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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1960
Page
3
Funeral services are set for Charles Aubrey Byrd known as Chuck, age 14, who died from an accidental electric shock at Stony Creek Trailer Park. A second service is for Bobby Fritts Michael, 31, production manager at Alderman Photo Co., who drowned at Tranquil Harbor near Southport.
Funeral for W. N. Swett 69 will be at 3 p.m. tomorrow at Central Alliance Church Willowbrook Street with Rev. J. E. Nelson. Burial is Floral Garden Park Cemetery. Body from Koonce Funeral Home to Swett residence 809 E Commerce St today at 11 a.m. Swett died suddenly at High Point Memorial Hospital at 1:45 a.m. yesterday after being in usual health until three hours earlier.
Thomasville schools prepare for the 1960 61 term with teachers reporting at 830 a m Tuesday for staff meetings orientation and new student reception. Students attend orientation Tuesday morning with no lunch and 11 am dismissal. Wednesday marks the first full day with lunch served and books issued.
Alpha Tau Omega with 120 chapters in two states and Canada approved a constitutional amendment to allow changes to membership rules to comply with anti discrimination rulings. National president Gerald B. Johnson said the move intends to cooperate with university authorities without altering the organization’s traditional character.
A Leonard Street man told police two teenagers James Haywood and Willie Matthews took his $15 after dropping it on Broad Street. Haywood and Matthews were booked for larceny with a later Municipal Court date set for Sept 2. A separate arrest on Harrison Street led to drunkenness and resisting arrest charges for Bill Williams. Trial was set in Municipal Court.
The Very Rev. Cuthbert E. Allen, president of Belmont Abbey, voiced surprise and shock at the religious issue entering the current political campaign. He stated no official Catholic Church political position exists, and urged clarity as religion is used to confuse voters.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. spoke to cattlemen in Mooresville about profitable operations. He urged buying top quality Herefords, showing prize animals, and building reputations. He noted public relations flow from big business to farmers and advised visiting buyers to foster repeat business. He joked about not matching Pat Nixon in politics.
A Concord attorney, C. M. Llewellyn, was cited for contempt of court for advising his clients not to appear at a hearing ordered by Rowan County Superior Court Clerk Frances F. Rusty. A show cause hearing was set for September 19 before Judge L. Richardson Preyer. Llewellyn represented Mr and Mrs Clyde Petrea and C Petrea of China Grove in a condemned sewer line dispute.
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