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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1963
Page
5
Walter L. York reflects on a record 1963 Christmas mail volume in High Point, noting 53 to 54 million pieces handled by year end. He credits city growth and manufacturing plants for parcel post increases and cites about 300 posting meters in local businesses.
An essay argues for rethinking Christmas and New Year celebrations. It condemns cocktail parties for stifling conversation, promotes alternative gatherings like back yard cook-outs and sip parties, and urges more imaginative social events that foster real companionship and meaningful interaction.
Readers of The Enterprise praise the High Point Thomasville base rate revision and Extended Area Service with no tolls. Contributors thank editors for Career Day cooperation and offer holiday wishes. A HPC student challenges a misreported incident and urges presenting both sides. Pastor Robbins extends gratitude to community workers for another year.
The remarks compare political strategy and public scrutiny. Jo Grimond jokes about changing horses amid danger, while Lester B. Pearson notes mutual vigilance and irritation at being overlooked in U S Canadian relations.
The Christmas hymn Silent Night began as a poem by Father Joseph Mohr in 1818 in Oberndorf Austria. Franz Gruber wrote the tune. the organ failed so guitar accompanied the first performance. The song spread via organ builders minstrels and royal audiences, later translated by Rev Stepford Augustus Brooke. To this day it remains a beloved world wide carol.
In Thomasville a housewarming sees Fred Yates Plummer and family moving into a new home with help from friends including Jack Weatherly. Water pipes froze delaying occupancy, later resolved, as neighbors pitched in to finish setting up.
The Wood family of Jamestown holds a yearly Christmas reunion now at the Sheraton Hotel with 50 to 60 attendees including 11 siblings, 28 grandchildren, 2 great great grandchildren. The gathering honors their parents who valued family churchgoing and mutual love.
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