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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1943
Page
6
Social calendar notes a Friday 3:30 p.m. regualr meeting at Mrs Charles W Perry's home 1207 Sherbrook Court. Saturday 2 p.m. the Duplicate Club gathers for its weekly session at Emerywood Country Club.
Despite ice encrusted wires cutting lights at Emerywood Country Club, seventy six reservations were made for Thursday family dinner. Guests joined by candle and firelight included J O Hauschild Silas Casey Hamlin Briggs Rob ert Holton J A Morris S S Saunders Paul Casey J T Weaver John C Abels Elliott Wood W B Hartman Collier Ellis Fred Hallenbeck Stanley Davis Earl Phillips H P Hardin H P Williams Robert Davis Seborn Perry Harold Bennett Clark Dillon W P Hazelwood.
The Charta Club was entertained by hostess Mrs Connie S Hanes at 317 Richardson Street. Two bridge tables played with top score awarded to Miss Evelyn Barker and Mrs Finley ey. runner up received a compact. The evening featured a salad course with Russian Tea and songs by Bronson Matney.
North Carolina guards more than 200000 acres under state and federal oversight dedicated to deer production and habitat conservation, combining public lands and wildlife programs to sustain populations and hunting opportunities.
Zenith contest at Roberts Hall selects four Miss High Point College finalists from the senior Zelma Parnell, junior Nan Clapp, sophomore Dorothy Alexander, and freshman Beverly Merchant. Other contestants include Jule Warren Ronda Sebastian Bonnie Lewis Dorothy Lee Usher Nancy Isenhour Dorothy Chamberlain Genevieve Couch Nancy Covington. Judges and marshals named.
Miss Clara Whitehead, botany teacher at Senior High School, spoke to the Wild Flower Garden Club about North Carolina herbs and crude plants. She noted 80 percent of today’s drug plants originate in North Carolina, mainly around Asheville, and cited 128 families or 820 species known in the region.
Textile Workers Union of America announces a benefit dance Saturday at their hall on South Main Street. Proceeds go to the infantile paralysis fund as part of the Birthday Ball efforts. Music by Dad Walton's string band features both round and square dancing. admission is twenty five cents per person or fifty cents per couple.
Women Laura D Gouch of 1120 Richland Avenue Dorothy L Farrington of High Point Route One receive orders to report to WAAC Training Center Fort Oglethorpe Feb 2. Mary Ziara Coira 431 West Lexington Avenue and Rhu S Guerin 417 Edgedale Drive enrolled at Fort Bragg January 27 awaiting orders to report for active duty.
Anne Adams pattern 4331 offers a day long dress with curved yokes and V neck sizing for women 34 to 48. Fabric amount for size 36 is 2 1/2 yards of 39 inch cloth. Order by sending size name address and style number to The High Point Enterprise Pattern Department New York.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Wheeler hosted the Deep River Berea Class on Thursday night followed by refreshments. Mrs. D. Clark Johnson, Miss Eloise Johnson and Miss Nancy Williams visited Sgt. Johnson in a Fort Bragg hospital. Rebecca Mae, daughter of Mrs. Carl J. Yow, arrived at her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Briggs. Mrs. W. B. Jones is very ill at Guilford General Hospital. Philip Jackson and children of Pittsboro attended Deep River Church services. Wanda Smith spent Saturday night in High Point with her aunt, Mrs. F. G. Summey. Jesse Henley, now residing at Guilford College, attended Sunday School and the 11 o'clock service. Mary Ethel Gossett was out Sunday after a severe cold. Claudia Thornton spent a week in High Point with her sister, Mrs. A. D. Ridge. Colon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Jordan, ill with influenza but improving. J. L. Skeen and J. P. Jones shopped in High Point and were dinner guests of Mrs. Wheeler's sister, Mrs. Elvie Thornton, in High Point. Nancy Jones stayed overnight with Miss Louella Stroud.
The Spiritual Life Meeting of the Methodist Churches in the High Point District will gather Sunday afternoon at Ward Street Methodist Church from 3 to 4 1 2 30. Members from various churches are asked to attend and participate. A special program emphasizing men and boys in the armed forces is planned, and invitations are extended to all denominations to attend.
Mrs. M. C. Henderson of Odessa Texas and Mrs. E. R. Mellvaine with two daughters of Goldsboro visit the bedside of Arthur Ellison who has been seriously ill at Burrus Memorial Hospital. He has improved and was moved to his home yesterday.
Greensboro College voice head Walter Vassar will present a vocal recital Sunday at 3:30 pm in Odell Memorial auditorium. He is joined by Amelia Hall Caldwell soprano Polly McGee Medearis mezzo soprano Jane Hess contralto with Mrs Vassar at the piano. Vassar, Mississippi native and professor since 1935, studied at Curtis and DePauw and sang with the Philadelphia Grand Opera and the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. His program includes works by Lully Beck Wagner Strauss Bax and Lippe among others.
The WPB slashes civilian dye allotments by 60 percent and limits copper reliefs for dress patterns, signaling a colorless summer with fewer patterns and rising white tones. Engraving plates may vanish, while 40 000 frozen instruments become available as metal use tightens.
A daughter named Beth Carraway was born to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Thomas of this city on Tuesday January 26 at Burrus Memorial Hospital.
William E McKenney reports from Columbus Ohio on a meeting with Mrs FE B Neil president of the Central Ohio Bridge Association and Dr Louis Mark who just funded War Orphans Scholarships with 500 dollars. They discuss a spring party to raise more scholarships and a notable hand from Doc Mark for the event.
A bridge hand sequence describes opening bids and trick play culminating in the declarer misguess and a successful defence. It ends with a note on scoring Gin Rummy where the first score goes to the first game and subsequent scores span all three games, in a Hollywood style.
A bridge column by WMEE offers expert tips and strategic ideas from the McKenney on Bridge series. The piece analyzes bidding ethics and play techniques to improve reader skills at the table.
Ruth Millett opines that wartime shortages leveling class comforts take the bite out of wealth. A wealthy man with six cars faces rationing and service limits as March 15 looms, while the rest of us endure fewer luxuries and rising costs.
A community singing at Rocky River Baptist Church on Snow Camp Road five miles from Siler City will be held Sunday January 31. The event starts at 1 30 PM with duets trios quartets and choruses plus congregational singing led by R P Smith who invites all singers and music lovers to attend.
The Guilford County civil term calendar will be set Saturday at 10 a m in the Greensboro court house. Members of the bar are requested to attend. The item also notes facts about Big Ben's clock and the origin of the word khaki.
William Rankin of Durham son of Professor and Mrs W W Rankin and grandson of Mrs F S Lambeth completes Duke University requirements and will receive his diploma at May commencement. At twenty he plans military service soon and sped through college in three and a half years with perfect attendance during a summer course.
A factory boss and Bessie discuss pledging ten cents for War Bonds. The boss suggests a dollar per week and the Treasury representative notes the sacrifice as American women make sacrifices. The story promotes payroll savings and War Bonds.
The city handles about 1,900,000 telephone calls each day with average wire distance per call. The article notes the impact of an automobile cooling system condition on its gas consumption.
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