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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1966
Page
11
A late morning forecast in Piedmont North Carolina warns of hazardous driving as a major weather system brings rain changing to snow. Temperatures fall to near freezing with scattered snow flurries, possible several inches in northern mountains, and highs around 42 with 27 degree lows tonight.
The fragment indicates a Friday Afternoon page from the 1966 High Point Enterprise edition, Section B, dated Friday December 23. No readable article content is provided to summarize beyond the section and date context.
Mrs Bertha Frady Holder arrived in Charlotte from Dallas at Douglas Airport to reunite with her children after 22 years apart. Her son Robert Frady and daughters Carol Motley and Ruby Crowe welcomed her. one daughter in hospital could not attend. The family learned of her status after a radio announcer read a letter, triggering bank employees to sponsor her air passage.
Mrs. Holder dressed in a blue suit with a white fur collar says she will go to Dallas in two weeks and to Charlotte in six weeks to live with Robert. She thanks those who helped bring the families together and recalls placing her children in orphanages for their good. She will stay with Mrs Crowe in Charlotte and join Christmas dinner at Mrs Friday's in Rock Hill. Parks Newby earns Eagle Scout at Hickory Chapel Wesleyan Methodist Church. Parks, a Jamestown Junior High ninth grader, is in the band, Beta Club, and Troop 17.
Red Cross Bloodmobile wrapped up its December visit in High Point with 105 pints collected, 254 total from a two day drive. The 350 pint goal was not reached though supply projections remain adequate. First time donors numbered 12 and 16 gave as replacements. Notable support came from Hatteras Yacht Co and Myrtle Desk Co with 54 and 17 donors respectively. New and continuing volunteers earned recognition including Carl A. Bailey reaching the Five Gallon Club. next visit set for January 26 27.
A humorous Christmas vignette contrasts frantic preparations and mounting bills with festive cheer. Narrator frets over gifts a refrigerator bottle of champagne and a rag doll while Santa and the weather forecaster threaten snow and the religious observance of a Sunday Christmas.
Guilford County Health Department to acquire a mobile medical bus with dental labs exam room and nursing staff. The unit will travel to housing projects schools and community buildings in 1967 to provide screenings immunizations dental work and health education for children and youth under 18 unable to access central offices.
A man from Rt. 1 Kernersville was found unconscious on West Colonial Drive yesterday afternoon. Phillip Lewis Matthews was taken to City Memorial Hospital by Sur-Way Ambulance. He is reported in satisfactory condition with illness undetermined and police say no foul play is involved.
Lt. Col. John R. Thurman says a $250 High Point YMCA seed money grant funded a victory garden pilot at the South Vietnamese army Armored School near Saigon. The program draws interest from AID and Formosa backed Nationalist Chinese experts who may expand it.
Guilford County Health Department will place two double trailers beside the Greensboro office and another two beside the High Point office on Montlieu Avenue by early 1967. The units will expand space for staff connected to the Million Dollar Children’s and Youth Project aiding families lacking adequate medical care. Trailers are due to arrive late this week or early next week and will be mounted on foundations built by county workers.
The Christmas Cheer Fund received 16 more donations totaling 168.60, pushing the fund past 6000 and to 6279.60. Contributions will continue to be accepted and acknowledged in The Enterprise.
Police arrested 19 year old Johnny Conrad Robinson of Howard Street on charges of breaking and entering and larceny in a Wednesday break in at Schoonbeck Inc on Brevard Street. Vending machines were vandalized and about 60 dollars in change disappeared. A preliminary hearing is set for January 9 in Municipal Court with a 500 dollar bond.
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