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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1947
Page
13
The winter furniture market closed with 5147 buyers from 2, retail stores in 34 states and Bermuda. Officials plan a July 21 summer market as demand for quality merchandise rises. inventories of bedroom dining room and wool carpets were tight but expected to improve.
The High Int chapter of the American Red Cross will hold its annual meeting at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Sheraton room of the Sheraton hotel. Mrs. G. I. Humphreys, chapter chairman, said the gathering will review chapter activities and services from the past year. Any contributor of one dollar or more to the 1946 fund campaign may attend as a member.
Numa F. Carroll aged 67 died after serious injuries he sustained in a wooded area near his home. Found with throat and wrists slashed, he had recently retired from Reynolds Tobacco and had episodes of low mood. Police view the wounds as possibly self inflicted.
At Perpetual Building and Loan's 45th annual meeting in late January, president A Scott Parker Jr reported 1946 national business up 14 percent with Perpetual assets up 34 percent. He noted GI loans led growth and said veterans may drive a substantial 1947 building upswing as material and labor prices adjust.
City manager asks council Tuesday at city hall to accept a 24 602 bid from Boyd and Goforth to construct and improve water and sewer systems. Sealed bids will be opened for Biltmore hotel changes due to High street widening and Willowbrook bridge entrance work.
The High Point Red Cross drives for a 1947 fund campaign begin as 12 division chiefs gather with Taylor M. Simpson, local chapter leader and war veteran. Budgeting aims to about 60 0000 local dollars while the national fund totals 92 million. Division heads include William A. Tomlinson Kenneth Redman Griffith Miles Hutto Temple idol Horney Briggs Blair and Leak among others with veterans and local professionals leading each unit.
Beginning February 10 a class for spastic children will be added to High Point city schools. The North Carolina League for Crippled Children funds the teacher and nurse until local sponsors can finance locally. The classroom at Cloverdale school will start with 12 pupils and meet 8 45 a.m. to noon.
Thomasville officials announced retroactive salary increases for at least six lower paid officers in the 16 member police department. Raises range from ten to twenty five dollars per month to better align with rising living costs. Four beneficiaries joined last September and two are war veterans returning under an older scale. one younger officer resigned last month over pay and was not replaced.
Rev Julian Hopkins announces that Dr George Stephens D D national Christian leader will preach at Green Street Baptist Church at 11 o clock this morning. Stephens previously led a city revival in High Point and has worked with the Pocket Testament League at military camps with headquarters in Wilmington.
North Carolina Republicans will host Senator Joe Martin and former Congresswoman Clare Booth Luce at the Lincoln Day dinner in Winston-Salem on February 15. Only 550 tickets available at the Robert E. Lee due to fire safety, with 20 tickets for High Point.
The 1947 March of Dimes drive for infantile paralysis opens in High Point tomorrow and runs two weeks. Norman Block names Mayor Earl N. Phillips to head the Guilford county drive with Welch Harris as gifts chairman and Claude O’Brien in charge of the general fund. Funds stay partly local and partly national for research and education.
Ed Lewis notes High Point still short about five thousand dollars to reach the purchase price for the new municipal airfield. City Manager Roy Braden faces federal red tape and planning hurdles as officials press to finalize plans and obtain clearance, with construction hoped for in 1969.
Directors of the chamber of commerce will meet Monday at 12 15 noon at the Sheraton hotel. After luncheon they will cover the 1947 agenda and discuss current business and other matters.
John Adams, second president of the United States, once fought as a marine during a sea engagement in 1778.
Bascom G. Rollins of Winston-Salem will present moving pictures at the Springfield Friends meeting at 7 tonight. Young people will run the event and oversee the program.
A Northwestern district meeting approved the South Piedmont teacher wage scale bill and endorsed R. L. Fritts Jr. for president of the North Carolina Education Association. The move signals a split with current NCEA leaders led by C. W. Phillips, amid calls to reform and unite teachers against what critics call administration control.
Enrollment for the High Point unit of the 1 war National Guard will start at the armory tomorrow night with officers accepting enlistment 7 to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday. Captain Edward J. Phibbs seeks veterans from field artillery to serve as instructors and outlines athletic plans, pay scales for 15 day trainings, and guards roles in war, disaster, and civil defense.
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