Merger Aims to Consolidate Guilford Election Machinery
A report on legal authority to consolidate Guilford county election machinery will be presented to High Point Greensboro and Guilford County officials this week. The plan would unify registration for city county state and federal elections with one set of books to be maintained by the county board of elections.
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Guilford County
County Board of Elects
High
Greensboro City Councls
Board of
Guilford County Commissioners
County
City Eye
General Assembly
County Board of Elections
High Point
Grover H. Jones
Jeensboro
H. C
T. C. Hoyle
Wake Durham Counties
Jones
One Lineman Short Leaves City Utilities Overload
The city public utilities department can handle only emergency electrical work as a severe shortage of electricians and linesmen grows. With the designation of the last remaining linesman, the backlog will worsen. Current crew is six for two repair trucks, while full staff is 15. Wages under the city budget are low, with skilled lineman pay from 165 to 190 dollars monthly and no overtime.
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City Public Utilities Department
J. L. Perkins
Utilities Department
Perkins
Duke Powser Company
Hospital Guild Buys Screens For Wards
The Hospital Guild at its annual meeting voted 400 to buy cubicle and portable screens to improve ward privacy at High Memorial hospital. They also appointed Mrs. W T Powell as president and planned decorations for all rooms with Christmas greens.
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High Memorial Hospital
Hospital Guild
Sem
Well Alexander
Guild
W. T. Powell
W. C. Idol
W. B. Hall
N. M. Harrison
R. T. Amos
Nurses’ Recreation Committee
Bundy Transferred To Roanoke Va Assistant Manager Post
Reuben Bundy longtime Metropolitan Life Insurance executive is transferred to Roanoke Virginia as assistant manager. He will leave today to begin duties tomorrow and S B Clapp of High Point will assume Bundys local duties. Bundy will relocate with Mrs Bundy and their two children after Christmas.
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Reuben
Bundy
Metropolitan Lifensurance Company
Roanoke, Va
S. B. Clapp
High Point
Dr Vernon Nash to Speak Thursday at County Building
Dr Vernon Nash renowned world affairs expert speaks Thursday at 7 30 in the county building under the aegis of the American Friends service committee the American Association of University Women and the Woman's club. He champions world government and international cooperation.
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Vernon Nash
American Friends Service Committee
American Association of University Women
Woman's Club
Nash
Carolina Institute of International Relations
Missouri
Oxford University
China
Yenching University
Peiping
Crowds At Revival At Calvary Methodist Church
The revival continues at Calvary Methodist church with services nightly at 7 o clock through December eighth. Dr John R Church evangelist preaches to near full houses as interest grows among worshippers.
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Calvary Methodist Church
John R. Church
One Hundred Gifts Sought for Oteen Vets by Red Cross
The Red Cross in High Point requests 100 two dollar Christmas gifts and tree decorations for Oteen veterans. About 3,000 patients at Oteen and its annex will receive wrapped gifts with contents labeled. Donations should avoid religious items and include practical items like toiletries writing materials magazines and socks.
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Red Cross Committee
Oteen Hospital
Oteen
Oteen Annex
Moore General Hospital
Frank W. Wall
The
Red Cross
High Point
Beatrice Cobb Injured In Car Collision Near Thomasville
Miss Beatrice Cobb of Morganton editor of the News-Herald and NC Press officer is hospitalized at City Memorial after a Thursday evening crash on the High Point road near Thomasville. Leander Lowery, 21, a Randolph County ex serviceman, faces reckless driving charges after state patrolman John Crowell and deputy sheriff Jessee Green investigated the accident. Miss Cobb’s condition was to be treated at the hospital for several days.
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Thomasville
Beatrice Cobb
Morganton
News-Herald
North Carolina Press Association
City Memorial Hospital
High Point Road
Leander Lowery
Randolph County
John Crowell
Jessee Green
Davidson County
Lowery
Crowell
Miss Cobb
High Point School Chorus to Present Handel's Messiah Twice
The High Point city schools will perform Handel's Messiah twice this week with a 200 voice choir in the senior high auditorium at 8 p.m. Friday and Sunday. Director Carl Cronstedt leads a veteran cast including soloists Dorothy Hoskins and Mary Lou Rainey, with Mae Kirkman and Emile Serposs as accompanists.
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High Point City
Carl G. N. Cronstedt
High Point
Dorothy Hoskins
Mary Lou Rainey
C. L. Gray
Mr. Cronstedt
Mae Kirkman
Emile H. Serposs
Cronstedt
Compensation Denied For Slane Hosiery Strike Workers
North Carolina unemployment commission denies benefits to about 35 boarders fired during the Slane Hosiery mill strike and about 100 finishing plant workers laid off by the same disruption. The ruling aligns with Kernersville plant decisions and contrasts with an earlier High Point ruling granting pay to finishing plant workers in 1945, tied to the same strike wave.
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North Carolina
High Point
Hedrick Appointed Police Patrolman in High Point
John R. Hedrick of 628 East Lexington avenue was appointed patrolman in the High Point police department traffic division to fill a vacancy created when Patrolman P. M. Charping moved to parking meter duty. Hedrick previously served from April 16 1943 to September 18 1945.
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John R. Hedrick
Lexington Avenue
High Point
P. M. Charping
C. C. Stoker
Hedrick
Air travel: public attitude and media influence
A columnist reflects on public skepticism toward aviation and criticizes how press and radio portray flying as a daredevil thrill. He argues that media shape perceptions, urging more sober views of aviation as practical transport.
Aviation Crash Reporting In Newsrooms Sparks Debate
The piece argues that aviation coverage dominates media, with radio and press pushing sensational details over routine events. It contrasts audience fascination with tragedies to the steadier but slower handling of ordinary traffic accidents and public affairs.
Heavy Docket Disposed of In Thomasville
Dennis Wood of Thomasville was sentenced to two years on each of two charges assault on his wife and abandonment and non support. Sentences run concurrently with appeal bonds set at 300 each. Several other cases resolved include Lowery, Morton, Brown, Latham, Westmoreland, Elliott, Holly, Jackson, Lee, Cureton and Moore with various dispositions and suspensions.
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Thomasville
Dennis Wood
Howard Steed
Recorder’s Court
Steed
Wood
Walter James Lowery
Route 2
Capias
Charlie Yates
Yates
M. T. Morton
Susie Brown
Thomasville Chair Company
W. L. Latham
Ed Westmoreland
Ivey Elliott
Mary Holly
Leona Jackson
Harry Morgan Lee
Noteo
Edward Cureton
Ethel Moore
Guilford Hosiery Denies Consent Contract
Officials of the United Textile Workers AFL said Guilford Hosiery denied a union consent contract without a plant wide election. The union, claiming majority support, had sought the contract after a previous election narrowly rejected the union. They asked the national labor relations board to order another election at the local plant.
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United Textile Workers of America
AFL
Guilford Hosiery Mill
United Textile Workers
National Labor Relations Board
Program for The Blind Set For Dec 19
Lions club plans a Christmas party for about 45 local blind residents at the Sheraton hotel on December 19. Ralph E. Miller heads the blind work committee and Reece Snyder leads community betterment, with music and entertainment arranged and volunteers to escort guests.
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Lions Club
Sheraton Hotel
Ralph E. Miller
Reece Snyder
City Parks and Recreation
Miller
Production To Resume Monday At Thomasville Chair Plant
Thomasville workers expected to return to work Monday as the Thomasville Chair company opens nine plants at 8 am. Many former strikers and others who joined outside jobs since July 26 may rejoin. Letters from Doak Finch say returning workers need not join the union but may do so if they wish following the contract ratified November 22.
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Thomasville
Thomasville Chair Company
Strik
Henry D. Bass
Ufwa-Cio
Doak Finch
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