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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1951
Page
5
Local church notices list meetings duties and services for January 21 1951 at First and Main Street Methodist churches and other congregations. Activities include guild gatherings bishops sermons choir rehearsals youth programs Bible readings and a city wide Bible Day observance upcoming on Sunday.
Emmanuel Lutheran Church North Main and Howell hosts announcements from Pastor Harry D. Hawthorne for September. Readings, services, and schedules outlined for the month and community activities planned by the church.
City wide Baptist Training Union meeting Tuesday January 23 at 7 30 p m at Southside Baptist church under the direction of Vernon Coffey president. Ernest Hedrick or a chairman will present songs at Memorial Methodist church Colored after business. All Baptist churches in the city urged to attend.
A dense list of crossword style clues across many numbers and abbreviations awaiting solution by cross referencing. The grid references include directions, weights, metals, rivers, and classical terms with clues like Indian weight and Brythonic sea god.
The Eighth Army reports a tightening security blackout to curb guerrilla operations behind UN lines in Korea. North Korean fighters, rearmed in mountains, conduct hit and run strikes, roadblocks, ambushes, and village seizures, while reliance on radio messages increases as front reports are delayed.
Pfc. James D. Byrd 14, fled West Virginia sixth grade to join the army. He fought with the 8th Army in Korea, suffered frostbite, and arrived at Percy Jones hospital, Michigan, where officials plan an honorable discharge due to age. Byrd hopes to stay in, plans to return to school if discharged.
A collage of items from 1951 includes humor gags about chinchilla fur and broom ads, a land sale notice in Guilford County North Carolina with a public auction date, misquoted Trump era parlor chatter, and a country editor’s quip on horse traders failing to influence diplomacy.
The State Department asks for photographs of wooden household furniture production to accompany Think magazine's North Carolina The Tar Heel State article. Images will be used to show the American way of life and placed on file for exhibits pamphlets and film in the United States.
Screen star Lionel Barrymore cancelled a movie role due to a bad cold and will be bedridden for about a week to ten days. Veteran actor Lewis Stone will replace him in the production.
Carl Patterson McCoy, 34, of Statesville North Carolina, asked a federal judge in Richmond Virginia to sentence him to a year and a day in a jail hospital so he could receive medical care. McCoy, unemployed and penniless, is partially paralyzed and blind and said he needed treatment. The judge approved the term on the lawyer’s recommendation.
Greensboro delegates visited High Point projects this week. The Arts and Crafts Workshop attracted Greensboro Woman's Club and Woman's College representatives who plan a similar program in Greensboro. A delegate to a national AAUW meeting will report on the High Point Workshop. The High Point bloodmobile program drew further Greensboro interest with plans to copy its model.
Evening TV listings show 6:00 News and commentary plus varied programs. Sports and music blocks feature Harry Wiemer Sporte and Vaughn Monroe Show with CBS and ABC broadcasts.
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