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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1949
Page
11
Harold Craven, a WHPE radio announcer and self styled Musical Librarian, hosts Off The Record on WHPE and WIPE FM. He curates requests, buys missing records, and drives listeners with a growing club and a busy daily schedule before turning 22 in August.
Enterprise examines impact of a planned 1000 bed neuro psychiatric VA hospital in North Carolina. Water use could hit 1 million gallons daily, power costs 12 000 to 20 000 annually, fresh food about 20 000 monthly. Staffing would total around 750 including 40 doctors and 125 nurses with substantial volunteer involvement.
Guilford County commissioners slashed two cents per $100 from the tax rate, saving residents and businesses an estimated 50 000 to 57 000 dollars. The 1949 evaluation is projected at 285 000 000 dollars with Greensboro and High Point providing most of the county’s tax base.
Assistant Postmaster J C Payne retires at 62 after 41 years in the High Point office. Since 1908 he served in multiple roles amid office expansion and rising yearly business from 27000 to 527000. He plans to stay home, help his wife, and do some fishing.
On July 3 1929 High Pointers planned a holiday weekend at beaches mountains and parks with a baseball game between High Point and Greensboro at Willis Park The city considered a new municipal park swimming pool and lake fishing but postponed due to grounds conditions In Gettysburg Pa Gov Gardner and ex Gov McLean led a Tar Heel monument unveiling In aviation Antin Bowler began a flight from Lake Michigan to Berlin and Southern Cross faced engine trouble near Allahabad In 1939 Chamberlain reported German military activity in Danzig and rising tension in Europe.
Camp Keyawee will reach capacity as 34 girls from High Point and Thomasville depart Monday for a seven day stay. Today 66 boys from High Point and Thomasville leave for Camp Uwharrie for a week as Girl and Boy Scout groups prepare to join their summer programs.
Three High Point residents escaped serious injury when the car overturned two or three times near Trinity off highway 62. R M Proctor was cited for reckless driving and will face Asheboro court. Myrtle Kearns suffered a severe temple cut and was treated at a hospital, then released. Claude Embler sustained a minor head injury but was not treated. Proctor was not in Asheboro.
The Salvation Army unit in S. A. marks its 84th anniversary with two observances today. Morning service at 11 features Captain Olvy Sheppard delivering a sermon Seek Ye First the Kingdom and a program including songs prayers and readings. Evening service at 7 includes Mrs. Sheppard speaking on The Stirred Heart and a cadet led program with hymns and a history review.
Harry Hondros of Winston Salem joined the Enterprise news staff this week, replacing Joe Leslie who moved to the Raleigh Staleigh Times. Hondros, a UNC graduate in December 1947, previously worked for the Sylva Herald and the Baton Rouge State-Times.
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