High Point Firm Builds Compact Pianos For Small Homes
Harris-Kelly Piano and Manufacturing in High Point unveils a 49 key pianette weighing 90 to 100 pounds. The portable model targets cramped living spaces, classrooms, and trailers while promising decent tone and affordability to students and small households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Jimmy Harris
Harris-Kelly Piano and Manufacturing Company
James Pianette
English Street
Harris
Harris-Kelly
Harris- Kelly Concern
W. C. Kelly
Jimmy
J. W. McAdden
Lawrence Harris
Year in Review Top Story Here Is Polio Drive
High Point residents faced joy and sorrow in 1948 with murders and weddings amid the “Furniture City” year. The top local tale centers on the High Point Jaycees polio drive in Greensboro which raised over a thousand dollars for the convalescent hospital unit, alongside Community Chest surpassing $100,000 and the Empty Stocking Fund nearing its $5,000 goal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward V. Mitchell
High Point
Furniture City
South
High Point Jaycees
Greensboro
Citizens of
Community Chest Fund
Enterprise
Young Artists To Give Program Monday Night
Musical Art Club invites the public to a Monday eight oclock recital at the senior high school auditorium featuring Miss Sophia Steffan mezzo soprano and Miss Dot Lewis pianist from High Point. Steffan, 18, has A Capella choir experience at Northwestern University Evanston and Juilliard study after a Sam Goodman scholarship. Lewis, 16, has sung piano and accordion publicly, appeared with the North Carolina Symphony and Winston Salem Civic orchestras, and earned top ratings in state contests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Musical Art Club
Sophia Steffan
Dot Lewis
High Point
Steffan
Federation of Music Clubs
Sam Goodman
Juilliard School of Music
New York
Miss Steffan
Northwestern University
Evanston, Il
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Monteux
Lewis
North Carolina Symphony Orchestra
Winston- Salem Civic Orchestra
North Carolina Music Federation
Schools To Launch Large Scale Health Screening
A large scale screening of all second through sixth graders in High Point city schools will run tomorrow through the third week of the month. Teachers will observe for defects and refer to health department nurses for further examination, with Dr Loren Wallin reviewing cases and coordinating follow up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point City
Louise Hasty
Health Department
Miss Hasty
Ress
Hasy
Loren Wallin
Wallin
Postal Rates Are Advanced High
B G Leonard local post office superintendent of mails says new postal rules effective yesterday raise rates for most services. First class letters remain three cents, but special delivery moves to 15, money orders minimum 10, insurance minimum five, and air mail letters eight ounces or less rise from five to six cents. If no four cent air mail card is found, a three cent stamp may be affixed to a penny card.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. G. Leonard
Leonard
T. E. L. Class to Meet Monday at First Baptist
The T E L class of First Baptist Church will meet Monday night at 7 30 in the church. Official attendance pull of members requested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fprest Baptist
First Baptist Church
Dedication For Radio Gift At Morganton Set
The Goodwill Group’s hospital radio system at Morganton State Hospital for the insane, built for 2,700 patients, will be dedicated next Tuesday with the High Point A Capella choir and others participating. The project, using 84 loudspeakers and a central studio, costs about $6,000 thanks to several contributors, led by Milbourne B. Amos of High Point, who started the drive after visiting the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert L. Thompson
Enterprise
Goodwill Group
State Hospital For the Insane
Morganton
High Point High School
Stromberg-Carlson
Bryant Electric Co
High Point
Freck Radio and Supply Co
Asheville
Frank Turner
State Budget Bureau
Wats
Milbourne B. Amos
Amos
Some Folks Chilluns New Year Misdeeds In High Point
Two High Point men report New Year trouble. Dave Parker's locked car was borrowed and wrecked during a spree before being returned to its front curb. H N Davis finds a two by four smashed his new Jones Street home’s plate glass window. police seek the culprits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave Parker
Carrick Avenue
H. N. Davis
High Point records $4.16 million in new construction
The city building inspector's office reports 1948 total permits for repairs and new construction reached $4,160,856, the highest year since records began 25 years ago. The Sherwood Development added 187 new homes, boosting residential activity to 392 units and $2.45 million in value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gene Horney
Fire and Inspection
High Point
Sherwood
Horney
National Head Of Jaycees To Visit High Point
Paul D. Bagwell national president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce will visit High Point Tuesday to confer with the local club and inspect the Central Carolina Convalescent Home in Greensboro. He will tour the polio hospital, meet Greensboro Jaycees and civic leaders, then attend a luncheon at Emerywood Country Club with regional Jaycee officials and dignitaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul D. Bagwell
Junior Chamber of Commerce
High Point
Central Carolina
Greensboro
Bill Lee
High Point Jaycees
Bagwell
Greensboro-High Point
Polio
Jaycees
Emerywood Country Club
Jaycee
Lee
Local Girl Serves With UN After Adjourned Assembly
Miss Eleanor Idol of 210 Hillcrest drive, who spent the summer in Paris as a secretary to four UN liaison officers, shares her view that the UN General Assembly’s pivotal acts were the declaration of human rights and a genocide crime ban. She notes Roosevelt’s committee headed the rights declaration and warns the genocide clause will deter future Nazi-like actions, praising U S Latin friendship shown at the session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations General Assembly
Eleanor Idol
Hillcrest Drive
Paris
United States State Department
State Department
United Therapinetapin
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hitler
United States
Looking Backward by Joe Leslie Highlights 1929 political and crime notes
In the column a string of 1920s events is summarized: Kellogg Peace Pact scheduling, reparations optimism in Germany, Hearst prize for Prohibition repeal plans, Bilbo in Mississippi on mob violence, Mayer lost appeal in North Carolina, South Carolina prison escape, American Telephone stock at 194, armed robbery suspects in High Point, and a mass Negro church celebration marking a milestone in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Seymour Parker Gilbert
Germany
Gilbert
Rome
Miss
Raleigh
R. W. Mayer
Madison
North Carolina Supreme Court
South Carolina State Penitentiary
Fluenza
New York Stock Exchange
High Point
J. Pappas
College Street
Charlottesville
St. Marks M. FE
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High Point Firm
Fred Flagler, SR
McAdden
Bryant McNeal
Holt Hunter
Year In Review
Page &B
Sophia Stefpfan
Dorothy Vtewis
Fred Flagler, JR
Paul Bagwell
Joe Leslie
Mississippi
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