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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1949
Page
6
The Juvenile Musical Arts club met at 3:30 PM at the YWCA with the president in charge. Members were urged to join the March 5 federation music festival and to donate to the Anniversary Stamp Music Fund and Transylvania Scholarship Fund.
The High Point Association of Insurance Women will hold their large meeting on Thursday at 5 30 p m at the Sheraton hotel.
A busy week of meetings exhibitions and social gatherings in High Point. Bird paintings exhibition at St Marys Parish House features five garden clubs. numerous garden clubs host luncheons dinners and bridge events at Emerywood Country Club YWCA and homes across the area with speakers including Miss Gertrude Carraway and Mrs Grover Jones.
A detailed list of Monday through Saturday youth activities at the YWCA and YMCA. Included are 7th and 8th grade Y Teen clubs, art and swimming classes, teen clubs for various grades, supper meetings, a finance committee, and social events led by Miss Virginia Burton and Miss Nina Wilkes, plus a Saturday Child Care Aid Course.
The Alexander Martin chapter Daughters of American Revolution meets Tuesday at 3 PM at 405 Edgedale Drive hosted by Mrs. C. E. Diffendal. State regent Miss Gertrude Carraway will speak. Delegates and alternates to the state conference and continental congress will be elected.
The Garden Gate garden club will meet Tuesday at 10 o clock at 1115 Cedron Avenue. Mrs J R Armstrong hosts and Mrs R R Blackburn will speak on African violets to the members.
Mr and Mrs Robert Hendrix return from Florida with Miss Irene Mitchell after visits to Plymouth Daytona Beach and Silver Springs. Pfc J T Mitchell returns to Mac Dill Field after time with his parents. Pfc Harold Mitchell goes back to Greensville Air Base after holidays with relatives. The Greenways hosted relatives in Altavista. A J Payne improves after two weeks in hospital with limited visitors. Mrs Robie Corder recovering after surgery at High Point Memorial Boulevard unit.
The Woman's Society of Christian Service of the Lebanon Methodist church will meet tonight at 7 30 in the Mittie Philadelphia classroom for their regular January meeting. The program will focus on New Year resolutions and all members are urged to attend.
The High Point Cosmetologist Association scheduled its regular meeting for tonight at 7 30 p m at an unspecified location. Members were urged to attend and discuss upcoming events and schedules.
A Los Angeles wife obtained a divorce from her husband on cruelty charges after he insisted on hanging pictures of his four ex wives on the bedroom walls.
A dense London fog stretched from November 1879 to February 1880, the longest continuous fog period ever recorded in the city. A separate note describes the running stance of a frightened collarized lizard, which dashes on all fours then raises its tail as speed increases.
A dense listing of nightly programs across networks from 6:15pm to 12:00am. The outline includes news broadcasts, music and variety shows, dramas, comedies, quiz programs, concerts, and talk segments with numerous station and show names.
A nostalgic column recalls Greenwich Village life and bustling New York apartments with vivid portraits of colorful neighbors. It contrasts Village chatter with quieter tenement days by the East River and notes ongoing social scenes, music, and card play at the Cardinal Restaurant.
Seven cars of the Seaboard Air Line's Florida to New York Orange Blossom Special derailed around 9 20 this morning near Milford on the Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac tracks. At least three people were injured.
When bottle caps toys cans and similar objects are lithographed decoration is applied to the flat surface before it is formed into its final shape.
The nation’s 6,280 approved hospitals hold 1,468,714 beds and 84,145 bassinets. They admitted 15,153,452 patients during 1946, reflecting broad health care activity across the system.
The piece explains a cable length and a league in mariner terms and asks about a second to reach the South Pole who died returning. It defines an oviparous animal and lists birthdays including Raymond Bolger Paul Henreid Robinson Jeffers Katharine Blodgett Frederick Cottrell Ziggy Sears Billy Petrolle Lee Tracy and Cole Porter with brief biographical notes.
The text extols consideration for others as the peak of manners and a means to influence people. It advises assessing others’ good qualities while overlooking their faults to build favorable relations.
The text advises focusing on business efforts over the coming year, noting problems will pass and success may follow. It also predicts a child born on this date will be reserved yet industrious, thoughtful, dependable, and persevering.
A West player faced a six contract and showed bold nerve by leaving the queen off the board with the king, defying expectations in a tense bridge maneuver.
Charles S. Anderson, formerly assistant superintendent of the Charleston and Western Carolina railway, is named assistant to President C. McD. Davis of the Atlantic Coastline Railroad in Wilmington.
By Lilian Campbell, Central Press Writer, Porter transferred to the French army and served until 1919. His first musical comedy See America First appeared in 1916, Hitchy Koo in 1919, then Mexican Hayride in 1942 and Seven Lively Arts in 1944. Around the World in 1946 and the film The Pirate in 1947. He is married and lives at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.
A quotation on national strength hinges on moral character as the core foundation. It argues that virtue underpins lasting growth and government stability, with character serving as the sole guarantee of enduring prosperity.
On January 10 1918 the fifth All Russian congress adopted a written constitution for the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republics. Ethan Allen a Revolutionary hero and leader of the Green Mountain Boys was born in 1737. Count Shigenobu Okuma the Japanese statesman who banished the shoguns died in 1922 on January 10.
A reader supplies concise answers: 1) 1 720 feet 2) a salamander a lizardlike animal the newt lives in ditches or quiet waters 3) Robert F Scott an English man 4) one that lays eggs 5) three marine miles.
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