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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1929
Page
13
Mae Johnson of Allen Jay School wrote a winning essay for an American Legion Auxiliary contest. The piece argues school life teaches obedience, teamwork, leadership, and patriotism, shaping future leaders and civic responsibility through classroom and school community experiences.
Police picked up a man on East Lexington Avenue so intoxicated he could not recall his name. He was placed in a cell without name records while officers tried to identify him, then moved to headquarters as a passerby called an ambulance after seeing him in the road.
FLYING from Roosevelt Field New York, pilot Lieutenant Clark today will bring the aircraft to the new local airport and fly over the city this afternoon with passengers aboard. Lieutenant Clark will also pilot Mr Amos’s plane for him during the event.
Alston Clark reports many well known local youths eager to enroll in Lieutenant Clark's first flying classes. Prominent businessmen plan to buy planes once an adequate air port and flying field are ready, while activity continues around the Lohr airport. C M Lohr recovered from a crash and secured a three passenger Waco plane for city flights. Two visiting airmen are based at Lohr field flying their American Eagle biplane.
Mr and Mrs N A Davis of 502 North Hamilton street depart this morning for a two week tour through New England states New York and Canada during their vacation.
A new facility in Bucharest is rising as a garage to accommodate 500 cars. The project outlines a sizable expansion of local automotive storage capacity with a modern structure planned in the city.
The High Point Garden club highlighted the City Beautiful Campaign as its key achievement. With support from Mid-Week Garden club and city officials, prizes totaling 1900 pounds spurred class based contests, an essay drive, and a slogan contest yielding High Point’s Beauty Our Civic Duty. The mass meeting drew over 1000 attendees and yard makeovers transformed vacant lots into gardens and flowers. The project is now annual.
Statewide eight months term gains ground through a $1.5 million annual fund for extended-term districts. Dr. A. T. Allen notes Hancock Law makes high schools eight months with tuition free, and reduces costs by shifting more aid to poorer counties. He argues tax reductions are real, as the state bears up to 60 percent in some counties, while richer areas pay less.
The First Reformed Church holds a morning service with preludes and hymns including Come Thou Long Expected Jesus and O Zion Haste. Scripture readings from 2 Timothy 3 1 17 and Mark 7 31 37 are paired with prayers, an offertory anthem, sermons on Christian Teachings and Well Doing, and hymns such as Lead On O King Eternal and God Is Love. An evening service features hymns O God Our Help In Ages Past and Father Of Eternal Grace with a sermon on Well Doing.
Dr Morris Fishbein critiques the 18 day Hollywood diet noting its appeal stems from numeric structure mob action and celebrity glamour. He argues the plan fails long term and that claims of medical safety are false advertising.
Rev T A Sykes, minister, speaks this morning at Central Friends church on Three Ways of Meeting Temptation. Evening service at Archdale playground at 6 30. Sykes topic Guide Posts and Signals Along the Highway of Life. Worship order includes organ preludes hymns prayers and readings.
Friends of Mr Bailey urge the committee to retain the executive head of the physical education department amid the association's financial woes. Bailey, a Duke alumnus of 1924, plans fall work at Guilford College and considers joining the Greensboro YMCA staff.
The executive committee will be convened to discuss part time service as a means to defray his expenses. Members named are Fred N. Tate the president J E Millis M J Wrenn R R Ragan and O E Kearns.
Los Angeles police say Mrs. Josephine Valenti confessed to burning her months old baby in blankets while the child sat in a carriage in the yard. The case may go to Guilford County Superior Court in September for trial.
The state files a complaint alleging Davis was not legally elected and served illegally. It cites fraudulent ballots, including votes for the rival candidate and even deceased voters, counted by the registrar and judges of election. The filing names T. C. Johnson as the rival candidate and presents numerous charges.
Tobacco growers in sixty south Georgia counties reported un official weekly sales surpassing 4.5 million dollars as 53 warehouses clogged market floors. The general state average hovered near 20 dollars per hundred pounds, with some estimates around 22, signaling a robust market and expectations of lighter offerings next week.
Pollen grains were detected in the air during the spring season thirteen miles from a flowering tree, indicating airborne pollen dispersion beyond the immediate bloom site.
Machinery grows in farming as a new device plucks chickens in seconds. The early appliance showcases rapid poultry processing improving efficiency for farmers and producers.
Eugene Permanent Waves priced at 7 and 9 dollars and Keen Waves at 6 and 8 dollars. Phone listing 2327 for Lovette Beauty Shoppe located in West End.
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