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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1964
Page
29
In Fairmont West Virginia a small Armory stage hosted Louis Armstrong, nicknamed Satchmo, delivering a three hour set with Billy Kyle as pianist arranger. The trumpet player's horn elicited a dazzled crowd, performing classics from Blueberry Hill to Basin Street Blues, amidst cigarette haze and night air.
The Old Water Mill near Guilford County, now called the Old Water Mill, remains in operation grinding corn and wheat after about 160 years. Owner C. E. Bailes, living above the mill, preserves a written history, dating origin to 1745 and noting ties to early settlers and soldiers in the Guilford Courthouse era.
A nostalgic reminiscence traces the appeal of the small puddle-jumper car once tied to novelty and chic. The narrator recalls slang and terms from Britain and France, describing service station rituals and a local chap adopting French flair with a tam and oui.
A reflective piece threads memories of a tiny English car and highway life, recounting condescending traffic, near misses, and a strained bond with bigger vehicles. It shifts to local history about Joe Sanders’s Beaver Creek mill, its owners, cats around the mill, and the impact of Highway 68 and a dam on water flow to the mill.
Morehead Planetarium officials announce a meteor shower visible in North Carolina on August 10 11 and 12 with peak intensity about 10 p m on August 11. About 50 meteors per hour expected radiating from a northeast sky as the moon sets early evening reducing light.
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