Eight year old boy seriously injured after running into car
An eight year old boy sustained severe injuries after running into a moving car on Highway 10-A. Jerry Wayne Thomas of 421 Wright Rd suffered multiple abrasions and bleeding from scalp, admitted to High Point Memorial Hospital. Driver Chester Hill, 39, of 823 Carolina Ave., was not cited per state patrol.
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Highway
Jerry Wayne Thomas
Wright Rd
High Point Memorial Hospital
State Highway Patrol
Chester Hill
Carolina Ave
Thomasville
Tax counsel urges early tax record整理 for 1956 refunds
IRS District Director P. K Sanders urges North Carolina taxpayers to assemble 1956 records now and start preparing returns. He notes April 15 remains filing deadline, but many withholdings trigger refunds. Even without Form W-2, taxpayers can estimate income and begin, with some returns needing verification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. K Sanders
Federal Office
The
Internal Revenue Service
Sam
Sanders
North Carolina
Zoning Plans Debated At Oak View Lions Meeting
Oak View Lions welcomed nine new members added this year and set a charter night in April. J. D. Jennings spoke on forming a zoning commission for the Oak View community. Vernon Jones outlined the birthday calendar project details. Membership certificates from Lions International were presented.
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Oak View Lions
J. D. Jennings
Oak View
Vernon Jones
Lions International
Members Only AA Meeting at St Marys Parish House
Alcoholics Anonymous holds an members only meeting tonight at 8 o clock in the parish house of St Marys Episcopal Church. Information can be requested by writing to P O Box 5053.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alcoholics Anonymous
St. Mary's Episcopal Church
Jury Returns True Bill In Murder Case
A grand jury indicted Clifford Whitt Phillips, 28, for the killing on the night of January 5. Solicitor Horace R. Kornegay said he was not prepared to give a definite answer. If the state accepts a guilty verdict, the first degree murder sentence would automatically be life.
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Clifford Whitt Phillips
Horace R. Kornegay
Realty Transfers in High Point Townships and Jamestown
Real estate transfers list numerous deeds in High Point Township and Jamestown Township. Transfers include F G Beck to A J Poole and wife and reverse, Hedgecock and Brentwood plats, Eastover Park, Meadowbrook Drive, Lexing ton Avenue, Pennyburn Lands, and City Farm Road tracts. Buyers include A J Poole, C W Strickland, W S Cardin, N M Harrison Sr, A M Small, H L Page, Lennie, J F Weatherman, W L Kennedy, F R Morgan, J D Potts, J B Patterson, E E Younts Inc, R Scott, Doris G Byerly, C G Chapman, and Kavanaugh-Smith Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point Township
F. G. Beck
A.J. Poole
Tabor Street
A. J. Poole
Carmen McDowell
C. W. Strickland
Hedgecock
L. F. Ansley
W. S. Cardin
Brentwood
N. M. Harrison Sr
A. M. Small
N. Hamilton Street
H. L. Page
Lennie
High Point
J. F. Weatherman
W. L. Kennedy
J. H. Froelich
M. G. Morgan
F. R. Jones
Eastover Park
J. D. Potts
J. B
Meadowbrook Drive
Jamestown Township
John W. Bryan
Duncan Bryan
City Farm Road
Nannie Bryan Ingram
C. Wade Davis
Donald H. Powell
Pennyburn
Governor seeks funds to house Texas archives
Gov. Price Daniel asks Texas Legislature to allocate money for a safe, permanent building to store the state's historic documents including the 121 year old declaration of independence. Some archives are kept in a quonset hut awaiting proper housing.
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Austin
Tex
Price Daniel
Texas
Daniel
Case Of Theft Bound Over By Court
In municipal court an 18 year old youth Billy Lee Kindley bound over for trial in Guilford Superior Court on larceny and receiving charges after probable cause was found. Bond set at $500. Other defendants received suspended sentences or fines for operating a car while intoxicated and related offenses. Fred Gibson was given four months suspended, fined $100 plus costs and not to drive for a year. Felix Little received 60 days suspended on condition of paying a $10 fine and costs. R N Fleming got 30 days suspended for a worthless check. Other sentences included Carl M Sherwood 30 days suspended with $15 costs and Donald Sumner 60 days suspended with $15 costs.
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Billy Lee Kindley
Guilford Superior Court
Kindley
Ray Carter
Street
Brown
Fred Gibson
Greensboro
Felix Little
Park Street
Little
R. N. Fleming
R. Jones
E. Green Street
Willie B. Lilly
Donald E. Sumner
High Point
Carl M. Sherwood
Bencini Street
Two 1 Act Plays At HPC Assembly
The High Point College weekly assembly will feature the Tower Players directed by Jane DeSpain presenting two recent American one act plays. Stephen Vincent Benet's The Devil and Daniel Webster and Thornton Wilder's The Happy Journey from Trenton to Camden will be performed.
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High Point College
Tower Players
Jane DeSpain
Stephen Vincent
Benet
Devil
Daniel’ Webster
Thornton Wilder
Trenton
Camden
Deer Run on Race Tracks Spooks Revere Residents
Deer wandered onto the Suffolk Downs and Wonderland tracks in Revere yesterday. Officers chased and finally roped the animals behind a gas station after they crossed finish lines ahead of pursuers. The deer likely came from nearby woods searching for food.
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Revere
Mass
Suffolk Downs
Wonderland
Council approves warrant bill to streamline signings
City Council fast tracked a bill to let deputy court clerks sign warrants amid legal doubts about current practice. The measure would let the city hire clerks to sign warrants on shift, aiming for introduction in the State Senate this week and possible passage by next Monday.
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Sareey Nox Walker
High Point
General Assembly
Walker
Council
State Senate
Ssee
Sen. Kirkman
Senate
Three Held In Check Larceny In High Point Case
Three High Point men returned from Florida to face Municipal Court on charges of breaking and entering and receiving. They are linked to a Jan. 23 break in at Piedmont Iron and Metal Co. on Ward Street, with a check protector machine and about 200 blank checks stolen. The machine was found with them. Also, Essie Mae Lewis, a Negro woman, was jailed on carrying a concealed weapon and drunkenness. bonds totaled 250 dollars. Carson Parrish was cited after a truck crash with a mail carrier and must appear Feb. 22.
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High Point
Florida
Oegy Bhatap
S. Hamilton Street
Rayalene Lee
Clara Cox
Albert G. Smith
S. Main Street
Piedmont Iron and Metal Co
Ward Street
Dildine
Kunsucke
Ad Smith
Fort
Frank Estes
Estes
Triangle Lake Road
Parrish
Six Elected To Concert Assn Board
Howard Coble president of the Piedmont Community Concert Assn announced six new board members Mrs. Robert E Bendini Jr Frank Garrett Robert Gayle Mrs Harry Jacobs Mrs John Hoffman and Gilbert Gray The annual membership drive runs March 11 through 16 with headquarters to be announced The artist selection committee has begun work and will announce selections soon Jer ry Wax New York representative attended the meeting The third concert of the season featuring the National Symphony Orchestra will be March 4 at High Point College auditorium.
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Howard Coble
Piedmont Community Concert Assn
Robert E. Bencini Jr
Frank Garrett
Robert Gayle
Harry Jacobs
John Hoffman
Gilbert Gray
T. A. Shubert
The
Jerry Wax
New York
Coble
National Symphony Orchestra
High Point College Auditorium
Man Trapped for 21 Hours in Marshallville Incident
Frank Hester, 49, spent 21 hours trapped between a tree and a truck door in Marshallville Georgia. He was found by two men after an all night search across four counties. Doctors at Peach County Hospital Fort Valley treated a badly injured left arm shock and exposure and Hester was said to be satisfactory.
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Marshallville
Frank Hester
Peach County Hospital
Fort Valley
Hester
Flint Electric Membership Corp
Gas Fire Lights Russell Street Area
Gas leaking from a repair line in the 300 block of W Russell Street was ignited by a burning smudge pot at 8 56 last night. The blaze was extinguished by firemen.
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W. Russell Street
Campaign nets 305 members for chamber
Thomasville chamber reports 305 memberships paid or pledged for 1957 under manager Macon P. Miller Jr. The drive aimed at 400 by Jan. 23 and involved 35 committee members who pledged full cooperation. Some responses remain to be heard.
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Thomasville
Chamber of Commerce
Macon P. Miller Jr
Miller
Mrs Page Harris Called To Duty In Flood Area
Mrs W Page Harris executive secretary of the local Red Cross left today for Red Cross headquarters in Bristol Ton. She will be reassigned to work with flood victims after reporting there. She left after a request from Southeastern American Red Cross Headquarters in Atlanta Ga and is expected to stay in the flooded Kentucky Virginia area for three or four weeks.
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W. Page Harris
Red Cross Ee
Red Cross
Bristol
Ton
Harris
Southeastern American Red Cross
Atlanta
Kentucky-West Virginia
U.S. Newsman Returns From Red China Travel Ban
William Worthy, Baltimore Afro American reporter, arrives in Moscow after defying the State Department travel ban to Red China. He plans several days in Moscow before returning home. Edmund Stevens and Phil Harrington previously returned in January. The State Department said the three passports would be revoked. The embassy was told to question but not act on the passports.
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Moscow
State Department
China
William Worthy
Baltimore
Peiping
Edmund Stevens
Phil Harrington
Look Magazine
Extension of Hammer Street Aims to Relieve School Traffic
City officials move to extend Hammer Street to connect with Johnson Street to ease congestion near Johnson Street School and Blair Park. Council allocates 800 dollars for right of way and approves one water connection. raises overtime pay for utilities and fills a board vacancy. Public hearings set for annexation and rezoning matters.
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Hammer Street
Trafffic
Johnson Street
Blair Park
Utilities Department
Main Street
Edward Drake
G. W. Mitchell
R. D. Tillson
Emerywood Forest Inc
Edward Silver
Drake
Montgomery Place
Oak View Fire Association Sets Annual Meeting
The Oak View Fire Protective Association will hold its annual meeting at 7:30 this evening in the Oak View School auditorium. The program includes election of officers and directors whose terms expire, plus the association's annual report. The spokesman says the meeting is open to the public and questions from the floor will be answered.
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Oak View
Train Kills Charlotte Man On Track Near Crossing
A 38 year old Charlotte man Marvin A Preslar was struck and killed by a Sea board Air Line freight train while lying on the tracks near a crossing. The engineer could not stop the locomotive and two cars as the fireman alerted too late. He died on arrival at a Charlotte hospital.
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Charlotte
Seaboard Air Line
Marvin A Preslar
Heart Campaign Opens Local Heart Drive HQ
The 1957 Heart Campaign opens its headquarters on the second floor of the S Main Street branch of High Point Savings & Trust Co. Mrs James T Warren executive secretary of the High Point Heart Association says February will host Heart Month with an $11 000 local goal. Heart Fund aims to aid research and heart disease victims and a heart replica seven feet tall may be erected on Knox Bridge after a council appearance.
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S. Main Street
High Point Savings & Trust Co
James T. Warren
High Point Heart Association
R. B. Terry
Heart Fund
Knox Bridge
Mrs. Eleanor Sheppard Taylor dies at 98 in High Point home
Mrs. Eleanor Sheppard Taylor, 98, widow of H. H. Taylor, died at her daughter’s home in High Point after a weeklong illness. She was born Oct. 30, 1858 in Patrick County Virginia. Survived by six sons, three daughters, 52 grandchildren, 68 great grandchildren, 11 great great grandchildren. Funeral 2 p.m. tomorrow at Snow Creek Primitive Baptist Church with Elders D. A. O'Brien N. B. Gilbert Roy Smith presiding. burial in church cemetery. Body to be taken to Jessie's Corns home at 3 p.m. today.
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Danbury
Eleanor Sheppard Taylor
H. H. Taylor
Zeb Rhodes
High Point
Patrick County
Wiley
Juline Rodgers Sheppard
W. J
Martinsville
E. N
M. C
Huntington
W. Va
E. H
Germanton
G. G
J. H
Roxboro
Jessie L. Corns
Lawsonville
J. Lee Moley
Charlotte
Snow Creek Primitive Baptist Church
D. A. O'Brien
N. B. Gilbert
Roy Smith
Jessie Corns
Prayer for TUSDAY by Alfred Walton
A devotional prayer asks for steadfast faith amid trials and temptations. The speaker, Alfred G. Walton of Brooklyn, urges communion with God and Christ's fellowship to maintain courage and calm assurance in daily life.
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Christ
Alfred G. Walton
Brooklyn
N. Y
Flatbush-Tompkins Congregational Church
One Fair Skies Day News Brief
Weathermen foresee a dreary period with Friday as the likeliest fair day. Tonight and tomorrow bring cool, with light rain or drizzle. Thursday could turn milder with more light rain. Cloudiness dominates the period. Greensboro High Point Airport record: last night 49. Tonight 42. Today’s high in the low 50s. tomorrow’s high near 55.
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Greensboro-High Point
Morgan Leads Anti Crime Observance
Lester Morgan named as chair of the anti crime observance committee and urged High Point residents to join the week’s activities. The theme “Lawlessness A Major Threat to Our Way of Life” quotes FBI Director J Edgar Hoover and calls for action against crime and juvenile delinquency.
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Lester Morgan
High Point
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Morgan
Non-Support Case Filed Against Thomasville Man
Ervin B Gobble of Gobble ne ypasaya Street was arrested on a complaint by his wife Elsie Gobble for abandonment and non support. A warrant said he ceased care of his wife and two children aged 6 and 4 as of November 1 1956. He posted 300 bond and was released pending a February 8 Recorder's Court hearing.
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Thomasville
Ervin B. Gobble
Ypasaya Street
Elsie Gobble
Gobble
Recorder’s Court
Deaths And Funerals In North Carolina Notices
Rossie Melton Pugh 80 of Route 1 Asheboro died at home after months of ill health. Surviving wife Rosie i Maness Pugh three daughters Flossie Stewart Paul Long Eva Jane Pugh and 15 grandchildren. Funeral 1 p m Pleasant Cross Christian Church burial in church cemetery. James Alex Martin 47 Lexington died Sunday at Baptist Hospital Winston-Salem. Survived by wife Nannie Goins Martin four daughters Barbara Betty Nancy Martin six sons Roy T Jun ior Lee James W Johnny Horace and Ronald Martin five sisters and six grandchildren. Charlie Lafayette Gurley 88 retired railroad crossing watchman died at home 504 Sherwood Dr Lexington Avenue Baptist Church services yesterday burial Oakwood Cemetery pallbearers listed.
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Asheboro
Rossie Melton Pugh
Route 1
Randolph County
Rosie i Maness Pugh
Flossie Stewart
Paul Long
Ramseur
Eva Jane Pugh
Pleasant Cross Christian Church
Lexington
James Alex Martin
Baptist
Ida Crofts
Route 9
Mamie Bastain
Frances and
Gertrude Martin
Winston-Salem
Lillie Martin
Route 5
Winston- Salem
Charlie L. Gurley
Charlie Lafayette Gurley
Lexington Avenue Baptist Church
Woodrow W. Robbins
L. R. McNeill
Fairmont Park Baptist Church
Oakwood Cemetery
Bobby Joe Gurley
Donald Gurley
Ray Collins
Grayson Venable
Darvin Russell
Joe Craddock
Aaron Rice
Oliver Russell
Mr. Gurley
Sherwood Dr
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Hill
Jerry Wayne
Princess
John Braica
Lindale Dr
Janet Teague
HPC Assembly
Concert Assn. Board
Campaign
Chamber
Page Harris
U.S
Red
Jack Green
Nan Garland
Ralph Norman
Ralph Snider
Firemen’s Relief Fund Board
J. E. Pleasants
W. E. Mitchell
New Hope
Haw River
Deep River
Hobart Jackson
Oak View Fire Association
Train
Heart Drive
Tusday
James A. Martin
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