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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1935
Page
10
A Veterans of Foreign Wars sponsored rally begins at 8 PM tonight in the East Washington street hall. High Point veterans are invited to attend as speakers cover several discussions on the bonus question.
Clyde A. Erwin state superintendent of public instruction will address a large audience at the junior high school auditorium at 7:60 PM. City officials, PTA presidents, and others will be seated on stage for the event presented by Dr. T. Wingate Andrews city school superintendent and sponsored by the Parent-Teacher council.
A. H. Paschall chief of soils and W. B. Oliver with L. R. James of the Soil Erosion Service visited High Point en route home from a soils convention in Meridian Mississippi. They inspected the Deep River area and reviewed erosion control methods used in the Piedmont region.
An drew Jackson Post No. 87 American Legion will hold a meeting tonight at 8 oclock in the hall on East Commerce Street. This is the first regular meeting since the holidays and every member is urged to attend.
The High Point Council of Garden Clubs seeks state sanction and cooperation for a highway beautification project. The Soil Erosion Control Service will provide plants and seeds, with labor supplied by the highway commission. Officials aim to make the area among the Souths most beautiful and to launch a citywide bird sanctuary program led by garden clubs.
Funeral services for Mrs Swannora Corum aged 78 widow of Elwood Corum were held at Sandy Ridge church in High Point route 1. Rev Paul Pegs conducted the 11 o’clock service and burial followed in the church cemetery. Pallbearers were W E Arledge C B Holbrook Clyde Bolling Charlie Durham Robert Bolling and W A Matthews. Flowers carried by Cora Thornton and by Mittie Wilson Vera White Maude Thornton C O Venable Flossie Carmichael and Essie Briggs. A large crowd attended the services with numerous floral tributes.
City Manager E M Knox signed the entry for High Point in the 1935 National Traffic Safety Contest. Chief Friddie will handle local details and liaison with the Chicago panel. The city in the 25 000 to 50 000 class aims to cut traffic deaths and urges citizen cooperation to reduce accidents.
The Zurich to Vienna route is the lone European service matching American speed, covering under 300 miles and employing American equipment.
Two carloads of hard lumber for Ringling Brothers circus repairs are being gathered by McEwen Lumber Company from six states and the Philippines. Beech comes from West Virginia, maple from Virginia, oak from North Carolina, birch from Wisconsin, mahogany from the Philippines, and white pine from California for shipment to Sarasota Florida.
Mrs Meyer Sternberger of Greensboro was reelected president of the Guilford County Association for the Blind at the annual meeting. H A Cecil and R Co Boyce of High Point were named vice presidents with Rabbi Rypins as treasurer and other officers chosen. Six new directors were elected. The group endorsed a state rehabilitation measure and discussed extending work in High Point with classes led by Bradley Williams for Negro communities. The meeting noted a $239.60 bank balance and sought trolley transportation for the blind via Southern Public Utilities officials.
Greensboro January 15 Special county welfare superintendent Mrs Blanche Carr Sterne chaired a conference with Guilford County Commissioners to review the central agency for unemployable cases. The group toured new welfare department quarters in the recently acquired county house. Joe F Hoffman Jr and J
Guilford county lawmakers in the 1935 General Assembly received major committee posts. Senator Dr J T Burrus was named Public Health chairman and joined Insurance Finance and other panels. Greensboro figure Ben Cone chairs Manufactures and Labor and sits on Finance and Banks and Banking. Rupert Pickens joins Education Judiciary Two and Trustees of University while Thomas C Hoyle serves on Appropriations Judiciary One and other panels.
Dr. G Greer and Mrs Greer delivered an afternoon lecture on the English language folk ballads, highlighting mountain American folk songs. The program entertained High Point Civitan members and inspired a wave of praise for the speaker.
A British maker markets a micro car weighing 200 pounds with a single air cooled motor. It claims about 60 miles per gallon and a top speed of 15 miles per hour.
W Burke represented the county commissioners at the meeting. Mrs W G Ragsdale of Jamestown, newly appointed to the county welfare board, attended. Mrs Ragsdale succeeds Mrs Raymond Binford who resigned due to duties with the Parent Teachers Association.
A state highway patrol safety car arrived in the city this morning as part of a state wide tour. The vehicle uses a public address system to call out motorists’ violations, a method approved by Governor Ehringhaus and demonstrated in several cities.
Funeral services for George C. Floyd were held at his daughter’s home on Elm Street with Dr. A B. Conrad, Dr. W. A. Lambeth, and Rev. Mr. Hipps officiating. A quartet sang hymns as flowers and pallbearers were arranged. interment followed in the Oakwood cemetery family plot.
William Powell declines being named among the world’s 12 best dressed men. He says the honor carries responsibility and would put him on a pedestal subject to criticism if he errs.
A boundary light for airports uses a single dry cell battery and will illuminate the field for six months without replacement, providing long lasting guidance for runway boundaries.
Dr R M Buie was unanimously re elected as county health officer for about ten years with no other candidate. The Greensboro board of health adopted a resolution calling for state asylum expansion to confine mentally ill patients locally and to support county homes for their care. Dr J T J Battle presided at the meeting.
A Textile Labor Board hearing on charges of alleged discrimination involving Robbins Knitting Mill is scheduled for Thursday at 9 AM. The session will be held in courtroom No. 1 in the federal building in Greensboro, moved from Washington.
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