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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1943
Page
8
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The National Education Association Department of Classroom Teachers will hold its fourth southeastern regional conference in Greenville South Carolina December 29 30. Miss Margery Alexander director announced the meeting theme the role of education in the present and postwar world.
In candlelight at Fairview Grammar School on Thursday December 16 at 1 pm a Christmas recognition service honored the Girl Reserves. Advisors Mrs. Mary Blackburn and Mrs. S. E. Burford directed a program of poetry, music, and stories as Girl Reserve buttons were presented to attendees. Officers named include President Gladys Brown and Vice-President Katie M. Harrison with Elisabeth Davis, Bonnie Dumas, Dorothy Ware, Mahaley Kelly, and Ida Mae Thompson in key roles.
The Alpha Art club holds its Christmas gathering at 8 o clock tonight at the home of Mrs Lola Brooks Cartright. All members urged to attend.
The Missionary Circle No 2 of the First Baptist church meets tonight at 8 p.m. at Mrs. Alice Eccles home 102 Price Street.
The Girl Scouts troop 8 held a Christmas party at the public library on December 15, 1943. The program included carol singing and a talk on Christmas origins and customs from abroad. Games followed and gifts were exchanged. a treat of nuts, candy, and oranges was served to Martha Phelps Mary Alice Johnson Margaret Campbell Louella Stewart Rosa Lee Bass Patricia Watson Mary Eccles Helen Steel Thaynie Carter Althea McCoy. Mrs S B Davis led with assistants Mrs E Bal linger and Mrs E G Cobb.
The Daughters of Dorcas club met Monday night at Mrs. Lucille Johnson on Downing Street with Miss Anna Saunders as co host. Visitors Lena Elliott Estelle Carter and Nurse Staplefoot attended. Staplefoot outlined a tuberculosis prevention program and urged chest examinations at the City Health Department.
Leonard Btree will renew its annual Chepries play in the school auditorium with the title Come Let Us Adore Him. The program features beloved Christmas carols and has no admission charge with the general public invited.
Leslie Farrell and family visit his parents in town while Charles Hin son, formerly of High Point, now in Washington D C, arrives with his wife and son. Cpl Samuel Kennan returns from Camp Clark Texas on furlough to see his parents and friends.
The North Carolina Supreme Court upheld convictions of Alex Harris and Wayman Grainger for first degree murder. Execution dates were set for Harris and Grainger unless clemency is granted. Harris was convicted in Hoke County for the Aug 27, 1942, killing of Mrs. E A Sill and others at a Raeford area filling station.
Tito reports German breakthrough southwest of Zagreb with five Nazi and Ustashi columns. Yugoslavs claim to have repelled attacks in Lika, destroyed a Nazi column, and killed up to seventy German troops in eastern Bosnia. Partisans say they sank two ships in the Adriatic and damaged three others. In Slovenia they stormed a town, ousted the German garrison and seized war materiel. The bulletin also notes Liberty ship lumber needs and Dead Sea water figures, plus unrelated trial outcomes.
North Carolina and South Carolina face continued cold conditions tonight with subfreezing lows in the mountains and across the region. Tomorrow remains fair with slightly higher afternoon temperatures. interior areas see 12 to 14 degrees and coastal regions 14 to 20 degrees in South Carolina.
William Wood publisher of Small Homes Guide Magazine recounted the Atlantic Coast Line wreck at Buie North Carolina. He described an expectant mother with mangled legs and navy Captain P W Allen aiding victims and evacuating wounded with cutting torches and flares as ambulances arrived.
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