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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1962
Page
6
The Mary McLeod Bethune YWCA hosts the annual Hanging of the Greens Monday at 7 p.m. A special program features Yuletide carols, the Christmas Story, and a Y-Teens recognition service. Afterward attendees decorate the building and enjoy refreshments.
Carl Chavis activities appear with community groups at the YMCA. A singing program is set for today at 3 p m in the gym, while the annual meeting and board meetings are scheduled on Tuesday and Wednesday evening. Live League basketball begins Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday with Chavis Y juniors and seniors playing Patterson Avenue YMCA Friday at 7 30 p m. A Saturday basketball clinic offers fundamentals for all ages. Esquire Club meets Monday at 8 p m Tri-Hi-Y and Hi-Y clubs meet Tuesday and Wednesday at 7 30 p m. Reading continues Thursday with the Singing Club.
Mary Bethune plans a week of activities across grades and clubs. Highlights include Pre Teens meetings, Y Teen gatherings, Drivers Training, Modernette Club, Sewing class, Dance and Basketball, Golden Age Dinner, Blue Triangle Club, and a Friday drop in gym time before the building closes for holidays.
The club met at Mrs. Eva Williams 1204 Rivers Drive. Outgoing president Mrs. Annie E. Smith led a brief session. Installation by Miss Roberta Roopkins and Mrs. Maude Hinton named Lilian McDowell president Rosetta Baldwin vice president Quris Turner secretary O K Martin assistant secretary Hattie Leach treasurer. A gift to Hoffman boys home marked the annual project. McDowell gave Williams a purse. Refreshments followed. Next meeting set for December fourth Sunday at 4 pm with Maude Hinton 317 Underail St.
Those who favor a really fine brush usually get one made from bristles. Bristle is the stiff hair of swine. It is produced and prepared chiefly in China, the Soviet Union, Japan, Poland, India, Germany and France. The United States imports an annually an average of about 4 million pounds. 1 Encyclopaedia Briteanion
Tonight at First Emmanuel Baptist Church the Jubilee Choir and committees sing at seven. Jessie Watkins returns from Detroit after attending her niece Eva Mae Hall’s funeral and visits Windsor, Ontario. Ushers Chorus to sing at Baldwins Chapel at eight. Furniture City Elks meet Tuesday. district deputy to oversee officer elections. K of P Lodge and Court of Calanthe Christmas parity Wednesday at Pythian Temple. Griffin Park Community Club meets today at Vernell Leak’s home. Leonard Street PTA presents Christmas Windows pan tomime December 17 at 8. PTA not meeting this month. school tours Monday start at Fairview Street 3:50. Christmas Musicale Tuesday at 7 to parents. Home Owners Protective Assn meets Monday 7:30 at 4th Street Library. Alfred J. Griffin PTA meets Tuesday 8 with band recital. Sunshine Hour at Temple Memorial Baptist Church 3. Acme Lodge 2 meets at AME Zion Church 3. OES Lady Astor Chapter 9 Christmas Party Thursday 6:30 at IOOF Hall with Guiding Light Naymores and Acme Lodges invited. Rosa Lee Gupper T as Worthy Matron and J Maxwell as Worthy Patron.
Santo Domingo faces a pivotal election as Dominicans vote next Thursday in their first free elections in 38 years. Vying for president are Virio A. Fiallo of the National Civic Union and Juan Bosch of the Dominican Revolutionary party. The Civic Union appeals to wealthier sectors while the Revolutionary party draws peasant support and promotes centralized state power with people’s stores and cooperatives.
Rev A L Murray has been assigned as pastor at Pearson Memorial AME Church He is a professor of Social Science at W S Teacher College with a Ph D degree He currently lives in Winston Salem Sunday evening services will be held at 6 pm instead of 7 pm
New York AP reports dedicated actor Gene Saks performs in person even when not onstage. In A Thousand Clowns he plays the emcee of a kiddie show, yet records show his voice in a ten minute telephoned scene. Saks insists dialogue is not taped and rehearses nightly in a dressing room that doubles as a sound studio with earphones and a microphone.
Sun shadows and wind driven snow reveal possible ancient graves beneath a snowfield. Researchers note that subtle topographic changes align with burial indicators in the landscape, suggesting a method to locate sites without excavation.
AP report notes Howard Da Silva will perform in two Broadway productions next season. He opens in La Belle on Sept 18 then moves to In the Counting House with Sydney Chaplin, opening Dec 12. A Burlington man foiled by bus station clerk leads to warrants.
The Orleans, built by Robert Fulton, became the first commercial steamboat to visit Louisville on the Ohio River arriving in 1811. The city’s incorporation date was 31 years earlier and Kentucky’s statehood 191 years prior. By 1980 urban planners foresee mergers along the Atlantic seaboard from Bangor Maine to Miami Florida.
Louisville Kentucky origins trace to May 1 1780 when Virginia legislature passed the Act for Establishing the Town of Louisville naming the river city for King Louis XVI of France.
Ohio State University economists report a farm decline of about 10 000 between 1959 and 1961 and a loss of around 400 000 acres of farmland across the period, reflecting a shifting agricultural scene in the state.
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