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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1946
Page
10
Police reported an active weekend totaling 43 arrests dominated by drunkenness with 19 charged. Six persons were arrested Saturday night for morals offenses including fornication and rumored cohabitation. Names of long term couples were withheld pending court evidence.
Taylor M Simpson a High Point realtor and former American Legion commander returns to his new College street office after more than three years away serving with the Red Cross in North Africa He landed with the third convoy and helped in combat zones while Patton’s forces operated nearby He is on terminal leave from the Red Cross by the 27th and plans a speaking tour later.
Funeral services for Theodore Roosevelt Harmon a truck driver for Atlantic Motor Lines were held in Thomasville with full military honors. Harmon 25 was killed in a wreck involving three trucks twelve miles east of Greensboro. He was a Mills Home alumnus and served in World War II overseas. He is survived by his wife Verna Jean Dugger Harmon mother Sallie Harmon and half sister Mrs Ray Vance.
Funeral services were held at Fairview Methodist church Sunday at 11 for Gus Tina Fouts of Rt. 1 Thomasville who died Thursday night at her home. Rev C O Pyler officiated with music by the church choir and soloists Everett Hilton and Buren Hill. Pallbearers included John Osborn and the Darr brothers. Burial followed in the family plot at the church cemetery.
Mrs Malindra A Myers 78 widow of J P Myers died at 417 Tate Street shortly before noon Monday after years of declining health She was born in Davidson County August 31 1867 and moved to the city 50 years ago Surviving children siblings and many grandchildren are listed Funeral arrangements with Koonce funeral home and First Evangelical and Reformed Church are noted Oakwood Cemetery burial planned Also included are unrelated trivia lines about early newspapers Azores origin grasshopper reproduction and Australia tropical zones
Ernest L. Auman 64 a High Point official in the coffin and casket sector and Myrtle desk company died at his home 803 Montlieu avenue Sunday night after a weeklong illness He was born October 1881 in Seagrove Randolph county and lived in High Point since 1921 Surviving are his widow Annie B Auman a son June Auman a daughter Mrs William Glover five brothers two sisters and a host of relatives Funeral services 3 pm Tuesday at First Methodist Church conducted by Rev Wilson O Weldon and Dr George R Brown Burial in Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery.
Mrs D G Brown aged 36 died shortly before 10 o clock Sunday night in a local hospital where she had been a patient for a week. Born May 10 1909 in Randolph County she moved to this city 30 years ago. Surviving: husband D G Brown son D G Brown Jr mother J M Presnell three brothers and four sisters. Funeral from the residence 308 Osborne street Tuesday at 3 pm Rev J A Grout to officiate. Burial in Country Holiness church cemetery near Randleman.
High Point prints seven thousand attractive pamphlets titled Welcome Home for returned service personnel at the veterans information center. Mayor Phillips cites a veterans advisory council and a city plan guiding civilian reentry with the center as a resource. copies go to men still in uniform and to the chamber of commerce for distribution. Virginia Ryan announces Rev Wilbur Hutchins to VIC board. Current VIC officers and members listed.
Local residents can get help filing federal income tax returns from two ITB representatives Kenneth W Shaw and James E Wyrick. They will work Monday through Thursday at Thomasville City Hall from 8 30 a m to 5 15 p m offering assistance to taxpayers.
R Victor Leighton Leighton, manager of Song of Norway, reports the musical based on Edvard Grieg’s life surpassed 617 performances and $3,000,000 in gross on Broadway. The production at Imperial Theater seats 427 and has drawn about 875,000 patrons.
Residents enjoyed a second day of sun and mild temperatures with 52 degrees after noon. Rain is forecast for tomorrow arriving late. temperatures are expected to rise slightly today but not reach yesterday's 64 degrees. Tomorrow should be cooler according to the weather bureau at the airport.
Chester Graves was given a six months suspended sentence and ordered to pay court costs after convicted in municipal court of violating prohibition laws. He testified he could not work due to a stab wound and had been selling liquor to support his child, but the judge admonished that liquor should not be his livelihood and suggested peanuts or nylon hosiery as alternatives. The court noted his inability to obtain welfare aid and multiple lawyers offered to buy his future stock.
President J. A. Johnson names chairmen and vice chairmen for Chamber committees for the coming year. Aviation chiefs T. V. Rochelle and Hammond H. Smith lead. civic J. Grady Goldston and R. K. Y.. industrial R. T. Amos and Hal A. Davis. publicity Noble T. Praigg and Robert Thompson. legislative W. T. Powell and W. B. McEwen. finance J. W. Lindsay and W. G. Ragsdale. retail trade E. L. Chitwood and G. E. Hutchens. health W. B. Hall and Dr. H. L. Brockman. fire prevention G. Curtis Smithdeal and John R. Peacock. membership Amos R. Kearns and Elliott S. Wood. highways Charles R. Kearns and A. M. Rankin. national affairs E. N. Phillips and J. E. Millis. industrial owning O. A. Kirkman and Anders Dallas. agricultural Horace Haworth and R. R. Ragan. traffic Henry A. Foscue and J. P. Ryan. housing Charles L. Amos and T. Hunter Dalton.
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