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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1945
Page
2
Church notices outline Christmas season events across Rankin Memorial Methodist Saint Marys Main Street and First Methodist. Rev S W Tay, Rev Howard Hardll, Rev E M Jones and Wilson Weldon preach on sacred themes. choirs, youths, and women’s groups host programs and Christmas music with dinners and a quarterly conference following supper.
Christian Science Society 319 North Main Street invites the public to Sunday services at 11 o clock with the subject God the Preserver of Man. Meetings are the first Tuesday evening monthly at 8 o'clock. Reading room hours are Wednesday and Friday from 3 to 5 p m.
At Wesley Memorial Methodist church the 11 o clock sermon by Rev Paul Hardin Jr is Salvation. An evening sermon titled A Living Christ follows at 5. Junior and family activities are planned with church school at 9 45 and a quarterly conference Monday at five.
The piece outlines Isaiah prophecy of a coming king and the Messiah, the annunciation to Mary, Gabriel’s visit to Nazareth, Elizabeth and John the Baptist, and Luke's account of the Forerunner. It concludes with Peter’s guidance to persecuted Christians on steadfast faith and proper conduct. Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
A full candlelight program at First Baptist Church begins at 7 30 tonight directed by Carl Cronstedt with Emile Sooss organist assisted by Eleanore Welch harpist and Iris Welch Gregory flutist The set includes Handel Mendelssohn Debussy and traditional carols with solos by Robt Ellis Betty Jo Smith Lena Sale Ella Lou Wann and Marion Pond among others. Benediction follows Silent Night.
Restoration of storm damaged Pea Island wildlife refuge is expected to begin early next year. The project was abandoned after Pearl Harbor when it was about halfway finished.
The Civic Drama Guild of New York presents Rose Franken's Soldier's Wife tonight in a senior high auditorium. Designer Dunkel showcases a flexible set that suggests a New York apartment with a hallway, kitchen, dining room, and family upstairs.
Edward B. Hillis reportedly tossed $20,000 in cash from his burning Glens Falls residence as flames swept the building and salvage yard. Fire caused an estimated $200,000 loss and he searched the area for the money in his coat amid the blaze.
Census findings show over twenty percent of urban dwellings in 1940 lacked private baths. The data highlights living standards and housing infrastructure in major cities.
The article notes Silent Night as the best loved Christmas hymn with words by Father Joseph Mohr and tune by Franz Gruber in 1818. It mentions There’s a Song in the Air with a tune by Karl P. Harrington in 1904, and Joseph G. Holland as its author. It also quotes Bishop Henry St George Tucker on the family’s role in Christmas celebrations and reports on a new Protestant Episcopal mission field in Colombia with seven congregations led by Rev. George E. Packard.
The Rev Tollie L Caution cites 13 million Negroes in the U S with less than half affiliated to any church and urges strengthening Episcopal schooling programs through the American Church Institute for Negroes. Separately Congregational Christian leaders at La Grange Illinois favor world diplomacy and United Nations leadership, opposing unilateral actions on Japan Pacific bases atomic secrecy and universal military training.
Minneapolis physician argues two fears drive peacetime drafting and religious exploitation. He says Russia seeks respect and calls for an international agency to govern nuclear power and uphold a universal human rights declaration.
Rev Wilbur Hutchins of First Baptist spoke to 55 men at the Men's Fellowship Club meeting on What Men Can Give He urged giving of self time money and effort to bring others to church and to serve Christ A J Koonce presided with William S Wall reading minutes John H Walker elected vice president Dr C W Bates of Lebanon Methodist attended as a guest
David climbs the rainbow pool aided by a small man who calls himself the Keeper of the Rainbow. The keeper warns that stars are not to be played with as David asks to obtain a star.
David climbs towards the star filled rainbow and, warned by a Keeper, wraps a star in a purple handkerchief to avoid looking at it. He slips back to earth, realizing he has found a star while racing toward a new adventure tomorrow.
Several hundred High Point College students departed for home for the holidays while others planned to leave today. They return January 2 facing higher meal costs after talks on breading price. At Greensboro College and Woman's College UNC Greensboro meals are included in tuition with varying dining options and prices.
Special music by the boys' octet of the high school led by Ralph Vance introduced by the choir director. Monthly meetings set for the second Thursday with the next on January 10. Committees named: program John Walker Wilbur Groome Ralph Vance. reception C. W. Patterson J. W. Snotherly Gorrell Payne.
Funeral services were held Friday for Walter A. Lane 78 a Seaboard Railroad conductor for 52 years who died suddenly yesterday He retired from service in 1937 in Monroe Dec 15.
The eggs of Wilsons phalarope observed in its North Dakota and Canada breeding range are unusually pointed and streaked with black, highlighting distinctive nesting characteristics.
Local amateur magician Bill Neely performed at the Kiwanis weekly luncheon with “now you see it now you don’t” tricks. Attendance prize winner was Cam Criddlebaugh. Visitors included John Idol Jim Cowan High Point George Coble Lexington Carlton Williams Charlotte and Mrs Broadus Casey BPW president who spoke about the play Soldier's Wife at the Senior high Saturday night.
Striking students at Winston-Salem Teachers College offered to form a student faculty committee to present grievances to the college faculty. About 250 students stayed in the dining hall after lunch on Wednesday in protest over policies including food service and calls for a student council supervised recreation citizenship and socioeconomic training. Some students returned to classes on Thursday.
Ever ett Burgess of Camden County was chosen as temporary chairman at the Raleigh meeting of the fruit and vegetable committee. The potato council operates as a subcommittee of the North Carolina Farm Bureau's fruit and vegetable committee.
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