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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1954
Page
5
Funeral services were held across multiple towns for Margaret Rose Chamelin Gwendolyn Boyd Gallimore Charles Bainlex John A Whitehart detailing church locations funeral times and burial sites. Survivors include family members and multiple church affiliated details with interments in Friedland Moravian Oakwood Calvary church cemeteries.
Mrs Elma Rea Snider 43 wife of John Snider of Route 2 Thomasville died at Lexington Memorial Hospital Monday evening after a four day stay. Born September 2 1910 in Davidson County she was a member of Mount Zion Pilgrim Holiness Church and its Ladies Bible Class. Survived by husband three daughters her mother two brothers two sisters and one grandchild. Funeral services set for Wednesday at Mount Zion Pilgrim Holiness Church.
The Oak View Lions Club discussed a community supper slated for February 17 at Oak View School. Club members reported $215 in tickets sold and plans for special entertainment. The next meeting is February 15 at the school with R. Hoke Flynt as guest speaker, and a February 11 board meeting was announced.
A 15 year old runaway from Orlando Florida was questioned by police after an anonymous call. She reportedly hitchhiked to High Point and stayed with a local family in Woodrow Village. Authorities planned to return her to Florida. Her name was withheld due to age.
The city's building code board of appeals will meet tomorrow at 3 p.m. to hear one appeal. The board will decide if the new state building code applies to construction planned before the code inspection.
Sunday's Enterprise carried photos of Bloodmobile Gallon Club members but erred in naming Se Seetine as W. M. ams. The correct name is W. M. Hayworth.
William Francis Cunningham an Irish hobo with 20 years on the road was arrested in Thomasville and sentenced in Recorder's Court to 30 days on the roads. He claimed to have arrived in the U S in the late 1920s and said he has traveled to most of the 48 states. Police plan to question him with FBI involvement.
In Thomasville a dispute over whiskey led to a Saturday night shooting at Tate's Grill. Jones Morehead, 24, of 106 Forsyth St., charged with assault with a deadly weapon and carrying a concealed weapon, released on 550 bond with trial tentatively set for February. A 32 caliber pistol fired, missing its mark and breaking a window. weapon recovered from an inside patron. Epps not charged yet. Newell of Kernersville also reported.
Mrs. Mary Armstrong, 39, already mother to six daughters, welcomed her sixth son yesterday in Denver. The birth adds another male child to the family, highlighting a rare gender balance shift in a single household.
HPC reports rising enrollments with 675 students already registered for the second semester and 19 days left for registration. Yarborough notes increases over the first term, unusual for midyear trends. Grady Whicker predicts another rise next fall. The piece adds mention of two good harbors on Formosa Keelung and Kaohsiung.
The Thomasville City Council in a special session requires outside water line owners to sign agreements, supply maps, install cutoff valves, and cover repair costs to address frozen and leaking lines. City officials said the measure helps crews locate lines and conserve water during breaks. Nine tenths of Michigan's population lives in the southern two fifths of the state.
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