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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1951
Page
9
A veteran writer addresses President Truman with blunt critique of U S governance and wartime leadership. He argues elites lack vision and calls for leaving him out of the draft. He laments obsolescence and questions the front office’s competence while urging focus on global events and democracy.
A $100,000 foundation founded from Dr. Edens Kearns trust supports outstanding religion teachers for colleges and seminaries. Originating in 1935 from Crown Mills, it funds Kearns fellows who study or teach in North Carolina, with Duke and University of North Carolina connections. Kearns, Trinity College 1897 alumnus, remains civically active.
Work started on a new cottage for the Mills Home campus in Thomasville. Bulldozers grade the site south of Whitman. the Baptist orphanage will get its first new cottage since the Huttman building. Materials have been unloaded for a Mills Home printshop, with state priority rules delaying full construction due to steel needs.
Band director A L Luttrell will be in the Junior High School auditorium next Tuesday at 10 00 a m to register beginning band students. He will register any seventh grade pupil or older who plans to start band this year. A preschool band clinic is under way for all Junior and Senior High School band members. Rehearsals are held nightly in the band room.
Local youths meet at Purdue University LaFayette August 27 for a Methodist convocation. Delegates include Sarah For s Oak, Patrick Peacock First Methodist, Vola Brigman, Loretta Carson Welch, Frances Mull Wes ley, Betty Grubb Rakin. Theme Christian Living in Our Time features talks and workshops on vocations social action and welfare affairs with coordinators Jameson Jones Rev Doland Page and Dr Heil Bollinger among others.
Union listings show clubs meeting at the Rainbow Supper Club Sheraton and Legion Hut. Civ itans Alcoholics Anonymous Sertoma Rotary Lions Kiwanis and other groups meet throughout the week with times from noon to 8 p.m. at 108 East Washington Street and various Sheraton venues.
A journal from Paris on a World War II era trip notes late nights at a show and a day of shopping. The group compares Paris department stores to the United States, admiring decorations and wealth while reflecting on life under unstable governments during travel home via Cherbourg.
North State Telephone Company officials announced extensive earthwork and conduit installation on N Main Street will finish by October 1. They have spent about 340000 this year and expect total 500000 by year end while 500000 in five percent preferred stock was offered to finance the growth. The program aims to relieve traffic and weather hazards and increase service with nearly 2000 applications pending.
Claud and Clarence Robinson fought at a residence injuring Claud on the forearm and behind the ear while Clarence suffered a severe cut to the base of the head and partial loss of his right arm. Robinson's wife also received a minor hand cut as police arrived and sent the men to Memorial Hospital.
Boston physician Dr Henry A Christian aged 75 and retired, known for elevating Peter Bent Brigham Hospital's teaching service to a leading level. He received the American Medical Association Distinguished Service Medal and his death details and funeral plans were not announced.
RUSHVILLE Ind UP Mayor Russell Coons found his dog Stinker fighting bees in the dining room after entering his home. He sprayed the room with insecticide and won the two hour battle with no casualties beyond a buzzing in the mayor’s ears.
High Point attorney C A York Jr, long time Young Democrats Club member and current State YDC secretary, announces bid for national committeeman. He is a UNC Law School graduate, practiced with his father since 1948, a WWII Air Forces veteran, married with two children, and resides at 2404 Lexington Ave.
Trinity and Archdale combined schools serving about 1,300 students will open Tuesday morning for the 1951 52 school year. Principal L. H. Smith heads Trinity and serves as chairman of the school board.
Local police and state troopers searched late last night for John Morgan of Winston Salem after a crash at 9 30 p m at Highway 10A and Homestead Avenue. Morgan allegedly left the scene after the car struck a gasoline sign at a filling station. Injured were Betty Jones 18 of 1802 Lexington Avenue and Bill Guinn about 40 of High Point Route 1. Guinn suffered a broken jaw and a severe cheek laceration and was admitted to Memorial Hospital. the woman’s injuries were not yet known.
The forecast calls for fair skies and slightly warmer conditions today at Friendship station. Tomorrow expected to be partly cloudy with continued warmth. Last night’s low around 59 with today’s high near 86.
The North Carolina State College launches an industrial branch in High Point combining the School of Engineering and Extension Division. Courses run two nights weekly over two years, with classes starting October 8 and extending to December 13, open to workers and others without college prerequisites.
A reflective piece argues that the future can only be understood by tracing backward through past and present events. It contends that present circumstances are a sum of prior conditions shaping what lies ahead.
Ten years ago Berlin announced the capture of Dnieperapetrovsk, described as the last Russian bridgehead on the west bank of the Dnieper. Reports also said Uman and Dniysk fell, with Iran seeking a peaceful solution as Britain and Russia invade. Turkeys stance noted amid the Middle East crisis. A High Point Municipal Court trial opened for Broad Street Filling Station crimes with nine jurors seated.
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