High Point Declares City Free of Major Traffic Hazards
Gulf Refining executive M S Berry cited High Point as among cities with low traffic fire hazards. He noted the North Main English intersection as the only area needing correction and proposed a blinker after city council approval. Berry praised local efforts to install automatic traffic lights and improve highway safety.
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High Point
Fiie
M.S. Berry
Pittsburgh
Gulf Refining Company
Highway Safety Division
State Highway Department
Berry
State Highway Commission
Gulf Company
Lexington
Barry
W. E. Butler
Jesse Washburn
J. J. McMurray
Gulf Products
DeMolay Talk Mixes Humor With Life Message
M. L. Patrick of High Point high school faculty spoke to the local DeMolay chapter at the Masonic temple. His humorous remarks carried a serious takeaway about finding worthwhile meaning beneath the absurd and prompting reflection among listeners.
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M. L. Patrick
High Point High School
Masonic Temple
Patrick
Mr. Patrick
Honest man returns lost pocketbook worth $590
Mrs Homer Taylor of 701 Highland avenue, an employee of Robbins Knitting Mill, thanked an unidentified man who returned her pocketbook containing $590.34 lost Monday afternoon. The man left no name or address, and Mrs Taylor praised the mill officials who helped recover it. She had pulled the money from the bank to pay a bill, money from her late husband’s life insurance. She said she would rather lose time from work than carry such money again.
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Homer Taylor
Highland Avenue
Robbins Knitting Mill
Ellis Appointed Agricultural Engineer in Virginia Project
Howard M. Ellis, formerly with the Soil Erosion Service in North Carolina, receives appointment as agricultural engineer of the Bannister River erosion control project at Chatham Virginia. He is a 1929 NC State civil engineering graduate and has worked for Empire Oil and Refining Oklahoma and as a State College teaching fellow before joining ECW camp No. 1 in 1934. Ellis leaves High Point today for Virginia.
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North Carolina
Howard M. Ellis
Chatham, Virgines
Bilis
North Carolina State College
University of North Carolina
Empire Oil and Refining Company of Oklahoma
State College
Soil Erosion Service
High Point
ECW
Legal Battle Looms Over Banishing Slot Machines
Prosecuting Attorney Gaston A. Johnson issued warrants for five key slot machine operators as a conflict over a post Legislature ban on slot machines escalates. In Greensboro a restraining order petition seeks to delay enforcement until a hearing. Judge Teague ruled the new law bans marble game adaptions and pocket billiard tables with coin slots. Police aimed to serve warrants before an injunction could be signed.
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Gaston A. Johnson
Fayetteville Vending Machine Company
Charles R. Byrd
Gayle Dowdy
Robert Teague
W. S. Hooker
Greensboro
High Point
S. O. Duryer
W. J. Hooker
Joe Allen
P. W. Martin
Piedmont Vending Machine Company
J. E B. Lowing
Charles Byrd
Max B&b. Wells
L. G., Thompson
T. F. Scott
Lewis E. Teague
Teague
W. G. Friddle
Johnson
Elks Club To Meet Tonight
The Kikse club will meet tonight at o'clock with a business session followed by a social hour. Members are urged to attend.
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Elks Club
Kikse Club
City to name new jailer after Davis discharge
Appointment of a new jailer to replace Ernest Davie at the city jail will likely be made tomorrow, city officials said. Davis was recently discharged from the position.
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Ernest Davie
Davis
Meeting Of Farmers Dairymen To Convene Friday
A. G. Kimrey and J. A. Arey from North Carolina State College extension will speak at the city hall court room Friday at 7 30 p m. They will discuss boosting milk production feed output and farm stock. All local farmers dairymen and interested citizens are urged to attend with a special invite to Chamber of Commerce Agricultural bureau members.
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A. GC. Kimrey
J. A. Arey
North Carolina State College
Raleigh
Kimrey
Arey
Agricultural Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce
Meningitis Toll Rises in Salisbury Area
Henry W. Miller a 47 year old railroad employee died in Salisbury marking the second meningitis death in a week. Health authorities say no epidemic risk is evident and urge calm among residents.
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Salisbruy
Henry W. Miller
Teachers urged to build community links by Dr Crabb
Dr A L Crabb head of Education at George Peabody College urged public school faculty to connect with the community. He said teaching joy and success merge a teacher with pupils and citizens, aiding individual and common good. Crabb spoke after returning from Atlantic City and prior to Nashville remarks.
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A. L.crabb
Department of Education
George Peabody College
Nashville
Crabb
Atlantic City
Department of Superintendence
National Education Association
College of the Air
Chas
Dr. Crabb
Dr Crabb Praises High Point School System Visitation
Dr A L Crabb head of George Peabody College Education Dept Nashville praised High Point school planning and administration after inspecting the Junior and Senior high campuses and elementary schools. He noted the district’s high school facilities rival similar sized towns and commended staff morale amid reduced funding and low teacher salaries. He also visited Elim Street Brentwood elementary schools High Point College and Tomlinson furniture showrooms.
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High Point
A. L. Crabb
South
George Peabody College
Nashville, Tenn
Ing
Elim Street
Brentwood
High Point College
Tomlinson Furniture
Odds against anyone holding all four aces in poker
Odds against any player holding all four aces in a poker game are 270 725 to 1 according to estimates.
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Pyroll
Pat Brown
Butore
ATC
Mega
Goodrich
North Main
A. Lee Gibson
Howard M
Ellis
Chatham, Virginia
Drmax Rome
Optometrist
S. Main St
P. D. Bailey
Chers
DR. Grabb
Ray Street
Ma Hardware Co
East
Washington Street
City Shoe Shop
DE Soto
Ford
Desoto & Plymouth Sales and Service
City
Ign Roint
T. Wingate Andrews
United States
Sears
Challenge Electric
Sears, Roebuck and CO
North Main Street
Jake
Women's Oxfords
Chamber of Commerce
Margaret Sloan
Burlington
Graham
High Point College Society
Artemesian
Roberts Hall Auditoriam
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