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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1970
Page
3
Guilford County officials report 175 junk vehicles removed near Kernersville by a new shredding unit. The automated plant can shred a car in under two minutes, with payments from 30 to 60 cents per 100 pounds based on top and motor removal.
About 255 Lions and visually handicapped guests attended the annual Christmas party at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church. High Point Lions Clubs sponsored escorting 100 guests to dinner and entertainment by the New Dimension group. Jim Gillette, a wheelchair bound singer, was invited to join the group on a five state tour. Special recognition was given to Belle Wall and Charlie White. Harold Craven led the event. A parallel party for more blind guests was held at the Mary Bethune YWCA with music and prizes.
School lunch menu lists for elementary and junior high show daily items. Meals include hamburgers, beef and noodles, meat loaf, turkey pot pie, fish sandwich, hot dogs, pizza, and desserts with sides such as lettuce, green beans, corn, potatoes, and fruit. Milk is served with meals and menus cover Monday to Friday.
Sheep kept the White House lawn trimmed while gardeners went to war during President Woodrow Wilson's wartime presidency. The animals were brought in to maintain the grass as the country mobilized.
Inspections unit in High Point removed 97 junk vehicles in November boosting total removals since July to 694. The staff inspected 185 vehicles and did 197 follow ups. 77 were voluntarily removed and 20 required court action. Through five months the unit inspected 1,031 vehicles with 634 removed voluntarily and 51 by court action.
Edith Jeanett Carter Barger 61 of Shuler Road died at City Memorial Hospital after eight days hospitalization. She was a Davidson County native and Baptist, survived by husband James L. Barger, a stepdaughter and multiple siblings. Funeral Sunday at 3:30 p.m. in J. C. Green & Sons Chapel with burial in Holly Hills Cemetery. Also Austin Simons 65 of 511 Grayson Street died Thursday at High Point Memorial Hospital after arriving there. Survivors include wife Addie Lee Simons and numerous children and grandchildren. Funeral Sunday at Moore Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Greenhill Cemetery.
Maybell B Gwynn 53 wife of Frank Gwynn of Circle Dr Reidsville died Friday at Annie Penn Hospital. She was from McDowell County West Virginia. Survivors include her husband parents Mr and Mrs W D Branch two sons Donald and Benny Gwynn two sisters Mrs Margaret Harrison and Mrs Grace Dunleavy and six brothers Elmer Ben Beret Feenaboo William Raymond Granville Michael Branch all of Reidsville. Funeral plans incomplete. Body at City Funeral Home.
James E. Swicegood Sr. 58 of 311 W Second St. and president of Swicegood Realty Co. died Friday at Lexington Memorial Hospital after a heart attack a week earlier. Survivors include wife Margaret Myers Swicegood two daughters Mrs Ray Davis of Winston-Salem and Lenora Swicegood. son J Edward Sneistere Mes. Owell Byerly of Greensboro and Mrs Pershing Yarborough of Cocoa Beach Florida. Funeral 3 p.m. Sunday at First United Church of Christ burial in Forest Hill Memorial Park. Body at Davidson Funeral Home.
Walter D. McDaniel 62 of Rt 5 Thomasville died Friday at City Memorial Hospital after a three hour stay. Born April 29 1908 in Davie County he was employed by Columbia Panel Co and a 25 year club member. He married Gladys Reece November 1 1930 and leaves four sons Donald Walter Bobby G and William Franklin all of Kernersville and thirteen grandchildren. Funeral 2:30 at Oak Hill Memorial Baptist Church officiated by Rev Bolick and Rev Morrow with burial in Cemetery. The body lies at Siler Funeral Home until 2 pm Sunday then at church. Family hours Saturday 7-9 p.m. and at home Rt 5 Hedrick Road.
About one third of each year's wheat crop is milled into flour. From this flour roughly 15.5 billion pounds of bread are produced, with white enriched bread comprising about 90 percent of the total.
Farrell Harriss Gray 76 of 503 Emerywood Dr. died Friday at High Point Memorial Hospital after a day as patient. Born Dec 29 1893 in Randolph County he worked at Wachovia Bank then Triangle Hosiery Co. and retired in 1959. Survived by wife Aleene a daughter and three grandchildren. Funeral at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church burial Oakwood Cemetery. Memorials to Wesley Church.
Funeral services for Rendie Wilson Imbler 70 are set for Sunday at 4 p m at Silver Valley Baptist Church with pastors Joe Leach Richard Hoover and Robert Mabe officiating Burial will follow in the church cemetery The body will be moved from Siler Funeral Home to the home of her son Raymond Imbler Rt 5 Hillcrest Drive Thomasville following a seven year illness
A pre World War I period became known as the shirtsleeve diplomacy era as Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan the Great Commoner discarded formalities common in diplomatic activity.
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