Church Notebook Highlights New Year Events
New Year observances at Main Street Methodist and Lexington Avenue Baptist include watch night services and guest speakers. Max Reese, supply pastor at English Street Baptist, will lead morning worship while college students present the 7:30 p.m. program. Other churches host Student Night at Christmas with talks on Christian fellowship and readings, followed by music. Watch-night services run 7:30 p.m. to 12:01 a.m. as part of holiday observances across the community.
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Main Street Methodist Church
Lexington Avenuue Baptist Church
Max Reese
Reese
Brentwood Baptist Church
English Street Baptist Church
Campbell College
Nancy Craughn
Ralph Merrill
Jean Allen
Guatemala
Charles Tabor
Korea
Green Street Baptist Church
Christ
Jerry Adams
Christian Fellowship
Rachel Mixson
Shirley Yakley
Tommy Teague
E. W. Price
Eurate OA Boek
First Baptist Church
Southern Baptist Convention
Bob Chastain
University of North Carolina
Jerry Barnes
Stetson University
Florida
Tommy Freeman
High Point College
Sam Gerrard
Baylor University
Judy Williams
Duane Best
Appalachian State Teacher's College
Marvin Slate Jr
Wake Forest College
Charles White
Freezing Rain Hits North Carolina Roads Across State
The Weather Bureau warns of freezing rain and sleet over western North Carolina with subfreezing temperatures statewide. Troopers report numerous accidents along Charlotte highways as rain shifts to freezing precipitation on the Blue Ridge slopes from Saluda to the Virginia border.
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Piedmont
North Carolina
Weather Bureau
Gulf of Mexico
Blue Ridge
Saluda
Tryon
Marion
Morganton
Lenoir
Wilkesboro
Jefferson
Virginia
Raleigh
Four Children Die in Granite Falls House Fire
Four children of Mr and Mrs Robert Wilson perished when flames swept a two story home in Granite Falls North Carolina about 1 a m A fifth child escaped by leaping from a second floor window The victims aged about 2 4 6 and 14 were identified locally as Patricia Ann Peanut Brother and Jake Green an uncle from Hudson The Wilson parents were away when the fire started and neighbors and a passing motorist aided the search and rescue efforts by local fire units and a pastor news crews noted the house built of pine lumber burned rapidly with the blaze spreading before firefighters could gain control
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Granite Falls
N.C
Robert Willson
Caldwell County
Claude Goble
Earl Kirby
Hudson
Riley Huckaby
Center Grove Baptist Church
Anaes
Patricia Ann
Peanut
Jake Green
Wilson
Couple Of Mutts Join Ranks Of Stockholders
San Jose water works stock will fund care for Mac the Irish terrier and George the cocker spaniel. Thomas F. Shewbridge, who died December 11, left a will dated February 26 1958 directing profits from his 100000 estate to provide for the dogs. Executors estimate about 1500 shares worth around 80 000 after taxes and a 2 40 annual dividend will yield over 3000 yearly for the dogs for 20 years.
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San Jose, Calif
Mac
George
San Jose Water Works Stockhold
Thomas F. Shewbridge
Water Works
American Trust Co
Admin
Shewbridge
Year in High Point 1958 From The Enterprise
The Sunday Enterprise previews a year end feature listing High Point’s top 10 events of 1958, city government accomplishments and fire and building records, with Thomasville similarly covered. It notes Cold War crises in 1958 and America’s cautious optimism for 1959, plus a Christmas visit story about Robert G. Alcon and his family’s three armed forces sons.
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High Point
Enterprise News
Thomasville
Your Enterprise
Middle East
Far East
Europe
Berlin
Associated Press
Sunday Enterprise
America
Enterprise
Robert G. Alcon
Korea
Arkansas
South Carolina
Braxton Younts
Mrs Duncan Indicted in Slaying Over Jealousy Motive
Ventura California district attorney announced indictments Friday against Elizabeth Duncan 54 and two men for the murder of Olga Duncan wife of Duncan’s son. The case stems from a midnight confession that spurred a swift grand jury action and follows a Christmas night killing in a hastily dug grave.
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Ventura
Calif
Roy Gustafson
Elizabeth Duncan
Gustafson
Moya
Frank Duncan
J. Ward Sullivan
Duncan
Olga Duncan
Traffic Death Toll Hits Highs Over Christmas Period
Traffic fatalities surged during the Christmas period with a record pace on Christmas Day and remain well above NSC projections of 620 deaths for the four-day span. A NSC spokesman said late Friday the toll could still miss the all-time high of 706 set two years ago, offering the first glimmer of hope in a bleak highway safety outlook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Safety Council
NSC
Associated Press
Council
Thorn In His Side Wife Cut Out Of Will
Newton North Carolina probate records reveal a will disinheriting a wife described as a thorn in the husband’s side for 27 years. The estate worth several thousand dollars goes to the couple’s children.
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Will
Newton, N. C
Catawba County Superior Court
Tentative News Pact Reached Between Dailies and Union
New York AP reports a tentative two-year pact ends the strike with reporters and drivers. The deal includes a $7 weekly wage package, paid holidays, and three days sick leave per year, averting further disruption after a months long walkout.
Continued Recovery Predicted In North Carolina 1959
A Commerce Department official in Greensboro predicts continued recovery in North Carolina through 1959. Presley Melton says retail sectors show gains, citing textiles and apparels with an 8 percent forecast, and a 33 percent rise since May. Tobacco, food processing, and furniture show improving trends guided by new plants and industry earnings.
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Greensboro
Commerce Department
North Carolina
Presley W. Melton
U.S
Shoplifter Returns 99 Cents After Christmas Conscience
An unidentified woman in Canton presented herself at a store the day after Christmas saying she had shoplifted clothes on Christmas Eve. Her conscience urged repayment, so she brought the price tags and offered to pay 99 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton
Charity Collections Reduced By Strike
New York reports show 18 day newspaper strike reduces charity drives for Christmas baskets. Times totals show 6,085 donors giving 326,357 this season versus 338,982 last year, with a 10 percent drop in cash gifts across the Herald Tribune Mirror and News. Alfred P. Sloan Jr gave 10,000 to the Times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
The
Times
Herald Tribune
Mirror
News
Journal-American
the Times
Alfred P. Sloan Jr
the Herald Tribune
the Mirror
New Medical Columnist Heads Detroit Health Department
Dr. Joseph G. Mener, author of TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH, becomes head of Detroit Michigan’s Department of Health. He is married with two children and emphasizes pediatrics and geriatrics while serving as Health Commissioner and UM School of Public Health lecturer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit Health Department
Joseph G. Mener
Enterprise
Department of Health
Detroit
Michigan
Metner
Motner
Balloon Drift Across Atlantic Reported Landing in Venezuela
Aerial searchers investigated unconfirmed ham radio reports that the British balloon Small World with four passengers landed near Pedernales in eastern Venezuela after a Dec 12 departure from Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Civil authorities awaited confirmation as darkness halted further search.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Small World
Orinoco River
Pedernales
Trinidad
British West Indies
Oscar Machado Zuloaga
Alion
Civil Aeronautics Authority
DC3
Maturin
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Canary Islands
Atlantic
Prince Philip
Britain
Elizabeth I
Ithe
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Pat Duggins
John Osteen
Church of God
Staunton
Ceti! Watson
First Church of God
Paris
High Point High School
Anderson College
Anderson, Ind
Thussanical Sammary
Anderson
Salvation Army
Harold Robins
Charlotte
Robins
Young Peoples
Carolinas
High Point Gospel Tabernacle
Highway Patrol
Emdaes
Trol
Acci
Tener
Barney Cameron
Newspaper Publishers Assn
Drivers’ Union
Ihmue
Joseph G. Molner
Ars
Eastman
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