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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1961
Page
7
County voters show women outnumber men after a surge in registrations for the November general election. Women total 46,928 versus 45,184 men statewide, with High Point showing women 12,426 to men 11,694. Democrats lead 70,890 to Republicans 17,392.
In Fort Pierce Florida a court order returns C L Neill’s spittoon after others at a Gas tonia North Carolina apartment misread his absence as abandonment. The judge ruled the spittoon was not abandoned and must be returned.
Union members meeting in Erwin NC decided to return to work Monday at Erwin Mills. Negotiations on a new contract with the Textile Workers Union of America remain recessed with no set resumption date. Arbitration remains a central point of contention as the firm aims to limit arbitrable issues.
Whiteford Hoyle Fowler 84 of 2100 Baltimore Ave died after a heart attack. Funeral 2 p.m. yesterday at Sechrest Chapel with burial in Floral Garden Cemetery. pallbearers named. Mary Ellen Branon Mathis 69 of 620 Liberty Dr died after a lengthy illness. Funeral held 2 p.m. yesterday at J C Green & Sons chapel with interment in Holly Hill Cemetery. pallbearers listed.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. at Montheu Avenue Baptist Church for Thomas Glenn Monroe age 2 months. Dr C K Rand officiated. burial followed at Floral Garden Park Cemetery. The infant son of Bobby Ray and Ann Marie Hunt Monroe died at 3 30 a m Thursday in Bells Tennessee while the parents traveled from California to High Point. The body was returned to the grandparents H C Hunt and wife at 711 Kennedy Street for the funeral proceedings.
Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie Skeenes Cheves 69 will be held at Green Street Baptist Church with Dr. E W Price Jr and Dr George Tunstall officiating. Burial follows at Floral Garden Park cemetery. Pallbearers include Carson Stout Arnold Culler A M Smith W L Caton L A Pegg J H Dorsett J R Teague and Carl Hinson. Mrs Cheves of 1009 Granby St died Friday at High Point Memorial Hospital after three weeks of hospitalization.
Dublin Virginia AP reports Ralph Ray escaped from a convict road camp where he served as cook. He walked away before preparing breakfast, drawing disapproval from the other 75 prisoners.
Funeral services for 72 year old Mrs Lillie Vincannon Cook were conducted yesterday at 2 30 p m from First Pilgrim Holiness Church by Rev J A Grout and former pastor Rev C L Ruth. Burial followed at Oakwood Cemetery with pallbearers A G Carson Otis Nance David Davis Stamey Stroud P I Dawson John Lain and W H Farlow. Mrs Cook of 1316 Bencini Street died in John Umstead Hospital at Butner Wednesday.
Graveside services for John Thompson 66 will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at City Cemetery conducted by Dr. Frank Jordan of Memorial Methodist Church. The body remains at J. C. Green & Sons. Burial in family plot. He died in a Columbia hospital Friday after a long illness.
Funeral services were held yesterday for James Ruffin Long a retired High Point fire department captain 86 at Sechrest Chapel and Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery. Also honored were Lions Club members and Trophy Council No 29 J C U A M. Burial followed in Oakwood Cemetery. A second service was held for Marvin David Buck Matthews 52 at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church with active pallbearers including local civic and church members and interment in Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery. Matthews died after a heart attack at a local hospital.
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