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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1926
Page
1
The zoning commission plans a February 22 hearing at city hall at 7 30 pm to explain the proposed building zoning ordinance. Cambell Scott of New York will present the plan and invite citizen suggestions as the ordinance divides the city into six district classes with detailed map boundaries and use restrictions for residences businesses and industry.
New York February 6 AP Justice Joseph Morschauer calls divorce a greater menace than alcohol and urges abolition or strict federal regulation. He supports limited separations for mental infirmity or fraud, opposes large age disparities, and argues Americans who divorce abroad should lose legal rights.
Funeral services for Grover C. McGuaige were held at 2:30 p.m. at his Burton Street home with Rev. H. C. Miller of West End Baptist Church and Rev. H. W. Howard of West Hickory Church officiating. Burial was in Oakwood Cemetery. Pallbearers included O. A. Binkley, JJ. O. Connor, Rev. Mr. Byrum, R. L. Whitaker, H. C. Yarborough, and D. H. Davis. Flower bearers were Mauce Williams, Jamie Williams, Cozy Long, and Mrs. L. M. Young.
Cardinal Hayes arriving from Rome said it is improper to ask children to consider vile and outlawed practices used daily in worship. Emory R. Buckner estimated enforcement would cost 15 million dollars annually in New York state. Wayne B. Wheeler urged Americans to sing the Star Spangled Banner and forget the refrain How Dry I Am.
The senate votes show a five vote difference as some senators push to invite miners and operators to the White House for a conference while Goolidge is not asked to intervene. The article notes a division on how to address the strike and labor tensions.
The Senate rejected a Robinson plan for a federal board of industrial adjustment to end the anthracite strike, voting 43 to 38 against a white house conference proposal. Debates focused on emergency powers, labor disputes, and constitutional authority amid delay in the tax bill.
Samuel Colville Lind, chief chemist of the bureau of mines in Washington DC, receives the Nichols medal the era’s top pure chemistry honor. At Washington and Lee University he excelled in languages before embracing chemistry in his senior year, graduating first in his class and earning the chemistry scholarship. The award cites a publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society as evidence of outstanding merit.
Funeral services for Major T. J. Wood were held at the home of his daughter Mrs A T Wishart on Steele Street with a special quartet, scripture readings by Rev W R Harris and Rev E K McLarty, prayer by Rev J M Hilliard, and tributes to his war service by Dr McLarty. Burial followed in Trinity Cemetery. United Daughters of the Confederacy led floral offerings. active pallbearers and Confederate veterans attended.
Governor McLean announces support for a North Carolina monument to soldiers who fell at Gettysburg. He cites other states with memorials and praises the 26th North Carolina regiment led by Colonel Harry Burgwyn Jr., noting heavy casualties and heroic acts as he endorses a suitable monument on the battlefield.
Washington reports the administration urges a full overhaul of the federal prohibition system, including a new independent prohibition bureau in the treasury and civil service changes. Bills in Congress aim to place enforcement under the secretary of the treasury with a separate customs bureau, while keeping the Volstead Act intact. Debates grow bitter as lawmakers weigh the broad changes and potential shifts in enforcement power.
The Washington board of aldermen repealed the city ordinance banning gasoline sales on Sundays. The measure, in effect for a year and a half, passed five to three after a local filling station proprietor urged repeal.
City officials plan to discuss a detention home for under supervision youths. A committee of five civic leaders will study the proposal to hire a male officer to assist the female probation officer, addressing the lack of detention space since current facilities require placing youths in an adult jail.
Greensboro AP reports early interest in the seventh annual North Carolina Music contest at North Carolina College, with Dr Wade R. K. Brown noting more participants likely than last year. The contest is set for April 29, with 964 high school students entering in 193? and more schools already planning to compete.
Robert Smith, 21, a Raleigh resident, was chased by two officers and leaped a five foot steel fence in Durham. He broke both bones in his leg and is hospitalized while charged with shoplifting from a local store.
WASHINGTON February 6 AP Chairman Smoot predicts final vote on tax reduction bill next week with night sessions starting Monday and debate on publicity of returns and inheritance tax. Bowman found guilty of assault on a female in Newton and released on bond until Monday. judge Webb warns sentencing early next week.
Rev A D P Gilmour of First Presbyterian Church in Wilmington argued before the Wilmington Radio club that radio aids the spread of Christianity, citing the Bible injunction to broadcast and comparing radio to the printing press as a tool for spreading the gospel.
Washington North Carolina city officials consider adopting an original automobile license plate featuring a head of George Washington as the background with the inscription The Original Washington North Carolina founded. The proposal was under review by the aldermen on February 6.
Wilmington officials announce plans for the annual New Hanover County Sunday school meeting to be held at the First Christian Church. Speakers include Walter Myers general secretary of the Pennsylvania Sunday School association Mrs Jong M Boyd of Harrisburg Pa W D Sims of Raleigh and Miss Daisy Magee general superintendent of the North Carolina Sunday School association.
A bond issue request of 225001 dollars is proposed to fund street improvements in Elizabeth City. The measure would authorize the city to undertake twenty three street projects with a total estimated cost and timing to be determined.
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