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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1937
Page
11
Police hunt an unidentified Black man who held up Mrs. Al Poole at 315 Otteray Drive early today. He rifled the residence for loot, took a sack of coal, and fled. Mrs. Poole and her daughter were frightened but unharmed. Officers scoured nearby woods but made no arrest.
A testimonial dinner last night at the Sheraton honored S O Schaub general agent and assistant general manager of the High Point Thomasville and Denton Railroad. About fifty former employees attended with more than 150 others sending greetings from across the country. The event highlighted Schaub’s role in training and promoting young talent and his lasting impact on railroad careers begun in 1901.
Christmas shopping surges as shoppers fill High Point stores with gifts from five and tens to hardware. Pay day and good weather boost sales as merchants expect crowds Monday through Friday night and foretell a busy Yuletide season.
City workers will get December 24 and 25 off as all municipal activities except essential services will be suspended. Department heads will decide which employees must work on the two days, according to a bulletin from City Manager E. M. Knox.
M A McMillan died yesterday afternoon at a local hospital after a period of illness at his daughter C H Caddell’s home. He lived in High Point the past year, formerly Kernersville and Galax, born 1871 in Ashe County North Carolina. Survived by three daughters, two sons, a sister and a brother. Funeral plan set with services at the Winston Salem road home and Galax Virginia. Interment in Fox Creek cemetery Virginia.
Assistant Solicitor D C Mac Rae will present a bill of indictment to a Guilford county grand jury charging Luther H Bottoms with involuntary manslaughter in a highway crash that fatally injured E Carl Smith of Charlotte. Bottoms was preliminarily bound over after a hearing before Judge Teague.
Santa Claus visited the High Point Day Nursery children during a Christmas dinner hosted by the High Point lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose. The event featured gifts from Santa, with toys funded by the men and meals served by the Women of the Moose. An Enterprise photographer captured Santa handing out toys to the youngsters.
Community Chest coffers remain about $7,000 shy of the $39,157.66 target for 1938. W. B. Halli will convene the board in February to discuss ways to raise the balance and fund six agencies. Through November, receipts totaled $32,203.26, with December and January payments approved, including $4,251.11 to agencies for October and November.
Funeral services for Lonnie Eugene Parrish six months old who died at his mother Myrtle Parrish’s home in Thomasville route one were held Saturday at 2 30 p m from the home. Officiating were Rev Hoy L Fesperman and Rev C B Haworth. Interment followed at Floral Garden Cemetery with pallbearers C T Parks Roy Parks Donald Hughes and William Poole.
A High Point family of seven asks for Santa to visit their children this Christmas. With the father newly employed two days weekly, relief remains unlikely, so local citizens are urged to donate to the Empty Stocking Fund to fund dolls for two girls and a wagon for a hopeful boy. Donations list include Birdie Dunneree, Mrs. W. W. Ragsdale, Goodwill Garden Club, John A. Watkins Jr., D. E. Kirkman, C C Barbee, R. B. Gantt, F. Clayton, and C L Amos, totaling contributions recorded but fund still short of last year.
Two High Point youths Pearl T Morris and James Grissom were bound over to the January term of federal court in Greensboro after a hearing before U S Commissioner Charles E Ader in Winston Salem. Seventy gallons of white corn liquor were seized with the car. Officer pursuit ended when the vehicle crashed into a fence. Morris was released on 1000 bond. Grissom remains jailed on 500 bond.
The ten story Southern Furniture Exposition building is fully rented for the midwinter Rug and Furniture Market January 17 to 29. Manager Paul W. Casey reports strong attendance expected and hotel reservations heavy as manufacturers redecorate spaces and unveil new merchandise shaping prices and trends. Airlines will enable quick trips for distant buyers.
In a North Carolina Supreme Court hearing on the power case the attorney for J Paul Williamson the plaintiff delivered a concise defense noting Williamson is the real plaintiff and Duke Power is only an intervenor. The session included lengthy argument by the defendant city and Duke Power before Fisher spoke.
J Francis Giles of Archdale has been named assistant county farm demonstration agent in Wilkes county. He just completed studies at North Carolina State college and will serve under Dan F Heller. Giles helped State’s crop judging team place second to Nebraska at Chicago and earned three farm work medals.
After lengthy arguments the Duke Power High Point hydro plant dispute stays unsettled as the seven justices face a flood of briefs. City Attorney Grover H. Jones calls the latest filing desperate and notes conflicting briefs require a new reply by December 25 with a reply from Duke Power by January 1.
A charity comedy cartoon program at the Paramount theater Monday at 10 o clock will collect canned goods and fruit to aid needy families during Christmas. Admission is a donation of food or cash, with entrance also available to those unable to donate. Music numbers and speakers from the Salvation Army accompany a full cartoon program featuring Our Gang and Mickey Mouse.
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