence Thomas Stevens
Robert Beck
Lester Young
Dewey
George Heartwell Breedlove
Ellis Brown Hughes
John Kyle Maner
David Charles Perrell
Fred Parker Leonard, Jr
Rufus Vernon Matthews
Charles Wood White
Clayton William Hedrick
Keith Walker
James Herbert Blair
Henry Parker Voyles
Readjustment Request Hits High Point Furniture Valuation
County tax officials review a readjustment petition by Jack Garrett of Broyhill interests for the $115,872 valuation of the High Point furniture plant. The plant idle status and a state fire marshal condemnation drive the case as airport finances show $17,067.55 year end profit and postwar expansion plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point Furniture Company
Broyhill
Lenoir
Jack Garrett
Lenoir Furniture Company
Greensboro-High Point
High Point
Greensboro
Funeral Rites for W G Bridges and Lloyd Dailey
Funeral service for William G Bridges from First Baptist Church with Dr. A B Conrad officiating and choir music. Interment in Oakwood cemetery. Separate funeral for Mrs Lloyd Murphy Dailey held at Bethany Reformed Church with Rev W K McGee and Rev C C Wagoner leading. interment in Bethany church cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. G. Bridges
William G. Bridges
First Baptist Church
A. B. Conrad
M. L. Slate
Lloyd Murphy Dailey
Thomasville
Barnwell Street
Bethany Reformed Church
W. K. McGee
C. C. Wagoner
J. A. Palmer
Margaret Palmer
Cc. C. Wagoner
Vann Reece
John Osborne
Elmer Sink
Arthur Ball
John Warner
Walter Warner
Arthur Gooch
Loy Sink
Bethany Church Cemetery
W. R. Grant Sworn In As New Councilman
W R Grant sworn in as councilman to replace Argie R Wood who resigned to join the post office He attended the law and public safety committee meeting and received the same committee appointments as Wood including law and public safety and utilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. R. Grant
Argie R. Wood
Law and Public Safety Committee
Grant
Wood
Law and Public Safety and Utilities
Music Professor Dickensheets Named at Lenoir-Rhyne
Harold W. Dickensheets, assistant professor of music at Catawba College for six years, is named professor of music at Lenoir-Rhyne College succeeding Kenneth B. Lee, who now serves in the Navy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hickory
Harold W. Dickensheets
Catawba College
Lenoir-Rhyne College
Kenneth B Lee
Nation Faces Fluid Milk Rationing Across the U S
Food editor Gaynor Maddox warns the war effort and Lend-Lease drive will require heavy supplies of dried skim milk. Government orders push 75 percent of dried milk for defense use while civilian fluid milk demand rises with war-time incomes and bread industry needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaynor Maddox
NEA Food and Markets
Old England
London
War Food Administration
Lend-Lease
Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation
WFA
T. G. Stitts
Dairy and Poultry Division
Food Distribution Administration
Double trouble for Jesse Houser in jail bonds case
Jesse Houser of Asheboro faces multiple charges after drunken and disorderly conduct, abandonment, and non support. A second woman, Iris White Houser, bailed him out leading to a bigamy warrant and a $1500 bond later reduced to $1000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse Houser
Asheboro
Houser
Maggie Back Houser
Maggie Beck Houser
Iris White Houser
Iris White
Maggie Beck
Thomasville Man Gets 12 Months For Abandonment
Thomasville report states Glenn McKinley Stewart received a 12 month sentence for abandonment of his family before Judge Carl Wilson. The term was suspended with condition to pay $25 monthly for his wife and child’s support. Stewart appealed and a $300 bond was set. Also noted were cases involving Joseph H. Mane bound over for larceny by trick and a man named Mabe denying charges after a purse theft. Brantley Hughes was found guilty of resisting arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Glenn McKinley Stewart
Carl Wilson
Stewart
Joseph H. Mane
Superior Court
Trick
Birt Primm
Mabe
Primm
Brantley Hughes
High Point City Manager Braden Could Be Relieved
Roy G. Braden, named city manager of High Point, would resign his federal post as manager of Greenbelt Maryland if the Greenbelt council insists he must return. Mayor Arnold J. Koonce says he will press for Braden to come after a phone talk, and the council plans a final decision at Thursday’s meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy G. Braden
High Point
Greenbelt
Maryland
Arnold J. Koonce
Braden
Koonce
Hollywood Wartime Shoots Go Local for Food and Fun
Paramount shoots Frenchman's Creek on location in Northern California with a victory garden for a 150-strong crew. The studio bakes bread churns butter and buys meat from ranchers, planning to apply the method to future locations. The piece weaves in gossip about Hedy Lamarr Dorothy Lamarr Bogart and John Wayne among others and notes Autry training as a pilot and Goddard eyeing a Mexico club stake.
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Hollywood
Paramount
Frenchman's Creek
California
Hedy Lamarr
Dorothy Lamarr
Baltimore Blue Book of Society
William Ross Howard III
Humphrey Bogart
Balboa Beach
Bogart
Magellan
Mrs. B
Gene Autry
Thunderbird Field
Paulette Goddard
Mexico
Ann Miller
George Clark
Jim Dolan
Frances Langford
Bob Hope
Charmian Londen
Michael O'Shea
London
Susan Hayward
Charmian
Jack London
Suspended sentence in drunken disorderly case
Martin Holt and Blanche Lopp, described as negroes, were ordered to pay the court cost and a $10 fine. They received a suspended sentence of 60 days on the drunk and disorderly charge, provided they pay costs and remain of good behavior for two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin Holt
Blanche Lopp
Availability statements under wartime stabilization plan
Mrs. Shiplett, manager, explains essential employers must issue statements of availability to workers when conditions warrant. Criteria include discharge, indefinite or seven day or longer layoff, underutilization of skills or hours, or compelling personal reasons. Employers should refer to the U F E Employment Service only in doubt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point U. S. A
Rachel Shiplett
War Manpower Commission
North Carolina
U. F E
Shiplett
UNC reports 1256 civilian students in second summer session
Chapel Hill Aug 3 Civilian enrollment for the second summer session at the University of North Carolina is 1256, Director Guy B Phillips announced today. Three thousand others largely Army and Navy men are in training on the campus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
Guy B. Phillips
Army
Navy
Busman’s Holiday Dispatcher Mixup In Kansas City
Harvey Fowler woke at 2 a.m. for his regular bus driving shift. Three hours later another driver arrived and told him to go home and rest, revealing Fowler had the first day of his vacation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Harvey Fowler
Fowler
City Council Considers Plan to Clear 1400 Titles
Law and public safety committee backs paying lawyers eight dollars per abstract and distributing titles through City Attorney Jones. The aim is to clear 1,400 lien titles before foreclosure, potentially saving about eight thousand dollars from the lowest private offer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Law and Public Safety Committee
City Council Law and Public Safety Committee
J. G. Groome
Grover H. Jones
John H. Kalte
J. Allen Austin
E. Wright
Louis Fisher
D. H. Parsons
Ben Herman
Walter Crissman
Tom Sprinkle
Jones
Mayor Pope Speaks At Lions Meeting
Thomasville Aug. 3 Special Mayor R L Pope was guest speaker at the weekly Thomasville Lions club meeting. He spoke on future problems and warned about inflation moral deterioration disunity liberties and banks. The session was led by John Perry with H A Cecil Jr and Craven Casper directing the program. In 1942 the Army Air Transport Command flew over 80 100 000 miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
R. L. Pope
Army
Air Transport Command
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W. F. Profit
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Numa F. Reid Lodge
A. M
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Thessembly
Southwest Pacific
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Davis
J. F. Jones
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Jimmy
McHugh
RKO
Eileen Riley
M-G-M
Ben Carter
Carter
Melvin Bryant
Bryant
John Wayne
Martin Kosleck
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Otto Kruger
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Otto
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Kay Kyser
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WSM
Grand Ole Opry
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Mayor Pope
Lions Meeting
L.C.C.M
Tonighi
Oclocer Cc
Peele
Gov. CO
W. Cecil
Seety
N. Mata
Nat Walker
Walgreen
City Fuel CO
Park St
TRY
Main ST
Paint & Repair Now
Tiger Brand
Parker - Brown Lumber CO
Oak Street
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