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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1955
Page
28
Officials from High Point blood program commended Memorial Hospital medical staff after learning they would provide care during the upcoming Bloodmobile visit at the Armory from March 1 to 3. The memo praised cooperation and readiness ahead of the event.
In a community meeting co chair Bill Horney praised a free blood program replacing some Red Cross duties as vital to health and welfare. Burgess discusses selective service plans for 100000 volunteers, first come basis with quotas and qualitative checks, and notes overlap with National Guard and organized reserve. Eleven of eighteen donors were secured by direct solicitation with bloodmobile drives.
In Rocky Mount Virginia on February 3, Portia Pittman and friends of Dr. J. memorial founder paid $16,000 for the 20 acre birthplace of Booker T. Washington where a memorial is planned. An adjacent tract was auctioned to cover about 140,000 in memorial debts. Reverend Posey Plyhon bought his west side tract for 6500, and future plans remain vague.
About 100 attended the High Point YMCA annual dinner where eleven men received recognition for service and eight others earned National YMCA Leaders' Fellowship certificates. The budget reached 70000 dollars, up 7000 from last year, and 23 new programs were announced over the past two years. Board members named included Millis Silver Tomlinson Sheloff Dison Frye Rogers.
In Bridgeton New Jersey Leon Fralinger was accused of placing a homemade bomb to guard a Delaware Bay summer property from intruder Frank Gordon an ironworker of Spring Lake. The Atlantic County Court ordered Fralinger to pay Gordon two thousand dollars in damages.
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