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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1961
Page
3
Belk Foundation announces 18 scholarships for deserving seniors planning to enter college next fall. Applicants are judged on scholastic rating activities and character with winners free to choose their college and course of study.
Rehearsals for the 1961 Jaycee Jollies start at 7 30 tonight at the Kindergarten School of Culture on N Wrenn Street. All 70 chorus parts are open with end men positions. Banjo players are sought. Chorus director is Charles B Ferguson. Rehearsals run Mondays and Fridays. Show dates are April 2024. The Jollies are produced by the High Point Junior Chamber of Commerce drawing talent from across North Carolina.
Six North Carolina colleges shared 236,600 from the 1960 United Negro College Fund campaign proceeds. W J Trent Jr UNCF executive director announced the NC total of 36,157. The six schools Barber Scotia Concord Bennett Johnson C Smith Livingstone St Augustine Shaw received funds for scholarships faculty salaries and program expansion.
Stocks drift lower in active trading with most major issues down fractions to about a point. A few issues advance, led by North American Aviation and Martin Company, while several groups show only minor changes and a handful gain modestly.
Fifteen High Pointers and a Lexington youth earned top honors in the regional Scholastic Art Awards contest sponsored by WFMY-TV Greensboro. Judges reviewed 2,546 works from 85 middle and high schools across the Piedmont, selecting 614 for exhibition February 19 to March 4 at Women's College Greensboro. Gold Key winners total 125 pieces and merit certificates 489. Gold Key pieces will be shown in the Weatherspoon Gallery. merit certificates in Eliott Hall. High Point Gold Key recipients from Ferndale Junior High include Linwood Allen and 13 others. Lexington’s lone Gold Key winner is Larry Mendenhall from North Davidson High School.
The market report shows Dow Jones industrials at 637.04 at 10 a.m. and 639.67 at close. Rails and utilities also move with price points listed. Trading volume reached 4.84 million shares by the end of the day.
Taretha Ann Johnson died after a brief illness at High Point Memorial Hospital. She is survived by her mother Willie Mae Johnson a sister Sarah Denise Johnson a brother Cecil Johnson and a grandmother Jennie Mae Milton plus an uncle Clifford Johnson. Graveside services are set for Tuesday at 2 30 PM at Greenhill Cemetery. The body remains at Moore Funeral Home until the hour.
In a North Carolina case from the Allen Jay area two youths and a relative face perjury charges after testifying in a larceny trial. Benny R Chaney and Bobby Ray Beeson plus Mrs Ora Chaney are suspected of false testimony linked to a June 23 theft of fender skirts from a Hamptonville car.
A religious reflection requests global unity and justice through prayer. It invokes common humanity, seeks blessings for nations, and asks God to rebuke evil and promote righteousness, with a closing amen by M Ray McKay of Wake Forest North Carolina.
Boy Scout Troop 121 of Thomasville will be honored at a 6:30 p.m. Monday supper at Memorial Methodist Church followed by a Court of Honor. Tom Marlowe announced the event and ceremony.
A 11 year old Ronald Wayne Bradley, son of Capt. Willie W. Bradley, died after strangling while playing with a rope swing in his Jacksonville yard. Over the weekend North Carolina saw at least 11 violent deaths including drownings and car crashes across multiple counties.
Scott's AFL-CIO notes NC ranks high in industrial employment but low in average hourly wages. Barbee says collective bargaining can raise wages more than new factories. Sanford discusses attracting higher paying industries and a possible National Guard warehouse switch from Butner to Raleigh amid local protests. He reiterates industrial plans for Butner as an ideal site within broader development.
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