English Street Widening Project Nears Approval
A civic committee seeks 100 percent frontage sign up to widen English street from 28 to 40 feet at no cost to owners via federal funds. Of 8,700 feet, 1,130 feet oppose. 4,422 feet already donated. others show tentative or no response as officers pursue early completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Highway Commission
Frank J. Sizemore
Chamber of Commerce
College
Phillips Street
Phillips
Southern Hosiery Makers Form Cooperative Association
The Southern Hosiery Manufacturers Association announces it will avoid sectionalism and push mutual cooperation. Secretary T. R. Durham cites wage differentials, lower Southern living costs, close employer worker ties, and transportation challenges as justifications and outlines plans to act as a clearing house for ideas and to coordinate oversold mills as business normalizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Hosiery Manufacturers Association
T. R. Durham
Mr. Durham
Southern Association
Association
Parsons Enters Democratic Race for House Seat
D H Parsons a Guilford County attorney and life long Democrat announced his candidacy for one of four house seats in the June primary. The article notes his background, family, and ties to Greensboro while outlining the crowded field shaping both house and senate contests in the 17th district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. H. Parsons
House
Raleigh
Parsons
Guilford County
North Carolina
General Assembly
George C. Hampton
County Board of Elections
John W. Caffey
Greensboro
Guilford
Rockingham
Allen H. Gwynn
Thomas Turner, Jr
Tracy Moore
Thomas C. Hoyle, Jr
L. J. Fisher
Township
Democratic Executive Committee
Charles W. McAnally
Rupert T. Pickens
M. W. Nash
Richmond County
R. O. Lindsay
Mr. Hoyle
Ben Cone
Robert R. King
Itchin Heel Is Well Received At School
A four act Negro life play Itching Heel by John Parker was staged by an all Negro cast at High Point High School under the Junior Service League. Professor Cressot Frederick Hoch praised the production and the cast, with audience praise evident in widespread approval. Parker directed with help from Meek Beard and Vesta Copeland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Parker
High Point High School
Junior Service League
North Carolina
XTV
Cressot
Frederick Hoch
Carolina Playmakers
University of North Carolina
Parker
Australia Mason
Kenny
Ruth Owens
Lena
Eunice V. Baldwin
Trnce
Clarence Yokely
Mose
Michel Perara Wilson
Duck
Frank James
Mary Harris
John Robinson
Grace DeBerry
Ruth Barringer
Charles Whitted
Daisy Malloy
Ervin Moore
Marian Leech
Genell Armstrong
Luella Wilson
Bessie Mae Alba
Thelma Drake
Inez Boger
Carl Tate
Claude Brown
James R. Ingram
Harold Lowe
James Pike
Vavassa
Jimmie Whitley
Meek Beard
Vesta Copeland
Ray Cross
Sarah Wilson Jones
Lecture Series by Miss Elliott Starts Tuesday
Plans are set for five lectures on the recovery program by Miss Harriett Elliott professor of Economics at Woman's College UNC. The talks run at the Sheraton hotel under the Business and Professional Girls club of the local YWCA with the first evening February 26 at 6 o'clock. Tickets are selling quickly and may be bought from club members or Miss Mary W. Gwynn at the YWCA.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harriett Elliott
Woman's College of the
University of North Carolina
Sheraton Hotel
Business and Professional Girls Club
Mary W. Gwynn
Miss Ellicott
Magisterial Court Appeals Routed Through Local Court
Judge Lewis E. Teague ruled that appeals from magistrates courts in this township must go through the High Point municipal court instead of directly to the superior court. The change aims to relieve superior court congestion by funneling unimportant magistrates court appeals through the municipal court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis E. Teague
High Point
Leu
Man of Denton to address Methodist Dinner
J G Rogers of Denton will speak at a fellowship dinner for men and the Sunday school held Tuesday at 6 30 in the First Methodist Protestant church assembly room. D A Neese, committee chair, said other brief talks will follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. G. Rogers
Denton
North Carolina Methodist Protestant Annual Conference
First Methodist Protestant Church
D. A. Neese
Furniture Plant Granted Charter
Hazelwood’s Anagusta Manufacturing Corporation gains charter to make and sell furniture with 50 000 stock subscribed by Mrs Annie G Quinlan J R Boyd R L Pregost and others. Greensboro’s North Stace Chevrolet company chartered to deal in automobiles with 300 stock subscribed by J E Miller T A Williams and T B McCollum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Hazelwood
Greensboro
Stacey W. Wade
Anagusta Manufacturing Corporation
Annie G. Quinlan
J. R. Boyd
R. L. Pregost
North Stace Chevrolet Company
J. E. Miller
T. A. Williams
T. 8. McCollum
CWA-CWA Payroll Totals and Jamestown Project Update
The combined CWA and CWAS payroll for High Point past week totaled 15909.07 paid to 1121 workers. 1204.82 to 1021 CWA workers and 1205.25 to 108 CWA workers. Work on project 23037 city lake at Jamestown will resume with extended shifts Friday to Tuesday and one added Wednesday for carpenters. Footings for swimming pool walls are over one third complete. excavation nearly finished and three gangs moved to the amphitheatre. Pool wall work awaits copper joints. efficiency up. average 442 men with 12 trucks. Accidents total 13 with one hospital and one doctor visit. others received first aid. Unit completion: Amphitheatre 50%, tennis courts 82%, play field 1 92%, stone gutters 90%, steps and fireplaces 44%, boat house 78%, pool excavation 92%, tree surgery 99%, new entrance road 30%, bath house foundation 98%.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamestown
C. G. Mackintosh
Mackintosh
Bath House Foundation
Supervised Play Program Aids City Youths
About 4,500 public school children are served daily by the Juvenile and Parks Commission through a supervised recreation program. William F. Bailey, director, notes the effort uses trained supervisors from CWA to provide wholesome, healthful activities after school, keeping youths off streets amid NRA codes. The program aims to benefit both children and the community, with a recent joint effort between juvenile and recreation departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juvenile and Parks Commission
William F. Bailey
Devce Ae
CWA
Bailey
NRA
Duke Glee Club to Sing Here March 6
The Duke University Glee Club directed by J Foster Barnes with Jelly Leftwich and the Duke University Orchestra perform in our city on March 6 under the Wesley Memorial church Young Peoples department. The concert will be at the Junior High School auditorium with Mrs. J Foster Barnes as soloist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke University Glee Club
J. Foster Barnes
Jelly Leftwich
Duke University
Young Peoples Department
Wesley Memorial Church
John Austin
Scouts Launch Campaign For Needy In High Point
High Point Boy Scouts announce a uniformed campaign to collect clothing, household goods, and furniture for the local welfare board. Scouts will call at homes, assemble donations at West Washington street headquarters, and turn items over to welfare for distribution to needy residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
High Point
Boy Scouts
Board of Welfare
Bunn W. Hackney, Jr
Sconta
West Washington Street
EB. E. Forward
O. Delk Smith
D. H. Parnell
Winfred Hinkle
Walter Crissman
A. P. Samuels
H. A. Styersa
Mr. Hackney
Rawley Named To Editorial Affairs Board of S N P A
J P Rawley publisher of The Enterprise is named to the Editorial Affairs committee of the Southern Newspaper Publishers' Association announced in Chattanooga by Cranston Williams secretary manager. Heiskell of the Arkansas Gazette in Little Rock is committee chairman as the group plans its 1934 Grove Park Inn convention in Asheville May 21 to 23.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. P. Rawley
The
Enterprise
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Chattanooga
Cranston Williams
N. Heiskell
Arkansas Gazette
Little Rock
Ark
Grove Park Inn
Asheville
Probing Death Case Ties Pulliam to Harvell Slaying
Officers continue the investigation into the December 22 arson and murder of Lee H. Harvell near the city as they seek an alleged second accomplice. Mrs Emma Pulliam remains bound over after a preliminary hearing citing dreams of a former sweetheart’s pending death as part of the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. A. Woodell
Emma H. Pulliam
Superior Court
Lee
H. Harvell
Sherif
Relief Plan Seeks Federal Funds to Eliminate Rail Grade Crossings
Maryland chamber of commerce urges Rep W B Umstead to allocate a definite percentage of upcoming federal highway aid for removing hazardous railway grade crossings. Secretary Frank J Sizemore cites Section 204 and argues the funds should target grade crossing elimination on federal highways.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland Chamber of Commerce
United States Chamber of Commerce
Frank J. Sizemore
Chamber of Commerce
W. B. Umstead
Building plans call for outlay of 75000 total
Applications filed with the Public Works Administration seek loans of 40000 and 35000 to finance plant expansions at Burrus Memorial and Guilford General hospitals. The Burrus project would add a three-story fireproof wing, extending the west unit and increasing beds by 15 percent, with new offices and hydrotherapy. The Guilford General plan would erect a front brick, fireproof structure to double beds by adding thirty rooms, modernizing the plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burrus Memorial Hospital
Guilford General Hospital
Public Works Administration
Pressent
Chapel Hill
J. A. Myatt
West Side
J. T. Burrus
Dry Sleuthing Reveals Prohibition Arrests in High Point
North Carolina’s dry status aside, local police records show 1,569 arrests for liquor law violations from June 1, 1933 to January 1, 1934. Public drunkenness dominates, 1,047 cases, with most convicted. 332 liquor law violations yield 299 convictions. High Point police report 190 DUI arrests, 165 guilty, others pending. Drunken arrests skew 20s men, some under 20. Drunks are jailed until sober, bond posted or 11.50 court costs paid. failures face county jail and road labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Appleyard
North Carolina
Pele
Seinen
High Point
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PWA
Southern Hosiery Group
Mr. Parsons
J. H. Weatherly
William Preston Ragan
Agnes Lowe
Farriss Avenue
David H. Parsons, Jr
Haverford College
Haverford, Pa
James Parsons
David H. Parsons
Miss Elliott
Furniture Plant
CWAS
Chilma
Duke Glee Club
Harvell
Sizemore
Maryland
Burrus Memorial
North Side
Guilford General
Paxe Fleven
Y A.J. Koonce
George Washington
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