Man Charged With Theft Of Billfold From Mother
A 36 year old High Point man James Cameron was jailed after police accused him of stealing a billfold with $10.50 from his aged partly blind mother. Cameron stayed in jail on $300 bond charged with larceny and receiving. The billfold was found on him in a beer establishment after the theft. Most of the money was missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
James Cameron
412 W. Willis Sr
Cameron
Luther Morris
Tate St
Frank Stubbs
Hoover St
Stubbs
Bond
L. D. Rogres
Barnwell St. Ext
Thomasville
Deaths and Funerals Mrs Lyv lie Craven 81
Funeral services for Mrs Lyv lie Craven 81 of Route 2 Abbotts Creek Tow will be held at 11 o clock from the Methodist Church. The Rev O C Loy and the Revs John Christy and W N Loy will conduct burial in the church cemetery. The body will be taken to the residence on W Lexington Ave Ext today. Mrs Craven wife of Cicero Craven died at home Saturday morning shortly after 1 o clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syvlif Craven
Lyvlie Craven
H Point
Abbotts Creek
Methodist Church
O. C. Loy
John Christy
W. N. Loy
W. Lexington Ave
Craven
Mrs Rosa P Kearns widow dies after fall
Funeral services were held for Rosa Plummer Kearns 80 at Mainoo Methodist Church with Dr H G Allen and Rev Cecil E Haworth officiating. Burial followed in Concord Methodist Cemetery Farmer NC. She died in a local hospital after a fall at home causing a broken hip. She lived in High Point 34 years at 611 West Green Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosa P. Kearns
Rosa Plummer Kearns
Mainoo Methodist Church
H. G. Allen
Cecil E. Haworth
High Point
W. Green St
Funeral for Mrs. Minnie Mitchell Whitehead
Mrs. Minnie Mitchell Whitehead, 79, died at her home after declining health since September 1954. Funeral services were held in Sechrest Chapel Saturday at 3 PM with Dr. J. E. Rawlinson officiating. Interment in Oakwood Memorial Park. Pallbearers named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnie M. Whitehead
Minnie Mitchell Whitehead
Sechrest
J. E. Rawlinson
First Baptist Church
Oakwood Memorial Park
G. L. Rae David C. Dorsett
W. M. Lassiter
G. Updegrove
Ray
J. A. Kinsey
William Nith
Troy Davis
Ethel Wagner
Agen
William Clarkson Lowe Funeral Service Details
Funeral services for William Clarkson Lowe age 69 of 910 Hickory Chapel Road will be held this afternoon at 2 50 o'clock at the Springfield Friends Meeting House with Rev H Millard Jones and Rev J A Grout officiating. Interment follows in Springfield Cemetery. Returned to the home Saturday morning to lie in state before services. Died suddenly Thursday afternoon at 3 30 after a day in his usual health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Clarkson Lowe
Hickory Chapel Rd
Springfield
Obituary for Forest Evans Veteran Navy Metal Smith
Forest Evans 57 former resident of High Point died after a lengthy illness in California. Navy veteran of World War I he served as a metal smith second class and never married. Survived by four sisters Mrs G W Seacarc Mrs Fred Sechrest Mrs Bertha Rose and Mrs L A Sample and two brothers F E Evans and W J Yatel. Funeral at Sechrest Chapel Tuesday 3 30 p m with Rev G F Overstreet. burial Floral Garden Park Cemetery. Body arriving Monday 10 18 a m at Sechrest Funeral Home pending service.
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Forest Evans Oe Evans
Calit Vetcous
Long Beachan
Aaed
Vent Evans
Navy
California
G. W. Scearce
Fred Sechrest
Bertha Rose
High Points
L. A. Sample
Glendale
Ariz
F. E. Evans
Highers
W. J. Yatel
Rock Hill
S. C
Sechrest Chapel
G. F. Overstreet
Pentecostal Holiness Church
Floral Garden Park
Sechrest Funeral Home
Gray To Star In Next Play
Senior class play features Gray as Dan in a split personality role with a local theater pedigree. The cast includes Robert Curtis Leonard Jr and Joe Coffield in supporting parts as High Point residents prepare for a Little Theater production under Harker Collins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wachovia Bank & Trust Co
High Point
Joe Coffield
Inspector Belsize
Coffield
McCallie Military Academy
Chatanooga
Tenn
North Carolina State College
Raleigh
Archdale
Simpson-Coffield Insurance Assn., Inc
Bill Gray
Dan
Gray
Edward Rochester
Chester Benney
High Point High
High Point College
First Methodist Church
Harker Collins
Funeral for Mrs. Mary Lou Rothrock
Mrs. Mary Lou Rothrock 49 wife of John L. Rothrock died in Duke Hospital Thursday morning. Funeral services were held Saturday at 11 from Koonce Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Walter J. Miller and Dr. C. E. Rozzelle officiating. Pallbearers included Wayne Dr. Walter T. R. Ballard Kendrick Hunter Mahaffey Mahaffey and W S Moore. Entombment followed at Guilford Memorial Mausoleum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Lou Rothrock
John L. Rothrock
Duke Hospital
the Koonce Funeral Home
Walter J. Miller
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
C. E. Rozzelle
High Point College
Wayne
Walter T. T. R. Ballard
Robert Ken
Local Man Held In Fatality Near Salisbury
James Henry Hall 42 of High Point is held on $1000 bond in Salisbury after an automobile truck crash on Highway 29 killed Walter Howell Jr. 21 of Lexington and seriously hurt Jessie W. Westbrook 22 of Eton College. Hall drove for Lewis and Holmes Motor Freight Lines. highway patrol says the car was stopped when struck.
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Salisbury
James Henry Hall
High Point
Walter Howell Jr
Lexington
Rowan Hospital
Jessie W. Westbrook
Eton College
D. L. Bradley
Hewell
Westbrook
Hall
Hoskins St. Point
Lewis and Holmes Motor Freight Lines
Guilford Second in State Auto Registration 1954
Guilford ranked second in privately owned motor vehicles in 1954 with 79,373, behind Mecklenburg’s 84,903. North Carolina total private vehicles reached 1,437,823, with passenger cars 1,028,480 and trucks 335,354. Forsyth third, Wake fourth, Buncombe fifth, Tyrell last with 1,085.
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Guilford
Mecklenburg
State Department of Motor Vehicles
Tar Heels
Forsyth
Wake
Buncombe
Tyrell
Funeral services for W Lowe Gallimore
W Lowe Gallimore 72 died at his Route 4 Thomasville home Thursday afternoon. Funeral was Saturday at 3 p m from Tom's Creek Primitive Baptist Church near Denton led by Elder Sam Atkinson. Honorary pallbearers were High Point Fire Department members. Active pallbearers included fire department members Shuanan iclesalmadgeington Olie Monroe Capt W A P Metcalf Capt B Fallen Pvt P W Davis and Pvt W L Moser. Interment followed in Tom's Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery.
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W. Lowe Gallimore
Route 4
Thomasville
Tom’s Creek
B. Fallen
P. W. Davis
W. L. Moser
Tom’s Creek Primitive Baptist Church
New Officers Elected By Armfield School
Amos R. Kearns of High Point was chosen chairman of the Armfield School for Exceptional Children at a YMCA meeting. Elected with him for 1955 were Mrs. Albert Hart Jr vice chairman Mrs. Ralph Snyder secretary and Bland Worley treasurer. Kearns also serves as Crown Hosiery secretary treasurer and state Conservation and Development Board member, succeeding Fred Flagler. Mrs Earl Phillips was elected to the executive committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amos R. Kearns
High Point
Armfield School
YMCA
Kearns
Albert Hart, Jr
Ralph Snyder
Bland Worley
Crown Hosiery
State Conservation and Development Board
Fred Flagler
Earl Phillips
Junior League
Beers Tavern Fight Ends With Slashing Wound
An argument between two men at an East Washington Street beer tavern last night led to a man being slashed across the cheek with a broken bottle. Sam Moore of 407 Vail Street was charged with assault with a deadly weapon after the incident. Gilmer Lee of 717 East Washington Street needed four stitches for the facial wound. The slashing occurred about 9 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Washington St
Sam Moore
Vail St
Gilmer Lee
Lee
Theft Charges Filed Against Three Negroes
Three suspects including Joe Smith of Chicago Raymond Keeling and Barbara Jones both from New York City were charged in Asheville with larceny after a traveling shopping party allegedly stole a $660 mink coat and items from a department store and a children's shop. Smith said the trio mailed purchases to New York while en route.
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South
Asheville
Joe Smith
Chicago
Raymond Keeling
Barbara Jones
New York City
Smith
Keeling
Jones
Florida Man Indicted in Mail Fraud Case
A Jacksonville grand jury returned a true bill against Ralph G Eaton of Florida for using the mails to commit fraud against North State Printers of High Point. The High Point firm, organized by Ed Kemp and Fred Flagler Jr., faced losses totaling several thousand dollars from negotiations over printing equipment.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Florida
High Point
Ralph G. Eaton
North State
Ed Kemp
Fred Flagler Jr
Realty Transfers Spur Towns R I and wives to multiple buyers
Real estate transfers list numerous two lot and three lot parcels in Milbourne Heights, Roll ing Rd, Green wood Ave, Emery wood West, and J. C. Elliott property. Transfers involve buyer couples including James M Lance, Charles P Reynolds, D S Hedgecock, Security Development Co, Edwards family, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Brown
Greenwood Ave. Security Development Co
John Wardlaw Jr
J. C. Elliott Propese Edwards
Cc Edwards Jr
Emerywood West
D. Er Edwards
Cc. Edwards Jr
W. Lh Je
Train Car Wreck Leaves One Dead in Asheville Crash
Mrs Dewey Wilson of Asheville was fatally injured and her husband and two young sons were seriously hurt when their car was struck by a Southern Railway freight train at a crossing in Asheville just before noon today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheville
Dewey Wilson
Southern Railway
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Robert Curtis Leonard
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Bob) Leonard
Thomason St
Abe
Second Reformed Church
A. Odell Leonard
Center Methodist Church
Leonard
John A
Sara Evans Leonard
Davidson County
Bessie Everhart
Viola Martin
Thomas
Grace Hietman
Clarence R
Joyse Narre Springs
B. Leonard
de la Marshall
Everhart
Detroit
Ie Craver
E. C. Clodfelter
Etta Mae Clodfelter
Winston-Salem
Beer Tavern
Carolina Auto Glass CO
Hamilton St
Eaton
Tobias
Janet
Norwood
Glamour
Hy-Lo
N. C
Penney
Stellie Pepperer
Roger Edwards
C. Edwards Jr
J. M. Sderstith
W. Washington
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