City plans grand lakefront development on 20 acre tract
High Point officials preview a proposed lakefront park project to transform a 20 acre tract along Main Street into a recreation center and showplace. The plan, drafted by landscape architect R. D. Tillson, aims to use federal relief project labor for progress with no city cost. Details to be reviewed by Parks and Playgrounds Commission Monday.
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Bee Parks and Playaise Commission
H. A. Millis
R. D. Tillson
Carry
North Carolina
High Point
Millis
Parks and Playground Commission
County Salary Lists Studied By Hoffman
Joe F. Hoffman, member of the county board, studies the county payroll against Mecklenburg Forsyth and Wake amid push from taxpayers to cut salaries. He attends a Greensboro meeting to review the salary setup, with Mecklenburg County already slashing 23,600 from its operating budget. The detailed list includes numerous sheriff, clerk, health, welfare, and convict staff with varied pay rates.
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Mecklenburg
Forsyth
Wake
Joe F. Hoffman
Board of County Commissioners
Yne Neara
Greensboro
Hoffman Yeesterday
Mecklenbure
Feneral Assembly
Phipps
L. Clarke
O. D. Apple
EB. Ballinger
J. W. Donavant
C. Johnson
A. Co. Story
J. R. A. Wilson
Osence
C. C. Shepherd
A. M. Benbow
J. G. Long
Ooeses
J. BR. C. Bevill
R. L. Coble
Escaee
W. A. Coble
H. D. Smith
Beulah Watson
Tel
Oper
Clarence Smith
A. Wayland Cooke
Cc. S. Lambeth
H. C. Wilson
C. C. McLean
C. B. Bilbro
Mary H. Underwood
Eva T. Thorpe
Lee Stafford
J. H. Shaw
Tr. B
Harry Weatherly
Long
Osnes
Minnie Williams
Ct. Steno
B. L. Fentress
B. Greeson
L. H. Tillman
Dr. M. EF. Coyle
Willis Booth
John T. Harrington
R. M. Bule
Harry Caldwell
John Thompson
Blanche Sterne
Jess. C. McGlamery
Minnie D. Hinton
D. Bailey
Hammond
W. OC. Stallings
Dortha Barba
Sue Ballard
Jos. L. Spruill Seeeseen
M.D. Bonner
Carrie McGirt
N. P. Alexander
Ruth Anderson
Bethel Field
Mary D. Campbell
Martha Brown
Augusta Emerson
May Gilbert
Beulah Cook
Ettie Moss
Muree
Eesvens
Clyde Yelverton
J. H. Shepherd
Ward Asst
M. F. Massey, Jr
Nell Williams
J. R. Stafford
Bertha Arnold
Ethel Harrison
Vv Cureton
County T
Hicks and Wife
Roxie Gaither
Das
Hugh Bradshaw
Iin
Faith in Future Is Expressed by High Point Leaders
Business and civic leaders in High Point express cautious optimism for 1933 as the city faces a new year, an administration change, and a refinancing program. Local figures highlight 100 manufacturing plants, fourteen new plants opened, strong home ownership, and the city’s role as a diversified industrial center with robust payrolls.
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High Point
F. Logan Porter
Chamber of Commerce
South
Druggists May Vote On Turlington Act
The North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association plans a legislative committee meeting within ten days to decide its stance on the Turlington liquor control act. A. Coke Cecil, president, said the course of the association in the forthcoming fight will be determined soon.
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North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association
A. Coke Cecil
Association
Legislative Committee
Cecil
General Assembly
Tom C. Bowie
West Jefferson
Judge Bowie
United States Senate
North Carolina
South Carolina
Winter furniture markets open across Chicago Grand Rapids and New York
Furniture men prepare for simultaneous winter markets starting January 16 with shows in Chicago Grand Rapids and later New York and High Point. Buyers from the south will attend Chicago while some Midwest lines skip Chicago to focus on New York and High Point. Samples show a revival of modernistic design and space at the Southern Furniture Exposition is in excellent condition for a strong winter turnout.
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Chicago
Grand Rapids
New York
South
High Point
Winston-Salem
Norfolk and Western
Paul W. Casey
Mrs An nie Osborne Stowe Dies At 50 In Davidson County
Funeral services for Mrs. Annie Osborne Stowe 50 died at her home 715 Park Street after a five week illness were held Saturday at 2 pm from Bet hany church Davidson County and interment followed in the church family plot Pallbearers were C R Hartley Glenn Osborne Jesse McDowell Willard King I F Pierce and Marvin Tuttle
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Annie Osborne Stowe
Park Street
Bethany Church
Davidson County
C. R. Hartley
Glenn Osborne
Jesse McDowell
Williard King
I. F. Pierce
Marvin Tuttle
Ministers Association Meeting Postponed to January 9
The High Point Ministers Association meeting scheduled for Monday January 2 is postponed to Monday January 9 due to illness. At the January 9 gathering few officers for the year will be installed.
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High Point Ministers Association
Coley to Attend Pan American Convention in New Orleans
Carl Y. Coley of High Point North Carolina manager for Pan American Life Insurance in western North Carolina qualified by life insurance production to attend the January 1933 agency convention in New Orleans. He will address the convention on January 11 at the Roosevelt hotel on Why I Am With the Pan American Life Insurance Company.
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Carl ¥. Coley
Pan-American Insurance Company
New Orleans
Carl Y. Coley
High Point
N. C
Pan- American Life Insurance Company
Coley
Roosevelt Hotel
Pan-American Life Insurance Company
Dynamo Club
E. G. Simmons
North Carolina
Elizabeth Pickett
Barbers Postpone Monday Meeting Indefinitely
Indefinite postponement of the High Point Barbers Association meeting was announced yesterday by J. Fred Nance, president of the group, delaying plans for the scheduled Monday night gathering.
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J. Fred Nance
High Point Barbers Association
Pat Brown Inc Opens New Ford Quarters in High Point
Pat Brown Inc, Ford dealers, moves from the Sheroft building to the old Wilson Motor Company stand at 201 203 East Washington Street. A satisfactory lease with People's Motor Car Company is in place, with renovations completed. Wm Farlow becomes service manager, J C Barker shop foreman, W M Payne parts chief, and nine trained salespeople will handle cars. Brown promises the lowest Ford repair charges in High Point and operates on a cash basis. The agency, active five months, expects continued business growth into 1943.
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Pat Brown, Inc
Ford
Sheroft
Wilson Motor Company
East
Washington Street
People’s Motor Car Company
Pat Brown
Ford Service
Wm. Farlow
J. C. Barker
W. M. Payne
High Point
Brown
Autom Businese
Police Seek Locating Young Man John Stearson
An anxious mother, Mrs. Mary Stearson, asks for help locating her son John Stearson, about 22, who previously worked in a Thomasville furniture factory and a local hosiery mill. Police request any information from citizens and offer full cooperation in finding him.
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High Point
John Stonyson
Mary Steayson
Thomasville
Yancey and Williams Stop at Friendship Airport
Lewis A. Yancey and Roger Q. Williams, famed for their 1929 Rome Atlantic crossing, are stranded at Friendship airport due to bad weather. Williams visits W. R. Shoffner of Greensboro, a Champion Spark Plug representative, while both fly an autogyro displaying sky writing.
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Lewis A. Yancey
Roger Q. Williams
Rome
Friendship
Williams
W. R. Shoffner
Greensboro
Champion Spark Plug Company
Yancey
Spark Plug Manufacturing Company
Plan Electrical Code For County
County attorney B L Fentress drafts a bill for the next legislature to authorize Guilford county to adopt an electrical code with inspections and fixed wiring standards for rural areas. The county has no rural electrical code and a part time inspector was hired months ago to check wiring for safety. The code would extend protections equal to municipal codes and strengthen this safeguarding effort.
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B. L. Fentress
Guilford County
Guilford
Mr. Fentress
Colored Preacher Loses Possession of Disputed Dog
Aunt Mary Pitts wins a claim for her bulldog against Reverend T S Morris who the conference had transferred toward Wilmington. Magistrate C Muse ruled the dog belongs to Aunt Mary and ordered its return to her possession.
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Colored Methodist Church
High Point
Wilmington
Aunt Mary Pitts
C. Muse
Aunt Mary
T. S. Morris
Morris
Muse
1932 In Retrospect Chronological Record
Retrospective overview of 1932 highlights across world and North Carolina. Major events include the Lindbergh case, Sino Japanese conflict, the 1932 elections, economic upheaval, Capone jailing, and state issues from Greensboro to Winston-Salem. Local notes mention bank closures, leaders' deaths, relief efforts, and city finance efforts amid widespread turmoil.
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Makr Saer
Shanghai
Bonus Army
Washington
Jimmy Walker
New York
Massie
Honolulu
Professor Picard
al Capone
Amelia Farhart
Atlantic
Insull
Kreuger
Smith Reynolds
California
Tom Mooney
North Carolina
Col
Raymond Robins
Mountain
Pickett
Leonard
Lexington
Baxter Shemwell
Reynolds
Dty
Cameron Morrison
Greensboro
Harwood
Watch Night Service At Army Post Welcomes New Year
The High Point post of the Salvation Army held a Watch Night service to mark the old year’s end and the new year’s start. The 8 p.m. service was followed by a brief intermission with refreshments, then the watch began at 11 and ran through midnight as bells rang in the new year.
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High Point
Salvation Army
Judge MacRae Moves Office To the Fourth Floor
D. C. MacRae, local attorney, has moved from the second to the fourth floor of the Wachovia Bank Building and is now located in offices 405 through 407.
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Judge MacRae
Wachovia
D. C. MacRae
Wachovia Bank
Not Same Hattie Southern Denies Municipal Court Sentence
Hattie Southern of 1219 Redding Street asks The Enterprise to state she is not the same person who received a suspended sentence in municipal court last week.
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Pearson Hattie Southern
Redding Street
Enterprise
Hattie Southern
Miss Hazel Johnson Advances in Boston Postgraduate Nursing
Miss Hazel Johnson, after five years directing nursing at High Point Hospital, studies at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston. Upon completion she returns to lead the municipal hospital nursing school, a Duke Endowment reform. Johnson serves as secretary of the North Carolina League of Nursing Education and her students frequently post top exam scores reflecting strong instruction.
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Hazel Johnson
High Point Hospital
Boston
New England Hospital For Women and Children
Miss Johnson
Municipal
Duke
Misa Johnson
North Carolina League of Nursing Education
Sheriff Uses Sermons to Clean Guilford County Resorts
Sheriff J. H. Phipps reports progress in cleaning up Guilford County resorts by preaching to owners and appealing for public cooperation. Some residents fear reporting crimes to avoid court, while the sheriff continues touring the fringe of the law to pressure reform and crackdown on immoral centers and gambling dens.
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J. 8
Phipps
Guilford County
Guilford
Gallen
Miss Samet Chosen for Midnight Terror Test at Paramount
Miss Dora Samet of 203 West Bay Street is selected for a midnight terror test at the Paramount theater. Miss Lamet will sit alone in a dark theater to view The Island of Lost Souls with guards present as doors are secured before and during the screening. The event precedes public showings Friday and Saturday and promises a five dollar prize if she endures the ordeal.
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Dora Samet
West Bay Street
Paramount Theater
Miss Lamet
H. G. Well
Island of Lost Souls
Charles Laughton
Richard Arien
Bela Lugosi
Leila Hyams
Parar
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Core
Park Board
City Lake
Parks and Playgrounds Commission
Andrews
High Point City
T. Wingate Andrews
J. M. Parrott
State Board of Health
RE. B. Jeffress
State Highway Commission
High Point College
T. R. Foust
Hoffman
Grigago
Ford Agency
Wilson
East Washington
Friendship Airport
Bieven
Army Post
C. H. Williard
Lindale Dairy Corporation
Miss Jonson
Boston School
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