Three Cornered Moon Ends Summer Drama at High Point College
The Church Theater Associates close their 1948 summer season with Gertrude Tonkonogy’s Three Cornered Moon at High Point College auditorium. Directed by Herman Coble Jr, the three act comedy follows a widowed mother and her quarrelsome brood. Critics admired Tonkonogy’s realism and talent as the play depicts family joys and sorrows with sharp wit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point College
First Methodist Church
Gertrude Tonkonogy
Herman Coble, Jr
Miss Tonkonogy
Cort Theater
New York
Theater Guild
First Methodist Church Theater Associates
Max Shoaf
Alcoholism Can Be Overcome At Alco-Haven Sanatorium
An advertisement promotes Alco-Haven Sanitarium offering a medically directed program to cleanse the bloodstream and restore full health, claiming trained physicians and nurses treat alcoholism rather than merely sobering up. Readers are urged to request a free booklet via a plain envelope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alco-Haven
Court Binds Over Negro In Thomasville Break-In Case
Thomasville August 14 Roy James Thomas 29 year old Thomasville Negro confessed to breaking into the Thomasville Coca Cola bottling plant on August 9 and was bound over to the August term of superior court on a 750 dollar bond The court found him guilty on a drunkenness charge and taxed court costs Glenn Myers 44 of Thomasville received a six month suspended sentence for assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly striking an umpire with a chair at Finch Field He must pay 80 to the umpire and stay away from Finch Field games for a year plus a 100 fine and costs Mrs E J Fausnett was given six months suspended on condition of two year good behavior after being convicted of selling whiskey and 100 fine plus costs 28 pints of whiskey seized at her home July 3 were ordered sold by county authorities Lloyd Batten was given 60 days on the roads after two drunkenness convictions George Murray of Waco faced hit-and-run charges not pressed with leave and pleaded guilty to a traffic violation with costs The court convicted 12 defendants of drunkenness
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Roy James Thomas
Recorder’s Court
Superior Court
Glenn Myers
Route 2
Myers
Finch Field
W. C. Suggs
Suggs
E. J. Fausnett
Route 1
Lloyd Batten
George Murray
Waco
Murray
Rimplegar Family Comedy Delights at Evening Curtain
Mrs. Rimplegar portrayed by Rebecca Seward charms as she guides her baffled brood through a witty comedy. Arnold Medlin Gilbert Gray Max Shoaf and others fill supporting roles while 8 p.m. curtain and ticket outlets at First Methodist church and High Point College bookstore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Lib Barton
Laura Mae DeHaven
Arnold Medlin
Rebecca Seward
Bea DeHaven
Gil Gray
Rimplegars
Theater Associates
First Methodist Church
Jury Awards 25000 to Stout in North Carolina Rail Crash
A Superior Court jury found negligence by North Carolina Railroad company Southern Railway company and C M Rives and awarded Everette L Stout 25000 for injuries from the November 5 1946 collision when Southern Railway train 36 struck a taxi at West Point avenue. The Noahs Ark Taxi driver was cleared. Attorneys for Rives and the railroads gave notice of appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina Railroad Company
Southern Railway Company
C. M. Rives, Et al
Everette L. Stout
Stout
Southern Railway
West Point Avenue
William H. Bobbitt
Rives
Railroa
Scouts Head to Capital for Five Day Washington Tour
The Uwharrie Council selects four Scouts of the Year Garland Wampler Cyrus Brooks Billy Everhart and Tommy Foster to tour Washington by train for five days returning Saturday Scoutmaster James Hayes accompanied them The trip is funded by a local outstanding scouter Ice may form in airplane carburetors at high air temperatures noted in the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uwharrie Council
Washington
Garland Wampler
Cyrus Brooks
High Point
Billy Everhart
Linwood
Tommy Foster
Spencer
James Hayes Thomasville
Negro Oppression in South Carolina Plantations
A Manning, South Carolina report describes sharecropping conditions for Black workers on a 2000 acre plantation. It details oppression, debt, planter stores, inadequate housing, forced labor, and limited progress toward education amid lingering Old South practices.
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Mid South Carolina
Earl Gibson Manning
S. C
Harry Truman
Santee
South Carolina
Black River
Columbia
Southland
Manning
SSS Tonic Health Boost Ad Warns Of Low Blood Strength
A dated medical advertisement urges checking for pale hands fingernails and lips to spot low blood strength. It claims SSS Tonic builds up non organic nutritional anemia and improves digestion appetite energy sleep and skin color, boasting millions of bottles sold and drugstore availability.
Funeral Today For Thomasville Soldier
Funeral for Pvt. Woodrow Atchison 27 of Thomasville killed in Italy April 29 1944 will be held Sunday at 2 p m at Friendship Methodist church. Interment in the church cemetery with military honors by the William C Miller post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Woodrow Atchison
Italy
Friendship Methodist Church
Church
William C. Miller
The
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Foreman Affirms Place as Firelight Reflects Racial Order
A 47-year-old Black foreman declares respect for white authority while staring at burning logs, saying in a solemn tone that he knows his place. The remark reveals the era’s racial hierarchy and the plantation labor dynamic.
New Bern Names Barnhardt City Manager
New Bern selects Barnhardt to lead the city after a unanimous vote by the board of aldermen. Barnhardt, Raleigh public works chief and Salisbury native, will assume duties September 1 with a $7 salary, replacing Claude Helms who returns to Morganton as city manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Bern
C. L. Barnhardt
Raleigh
Board of Aldermen
Barnhardt
Salisbury
Ernest H. Wood
Earnhardt
Claude H. Helms
Morganton
New Bren
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Church Dramatic Group
Joe Leslie
Enterprise
North ST
Greenville
Wilmington
Louisville
Bristol - Moreh
Faresi
Greensboro
High Point Airport
MTL
Boy Scouts
Capital
Dia
Dio
Nic de Poin
CEU Roly Binioh
Charley Cooper
Alee
RENT
Gladron
Gladiron
New City
Australia
Gapho
Sapho Ex Sur
Guilford Roofing CO
North Wrenn
Lexington Street
Baltimore
Maryland
Yates No
Endress Sanders
Mattison
Imperial
von Sanders
DeVault
Tannewitz
Reynolds
H.p
Nash Sa
Smith
Greenlee
Elkstrom-Carlson
Diehl
Edgar
Edge Sander
Millburn
Alex Cooper
Baltimore 2
N. Calvert St
Plam
Traitt
Truitt
Greensboro, North Carolina
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