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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1943
Page
12
Rankin Memorial Methodist Church will host a watchnight service Friday night starting at 8 30. A varied program is planned and all church members are urged to attend.
Julius V. Boone began aviation cadet training at Yale University under Army Air Forces training command. Harold Alexander plans to depart Clinton Mississippi to return to his armed forces unit after holidays with his family. Adam L. Gibson Jr. is ill in Savannah naval hospital. Lawrence L. Ferguson returned to Nashville after a 17 day furlough. Jack D. Kemp arrived in England and serves in the engineer corps.
High Point postal workers Sam J. Best Jr and Marvin T. Davis plan military duty in January. Best serves five years with the post office and Davis six. both are married with one child. J Luther Yow of the police force also heads to army service, making four police members deployed.
Haizlip bonds forfeited after he failed to appear at a hearing in Point nnayg court. Bonds set at 240 dollars for L. B. Haizlip of 212 Vail Street who signed for three defendants who did not appear. Tar Heel Bonding Company faces a final hearing January 10 on numerous pending cases.
Funeral services for Mrs Laura Carl Rogers 85 widow of J W Rogers Sr of 210 East Hicks street were held at Sechrest Funeral home yesterday at 3 pm with Dr O C Williamson pastor of First Presbyterian church officiating Interment followed at Oakwood cemetery Pallbearers were Bruce Carraway Brandis Leonard Mike Campbell L T Lowe Don C MacRae and H C Sechrest
Funeral services for 90 year old Mrs Levina Burton Peace were held at Mt. Vernon Methodist Church on Wednesday afternoon with pastors Rev Thomas Strickland Rev George Needham and Rev C E officiating. A Hyey quartet provided music and pallbearers included Will Hill Harry English Gilbert English Tom Steed Harvey Farlow and W T Davis. Interment followed in the church cemetery.
WAC recruiter Frances Stafford will interview interested local women in the post office lobby tomorrow. Regular recruiting days Friday and Saturday resume after year’s start. The drive targets women for physical therapy training and medical aide roles with strict age, education, aptitude, and physical requirements.
Thomas A. Dorsett, 57, died at his home near Flint Hill after an extended illness. Survived by his wife Dolcia Nelson Dorsett, daughter Martha Dorsett of High Point, son Davis at home, sister Mrs. Charles Pressnell, Archdale, brothers J. A. Dorsett and T. L. Dorsett. Funeral service set for Saturday at Marlboro Friends Church at 2:30 with burial in church cemetery after viewing at the local funeral home.
Residents report Annie East who was arrested for public drunkenness does not live at 508 English Street. The 16-year-old's case continued yesterday in High Point Municipal Court.
Recently inducted into the armed forces at Fort Bragg the following four men will report Friday morning at 8 30 to draft board five for active duty They will depart for a reception center before entering duty Mack D Bates Jr Marcellus Barrier James E Franklin and Sidney Holmes
Staff Sergeant Harold D Sechrest of High Point earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for 51 combat missions as a rear gunner in the Southwest Pacific. After enlisting August 12 1941 he served in New Guinea and Bismarck Sea actions, enduring raids and harsh jungle conditions before reporting for officer training after furlough.
Welch Memorial Church Baraca class plans homecoming day at the regular 10 o clock Sunday service with a two hour program featuring Dr Gideon I Humphreys president of High Point College and Judge Johnson J Hayes of Greensboro as speakers. The article notes agricultural policy shifts and a Kiwanis club talk on the motion picture industry.
Hamilton C. Jones of Charlotte paid the $100 filing fee to Secretary Raymond Maxwell of the State Board of Elections, becoming the first candidate in North Carolina for federal or state office to file for the 1944 campaign.
Greensboro December 30 J Lee Wilson solicitor of Guilford superior court will report to his draft board for induction into the army January 7 contingent on passing the physical exam. He passed a similar test when applying for Navy service and has served as solicitor of the 12th district since January 1 1943. He was nominated in the spring 1942 primary over KH Loontz and elected the following November.
Mrs. Lucy Alice Frye 71 mother of Mrs. R. V. Chaney of Westfield died December 28 at her daughter Mrs. Grif fin Hiatt home. Funeral by Rev. L. K. McFarland at Westfield with burial in Beasley Graveyard Stokes County. Survived by four sons Fletcher Eli four daughters 31 grandchildren. Granite is the hardest most durable stone.
Two hundred milligrams of scarce alpahaemophilus type B rabbit serum arrived from New York by plane to treat two year old Gary Jackson in Atlanta. His father L P Jackson had appealed in the Atlanta Constitution for serum as influenza type meningitis left him in critical condition. The AP report notes serum was flown in from New York and Charleston to expedite treatment.
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