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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1949
Page
9
Donations last night and today push the Empty Stocking Fund to 1017 dollars under chairman N L Garner. He warns more help is needed for many families facing hunger this Christmas and urges rapid contributions to fund food purchases this week.
Mrs. Ray Bowers of Tryon Street and Ira Parks of Brentwood apartments report the death of their brother James C. Parks, 46, Sunday afternoon at a veterans hospital near Hampton Virginia. Burial will be tomorrow at 2 PM in Laurel Hill Cemetery near Troy in Montgomery County.
A Disabled American Veterans meeting is set for tomorrow night at 7 30 at the American Legion home. Vice commander A M Evans announced the gathering.
In Brevard Transylvania county voters decided on beer only for a potential return to legal sale. The county previously banned both beer and wine by about two to one last September.
Voters in Lenoir went to the polls today to decide a three cent tax per hundred dollars for a public library and a seven cent tax for the parks and recreation program to support local services.
In Lynn Massachusetts an armed man robbed a paraplegic man, 58 year old Joseph Mangan, as he rode in a wheelchair. He was pistol whipped in the back and robbed of $24 before guiding his wheelchair to police headquarters to report the crime.
Thomasville officials discussed restricting use of the city dump by residents of nearby communities. City Manager R M Cooksey will study policies from other towns and report back. councilmen consider curbing a service they say costs local residents but benefits outsiders.
Auto license tags, to be metal and the same color as state plates, will arrive and be placed on sale at City Hall Thursday in Thomasville. City Manager R. M. Cooksey says the new city plates will be valid for the calendar year 1950.
In Afghanistan many weddings occur at five o'clock in the morning reflecting local customs. The practice highlights cultural routines and community schedules shaping celebratory events across regions.
W. T. Green a UNC graduate and son of Cy Green was named tax lister for Thomasville by the city council. He will become administrative assistant to City Manager R. M. Cooksey after a three month listing period. Green starts December 16. Mrs. Phyliss Hill was named clerical assistant to the tax lister. They will work with county tax officials when taxes are listed in January.
Los Angeles based folklorist Dr. Austin E. Fife of Occidental College and his wife have spent years gathering Mormon songs and tales from Utah and surrounding areas. They added over 300 transcriptions to the Archive of American Folk Songs at the Library of Congress and compiled extensive notes from hundreds of interviews. One notable session with Effie Marquess Carmack yielded 63 songs as part of a larger repertoire.
Bozeman Montana brokered report shows 23 462 farms or 62.2 percent of Montana rural homesteads have electricity. The Rural Electrification Administration notes the state lags behind a national average near 75 percent and behind 11 states with 95 percent rural electrification.
Biographies of about 9 000 past and present U S lawmakers will be gathered for a new edition of the Official Biographical Directory of the American Congress. The previous edition appeared in 1927 and a late 1920s publication date is planned.
The North Carolina Association of Real Estate Boards officers and directors from 27 boards meet tomorrow at the Sheraton Hotel High Point at 2:00 pm with Francis B. Kemp presiding. J T Chiott to be installed at 6:00 pm dinner. Colonel George G Dunn Jr of Asheville will speak on Americanism.
A Monthieu Avenue property owner, S. Taro, filed suit in municipal court to enjoin High Point from enforcing a zoning ordinance blocking a proposed commercial structure and to seek an amendment placing 90 feet of his 150 foot lot in the neighborhood retail zone near Five Points. The case traces back to a zoning map revision two years ago and ongoing disputes with the city council, board of adjustments, and public works committee.
In a Guilford county session Judge Phillips prepared for the rape trial of Samuel Lloyd Freeman as a 75 member special venire arrived to select 12 jurors. Freeman, 18, is charged with raping 18-year-old Vivian Lee King after luring her into his car near Brentwood apartments. He has been jailed without bond since arrest weeks earlier. Authorities identified him as the assailant after Miss King picked him out at jail. The court heard opening steps as jurors faced the task of weighing complex testimony.
Three Fort Bragg soldiers Richard F. Reynolds Charles Warren and Rolland Eugene Gerfin were held in Harnett county jail after being arrested on armed robbery and auto theft charges. Constable Fletcher Bethune and Officer W F Nipper identified the suspects, aged 20 to 30, as the assailants of a Fayetteville taxi driver and his cab.
A carload of about 4000 Christmas trees from Quebec arrived in High Point on a box car. J W Williard of City Transfer and Storage said the unloading crew nearly froze as the trees, snow covered, were sorted into 731 bundles varying from seedlings to 12 feet tall. The trees will be sold at curb markets and stores in the High Point area.
The Young Democrats of North Carolina announce their first Executive Committee meeting since the New Bern convention. Terry Sanford says the event will be in Raleigh with committee and advisory board gatherings at 5:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. at the Governor's Mansion reception.
Thomasville city council heard a rare compliment on parking when a traveling salesman praised a courtesy ticket he received for over parking. City Manager R M Cooksey read the letter calling Thomasville a welcoming city and noting it as the first written praise in the council's ongoing parking troubles.
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