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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1940
Page
11
Administration Service for Chicago met with City officials and division heads in a first general conference on a new survey. The effort aims to classify positions, standardize salaries, and provide a sound personnel framework with group meetings, interviews, and committee reviews to ensure merit based promotion and discipline at lowest cost.
February achievement for the Cubs of the nt District will be held at the First Presbyterian. Parents are asked to attend with sons for presentation of the awards. Den mothers direct the event with Cubs gathered into their pack. Bobby Smith Earnest Tommy Kellam Clyde Marsh and others will be part of the ceremony. The program will be public.
Thomasville police announce Archie Curry wanted for the East End 1927 killing of Roosevelt Kearns is held in Robeson County jail in Lumberton. Curry, once living in High Point, was located recently and faces transfer to county authorities.
The jury verdict found W. J. Hegler not guilty of driving drunk at the current criminal term. Several defendants waived juries with hearings set for March 4 to March 15. Clemmency sought by J R Ruth led to a suspended judgment on reckless driving and no license if he joins the army.
Four students at High Point College were chosen to compete for the most beautiful girl title, Edith Vance and Helen Crowder from the senior and junior classes, plus Virginia Hunt and Jule Warren from the sophomore and freshman classes. Photographs will go to Hollywood for judging, and all four appear in the yearbook beauty section.
Rev. James C. Lambert will present natural color Holy Land pictures Sunday night at Welch Memorial Methodist Church in High Point. The lecture includes scenes from twelve countries and a few non Holy Land images. High Point firms sustain themselves with local supplies and services. 157 industries are listed with furniture factories leading at 34 and hosiery mills at 19.
At today s Rotary Club meeting rehearsals for Anchors Aweigh progressed well and the show is expected to be a complete success. Ticket sales have moved steadily with two performances planned and guests invited from the Crippled Children s Clinic and Children s Home.
Carolina Motor Club president C W Roberts predicts the 1940 summer travel boom will set records if the state offers comfort and cooperative service.after five weeks touring Georgia Florida Cuba Costa Rica and Panama he warned visitors will avoid makeshift accommodations and poor service even with advertising and scenery.
High Point police report Clarence Crocker 36 is jailed in Chattanooga Tennessee on charges of forgery and larceny. Warrants sent to be served in the city. He is accused of stealing a watch from L. Kersey about a year ago and forging a $45 check passed at Big Star Market. Local officers will travel to retrieve him.
Burton Moore fired a blank in a Westminster Tarkio contest in Fulton Missouri causing a guinea fowl released by pranksters to drop from the rafters and fall on the floor. The incident occurred as he pointed the gun to the ceiling and fired.
Westminster College in Wilmington, Pennsylvania returns to a letter grade scheme with A B or C replacing prior numeric marks from minus two to three. Parents and others find the new system easier to interpret and evaluate student performance.
The full moon is seen higher in the winter sky and lower in the summer across the United States. Observers note seasonal shifts in the apparent orbit and illumination angles as months change.
Funeral services for W. B. Liddell 87 a prominent North Carolina Mason will be held tomorrow afternoon. Liddell helped found Oasis Temple in Charlotte in 1895.
Duke athletic officials said the advance sale for the Duke-North Carolina game is the largest ever, with more than 2,000 seats still to be sold at the Duke gym tonight in Durham.
Charlotte resident Louis G. Ratcliffe announced he will not seek re election as American Legion National Committeeman from North Carolina. Ratcliffe has served six years as committeeman and two as alternate. The Legion convention will be held in High Point in June.
Two high pointers had their driver's licenses revoked by the Highway Safety Division. Names listed were Paul William Davis of No. 6 Fire Station and Hubert Lee Pendry of Route 1, each revoked after drunk driving convictions.
Guilford County elections officials announce changes to precinct lines, with Greensboro and High Point planning new registrations. About seven new precincts are expected. filers must decide on purging or registering anew on March 23. Estimated county registration about 40,000 with roughly 24,000 Democrats and 16,000 Republicans.
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