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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1951
Page
10
The Public Safety Committee led by Councilman R. H. Sechrest will present to the City Council a proposal for an emergency ordinance creating a 12 member defense council. The plan aims to prepare the city for potential emergencies and coordinate safety measures.
A local official urges ahead planning for a future school site as population shifts and land values rise. The City School Board will decide if a site should be secured now based on studies by Little, who will share findings on area needs.
The narrative recounts Margaret visiting Blair House and meeting the President who laments not getting a word in due to her long Europe tour. She then travels with her mother to New York and Washington, with plans to return to New York for practice ahead of a heavy autumn concert and singing schedule.
Hyattsville Maryland August 1 Up reporter says revivalist William Davis claimed he would raise a dead man and led a crowd to pay a dollar to watch. The coffin opened a fake tunnel shaft released the corpse which reappeared later prompting police to charge Davis with fraud as the ruse collapsed.
The North Carolina Friends session gathers Monday with 74 member meetings in the state and nearby Virginia to discuss pure faith and non-business aims. Dr Elbert Russell and Samuel R Levering will address themes of applied Christianity and individual freedom and responsibility.
Jasper Texas reports congressman Martin Dies, famed Communist hunter, planning a political comeback in 1952. After seven years out of office he aims for either U S Senate or Congress at large, with a reannouncement date not yet set.
A long-range four-engine bomber completed a nonstop flight from Fairbanks to Alaska in 19 hours 34 minutes covering 4 128 miles. Commander Tene Frogley, a senior instructor, described the mission as part of Britain's intensified over the Arctic flight program.
Local Red Cross chairman Charles Mendenhall reports a national drive aims at 5 million dollars with a Midwest relief need of about 8 million. The De Seve flood fund seeks 2 thousand of which 470.25 has been raised, while 19 000 families seek emergency or rehabilitation assistance in the region. New donors include Rev E M Avett five dollars Mrs Sechrest ten dollars Dr and Mrs Frederick R Taylor ten dollars and several others contributions varied.
The Brevard Music Festival begins Tuesday with a Susan Reed concert. A 70 piece orchestra led by James Christian Pfohl and a 100 voice chorus trained by Lester McCoy perform at Transylvania Music Camp in an open air auditorium. Soprano Eileen Farrell appears Friday and Saturday. Olin Downes of the New York Times will lecture.
The Royal Air Force College has established an intense Arctic training program as the British Air Ministry plans additional ice hopping flights. A bomber flown from Iceland to Alaska via the North Pole Tuesday faced a delay before its return flight.
Congressional sources disclose a planned $500 million foreign aid fund connected to Franco policy. State and Defense officials testifying describe plans to broaden European alliances, including rapid setup of Spain base facilities.
Chicago officers trapped four bandits in an apartment involving Walter Wolfner owner of the Chicago Cardinals. Wolfner fired at captors. police later recovered Johnny Piecha from a clothing stack as the suspects, James Abbott alias Frank Wilson, and Michael Spans, were captured.
Military trucks begin moving into North Carolina to support Exercise Southern Pine war games starting August 13. The 43rd Division travels in two roughly nine hour trips from Camp Highway 1 to bivouac areas, affecting U S Highways 25 70 14 and 15A through Asheville Charlotte Laurinburg and Fayetteville. Col John Olive urged motorists to avoid the routes if possible and to yield to convoys when necessary.
A fragment mentions Thomasville inviting a 12 year old as a special guest at annual sessions. No clear event date or additional details are provided.
A mobile puppet show featuring ERPinotto travels remote Italian villages to explain the European Recovery Program and its benefits. The crew, led by Doris Rutledge and Armando Carboni, performs for children, followed by ERP discussions and a student essay contest.
Lee Washington Owens known as Uncle Wash died at his home 1106 Downing Street Friday afternoon aged about 90. He worked as a horse and wagon merchant from the Old Freight Depot on West Broad Street and lived where the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company now stands. He was active until the day before his death, widowed to Sarah Bell Graves, and father of fifteen with eight surviving children. Funeral arrangements at Hoovers Funeral Home and First Baptist Church with Rev. W. F. Elliott.
State Civil Defense Director E Z Jones named Mrs. Sarah Weaver as director of public for the North Carolina Council of Civil Defense. A native of the state she returns from Florida where she led a similar post and spoke at a nationwide publicity directors conference in Washington. Weaver, UNC graduate, formerly worked for Durham papers and led advertising at Forest City Courier and Spindale Sun. She will also serve as deputy director in charge of women's work.
Fallon wakes to his wife Mary’s scream as a burglar hits her with a flatiron in the kitchen. He captures the burglar, a girl about 17 or 18, who fled with a wallet containing $39. Mary is the victim in this curious wakeful night incident.
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