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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1956
Page
9
The 43rd session of the Production and Cost Division of the Southern Furniture Manufacturers Association gathers Friday and Saturday at Blowing Rock with 200 plus attendees. James T. Ryan notes the gathering unites competitors to discuss cutting costs and productivity improvements.
Guilford County doctors report the seventh polio death year at Carolina Central Convalescent Hospital in Greensboro with a potential eighth case. Joyce Morehead a 13 year old Negro from Guilford College is diagnosed bulbar polio after paralysis of the throat and is in critical condition. An 18 month old Negro girl Chaine Jeffries of Route 1 Guilford College is suspected of spinal polio and also seriously ill. Neither child had Salk vaccine. officials urge two vaccine doses for those under 20 and note clinics are available locally.
Real estate changes include D G Robinson to E Boyles and wife on College Village lot. R Stout to S B Hall at Milbourne Heights. Catherine C Myatt to H A Millis Jr and wife on Hedgecock land. and multiple transfers by Taylor-Made Homes Inc to buyers on Wrenn and related parcels. Additional deeds cover properties on Beaucret Road, High Point, North Wrenn, East Broad Streets, and Centennial Avenue among others.
Leonard Boyd Childress 31 of Newton Street received 60 days for operating a car while intoxicated and his 12 month suspended sentence for false pretense was activated. Judge Byron Haworth ordered the suspended term served on the roads. Profus Franklin Njames 40 and Gilbert Roscoe Black 43 of High Point bound over to Guilford Superior Court for breaking and entering and larceny with $750 bonds each. Amond Sutton 34 of Thissell Street found not guilty of hit and run but ordered to pay $100 and costs for intoxicated driving and driving without a license.
Mary M. Thomas 39 of Tremont Street is free on 200 bond awaiting a Sept 10 hearing on assault with a deadly weapon after being arrested at a cafe for allegedly striking her husband with a stick. Margaret Tyson 27 of Franklin Street is free on 200 bond to appear Sept 10 in Recorder's Court on assault charges.
About 250 names were added to registration books in High Point Township in the two weeks before the Sept 8 school amendment election. Officials report office floods last Friday and Saturday and over 100 registrations or transfers processed Saturday.
Forecasters predict cloudy warm humid conditions in the High Point vicinity tonight and tomorrow with a chance of widely scattered thundershowers mostly in late afternoon or evening. Temperatures show little change with a low around 68 and highs near 90 for today and tomorrow.
Judge Byron Haworth explained the Pearsall Plan background to the High Point Exchange Club at Monday’s meeting. A Q and A followed. President Harold Davis canceled next week’s meeting for Labor Day. Roy Padgett was inducted by George Gibbardt. Guests were Bill Edwards and Lloyd White. Roger Jones won the attendance prize.
High Point 1956 57 budget raises pay for recreation supervisor, hoping to fill a three month vacancy. Civil Service and recreation officials face stiff competition from other departments statewide. Applicants must hold a Recorder's Certificate or be able to obtain one and have a degree in recreation physical education or sociology with at least one year of relevant experience.
Mrs Thelma Ryan of the Carolina Motor Club attended a week long Operations Conference of the International Travel Department of the American Automobile Association at the Hotel Statler in New York City. AAA offices will offer inspection reports on European hotels and motels as they do in the United States. About 250 AAA executives from the U S and foreign offices attended, with seven from North and South Carolina. Highlights included sessions on future air travel travel documents for Europe and foreign travel by auto.
The 36th Morris Family Reunion will be held September 2 at Z. B. Morris's home two miles north of Thomasville near the Three-Way Service Station on Highway 109. A noon picnic lunch will follow a noon hour gathering, with a sign posted to Morris Lake along the highway.
Consolidated Bus Lines Inc. seeks City Council permission to end Sunday service and reduce nightly runs on two weekday routes Emerywood Madison Avenue and E Green English Streets. Officials say the bus operation is losing money with Sundays and nights. A public hearing is scheduled for 2 p.m. at city hall to gauge community reaction.
Police report two drivers face charges after crashes cited for failing to report an accident and failing to keep a proper lookout. Guilford Marshall, 53, left scene after his 1949 car struck a curb and pole on E Green Street. Braxton Holmes, 37, struck a parked car on S Main Street, rear damage valued at $200, with Holmes charged for failure to keep a proper lookout. A tractor trailer collision with a car at West Point Ave and Millis St caused no charges.
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation workers from 20 North Carolina counties will meet in Winston-Salem Friday to discuss the Soil Bank Acreage Reserve Plan. The session, originally set for Aug. 16 in Greensboro, was postponed due to a Washington instruction delay and will start at 9 30 a.m. at the Robert E Lee Hotel.
Registration tomorrow is expected to push High Point school enrollment toward a record, possibly 10 000, with Dr. Dean B. Pruette noting last year’s 9 400 record. First time enrollees and movers must register, with seniors free this week.
High Point city schools offer part time work program enrollments this week on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Barbara Coble and Bruce P. Roberts will supervise registrations from 9 a.m. to noon. The program provides on the job training, morning classes, paid work at the going rate, and two high school credits per student.
The Public Library offers six new films through Sept 21 for adults and children. Titles include Bogota 11 minutes showing city life, Civil War 14 minutes on the North South conflict, Chance to Live 19 minutes about a boy aided by Boy's Republic, From Tee to Green 12 minutes touring Canadian golf courses, Mohammedan World 10 minutes on Islamic history, and Something You Didn't Eat 10 minutes promoting balanced diets.
The infant daughter of Fred D Sink and Marguerite Pickard Sink of Route 2 High Point died at birth last night at 11 30 in High Point Memorial Hospital. Survivors include the parents a brother Michael Sink paternal grandmother Mrs Lecta Sink maternal grandmother Mrs Garnette Bodenhamer and great grandmother Mrs Betty Pickard. Graveside rites were to be held this afternoon at Spring Hill Church Cemetery with Rev John Christy Jr officiating.
Hal Earl Farlow 63 of Route 1 Sophia died Monday morning at Randolph Memorial Hospital Asheboro after a 10 day stay with two weeks of illness. He was born April 3 1893 in Randolph County and lived in Marlboro since 1925. A WWI veteran he married Blanche Farlow on June 20 1923 and survived by three brothers two sisters and several nieces and nephews. Funeral from Marlboro Friends Meeting Wednesday at 3 pm with burial in the church cemetery.
A prayer asks for divine direction for world leaders and trust in God to conquer difficulties. Signed by Roy H. Stetler of Harrisburg Pennsylvania, publishing agent for the Evangelical United Brethren Church.
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