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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1957
Page
9
Trustees reported during the hospital expansion that the center will include new facilities and pioneering heart treatment options. The update noted upcoming occupancy of the expanded building by medical staff and patients seeking advanced cardiac care.
The hospital trustees and advisory group toured the enlarged Heart Center building praising progress ahead of schedule. Administrator Peters noted a backlog of 40 private room applications yesterday and 65 last week as plans to memorialize rooms by firms and individuals move forward.
Cloudy skies return with a chance of a sun break. Morning notes a possible face in the clouds. Thursday forecast shows more overcast, with a likely cloudy day. Last night’s low slipped to 32 degrees.
The second sketch in the Little People's Christmas Coloring Contest invites all youngsters 10 and under to color and enter. Prizes include a $500 Savings Bond grand national prize and a 15 volume Britannica Junior set for the winner, with local and national rewards for top entries.
The Enterprise sponsors a Christmas coloring contest with prizes for the top two local winners and five runners up. First prize $10, second $5, and $2 to the next five entries. Local winners advance two drawings to a national contest for a chance at a $500 savings bond and additional prizes. Send colored, signed sketches to The Enterprise editor.
Open to boys and girls ten and under except relatives of the employer. Clip and color all four Little People drawings this week in The Enterprise and mail or bring them to the editor. Entries due by midnight December 10. Judging based on beauty imagination coloring neatness originality. Local winners announced December 22. Top two local entries advance to National Coloring Contest.
The Cheer Fund gains momentum with a supermarket setup at 600 N Main St for coupon redemptions and toy drives. Jaycee Chairman John Davis invites toy submissions at fire stations as Industrial Management Club speeds repairs. Contributors include Jake Froelich Veneers and Kay Chemical Co among others, totaling 195 dollars to date.
William LeRoy Stewart Jr. of High Point has been named the third Susan Grey Akers Scholarship in Library Science for 1957 58 by the UNC Library Science Alumni Association. The award honors promise, leadership, and scholastic achievement. Stewart, a Selma native who later lived in High Point, graduated in 1957 from High Point College with a BA in social studies and worked in the High Point Public Library. He plans to continue library work in North Carolina.
The Arts and Crafts Workshop wraps its fall term with an open house at Junior High School from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Attendees can view eight weeks of member work. Spring sessions begin Jan 2 at the same site.
The Guilford County Board of Commissioners bought a $110000 tract on W Market Street across from the post office, with a $5000 option until Feb 4 1958. The option allows payment of 35000 at option end and 1958 maturity. county plans a joint government center with High Point and may place a new courthouse on the site.
Roger W. Cole of Rutherfordton accepts the full time minister of music post at Green Street Baptist Church. He succeeds Dr. Charles C. Taylor who resigned to join Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Cole, 27, holds a Master of Sacred Music from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Fort Worth and has taught music in several Texas churches and schools.
The $85,600 Unity Methodist Church permit on National Highway led the $120,575 in Thomasville building permits last month. Residential permits reached $22,350 for homes on Maple Road Liberty Drive Oaklawn Drive Knollwood Drive.
Experiments in safe handling and storage of nuclear weapons will be conducted at the Atomic Test Site in Nevada by staff from the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico.
Tonight the Christmas concert at High Point College features the College Choir and High Point Symphony Orchestra. Directors Richard Cox and Lew Lewis lead the program starting at 8:30 with well known classics and soloists Jo Harrington and Jacquelyn Smith.
Matthew Edwards Jr. a High Point man on the FBI wanted list was arrested in Pittsburgh and will be returned to Winston-Salem to face murder charges for the May 23 1956 shooting of cab driver Wilson Fowler. Bond set at 10000. Edwards admitted identity but refused further questions.
Trustees of the Brown-Reese Scholarship Fund note sharply reduced gifts. The fund, created to support education for children of two highway patrolmen killed last month, shows only three new contributions over the holiday weekend. Names and amounts appear in the updated list, including a large prior total and a new subtotal.
The Leonard Street School PTA will meet tonight at the school at 8 o'clock in regular session.
High Point City Council vetoed a proposal to extend meter use to nights during the Christmas shopping period. Merchants argued for 9 p.m. meter checks to ease parking, but the amendment would not take effect in time. Council instead sent the measure to committee and approved other items including pool upgrades and planning department expansion.
A doctor's bag was taken from Dr Woodrow Tyson's car in the High Point Memorial Hospital parking lot about 8 p m Sunday. The bag held medical instruments and narcotics valued at 200 dollars. A second theft involved an adding machine from Wagoner Veneers at 800 Millis St. valued at an unspecified amount.
Irene Fisher, 23, told Superior Judge Henry Willis that her violin teacher husband began staying out late and returned home with liquor on his breath, leading to a divorce.
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