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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1950
Page
6
Radio program Listen With Me for fourth to sixth graders airs tomorrow at WHPE at 2 PM. It features Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, The Children's Corner Suite by Dubussey with Snow Is Dancing, The Little Shepherd, and Golliweg's Cakewalk plus Skaters Waltz by Waldteusel.
Thursday events include the American Legion auxiliary meeting at the Legion home at 7 45 p m and Entre Nous gatherings with Mrs J F yden at East Washington street at 2 30 p m. Also Mrs J W Johnson and others entertain Miss Boots Lee bride elect at 402 Steele street at 8 p m. Friday Canterbury club meets with Mrs W F Ellis at 417 Woodrow avenue at 3 30 p m.
Mrs Charles McMurray spoke at Wesley Memorial church January meeting of the Woman s Society of Christian Service outlining Women of Scriptures with a plan for a February follow up. Elsie Ellen Moore will lead a seven week Thursday series on The Origin of the Bible starting January 12. A monthly world peace prayer service is planned for Memorial Chapel every January 6 and on the sixth of each month. Circles will hold regular meetings in members homes next Monday.
The Peace Council No 9 of the matrhews of America will meet Friday night at 7 30.
Janet Beth Wagner a two year old from Singapore arrived in Columbus after doctors predicted a rare blood disease would kill her before February. Dr Charles A Dean dean of the medical school and director of University Hospital will direct treatment and begin in house tests since Singapore doctors cannot be reached. Her father Paul Wagner is chief buyer for B G Goodrich in Singapore and her mother is from Akron. The family traveled from Los Angeles to Columbus by train after a Dec 3 illness and a Dec 17 forecast of six weeks to live.
A federal estimate reports rats destroy or contaminate about 200 million bushels of U S grain annually. The verdict outlines widespread agricultural impact and calls for improved pest control and storage measures.
Los Angeles reports describe the trial of Fred Stroble 68 accused of choking stabbing and beating six year old Linda Joyce Glacott to death on November 14. His daughter Sylvia Hausman testified identifying items found with the body and recounting events while the victim and another girl were playmates. The defense argues Stroble is a senile drunkard with pedophilic impulses, a claim supported by a psychiatrist quote about sadistic pedophilia and alcohol induced violence.
Otha Carder, 40, a farmer, was found insane after a gun battle that left his mother Edna Carder dead. The State Mental Hygiene Commission ordered his confinement in a mental hospital. Police pursued Carder New Year’s Eve at his Sutton area farmhouse on a felonious assault warrant. five officers fired during the exchange.
In Frankfurt Germany Dr Wilhelm Witzel examined 35 American women in the last month of pregnancy to predict the sex of their unborn children. Army doctors will judge the method’s validity after several months of testing. He notes iris changes during pregnancy differ by fetus sex.
Staunton report details Bill Haase, a blind law school graduate whose sight was lost in 1944 at Fort Leonard Wood. He earned a BS at Illinois, then a law degree via memory and a recording aid, supported by his wife Cathryn and classmates. Haase now seeks clients.
North Carolina Baptist leaders divide over accepting 697,256 from the State Medical Care commission to aid a 1,705,356 addition to the Winston-Salem hospital. The issue hinges on church state separation and may be debated at the January 16–17 Charlotte meeting with coverage in the Biblical Recorder next week.
A nervous youth on Chicago's north side spent nearly two hours in a jewelry shop watching watches before attempting a holdup. He told owner Mrs. Jeanette Stein to move behind and grabbed two watches worth 125 dollars, then fled as the door proved hard to open.
In Topeka Kansas police questioned Army Sergeant John Anderson after the body of Irene Gilbert 33 a basket factory worker was found beaten stabbed and possibly run over on a street. Anderson was wounded by officers Ed Feaker and John Carwell during a traffic stop and pursuit after a confrontation in the car. Both men were involved in the shooting but no charges had been filed.
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