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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1957
Page
9
A weather system and a large high pressure cell centered over St. Louis push North Carolina nocturnal readings to 18 degrees. Tuesday turns partly cloudy and cold with a slow warming trend by Wednesday and minimal precipitation likely Friday.
The Forsyth County High Point College Alumni Association held its annual dinner at Centenary Methodist Church. Elected officers include Kelsey L. Schuyler as president and Rev John Sills as vice president with Dorris Ammons secretary and Kenneth Berrier treasurer.
Jaycees announce auditions for the 1957 Jollies talent show. Don Horne says singers dancers and instrumentalists may try out at 7 30 p m in Adams Dance Studio for parts in the late March production. Charles Weaver serves as assistant director with a noted banjo player need.
A British serviceman riding a motor scooter along a suburban Nicosia avenue was shot dead by unknown gunmen. It marks the first attack on a British serviceman this year as attackers, likely EOKA members, escaped.
Two High Point High School musical groups the orchestra and the Chorallettes received invitations to perform at the Southern Division meeting of the Music Educators National Conference in Miami Florida. The conference runs April 26 to 30 and involves ten southeastern states.
Local March of Dimes collections in High Point reach 3600 from five days of Jaycees on Polio Bridge Main Street. Weekly totals by day include 733 Wednesday 701 Thursday 832 Friday 1229 Saturday and 331 Sunday. Mothers March wind up Friday Feb 1 with 7 to 8 pm event.
The city planning and zoning commission will act on petitions to rename Oak Avenue to Madison Avenue and to extend Business B zoning from N Main Street west to 60 feet beyond Rockspring Road. S. D. Gibson seeks rezoning Montgomery Place from Residence A to Business B. The commission may approve annexation of Hillsdale No 2 and Brentwood subdivisions.
Five calls, including two false alarms, were answered by High Decake over the weekend. A Memorial Hospital false alarm was caused by a boy pulling a lever while his father visited. A second false alarm came by phone to 707 Hilltop St. Other alarms included a grass fire on S Main Street, trash burning at 1402 Valley Ridge Dr, and a trash fire at 214 N Ward St.
Two 17 year old brothers Donald and Ronald Gibbs were arrested at 119 Virginia Ave High Point Sprinker Co for siphoning gasoline from a truck. They face larceny and receiving charges and were to appear in Municipal Court today.
Two men were injured when a city utilities truck and a car collided at Willowbrook and Grimes. Hutchinson and Blackwell were hospitalized with a shoulder and chest injuries respectively. both claimed the other had a green light. The vehicle drivers were named Hutchinson and Raymond Anthony, with both cars declared total losses. A second accident later today led to McEwen charged with failure to yield at Chestnut and Rotary Drive after a collision with James Ferebee. damages estimated at 275 dollars.
In Sausalito California Clara Bass carved a 10 by 20 inch Madonna from driftwood. The sculpture drew many visitors to the Marine Art Gallery where a sap leaked from the right eye likely from a resin duct. Some visitors knelt before the piece while most were curious onlookers.
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