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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1936
Page
5
A quirky fable sets Mr Aesop style rivals in a modern street chase. The Hare zips ahead until traffic signals and signs force caution while the Tortoise quietly persists, catching up at every turn and prompting the Hare to rethink his speed.
The narrative follows Zioncheck racing homeward, realizing his speed misjudgment near a town edge. He nearly gets a curbside fine for speeding and slows, while the Hare loses ground to the Tortoise due to signals and traffic. The Owl notes the lesson that the race is not always to the swift.
A New York to Boston driver notes that speed, fast or moderate, yields similar trip times due to road and traffic conditions. A mid western newspaper tested 35 miles to a nearby city and found negligible time saved by faster driving.
Fred Sink, 17, died from a fractured skull after a timber fell while tearing down a barn at Pinkney Wicker’s home near Wallburg. He died at City Memorial hospital the same day. Survived by parents Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sink of Lexington route one, three brothers Kermit Clarence Willie, and five sisters Beeson Beulah Florence Edna Frances. Funeral Friday at Midway M E church with burial in Midway church cemetery.
Colfax to host a Sunday afternoon community singing in the Tabernacle starting 1 30 o clock. J W Johnson of High Point leads with quartets and groups promised to perform including the Angel Quartet Stokesdale Harmony Girls High Point Smith Sisters Trio Gray Sisters and Colfax Chorus Smith Quartet Pleasant Garden and Mr Crouch High Point. All singers and the public invited.
The commissioner and natives of Turk's Island in the southern Bahamas declare a national holiday to celebrate the first airplane landing in the island's history.
A fish rain in High Point yesterday afternoon astonished diners and passersby at the Elwood Coffee shop. C A Ozment says a dish washer brought in small fish two inches long, dead from impact, and others were found on the sidewalk after the deluge. Observers attribute the event to high winds lifting water from a lake and dumping the fish miles away. President Roosevelt reportedly speaks at roughly 150 words per minute.
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