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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1951
Page
15
A humorous, fragmentary slice of a weekly column with jokes about writing duties, local quirks, and pop culture asides. References to Russ Win, Jottings, African violets, a Russian car joke, and local figures like Deputy Doe Lee, Eisnhower, and Larry Moore pepper the lighthearted riffs.
Corrections amending a bank report correct two typographical errors in the High Point Savings and Trust holders meeting story. Deposits end of 1949 should read 8 363 713 71 dollars and end of 1950 9 634 939 63 dollars not as yesterday. The bank was misdated as organized in 1950.
Local draft board No. 42 will send 39 men to the Fayetteville induction center tomorrow. The group receives complimentary passes for themselves and a guest to the Center or Broadhurst theater, plus free candy and gum from the Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary. A subsequent call will go out to 75 men in the High Point area on January 16. Names listed include Hugh Isaiah Brown Jr and others across Jamestown, Raeford, and surrounding towns.
Patrolman C. F. Wolfe 27 resigns from the police department after a career since late 1946 and traffic division since January 1949. He plans to join a real estate firm as Air Chief C. Stoker notes Wolfe’s good service and that the department hates to lose him.
A coffee shop owner faced a jury court trial for violating beverage control law at Sonny's on West Broad Street. Testimony noted beer on a table after hours and a drunken man exiting with bottles, while the proprietor claimed no sales occurred after hours. Several related cases and fines were listed following the proceedings.
Guilford’s Tom Turner chairs the military affairs committee and Walter Crissman leads the Federal and inter state cooperation panel. Senator Joe T Carruthers Jr holds multiple posts including employment security and judiciary while C Arthur Kirkman joins appropriations and counties and towns. Shreve lands several panels including appropriations and roads.
Rev Weston warned at Gos pel Tabernacle about desecration of the Sabbath and the home and urged awakening as Americans face judgment. He urged repentance and noted soldiers dying abroad while daily life continues. He spoke on divine healing and revival through Friday, citing Isaiah 59:1 and Calvary.
The DAY Chapter urges parents to include hospital, disability, injury, and illness records in sons service files upon discharge. A. M. Evans notes many veterans fail to prove service connections due to missing records. Relatives should save letters from service members as they can aid future disability claims and hold historical value.
First National Bank reports 1950 total business activity of 151 million dollars in Thomasville. Debits and credits to personal accounts rose from 1949, with bank clearings at 63.6 million. Deposits reached 7.5 million. capital 758 thousand. officers and directors were re-elected at the annual stockholders meeting.
Two autos collided this morning near Fisher Ferry street in front of the South Side Baptist church. James Edward Walker Sr. 40, of Lexington, failed to stop at the intersection and struck Archie Odell Myers 48, of Thomasville Route 2. Damages were $150 to Myers car and $75 to Walker’s. Walker cited for reckless driving with trial set for tomorrow.
THOMASVILLE Jan 11 W T Green administrative assistant to City Manager R M Cooksey for a little over a year is one of four applicants for Lexington city manager. H W Zimmerman now Lexington manager has resigned and will vacate March 1. A committee is considering applicants and will make a nomination at the Lexington city council meeting next month.
A survey of High Point police department is in progress led by Fayetteville attorney Terry Sanford. He will work independently from City Hall, based at the Sheraton, for ten to fifteen days, earning 1000 dollars, with aim to restore public confidence and assess administration amid calls for reform. Local officials emphasize a professional, impartial study.
Edwin Taylor son of Mr and Mrs H Wilburn Taylor of 1505 Larkin street says both sides in the Korean conflict mean business and that on land sea and air this is a hard hitting war. He is commissaryman on the Wan tucket, a fast vessel in the Pacific Fleet which has just returned from seven months in the Far East carrying Marines who neutralized Wolmi Do and aided the Inchon landing. The Wan tucket also ferried troops for dawn raids on Korea's east coast prior to Chinese intervention. Taylor will be home about two weeks then resume duty and cannot discuss operations for security reasons.
The Friendship weather bureau forecast a fair sky with a dip in temperatures tonight reaching around 27. Friday should remain fair with little change. today’s high was 54 and tomorrow’s 52 with a 35-degree low last night.
Cpl Clarence Gordon, U.S. Army, was the principal speaker at a Sertoma club luncheon at the Sheraton. He shared experiences from Korea with the 23rd Regiment, Second Infantry Division, including his Augest 1 landing at Pusan and August 10 evacuation to Japan, and described terrain, prisoner conditions, and US resistance during the early battles near Chinjon. A film, First Forty Days, followed his talk.
In Thomasville the January city tax list is behind schedule with only about 1,800 residents listed so far, far short of the 3,700 required. City tax official T. Green urges property owners to file at City Hall basement promptly to avoid delay.
Thomasville report shows 145 cases tried in December in the recorder's court. Among them 51 involved drunkenness, with two for selling whiskey, six for driving drunk, one for perjury, and one for receiving stolen goods.
Noted duo pianists Arthur Ferrante and Louis Teicher give a Civic Music Association recital at the high school auditorium in Thomasville at eight tonight. The program features popular classics transcribed for two pianos.
State Patrol reports a 1946 truck driven by Chester Bodenheimer of Kernersville caught fire on Wallburg Georgetown road near noon Tuesday. Bodenheimer jumped clear as flames burned the cab and motor wiring, the vehicle ending against a bridge abutment. damage about 300 dollars.
A towed car broke free and led to a wreck with no injuries but $200 in damage. The lead vehicle overturned after hitting a bank on a dirt road west of Holly Grove school around 3 30. State police identified Jack D Brooks as the overturned driver. Damages reported in city crashes totaled $435 with two morning and one Wednesday incident involving named drivers and locations.
Mrs Pet Harrison has accepted a position at the Fashion Shop where she will head the ready-to-wear department. She was previously employed at Cecile's Dress Shop in town.
An Air Force interview team will be at High Point College January 15 to 18 to interview and process applicants for pilot navigator and officer candidate school training. Staff will provide vision and hearing tests and immediate qualification decisions. Applicants need two years of college and meeting age requirements. The team includes jet pilots with distinguished war records and will discuss flying experiences in both jet and conventional aircraft.
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