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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1946
Page
11
City tax records show six month tax intake of 469 983 dollars on 595 983 assessed, with 78 8 percent collection and a 8250 daily average income for the final 183 days of 1945. Officials note utility fees and dog tag sales lift revenue while license and street assessments fall short of budget.
Local auto firms stop taking orders for future deliveries to curb black market activity around early car deliveries. Dealers report buyers resell chances for quick delivery and some down payments at multiple firms. They plan to audit order lists, drop duplicates, and reserve cars for veterans, doctors, or service buyers while awaiting better supply in 30 to 60 days.
A. Lee Gibson of the local Internal Revenue Service office said residents from Hig Point and others are mailing income tax returns to the Greensboro local office. All returns from this area should go to the Greensboro collector of internal revenue to avoid delays. The local office can advise but does not accept filings.
In Richmond on February 21 the House of Delegates moved the 319 million dollar two year financing bill as a special order. The session aimed to clear the budget amid a log jam of measures while pollution control and road tax bills followed. Ferries serving Hampton Roads faced work stoppages with Newport News to Norfolk and Old Point Comfort to Willoughby Spit routes cut since February 8.
Certificates of incorporation filed in Raleigh list Balfour Manufacturing Company of Asheboro to produce chairs and furniture with $100,000 authorized stock and $15,000 subscribed by N. P. Holmes, D. M. Lewis, W. H. Davis of High Point. Young's Furniture and Rug Company of High Point to run a general mercantile business with $10,000 authorized stock and $12,000 subscribed by J. D. Martin, Glenn E. Swaim of Winnecona, J. D. Young of High Point.
Anxious High Point leaders push for a modern city plan amid delays caused by F. P. Best of Morris-Knowles not meeting for talks with City Manager Jaden. Swan, the Durham planner, and his team may lead the project once given the go ahead, aiming to revise streets, property lines and traffic routes including Willowbrook and Hamilton Perry bridge areas to guide long range development.
Rev Hoy L Fesperman and family will be honored at a farewell party at 7:30 Friday evening at First Evangelical and Reformed Church. A brief service will precede a social hour and refreshments in the basement. Ministers of the city and friends are invited as he begins a new pastorate in Greensboro the first week in March.
Davis James town constable pleaded guilty to driving drunk in municipal court and resigned in writing to county commissioners. He was fined 50 dollars, ordered to pay jury costs, and had his license revoked for one year. The case followed a fall pending trial where he claimed headache powder influence.
All five city nurseries now aided by federal funds will switch to private management once funds end next week. Locations include 447 South Main, 1000 North Main, 902 West Broad, and the Clara Cox and Daniel Brooks apartments. Fees rise to 5 or 6 dollars for white children and 3 dollars for Negro children, with hours and daily rates offered for non enrolled children.
Albert A. Hill 74 a well known nurseryman of 707 Fourth street and longtime High Point resident died suddenly at his home shortly after midnight He was born November 27 1871 in Davidson county married Ida Daniel in 1895 and leaves three sons Ray Hill Denton R L Hill Graham and B Ivan Hill High Point Ten grandchildren and four great grandchildren survive Interment will be in Denton with services at Central Methodist church in Denton Friday afternoon.
Mrs Myrtle B Hill aged 51 of 501 East Green Street and G I Mabe aged 49 of 1808 Linden Street were cited to municipal court for failing to obey school attendance law. They are to be arranged before Judge D C Mac Rae after the current jury term.
Police Chief J A Lowdermilk says 300 to 400 motorists in High Point risk a year without city license tags. Today officers issued citations for driving without a city tag, to be processed in city traffic court. Fines include 1.50 dollars plus the license cost of 1 dollar.
The death toll from a highway collision near Oxford rose to six as 14 year old J L McCleney died. The McCleney family of Chuckatuck Virginia lost five members in the crash while two other sons remained in critical condition at Granville hospital. Relatives planned funeral arrangements as highway patrol traced the wreck to a broken down truck on highway 15 ten miles south of Oxford.
High Point police report a 6 percent rise in total crime through the first 51 days of 1946 versus 1945, with drunkenness up from 49 to 104 cases, a 100 percent increase. Offenses against children and the family rose 60 percent. Total arrests reached 529 versus 181 a year earlier.
The National Labor Relations Board directs a 45 day election among Welch furniture company employees in High Point to choose a bargaining agent. Unions named are CIO United Furniture Workers of America and AFL United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. Ballots will be mailed to eligible voting employees now in armed service.
Elkannah Lanier 71 died at his home near Denton after weeks of illness. Funeral Friday at 2 PM at Lineberry church with burial in the church cemetery. He leaves six daughters, four sons, two brothers, three sisters, 25 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
Mrs Savannah Harris of Lexington Rt 2 was mistaken for the defendant charged with larceny in Thomasville court. Officials clarified that the Thomasville resident Mrs Thomas Elwood Harris is not the Lexington Harris and that her husband worked in Lexington while she resided in Thomasville.
Myrtle Jane Mobley Carroll files for absolute divorce from Charles Franklin Carroll on grounds of two years separation in municipal court.
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