High Point Schools Prepare for September Opening
The High Point school system announces completion of faculty lists for the Sept 9 opening. Enrollment is expected to exceed last year’s 8,164. Crowding is anticipated at Johnson Street Tomlinson and Oak Hill as additions and shifts are planned to accommodate students and a new Alfred J. Griffin school for Negroes.
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High Point City
B. Pruette
Pruette
Johnson Street
Tomlinson
Oak Hill
Tomlnson School
Dee
Jen
Piadaane
Force Shaw School Cotes
High Point College Admits New Students for 1953 54
High Point College prepares for the September 21 1953 opening as enrollment exceeds last year with about 650 students expected. Graduation exercises are set for this Saturday with 57 degree candidates led by Dr. Dennis H. Cooke.
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High Point College
Dennis H. Cooke
Methodist
Cooke
N. P. Yarborough
Yarborough
Woman's Hall
12-Year-Old Foils Man Claiming Tire Offer
A 12 year old girl repelled a man posing as a tire firm agent at a Tipton street home between 3 and 3 30 pm yesterday. The unknown youth about 20 years old asked to wait inside and inquired the girl's age before trying to enter. He left when she reached for a phone to call neighbors. Police contacted the tire firm, which denied any such offer. The description: about 5 6 tall, 160 pounds, brown short hair, black trousers, white shirt, black and white shoes.
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Tipton Street
Prayer for Today from James Kinard Newberry College President
A devotional prayer asks Heaven for strength today to resist temptation and live godly, to walk straight, keep a clean heart and clear conscience, and to be worthy of divine goodness. The signature reads James Kinard, Newberry College president, Newberry, S.C.
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James
Kinard
Newberry
8.C
Newberry Coleea
County Opts on Site for Health Center in High Point
County Commissioners finalized options on property south of Montlieu avenue at Circle drive for a health center ground. The four acre Montlieu site, owned by Gantt and Hundley Inc and others, totals 14 475 with additional funding from the Medical Care Commission expected.
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High Point
Montlieu Avenue
Circle Drive
Harry Weatherby
Medical Care Commission
Gantt and Hundley, Inc
Raymond M. Wise
J. William Moon
Medical Care Commissions
Meadowbrook Avenue
Burlington Mills executive to move office to High Point area
Carlyle Lewis manager for five Burlington plants will relocate his office from Lexington High Point on September 1 He has led plants in Greensboro Lexington Kernersville and High Point and since 1949 has headed five facilities Lewis active in Lexington civic life served as deacons chair and Sunday school superintendent at First Presbyterian and was named Young Man of the Year in 1950 He and wife plan to move with their three daughters Susan Betty and Nancy to High Point Lewis is a 1937 Davidson College graduate and has worked for Burlington Mills since 1938
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Carlyle Lewis
Burlington Mills
Lexington
High Point
Lewis
Burlington
Hillcrest
Greensboro
Kernersville
Burington
Lexington Bayon
Ossippee
First Presbyterian Church
Lexington Rotary Club
Chamber of Commerce
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Lexington Memorial Hospital
YMCA
Lexington City
Davidson College
Susan
Betty
Nancy
United Fund Talk Set In Thomasville
Thomasville prepares an open meeting at the Civic Center Tuesday night to discuss starting a United Fund. Kenneth Hoyle of the Chamber of Commerce says officials support the idea but want citizen input first with Ker mit Cloniger and Anthony Rhodes speaking. Letters inviting residents will be mailed today for the 7:30 p.m. session.
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Thomasville
Civic Center
United Fund
Chamber of Commerce
Kenneth Hoyle
Hoyle
Kermit Cloniger
Anthony Rhodes
Uniion
Charette
Diamond setting missing from ring in local loss report
Mrs. Tom Pitts of 1810 Emery Rd reported a diamond setting from a ring lost yesterday in the untown area while she shopped and ran errands. Police were notified of the disappearance.
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Tom Pitts
Emery Rd
Bus Station Fray Ends With Five Arrested in Disturbance
A disturbance at the local bus station led to the arrest of five people. Josephine Maynard 26 Ira Welch 26 Grace Welch 26 Hattie Welch 44 faced affray charges with Bond set at 100 each and released pending Municipal Court Monday. Betty Fowler 17 also charged immoral vagrancy. Dewey Elbert Atkins 31 charged with support of an illegitimate child and free on 300 bond with a tentative hearing next week.
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Josephne Maynard
Prospect St
Ira Welch
Grace Welch
Centennial Ave
Hattie Welch
Mangum Ave
Josephine Maynard
Betty Fowler
Dewey Elbert Atkins
Long St
Atkins
Betty Smith
Local Girl Entered in Polio Treatment Center
Rebecca Ann Knight eleven oldest daughter of Mr and Mrs H A Knight Jr of 1202 Johnson St was admitted to Central Carolina Convalescent Hospital Greens boro yesterday. Her polio is bulbar type but breathing remains normal with slight paralysis and gamma globulin given.
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Rebecca Ann Knight
H. A. Knight Jr
Johnson St
Central Carolina Convalescent Hospital
Greensboro
Milk Producers Meet Here With Board to Be Appointed
The North Carolina Milk Producers Association held an organizational session here with the appointment of a nine member board of directors. Directors from seven districts plus a director at large and James Bishop Jr. of Greensboro as public interest director were named. The group plans a post meeting with milk and dairy distributors to discuss marketing for producers across North Carolina counties and parts of Virginia and South Carolina.
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North Carolina Milk Producers Assn
James Bishop Jr
Greensboro
North Carolina
Virginia
South
Carolna
Lebanon Methodists Planning Homecoming
The Rev. O. L. Easter, seven years pastor at Lebanon Methodist Church, will return for the annual homecoming. He will preach at the 11 a.m. service and a church grounds picnic lunch will follow.
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O. L. Easter
Lebanon Methodist Church
Mr. Easter
Charlotte
Blanket Weather Returns Tonight
A cooler forecast and light blanket reminder for tonight. Lows near 60 degrees with a 62 read last night and a high around 83 by mid afternoon today. Partly cloudy skies and a warmer high expected for Friday in the area.
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Altamahan
Edna Orr Vernon
Summerfield
Osie Belle Wireless
Ansonville
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Doris Christine Elliott
Hubert Garfield Wright
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Asneboro
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Francis Cleveland Graham
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James Robert Maness
Carthage
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Ft. Mill
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B. Leon Walker
Leo Arthur Welch Jr
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Danbury
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