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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1949
Page
12
Wallace was ousted from the cabinet for a Madison Square Garden speech criticizing U.S. policy. He became Truman's sharpest critic and then a presidential candidate. At sixty, with his influence waning, he ponders next moves while maintaining financial security.
A ballast car with two locomotives and a caboose left the rails near Hoag land after plowing into a 14 foot drift. The Kan sas City Philharmonic Orchestra cancelled formal dress and rehe arsal was held in street clothes with conductor Hans Schwieger in a turtle neck sweater.
Youth revival services are held daily at 7 p m at the Church of God located at East Commerce and Thissell streets in High Point Rev F T Presley evangelist leads the efforts and has conducted youth revivals across the state The services are open to the public.
Alarms answered by the fire department between noon yesterday and noon today include a bedroom fire at 705 Redding Street at 11 03 p m and a grease smoke scare at Lee Morris Service 154 South Main Street at 8 38 a m with no damage.
In municipal court yesterday Eveline Newsome filed against her husband Horal Newsome alleging failure to provide support for her and their child and alleging repeated physical cruelty. She requests the court to order ongoing support and protection.
Marion S. Duches and William F. Sweatt of High Point and Clayton Davis of Asheboro enlist this week at the local recruiting station. The Mebane company filed in municipal court against Metal Stamping Works of High Point for 1375 dollars claiming the unpaid balance of several notes.
Samuel L. Patterson petitions the municipal court for 250 in personal damages and 5 weekly until his automobile is repaired from R. L. Teague. The complaint alleges Teague negligence in a traffic accident that occurred November 29 1948.
The Mary McLeod Bethune Branch YWCA will mark its fourth anniversary Friday January 21 at 8 p.m. at William Penn High School with guest speaker Miss Marion Vera Cuthbert, Brooklyn College sociology instructor and notable author. The event includes a reception at the YWCA on East Washington Street.
The department proposes a new levy principle for schedule B licenses allowing counties to tax rural businesses and municipalities to tax urban businesses. If adopted, municipalities could reach up to 1 351 444 yearly from schedule B licenses based on 1946 47 data, an estimated increase of 894 368 over 1946 47. Twenty four business types would be affected including amusements hotels tourist homes restaurants and laundries.
Louis Artis Koontz, a former Thomasville resident, died in Hickory Sunday night. Funeral services were conducted at Cavalry Evangelical and Reformed church with ministers Calvin Leonard Lawrence Leonard and Harvey Koontz Jr. officiating. Interment followed in the Koontz family plot at Calvary church cemetery.
Brenda Upton ten days old died Tuesday evening at 10 o clock in a local hospital. She was born January 7 1949 in this city, daughter of Dwight and Alvin Lee Rollins Upton. Surviving are two sisters and her grandparents. Funeral services set for Thursday at 2 pm at Yows Funeral Home with burial in a local cemetery.
Russia led geochemical prospecting since 1932 with soil analysis and vegetation clues. The U S Geological Survey translated six Russian papers and notes American programs are just starting field trials. Hawkes says three U S firms already test geochemical prospecting as the method grows from lab to field.
The first craft class session will start tomorrow night at 7 30 in the junior high school art room. Over 125 people have registered for 14 classes during eight weekly sessions. Registration continues at the high school, and colored groups are urged to contact the city recreation department for information.
The event features a symphony orchestra and four military bands and sold out a week ago with about 5 300 Gala customers paying 2 50 to 10 and boxes near the President paid 50 The President is expected to sign a bill raising his salary by 25 000 a year and boosting his tax free expenses by 50 000 His current salary is 75 000 Washington crowds will be housed in 25 000 private rooms for overflow Veterans of Battery D 129th Field Artillery and World War I buddies will breakfast with him and ride in the parade
Callis Daniel Saunders fired his gun while in the backyard to shoot a stray dog the weapon discharged leading to his death. A coroner's jury ruled the death accidental.
The article notes Democrats split with Republicans on relief policy. Senators Byrd of Virginia Johnson of Colorado McClellan of Arkansas and Russell of Georgia joined the GOP on the issue while the administration did not extend the same relief to its own people.
The Moa, a giant New Zealand bird extinct for 500 years, reportedly stood over ten feet tall and weighed about 500 pounds. This description underscores the bird's extraordinary size once common in New Zealand.
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