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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1958
Page
15
Routine fire prevention efforts in city schools continued this week with added emphasis. Fire drills were reported at yesterday’s sessions and one elementary school cleared its pupils in 1½ minutes during an unannounced drill. The district considers automatic fire detection and warning systems to speed alarms and response.
Seventy seven pupils from Trinity High School attended the Star of Bethlehem Christmas program at Morehead Planetarium UNC Chapel Hill this week. Chaperones were Miss Mary Lou Becker and Mrs John Lewis.
The weatherman forecasts cloudy nights with occasional rain and cool temps. Tomorrow looks mainly cloudy and cool with a chance of rain. lows around 38 tonight and a high near 55 tomorrow. Expect near normal temperatures for five days with a colder end to the week and a 4 inch rainfall possibility late Saturday or Sunday.
James G. Johnston of Charlotte initiates Hiram Lodge LL D at the Masonic Temple in High Point with Arnold J. Koonce Sr. installed as master and a slate of officers led by Shannon H. Blanton and Paul W. Clapp. North Carolina dignitaries and Oxford Orphanage superintendent A D Leon Gray attend. A fellowship hour follows the ceremony.
A large turnout greeted the Bloodmobile opening at 11 a.m. for a three day visit to the YMCA basement. Officials aimed to collect 900 pints by 4 p.m. Friday with 50 to 60 volunteers on hand from Crown, Silver Knit, Adams-Millis Hosiery Mills, Myrtle Desk, the Schoonbeck Company, and the Industrial Management Club.
The council seeks $300000 for a joint city county government center. Jamestown sewer tap consolidation with High Point is debated amid local resistance. Bids exceed funding by about $300000, delaying construction until next fiscal year.
Members of the High Point Band Booster Club will meet tomorrow night at the Senior High School auditorium to hear a concert by the Senior High Band directed by David Carter. Mrs Guy Shivers noted the meeting place change from the Junior High auditorium and invited all interested persons to attend at 7 30 p m.
Miss Patsy Caughman described her six months as a United States Pavilion attendee at the Brussels World Fair. She noted trips across Europe including Prague behind the Iron Curtain, reported on exhibits from the United States and Russia, and cited Czechoslovakia as first with the U S fourth. 42 million visitors attended the fair from May to October 1958.
City Council considers a new residency ordinance and asks the commission to waive residency rules. Two members push for universal in city housing, two back relaxed limits, while the rest favor current rules. The commission advocates keeping the status quo to ensure rapid emergency response. Payroll timing pressures loom as action is deferred.
Barbara Alyce Young, 18, of High Point, placed on probation for five years in Middle District Court Greensboro for transporting a stolen car from Westminster, D C. Two South Carolina men received three-year prison terms in the same case.
North Carolina State Senator J Spencer Bell of Charlotte speaks at a joint High Point Bar Association and High Point League of Women Voters meeting. Bell, chair of the bar committee on improving justice, discusses proposed court reforms. The Sheraton Hotel hosts at 7 pm, with Sen. D Arthur Kirkman introducing and Mrs. Frank Montgomery presiding.
Guilford County deputies arrested Daniel E. Bongard 27 for larceny of office equipment from Sunline Juvenile Chair Co over Thanksgiving weekend. He waived hearing, bound over to Superior Court on 1500 bond after admitting selling two typewriters and an adding machine located in Johnson City Tennessee to three establishments. Deputies also investigated a separate theft of a wallet and about 100 dollars from Norma Glaesner and two teenage suspects charged with rifle shell theft from Redwine Hardware Co.
R B Culler Sr president of National Upholstery Co will present color slides from a Far East tour at Lexington Avenue Baptist Church tonight at 7 30 with Rev W W Robbins announcing the program supports a Foreign Missions offering.
Postmaster Walter York expects more Christmas letters than last year and 2,889,582 letters already handled in December. 63 extra staff plus 10 trucks will aid clerical, city and rural divisions. two deliveries on heavy routes begin December 15. Nine tips urge thorough addresses, early stamps, separate local and out-of-town mail, secure packing, and early mailing to beat crowds.
At 8:20 am today a box alarm at W Green and Redding Streets summoned trucks and cars to the scene. Firemen quickly deemed it a false call after a young girl from the country admitted trying to mail a letter and pulling the box alarm.
The Central Baptist Association held its first Training Union M Night at Coe Street Baptist Church with 26 churches, 19 pastors, and 16 Training Union directors present. Ed Kessiah outlined 1959 themes, while J R Newton stated goals for 1960 including 25 churches with unions and 2,500 enrolled. Rev Charles B Howard spoke on Thou Art the Christ. a $200 Howard Memorial Fund offering was collected for need-based ministerial and missionary students.
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