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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1957
Page
2
Unofficial returns show a $6 million water sewer and traffic bond package approved overall with precinct variations. Precincts report mixed results: several areas vote for all three items while others reject all three, and precinct margins range from narrow to solid across precincts 1 through 15.
Mrs. Annie Berry Wade of 414 Walnut Street died at High Point Memorial Hospital yesterday afternoon at 3. She was born February 22, 1878 in Montgomery County and lived in the city since 1911. Survived by two sons L Wade Greensboro Roy Wade Point and two daughters E J Logan Sandpoint Idaho and Mrs John L Bean High Point. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 4 in Sechrest Chapel with Dr Roy E Watts pastor of First Presbyterian Church officiating. Burial details unavailable.
A lean affable politician who worked with Premier Tojo during the war is poised to become Japan's next prime minister as Parliament expected to elect Nobusuke Kishi, currently foreign minister and acting premier, next Monday or Tuesday. Kishi has softened on war crimes suspicions after the war but was never charged. He said Japan must have a real dictatorship by any regime including military, communists or fascists.
In Montgomery Alabama Negro leaders move to form a credit union to offer low interest borrowing and encourage savings. Rev Martin Luther King Jr says the effort could guide other communities. The union aims to provide 1 percent monthly interest on unpaid balances with $5 shares, potentially serving about 15000 residents.
In Madrid on February 23, Franco told ministers their tasks had ended and thanked them while asking them to stay on until a new cabinet is appointed in the coming days. Some ministers may stay, but no names were given. The move marks a public sign of cabinet crisis linked to monarchist tensions.
A series of funeral services are listed for Terry Wayne Pruitt 3 months old James L and Sherry Dianne Honeycutt Pruitt Charles Henry Ferguson 69 Philip E Walters Albert Dewey Tab Green Grover Cleveland Hudson all held in local churches with multiple pastors and pallbearers. Interments followed at Methodist and Floral Garden Park cemeteries.
Mrs Ruby Lucille Fink Thacker 42 of 2345 Cherokee Lane died at home at 2 a m today after ill health since April 1956. Born Oct 6 1914 in Davidson County she was married to Robert V Thacker and lived in Winston Salem and High Point before returning in 1956. Survived by husband daughter Betsy Carol and son Robert Michael all at home plus her mother and four brothers and three sisters. Funeral at home tomorrow at 2 pm then at Hebron Church with interment in church cemetery.
C Fletcher Black 60 of Route 1 Thomasville died at 3 45 p m yesterday while en route to City Memorial Hospital He was born in Davidson County July 8 1896 and lived his life in the community He belonged to Emanuel Evangelical and Reformed Church and Thomasville Lodge POS of A Surviving relatives include his widow Mrs Etta Jones Davis a daughter three sons and six grandchildren Also listed are two sisters and two brothers Funeral arrangements are pending at J C Green & Sons Funeral Home
Elea Varga former speaker of the Hungarian Parliament says the underground plans a March revolt more deadly than the last. He heads the anti Communist Hungarian National Council and spoke at a Woman's Press Club luncheon in New York, noting the password muk meaning we move again in March.
Senate launches a far reaching probe into alleged labor racketeering with focus on the Teamsters and links to gambling and prostitution in Portland. The hearings aim to uncover rackets across cities and possible corruption in unions, with potential prison terms for implicated figures.
Sam Caldwell of Gordon Street was hospitalized with severe burns after his clothing apparently caught fire while he was cooking a late supper. He sustained third degree burns on his left side and left hand, according to police who investigated the incident.
New York crowds flood the Paramount for the film Don't Knock the Rock with Alan Freed. Police supervise 1 500 to 2 000 fans while the venue earns a new cash record of 29 000 dollars. Freed hails the show as a success and compares youth zeal to medieval dances.
Former President Harry S. Truman told a Key West dinner crowd that the Republican party treats the president as a constitutional threat and a spokesman for a ruling oligarchy. He argued constitutional powers constrain the executive and noted ongoing conflict between branches.
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