March Of Dimes Drive Kicks Off In High Point
High Point will launch its annual March of Dimes campaign Wednesday and run through Sunday January 20. Jaycees will staff Knox Bridge on Main Street from 730 a.m. to 9 p.m. with a possible Jan 26-27 weekend reopening. Leaders include Ray Meadows Gene Marsh Jim Burrus and Archie Myatt.
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High Point
Ray Meadows
Drive For the
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Jaycees
Knox Bridge
Main Street
Meadows
Jonas Salk
Drive
Gene Marsh
Jaycee
Jim Burrus
Archie Myatt
Baptist Laymen Gather for Evang elism Institute in Thomasville
About 200 Baptist laymen from across North Carolina closed the first annual laymen's institute at Mills Home Thomasville focusing on evangelism and soul winning. Panel discussions featured pastors and leaders Donald Adcox and Gary Hathcock. Speakers included Dr J C Canipe, Dr M A Huggins, and Rev Julian S Hopkins urging total dedication to reach unchurched people.
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J. C. Canipe
Baptist State Convention
M. A. Huggins
Julian S. Hopkins
Hopkins
North Carolina
State College honors 13 students with forestry fraternity
Bob Grady of 2203 Francis Sr joins 12 other juniors and seniors at State College Raleigh as new member of Xi Sigma Pi honorary forestry fraternity. Grady studies in the School of Forestry.
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Bob Grady
C. C. Grady
Francis Sr
State College
Raleigh
Xi Sigma Pi
Grady
School of Forestry
Furniture Men Flock to Chicago Market for Winter Show
High Point furniture representatives left for the Chicago International Home Furnishings Market with J. T. Ryan of the Southern Furniture Manufacturers Association among attendees. Eastern Airlines added a special flight due to demand as High Point buyers anticipate a strong market.
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High Point
Chicago
J. T. Ryan
Southern Furniture Manufacturers Association
Eastern Airlines
Greensboro-High Point
Eastern
Leo Heer
Southern Furniture Exposition
Midwest
New York
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Globe, Tomlinson
Continental
Heritage
National
Stery
W. C. Ollman
Merchandise Mart
The
Mart
Reward Offered For Capture Of Two Cab Killers
Fellow cab drivers raised emergency funds to aid the slain driver Clif ford Whitt Phillips and his family as police sought his killers. Donations were collected at the Yellow Top Cab Co on W High Street with about 50 dollars raised by nightfall.
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Clifford Whitt Phillips
Phillips
Yellow Top Cab Co
Yellow Top
W. High Stree
Family Weekly Debuts in Enterprise Sunday Edition
The Enterprise adds the Family Weekly as a new color magazine supplement in every Sunday issue. The weekly is part of a nationwide rollout by nearly 500 papers with a combined circulation over four million. It includes regular features and special items to boost reader enjoyment.
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Enterprise
Family Weekly
Toastmasters Plan Contests in Piedmont Five Cities
Representatives from Toastmasters clubs in Asheboro Salisbury Lexington High Point and Greensboro Area 3 District 37 will meet in Greensboro at Kennedy's Barbecue at 6 p.m. Harry Doud governor of Area 3 will chair the conference inviting club presidents educational vice presidents and all area Toastmasters to attend.
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Toastmasters
Piedmont North Carolina
Area 3
District 37
Toastmasters International
Greensboro
Asheboro
Salisbury
Lexington
High Point
Kennedy
Harry Doud
This and That by Forrest Dates A Mid Century Snippet
A collection of short musings on women in work and politics, canned heat jars, a municipal court case, North Carolina figures, and lively rural humor. The piece critiques gender roles, laments new jar refills for canned heat, notes Ed Kemp’s Guilford delegation role, and ends with a playful banjo fantasy.
American Legion Confab Opens This Week At Sheraton
The 1957 North Carolina American Legion post and unit officers conference runs Thursday through Sunday at the Sheraton Hotel with a keynote by Howard Kingdom of Conneaut Ohio. Donald R. Wilson past national commander and Oglethorpe University president will speak at a Saturday banquet and a memorial service closes the event Sunday morning.
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American Legion
North Carolina
Veterans’ Organization
Sheraton Hotel
Howard C. Kingdom of
Oglethorpe University
Georgia
Kingdom
Conneaut
D. C
Wilson
Clarksburg
W. Va
Miami
Oglethrope University
Georiia
Legion
Veterans Administration
United States Junior Chamber of Commerce
Detroit
Mich
Princeton University
University of Virginia
Medical Administrative Corps
North Africa
Italy
Sicily
France
Judge Advocate General's Corps
Forty and Eight
The
Lions Club
Six Leading Death Causes Are Listed
Guilford County mirrors North Carolina in 1955 with the six leading death causes among under 65: heart disease and vascular disease, cancer, accidents, influenza and pneumonia, prematurity, and nephritis. Nationally, heart disease dominates all other causes.
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Guilford County
North Carolina
Public Health Statistics Section
State Board of Health
Guilford
Secaio
Hamlet man dies in Chapel Hill highway crash
James N. Mangum Jr., 39, of Hamlet was killed in an automobile accident on the Pittsboro highway just beyond the Chapel Hill city limits early today.
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Chapel
Hill
James N. Mangum Jr
Hamlet
Pittsboro Highway
Chapel Hill City
Cab companies post $500 reward for two slayers
High Point cab firms offer $500 for capture and conviction of two unidentified Negro men in the slaying of 28 year old Clifford Whitt Phillips who was shot after picking up two suspects. Police widened the search with a three state alert and continued investigations at police HQ. Funeral services for Phillips are set for 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at Valley Home Baptist Church with interment at the Phillips family cemetery.
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High Point
Clifford Whitt Phillips
Jim Welch
Yellow Top Cab Co
Phillips
United Taxicab Inc
Red Bird Cab Co
Welch
Guy Welch
Hoskins Street
South Carolina
Virginia
Tennessee
Valley Home Baptist Church
Creen
Phillips Family
Sechrest Funeral Home
Miss Dorothy Lewis to Give Recital at High Point Concert
Miss Dorothy Lewis, concert pianist, will present a recital Thursday at High Point College Memorial Auditorium at 8 pm sponsored by the Friendly Bible Class to aid a Cuba mission church. Tickets are sold in advance at local music stores. She will also perform on WFMY TV in Greensboro Wednesday at 9 pm for 15 minutes.
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Dorothy Lewis
High Point College
Memorial Auditorium
Peveridge Webster
James Friskin
Carl Friedberg
Marcel Ciompi
Conservatoire
Jules Gentil
Ecsole Normale
Chatauqua
North Carolina
Concours Inter
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Jennings Brown
Montheu Ave
U.S
Mrs. Leon Rivers
Mrs
Delbert Clodfelter
W. C. Johnson
John P. Canine
Jim Burns
Baptist
Forrest
Wimmen
Papa
C. C. Stoker
General Assembly
Ed Kemp
State House of Representatives
Mecklenburg
Kemp
Cmsider
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Chelsea Naval Hospital
U. S. S. Intrepid
Pacific
Navy Service
Cowle Post 151
Ohio
Howard C. Kingdom
Donald R. Wilson
Slayers
Miss Dorothy Lewis
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