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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1956
Page
26
Thomasville officials will meet next Friday at 11 a.m. with a representative from each of 25 Boy Scout units to discuss city government functions. The 46th Boy Scout anniversary falls on Feb 8 with Feb 12 designated Boy Scout Sunday in local churches.
Thomasville High selects Eanes and Bob McDonald from its band for the All-State High School Band Clinic East Carolina Division to be held at the University of North Carolina this Friday and Saturday.
From page four of the library work section a survey describes efforts to study hospital, college, school and public libraries. It notes the goal to understand opportunities in library work and services offered by city libraries.
A one way street confusion appears as Jimmy reports seeing a man drive left while the street signs indicate turning right for traffic. The discrepancy raises questions about the observed vehicle’s path near the apartment building.
William Alexander Rains 82 died Thursday afternoon after a two week illness. Funeral services were conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. at First Christian Church with Rev. Gale Brady, Rev. M. L. Pollard and Rev. Guy H. Veazey officiating. Pallbearers were Olin Smith, Dewey Cates, Joe Sheen, Homer Neese, K. J. White and Bill Brady. Interment followed in Floral Garden Park Cemetery. He resided at 112 Eastview Street and died at High Point Memorial Hospital.
Funeral services for Frank Gurley, 85, known as Mr. Thursday, were held yesterday at 11 a.m. in Sechrest Chapel with Rev. Walter J. Miller officiating. Interment followed in Oakwood Cemetery. Pallbearers included T. C. Kirkman and P. V. Kirkman Jr. He died unexpectedly at 6:30 a.m. Thursday at his son Paul C. Gurley’s home 1515 Minosa Ave Charlotte.
Funeral services for John B Hill 51 of 427 Friddle St will be held today at 3:00 pm at the Cumby Orrell Mortuary Chapel with Rev Millard Jones of Springfield Friends Meeting officiating. Interment follows at Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery. The body remains at the mortuary until service time. Hill died en route to High Point Memorial Hospital Friday at 7:30 pm after six years of declining health.
Phillip Allen Beck two day old son of Ralph and Joyce Beck died in City Memorial Hospital Saturday morning He was born in Thomasville February 2 Surviving are the parents of Johnsontown Road and the maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Howard Beck Graveside services will be held at Emanuel Evangelical and Reformed Church Cemetery at 2 p m today Rev Barney Pierce officiating The body will lie at J C Green and Sons Funeral Home until service time Burial will be in the family plot at Emanuel Cemetery
The Rev Aubrey W Hedrick is to be installed as pastor of Calvary Evangelical and Reformed Church in Thomasville on Sunday at 11 am with Dr Harvey A Fesperman preaching. Hedrick moves from Mount Pleasant and will also serve Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church as supply minister until a permanent pastor is found.
Two young thieves stole Bible salesman James K. Burns’s car and used it to rob a Dallas grocery store, netting $43. The vehicle was later found abandoned and Burns discovered none of his 27 Bibles 24 Lord’s Prayer necklaces 15 Bible-story books or numerous crosses were taken.
James Lester Coleson, 32, pleaded guilty before Judge Langston G. King to an Oct. 27 burglary in which only an ice pick was taken and received a two year sentence. He then pled guilty before Judge A. C. Winborn to felony theft of an adding machine on Sept. 4, earning another two year sentence. The sentences run concurrently.
Dr. Crockett urges transfer of General William Richardson Davie papers to the University of North Carolina for posterity. He notes Davie’s NC governorship and 1799 resignation to join France talks, and recalls heirlooms passed through generations. He asks Dr. Robinson to present items for Davie biography use.
The Consolidated Presbyterian College trustees in Raleigh chose Wilmington Laurinburg Rocky Mount Fayetteville and Lumberton as candidates for the college location after four days of meetings. The panel considered seventeen communities that had appealed for the campus and were visited by board committees.
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