Sign Of Change In High Point Barber Shops
Downtown High Point barber shops are replacing bath facilities with modern conveniences as fewer customers seek baths. Thirteen of nineteen shops report showers, but overall business is down with fewer than ten bathers weekly and manicures attracting more interest. Local managers note factories now provide showers, reducing demand for shop bathrooms.
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High Point
Brant Ayers
Ayers
West End
Wrenn Street
L. G. Lee
Lee
They
Liberty
Charles Snow
Speedwell
Mark Hodgin
Greensboro
Winfred Crouse
Newlin
Guilford College Hosts Yearly Quaker Meeting Budget Record
Guilford College hosts the North Carolina Yearly Meeting at Guilford College. The body adopted a 70 000 budget for the year and approved new line items including 4 000 for Quaker Lake operations. Four new ministers were recorded and officers for Quaker men were elected for the coming year.
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Friends Close
Guilford College
North
Carolina
North Carolina
Gene Key
Ben Farlowe
Greensboro
William Harris
Jamestown
United Society of Friends
Haworth
High Point
Campbell to Attend Southeastern Management Institute
Campbell, executive secretary of the High Point Merchants Assn, will attend the annual Southeastern Management Institute at Chapel Hill next week. The event is sponsored by the Associated Credit Bureaus of the Southeast and the University of North Carolina.
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Clyde Campbell
High Point Merchants Assn
Southeastern Management Institute
Chapel Hill
Associated Credit Bureaus of the Southeast
The
University of North Carolina
Cred
Partly Cloudy Mild Weather On Tap Today
Partly cloudy but comfortable conditions expected for Piedmonters with highs near 85 degrees. Tonight looks for some clearing after a low around 65, followed by near clear skies and a slight rise in temperatures Monday.
Unruly Bum Faces Clever Man at Downtown Store
In a downtown store a tippling man was repeatedly given the bum's rush by three clerks. They arranged a stunt with a seated mannequin that shocked the intruder and prompted his quick exit, after which he never returned.
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Johnny
Renovated Plant To Be Shown
High Pointers invited to tour the renovated Davidson County sewage plant from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Bill Williams says the public will see the expanded facility funded by a bond issue. Data sheets will be available and a complete tour runs from start to finish.
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Davidson County
Bill Williams
Ceanekc Andan Maimieealied
Davidson
Williams
New Textile Label Act Impacts Hosiery Industry
Congress passes Textile Fiber Products Identification Act to require full fiber content on labels starting March 3. Garments must list all fibers by proportion with size identical, and labels include a house number. Hosiery makers face heat transfers changes and increased record keeping across many textile items.
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Langdon Ammen
Congress
Third Week Response Is Good In Stars of Tomorrow Contest
Preliminary judging is complete for the $60,000 Name the Stars of Tomorrow contest in Family Weekly. Winners will be announced soon as readers of all ages join the fun. First prize is a Gertrude Ederle Swimming Pool with 119 other prizes including RCA Whirlpool Washer Dryers and Westinghouse ranges.
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Stars of Tomorrow
Family Weekly
Enterprise
Gertrude Ederle
RCA
Westinghouse Electric
Mercury
Nesco Electric
Airex
Seth Thomas
American College
Westclox
Firemen Halt Spying Money As Parsonage Fire Rages
An afternoon blaze in a Negro church parsonage on Kivett Drive injures one fireman and scatters coins across the ground as officials recover money discarded during the effort. Capt. W C Martin treated at High Point Memorial Hospital for a bruised thumb. Mrs Sally Margo was cooking when smoke forced her to the porch returning to find the fire. The origin was in the corner kitchen and the back wall suffered extensive damage.
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Kivett Drive
W. C. Martin
High Point Memorial Hospital
Carl Shelton
Martin
Sally Mango
New Greensboro Hospital Groundbreaking Timed With Rain
Ground was broken Friday afternoon for the $3,000,000 Wesley Long Community Hospital in Greensboro. H. L. Coble chaired the building committee and used an engraved shovel to turn the dirt as about 150 people watched in light rain. The five story, 160 bed hospital sits on 23 acres on N Elam Avenue off Friendly Road and is due to be completed in more than a year.
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Greensboro
Wesley Long Community Hospital
H. L. Coble
N. Elam Avenue
Friendly Road
Roger Morgan Elected To Church Council At Emmanuel
Roger W Morgan of 903 Circle Dr High Point has been elected by the Emmanuel Lutheran Church Council to fill the unexpired term of J Howard Zechman who joined Danville Knitting Mills in Dafville Va Morgan a church member and Melrose Hosiery Corp sales manager is a Allen Jay High School graduate attended King's Cee Caper Sennen Great Neck N A member of the High Point cee Club married to Dorothy Jane Sloop with three children Joanna Bucky and Marsha will serve through December 31 1960
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Roger W. Morgan
Circle Dr
Emmanuel Lutheran Church
High Point
J. Howard Zechman
Danville Knitting Mills
Dafville
Morgan
Emmanuel Church
Melrose Hosiery Corp
Allen Jay High School
King’s Cee Caper Sennen
Great Neck
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High Point Enterprise
Stenge Oo
Jack Dunn
United Services
Quaker Lake
Guilford County
J. Floyd Moore
Algie I. Newlin
Daryl Kent
Committee On Ministry and
Friends
Campbell
Forrest
High Pointer
Sewan West
Greensboro Hospital
Roger Morgan
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