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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1937
Page
10
Members of the High Point Chapter of the American Business club travel to Greensboro for a joint dinner with Greensboro and Burlington clubs at the Mireensboro Country Club. About 100 members from three clubs are expected to attend and honor guests are listed.
Wayne Brock of Greenville South Carolina presides over the National Association of American Business clubs. Howell and Horace Seeley of Asheville head the Carolina district as president and secretary. A reception committee greets visitors, and arrangements for the banquet are led by Thomas C. Darst Jr D E B Hudgins and Harold Seburn with BE D Kuykendall Jr directing the program.
The Wesley Memorial church group the Wesley Players postpone tonight's meeting due to the play Voices From Many Lands not yet ready for actors. Further meeting notices will be issued soon.
Police charge two individuals with speeding in the last day. The note urges cautious driving to save lives. A science snippet explains slave-making ants raid other nests, stealing cocoon captives to raise as workers for their captors.
A reflective column recalls a winter scene where a driver and friends chat, noting humor in a Greek waiter, an Englishman, an Irishman and a Jew sharing coffee. It honors the late Dr. T Wingate Andrews, praising his engaging humanity and rare conversational gifts. The writer recounts neighborly help with emplaced cars, a stuck road scraper, and a landlord avoiding trouble during a snowy spell.
Two breakings and entering were reported to local police today as having occurred last night but with light losses. At Gulf Filling station the safe was not taken. entry via a rear window. Shackelford Tailoring, 115 South Main, lost two hats and two one dollar bills from display after glass was broken. Frank Robbing reported a pistol and twelve golf balls stolen from his parked car near Blair Park. total value about forty dollars.
The Uwharrie Boy Scout Council received the President Walter W. Head Acorn trophy from the Boy Scouts of America for surpassing its 1936 membership goal. Scout executive B. W. Hackney Jr. announced that the year started with a target of 670 members across 33 troops, but the council finished with 753 active Scouts in 40 troops.
The Eastern Wine Corporation of New York sues Eastern Wine Corporation of North Carolina in High Point municipal court for 15200 alleging use of identical Five-Star Brandied Wine labels. Plaintiff seeks 200 penalties, 10000 punitive and 5000 actual damages, and an injunction plus destruction of label-making devices.
Mont Blanc, the Alps’ highest peak often said to lie in Switzerland, is in fact almost entirely within France. Peccaries differ from most hooved animals by having just three toes on each hind foot.
Frank T. Miller of Greensboro delivered all engineering plans to City Manager Knox for the Southern Railway tracks depression in downtown High Point. Bids for major contracts may be asked in days after approval by City, Public Works Administration, and State Highway and Public Works Commission.
Raleigh reports Representative James M. Bailey of Madison county urged the General Assembly to back U S Senator Josiah W Bailey in opposing President Roosevelt's court reform program. The House referred Bailey's resolution to a judiciary committee for study.
The Farris Andrews Men's Bible class at First Baptist Church adopted resolutions of respect for Dr. T Wingate Andrews who taught there for 12 years until his death last week. A Lovelace, committee chair, announced the resolution and noted the class now bears his name.
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