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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1952
Page
13
The city council adopted a fiscal year 1952 1953 salary schedule setting police recruits at 225 dollars monthly and fire recruits at 215. Other listed positions range 215 to 275 dollars, with chiefs earning 400 to 500 dollars and various supervisory roles reaching 325 to 375 dollars.
Dr P E Lindley of High Point College Religion department returned from a five day stay at Mars Hill College representing his college in a national research project on What is a Christian College The workshop drew representatives from North Carolina South Carolina Alabama Georgia Florida eastern Kentucky eastern Tennessee eastern Mississippi and Virginia The study will continue nationally with no absolute results anticipated and is considered significant by participants
Lt. Col. A A Hall announces free short wave radio message service for U S Armed Forces worldwide except Europe. MARS accepts messages of 25 words or less for transmission at no charge, with delivery not guaranteed due to field conditions. mail to MARS Raleigh or call 35677.
Sheriffs deputies investigated a break in at J. F. Saunders Grocery on Metsinger Street outside city limits. Seven cartons of cigarettes and seven dollars in small change were taken. entry was gained through a screen on the right front window.
Mrs Charlotte Arno Taro 55 of 931 Dayton Street died at High Point Memorial Hospital Wednesday at 5 10 am after declining health since July 8 She had lived in the city 17 years coming from Salisbury Entombment will follow at Guilford Memorial Park Mausoleum Sechrests will hold the funeral Friday at 4 pm conducted by Rev Don Payne
Hemphill Company announces a new 3400 square foot sales and service warehouse at 2011 13 English Street High Point to serve the southern district. James McDowell vice president will manage local operations with E E Younts as contractor and occupancy set for November 1. The facility will house Banner Seamless Hosiery machinery and Banner Automatic Knitting equipment and will expand future plant capacity.
Seven divorce suits filed this week at the Municipal Court Clerk’s office list plaintiffs and defendants including Mary Lee Pittman Alexander versus Fletcher Alexander and Aleen Mounce versus James Mounce on separation and adultery grounds. Additional civil actions name Dixie Supply and Sales versus Wertz-Simmons Chair Company seeking 871.73, and Hollingsworth’s Service versus Hilfred Turner seeking 82.08 for merchandise delivered in 1952 and later.
Miss Betty Lou Dean daughter of Mr and Mrs Howard Dean Route 1 High Point will be among 12 graduates at Mars Hill College Friday August 8 She will receive the Associate in Arts diploma after a two year business course A total of 216 diplomas and 10 business certificates were awarded this year
At noon today a fire in a flue pipe at 216 21 Vine Street was extinguished with no damage reported.
Betty Sue Coltrane soprano from Archdale will appear at 5 p m Sunday in City Lake Amphitheater as part of a Parks and Recreation sponsored community sing. Coltrane, Cincinnati Conservatory graduate, has a Hormel soloist contract this year. City A Cappella Chorus led by Bill Collins will join, with Dorothy Coltrane on piano.
William M. Burrows 81 of Asheboro a father of Deputy E Herman Burrows High Point died after a short illness Born March 31 1871 he was a Randolph County figure Surviving seven sons and four daughters Funeral at Brewers Chapel Methodist Church 4 p m with burial in church cemetery Body taken to Asheboro home of A H Burrows 519 Worth Street
June Smith of High Point received her degree with high honors at Guilford College summer exercises. In Dr Clyde A Milners absence, David H Parson conferred degrees on 14 students and Dr Herschel Folger gave the address. Other graduates included Ward Whitcomb Lewis Lewis Mills Ferrell Beeson Ferrell and Burdsall earned a degree in absentia.
A Marine recruiter will not be available in High Point after today announced by T Sergeant O H Phipps who has been at the local office two days a week since the closing of the Navy Marine recruiting office. Interested individuals may go to Greensboro, which remains open full time. Navy recruiters will staff High Point two days a week with dates to be decided. Phipps is transferring to Fleet Marine Force Atlantic in Norfolk.
Four High Point men were returned from Carolina Beach to face a hearing August 13 on larceny and receiving charges over an electric fan stolen from J. C. Welch Motor Company. Detected with four new tires and a clock radio, they are Edward T. Little Herman D. Dennis Claude Dunlap and James C. Crawford. A fifth man James P. Tysinger remains in Asheboro on similar charges.
Police across this area search today for a 1949 Mercury four door sedan reported stolen in the 200 block of South Wrenn Street. The car valued at 1600 dollars was left unlocked with keys in it while owner W. D. Howington worked nearby. He resides at 1419 Cook Street and is employed by the Noore Machine Company of Jamestown.
Permits issued today to Quality Built Homes for five five room houses in the 900 block of Marion Avenue at an estimated cost of 30000 dollars. Additional permits granted to G A Memory for a dwelling at 1722 Brooks Street cost 3500 dollars Velkes Jaid for a five room house on Clover Drive cost 8000 dollars Auto Supply Company for a retail store at 100 South Hamilton Street cost 1000 dollars and Mrs Elizabeth A Dalton for a twenty thousand dollar house on Hillcrest Drive.
James W. Barker filed in Municipal Court seeking 4995 due on promissory notes by M. T. Barker who died November 8 1937 and 391 for funeral expenses paid by the plaintiff.
Police in Burbank responded to a restaurant inventory find a small bottle marked Danger-nitroglycerine. Captain Claude M. Duncan fired at the container from a distance, causing the bottle to break with no explosion. Authorities suspect a prank and noted uncertainty about the alleged explosive substance.
The Navy reports a jet fighter exploded in the Boxer’s hangar deck off the Korean coast killing eight sailors. Twelve planes were destroyed as fire swept below deck. others jumped or were rescued by small boats and helicopters.
Scattered showers and considerable cloudiness will continue in this area this afternoon tonight and tomorrow. Temperatures will be similar to today and yesterday with a low of 68 and a high of 86 forecast for both today and tomorrow by the Friendship Weather Bureau.
Sertoma Club heard about the Red Cross Blood Program at a luncheon, with Norman Garner stressing the urgent need for blood from front lines to U.S. hospitals. Richard Hayworth of the donor committee outlined the process from donor testing to plasma shipment and hospital distribution, noting six week bloodmobiles and free patient services.
Police say James E. Myers and Edgar Bowman were arrested on hit and run charges after a 1941 Chevrolet they rode in struck a pickup and a parked Ford on South Main Street at Blair Hill. Each posted 700 bond for Monday Municipal Court hearing. both claim the other was driving. Vehicle damage listed and an officer noted incomplete investigation until last night.
The High Point Hi-Lites announces Carolina Vermiculite Company locating at 910 Ward Street as a Zonolite subsidiary in Chicago and employing 250. The New Industries Box Score lists Sylvania Electric with 250 workers and $1 million payroll, Fox Paper with 25 workers and $65,000 payroll, Wool Novelty with 25 workers and $65,000 payroll, and Carolina Vermiculite with $60,000 payroll.
After a four hour meeting among the School Board City Council and Parks and Recreation Commission officials agreed to tie rental rates to power and water charges while pursuing a joint financial plan. The talks trimmed power rates for the schools and promised rental reductions for Parks and Recreation programs with a final agreement to be brought back by City Manager T. E. Hinson and Superintendent Charles Carroll.
In Milwaukee Wisconsin Mr and Mrs Howard Greasel hosted visitors when bees entered through a fireplace flue and swarmed the living room and home. Greusel used DDT to subdue many bees then blocked the chimney with a screen. The bees retreated to the chimney top as rain cooled the swarm.
CENTRALIA Ill Marie Foltz started at the Valmeyer Illinois telephone switchboard on her first day handling fire and ambulance calls before lines went down and her board nearly blacked out as a small tornado roared into Valmeyer.
A well fed man leaving the Pavilion Restaurant is accosted by a beggar claiming misfortune from a burned motto. The beggar says his motto “Think Fast Work Hard Act Decisively” led to wealth before a cleaning woman ruined it. Joe Laurie Jr. discusses a speaking offer in Chicago, noting the free talk payment.
Reported Navy and Army trainees from High Point and Jamestown pursue careers in the armed forces. Pvt Richard Be Snyder begins eight weeks at Fort Jackson after marrying Iris Hendricks. John Franks Forbis completed naval basic training in San Diego and plans Guam. Rodney L Borum, midshipman first class USN, trains aboard USS Wisconsin during Midshipman Cruise Able as part of 3600 Naval Academy officers in the Atlantic.
Everett J. Clary, seaman USN, son of Mr and Mrs Everett E. Clary of 750 Lindsay Street, has arrived in San Diego aboard USS ISMR 403 after completing a second tour in the war zone. The ship left the West Coast in October 1951 for the Korean coast where it supported UN forces for nine months.
Clary son of Mr and Mrs Fef Clary serves at the Army Nahh bollenbach Quartermaster Depot in Germany as administrative officer in storage division of the 522nd Quartermaster Subsis tence Depot Company. Mack R Blair seaman USN arrives in San Diego aboard USS Henrico after a nine month Far East tour, second Orient assignment since Korea outbreak, totaling 18 months with United Nations forces.
SGT Hulit Bullock Jr. of 502 West Willis Street recently graduated from the Seventh Army Non-Commissioned Officers Academy in Munich Germany. He is a squad leader with the 3rd Armored Infantry Battalion and holds the Good Conduct Medal and Army of Occupation Medal. He joined the Army in February 1948. NROTC midshipman James B Lovelace Jr. of the University of North Carolina, son of Mr and Mrs Lovelace of 625 Colonial Drive, operates sound powered phones on a magnetic compass aboard the USS Missouri during a midshipman practice cruise.
Ten year old Jerry Michael Peele, son of Mrs. Walker Spencer of High Point, is the fourth polio victim in the area this year. He was admitted to the Central Carolina Convalescent Center in Greensboro with an acute polio attack and is not allowed visitors, his father Clyde Peele said.
Sylvania Electric Plans open house at the local plant tomorrow evening from 7 to 9 o clock inviting employees and their families. Watermelon and ice cream will be served to about 800 to 1000 guests with favors for wives and children. Workers decorated the plant and display finished television sets. The plant manufactures cabinets destined for final assembly elsewhere.
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