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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1950
Page
6
A series of bridge and canasta classes opened at the YWCA last week. Bridge classes meet Tuesday nights for eight weeks taught by Kathleen Russell. Canasta runs four weeks on Thursday nights at 7 30 with Pick Roberts. Enrollment remains open. call YWCA-2577 or attend the class of choice.
Various meetings and social events fill the week in High Point area clubs. Highlights include Betsy Hardin and Betsy Lee related gatherings, many club dinners at the Sheraton and Emerywood, and the wedding of Carolyn Grant to Ray DeLapp at Hilliard Memorial Church with a reception in Thomasville.
The Juvenile Musical Arts club at the YWCA heard Mrs Ted Moran explain how instruments formed the symphony orchestra. She traced woodwind development and finished with a Pan recording. Carolyn Cosey led a brief business session, two new members were welcomed, and a donation to the Kelly fund was noted.
Mr and Mrs R L Emerson announce the birth of a daughter Belinda Louise on January 12 at the Boulevard unit of High Point Memorial hospital.
The Alpha Rho chapter of Beta Sigma Phi will meet this evening at 7:45 at the YWCA.
Mr and Mrs C L Elliott announce the birth of a daughter Sharon Elizabeth on January 14 at the Boulevard unit of the local hospital. Mr and Mrs Guy Martin announce the birth of Joy Diane on January 11 at the Boulevard unit of the local hospital. Mrs Martin is the former Louise Haney.
Mrs Guy Martin and her infant daughter have returned to their home on East Green Street from the Boulevard unit of the local hospital.
YWCA schedules include 8th grade Y-Teens at 4 15, Robins Club weiner roast at Sullivan's Cabin 5 30, Double M Club lunch and installation 12 15, 9th grade Y-Teens 3 35, 7th grade Y-Teens bowling 4, B and P Club 6, Bridge class 7 30, Adams Club canasta 8, Pickett Library Y-Teens 4 00 Wednesday, Y-W Wives coffee hour 3 00 Thursday, senior Y-Teens clues 4 15, Canasta 7 30, Jolly Y Personality Study 8 00, Industrial Inter-Club Council with Mary Bethune branch 8 00.
A sewing pattern advertisement offers pattern 4955 for sizes 2 4 6 8 a princess frock with two necklines and a cape. Includes yardage for cape and dress and illustrated instructions. Request twenty five cents to Anne Adams at High Point Enterprise and address details. Also promotes the Anne Adams Pattern Book with a fifteen cent request and a free one yard blouse pattern.
The UNAPOC auxiliary met at Mrs Gorrell Payne’s home on Blain Avenue January 13. Officers were nominated by a committee and the group voted to rename the organization to Auxiliary of Post Office Clerks. Mrs Payne’s new home was decorated with early spring flowers. Russian tea and delicacies were served.
Mrs. Charles S. McGahey will host the Plant and Pluck garden club Friday at 10 o'clock in her home at 609 West Farriss.
Miss Cora Lee Austin of Indian Creek in Paint Gap visits Asheville for the first time at 76. She says she avoided town until now though unfamiliar with trains and movies and finds the tall buildings and Beaucatcher tunnel surprising. She criticized dancing and fiddling as foolish.
Sunday service at Ward Street Methodist led by Rev. C. F. Womble titled Foolish ravery. Mrs. Frank Hardy organist. choir, and prayers framed a message about Jeremiah and the human tendency to sin, urging repentance and turning to God for mercy.
In northern Luzon near Baguio two American University professors Dr Robert F. Conklin and Prof. Marvin Pittman were found dead in a shallow grave after being killed by headhunters during a hike. U S embassy and 13th Air Force patrol led a two week search. three suspects identified by tribesmen and three others said to have helped. Police hunt remaining suspects.
A New York report notes a new mutual open end investment trust with director Waddill Catchings, famous for leading closed end trusts in the 1920s. The entity lists December net assets of 289,488 dollars, with promoters a Kansas City firm and a former NRA economist.
The article traces Blue Ridge stock sales in 1929 to Shenandoah at ten dollars and to the public at twenty, noting Shenandoah's claimed 100 percent profit as an insider. It recounts Blue Ridge rising to twenty point six two, then crashing to three in 1929 and five cents in 1941, with Catchings disconnecting from trusts since 1930 and a terminated Goldman Sachs tie in May 1930.
PORTAGE Pa January 16 Christopher McCarthy a railroad worker came home to discover eight cars of a westbound Pennsylvania Railroad freight train had jumped the track and crashed into his garage. The wreck stopped 30 feet from his house with no injuries. McCarthy helps with cleanup as a wrecking crew worker for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
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