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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1951
Page
11
City Planner Malcolm Little announces pilot installation of pedestrian signals at Main and Washington within two to three weeks. Signals flash walk and don’t walk to guide pedestrians, at a cost of 75 to 100 dollars per intersection. If successful, others will follow.
A woman, Lois Black, 31, was charged with larceny for taking 60 cents last Sunday. A. M. Smith, 37, was charged with passing a bad check for $860 on May 22. Herman Currence, a 30 year old Black man, was charged with cutting Manuel Dumas and chasing him with an axe, and also with drunkenness and resisting an officer. Smith and Miss Black were released on bond.
Carl Plate city parks and recreation director will speak on Recreation A Must in Aberdeen High School auditorium tomorrow night. He will survey grass courses at Southern Pines to find a suitable seed for the municipal course after a fall failure to seed.
East Russell street from Wrenn to Main reopened yesterday described as a partial solution to post office area traffic. City Planner Malcolm Little urged southbound motorists on Wrenn to turn right onto East Russell rather than East Green to relieve congestion.
R. D. Fowler Jr. becomes president of the High Point Traffic and Transportation Club at the Emerywood Country Club during the tenth annual dinner meeting. A. H. Holton moves to chairman of the board. officers include R. K. Tribble and J. T. Bruton, with directors named. Dr. I. G. Greer of Chapel Hill urges reducing highway and industrial deaths and stresses individual and organizational responsibility in a free enterprise system.
The weather forecast calls for fair, partly cloudy skies and warmer conditions tonight. Thursday will be partly cloudy and mild with a high near 63 degrees. Tonight’s low around 38. Last night’s low was 20.
Civitans voted to extend their membership drive until 50 new members are recruited. Blood drive participants included Dr. T R Zimmerman Ed Hatcher Joe Cole Don Joyce Tom Robinson and Ed P President Holt. Officers appointed to program committees cover March April and May with Don Joyce Ben Witherington O L Stallone Glen Craughan J C McAllister Ed Poovey Tom Robinson Jer Marshall Suther.
The Ameri can Red Cross presented first aid kits to eight instructors during a WHPE radio ceremony at 12 45 pm. The honorees Nancy Campbell Emma Baughn Elizabeth Weaver Evelyn Prescott Arthur Paschal L F Honeycutt Fred Smothers Inez Clark now teach classes regionally. Carl Plate chairman of the mobile unit noted 500 people are being trained with a goal of 7500 in the High Point area.
The text notes that Communism has declared war on everything we cherish and on individual ideals, the basic element of the free enterprise system.
The Arts and Crafts Workshop unit calls for actors actresses publicity writers artists and designers to support a three act comedy Happiest Years by Thomas Coley and William Roerick. Mrs James T Warr invites men of all ages and women in late twenties to thirties to join the effort and meet Thursday at 7 30 p m at High Point Junior High School to start an adult level theater program.
The home of M. J. Abels at 712 West Farriss Avenue was partially destroyed by a fire of undetermined origin last night. Firemen arrived at 9 18 p.m. and fought the blaze for nearly two hours. The fire started in the basement and used the stairway as a flue, burning a hole in the roof before control. A grass fire on East Washington Street near the city reservoir was put out at 1 23 p.m. yesterday. Firemen answered a call at 27 A Daniel Brooks apartments at 12 15 this morning. An oil heater in Helen Leach’s apartment was controlled by cutting off the oil supply.
W. W. Jefferson, manager of the Southeastern Red Cross, spoke at the Jefferson Local Red Cross luncheon. He urged stronger local blood collection to support military needs and emphasized personal outreach and community involvement to sustain blood supplies for service members in Korea and beyond.
Betty Jo Smith of High Point a member of Meredith college Creative Rhythms will appear as ukulele accompanist in a college production Friday night and serve as co chairman of the backstage committee. Building permits issued to Warren J. Godwin for three dwellings on Tabor Wendover and Rockspring at 6 000 9 000 and 9 000. A frame dwelling permit for 1117 Redding street issued to H W Smith and alterations permit for 1 050 at 207 North Main street to Miss Violet Johnson.
Private Milton Candler son of Mr and Mrs Albert L Candler of 807 West College street finished his basic indoctrination course at Lakeland Air Force base in San Antonio Texas and is assigned to Flight 6013.
Officers were reelected at the 27th annual meeting as the Atlantic Building and Loan Association reported a strong 1950 with assets rising over 300000. O A Kirkman presides with J S Dallas as first VP D A Rawley as second VP E C Cridlebaugh as secretary treasurer and Ruth S Bennett as assistant secretary treasurer. Directors include R Kenner Amos D S Hedgecock Joe J Johnson Alson Gray Henry Foscue and James B Lovelace. The contingency fund received additional transfers during the year.
Roanoke Rapids senior Tom Clark was elected president of the Inter national Relations Club at Wake Forest college. Mc Leansville freshman Joe West was named vice president and Thomasville senior Marcella Reed was chosen secretary treasurer.
Brant R. Snavely of High Point and Wachovia Bank will chair the February city wide campaign to raise 80000 for High Point college. President Dennis H. Cooke praised the appointment and urged community support for the New Era Fund to strengthen educational facilities and the college’s future.
The Charlotte regional bloodmobile will visit High Point tomorrow and Friday to collect donated blood. The Red Cross urges High Point residents to donate to support local hospitals, aid Korea wounded, and bolster civil defense blood plasma stock. Donors may schedule appointments during designated hours. examinations provided by doctors and nurses.
In Thomasville the Red Cross blood mobile collected 250 pints, the largest response yet, meeting the raised quota of 200 pints. Workers at Thomasville Furniture Corp contributed 75 pints, and blood will be sent to Korea as plasma and used locally for hospital needs.
Woodrow Ingram, 29, of Fairview Street, received a total of two years on each of four assault with a deadly weapon charges and similar counts after a Superior Court ruling, plus two years suspended for ten years for wounding Hattie McRae, and ten-year prayer continuances for other injuries. He faced multiple counts from a Christmas Day incident and earlier August attacks, with mixed verdicts including some not guilty findings. Other cases include Floyd Reeves awaiting trial for manslaughter and drunken driving, Marion Cobb charged with liquor violations, and Ernest Bennett given prayer for judgment continued with a driving ban.
Guy H Peters Jr 38 of Greensboro died on a Trailways bus arriving in High Point from Greensboro around 10:30 am. Authorities awaited Guilford County Coroner Dr W W Harvey to confirm cause while autopsy results were pending. Peters had a bag with medicines and multiple licenses. his wife was located in Greensboro and not surprised by the death.
William W. Higgins and Annie Mae Loflin of High Point receive marriage licenses. Charles Floyd Cromer Jr of Pilot Mountain and Kathryn Irene Place of Ramhurst Georgia also obtain licenses.
Police and state patrol report damages totaling 1965 and one injury from a Monday series of accidents. Readouts cite Ruby Lee Scott and Clarence Ingram, John P. Jones and Charles Gardner, Ss Byerly and Joseph Hill, Lee Hunt and Carl Teague, and Troy A. Smith in incidents on High and Main, Forrest and Woodrow, Highway 311, Ragan road, Greensboro highway, and Highland road with damages ranging from 75 to 1000 dollars and one injury from Teague.
A former High Point girl Norma Jean Wilson now of Lexington had probation revoked in Greens boro for violating the terms of an earlier probation. She pleaded guilty in Superior Court Greensboro to a December robbery of a car and $100. She faces a March 5 sentence review and was serving a two to five year term suspended on probation for a December 16 1949 robbery with her sister.
Rev W G Weston field evangelist of the Christian and Missionary Alliance preached at Gospel Tabernacle on Willowbrook Street. He said God seeks the lost since Adam and urged Christians to show concern for souls. He noted his 72nd birthday and his long service record.
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