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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1949
Page
7
Clarence Wagner of Wagner Tire Service announces the U S Royal Mid Century Master tire with a scuff proof white sidewall and a special tread promising greater traction and safety than prior models. He says chains are often unnecessary in winter driving. Also notes December pork listings from the Agriculture Department.
The YWCA lists a busy slate Tuesday through Friday with multiple club meetings and activities. Notable items include bridge classes at 10:00 and 7:30, a 12:15 Double M Club business meeting, several luncheons, teen Y activities, a girls plunge period, and preparations for Christmas Vespers. Friday features a Double M Club dinner at 6:30 and a Jolly Y gift wrap event in the evening.
Chapel Hill will host its second annual Christmas party for 50 Methodist Orphanage children from Raleigh on December 10 at the Lambda Chi Alpha house. Charlie Justice will attend with Santa as the children enjoy a turkey dinner a Western movie and sleight of hand tricks.
A list of club meetings and social events scheduled around December in High Point. Activities include Christmas luncheon at Emerywood, garden clubs led by Mrs. Collins and Mrs. Harris, bridge and study group gatherings, Beta Sigma Phi Mu chapter, nurse dinner at YWCA, and the Foust Martin wedding events with related receptions and breakfasts.
A collage of media tidbits notes Winchell in New York and a Hollywood debut by Brooklyn pitcher R Branca. MGM records feature Wm Greaves and a cockney song as New York gossip mixes with world events and press leaders.
Comets financed a Nashville home, paid by Edward Emerson Barnard who later became a famed astronomer. He funded his house through discoveries of new comets, with cash prizes offered for such finds.
The mystery of the body in the column at Davidson College has been solved. For many college generations students at the Presbyterian institution debated the strange discovery and now the mystery ends with a clarified explanation.
Dr. C C Crittenden of Raleigh elected president of the North Carolina Archaeological Society for the coming year at the semi annual meeting in Cherokee. Mrs. Charles A. Cannon of Concord named vice president and Harry D. Davis of Raleigh secretary treasurer. J L Coe of Chapel Hill named editor of the society bulletin. The report includes a long local legend about a body dropped in a Chambers building column and later verified by Brigadier General Walter A. Dumas who sent the skull remains from the Davidson College episode.
San Diego December report details engineer T. P. Hall presenting a light nearly standard size car for 500 to 686 dollars. The "airway" roadster weighs US pounds, reaches 45 mph with a 10 hp air cooled engine. The plan is to license manufacturing to existing plants to avoid heavy tool costs. Hall led initial B 36 development and other military projects at Consolidated Vultee.
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