Sun Dial Lamp Co. Damaged by Blaze in High Point
A 6 p.m. fire of undetermined origin damaged the Sun Dial Lamp Co. contents and building in High Point. Firefighters used five units to extinguish the blaze confined to the interior. An overheated roller bearing at Carolina Container Co. started a 5 a.m. fire but was controlled by sprinklers with little damage. Two other alarms Thursday involved unattended food on a stove at the William Thomas residence and a false alarm at Park and Grimes.
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Sun Dial Lamp Co
William Thomas
Mangum Avenue
Park
Grimes
Boys Guests At Rotarys Yale Party
Sixty five boys from thirteen city schools were special guests at the Rotary Club Christmas party at the Top of the Mart. Transportation was provided by club members. Dr James G Huggin led the program with William Ashley Andersons story When The Wise Men Appeared.
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Rotary Club
James G. Huggin
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
William Ashley Anderson
Santa Claus
YMCA
Max Cooke
W. D. Lee
Charles L. Odom
Dixon, Hauser and
D. E. Davis
Hardy Prather
Bob Pressley
Dick Stewart
High Point
Open House Slated For New Jamestown Junior High
Jamestown residents are invited to an open house at the new Jamestown Junior High School on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. Principal John R. Lawrence notes the $1.3 million county school building on Vickery Chapel Road features an air conditioned facility and a 30 minute Christmas concert by the school band directed by Paul Rainey and the Mixed Chorus under Mrs Douglas Turner. About 30 students will guide tours of the building and the PTA will serve refreshments in the cafeteria from 2:30 to 4 p.m.
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Jamestown
John R. Lawrence
Vickery Chapel Road
Paul Rainey
Douglas Turner
Gastonia Man Attacks Two and Kills Himself
Gastonia North Side incident ends in murder suicide. Joe Mills 29, separated from his wife Nellie Mills, stabs her then shoots Lula Jarrett, the mother in law, inside a Gastonia home and dies. Two women rushed to hospital. conditions not immediately known. Police say Mills had been living in Dallas.
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Gastonia
N. C
Joe Mills
Nellie
Mills
Dallas
Uncle Sam Delivers Christmas Leaves To 13000 GIs
Ft Benning GA taxis trains and airlines coordinate a mass Christmas leave operation for 13 000 recruits beginning the eight week basic training period. Lt Col Edward J Kelly Jr led the planning mapping departures from post to homes in 10 to 13 days with 2 629 bound for Ohio 1 681 to Florida 1 513 to Alabama and 1 686 staying in Georgia.
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FT. Benning, Ga
Alaska
Uncle Sam
Santa Claus
Ft. Benning
Edward J. Kelly Jr
Army
Atlanta
Columbus
Ohio
Florida
Alabama
Georgia
Canada
Guatemala
Col. Kelly
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High Point Enterprise
Sun Dial Co
Olina Container Co
Rotary
Yale
Realos
Thomasville
Samuel Hyman
America
Ler
Han
Shirt Service
Santa
Manhattan
University Row
Yjo
Ivy Oxford
Wright
Sparkle
Eve
South Main St
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