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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1948
Page
3
Notices call all interested to a one day conference at First Baptist Church in Buington on Friday July 9. Mrs. T. F. Sanders should be contacted by Monday July 5 for arrangements. Bus departs Friday July 9 at 8 o clock from the First Baptist Church.
Local items announce an earsal at Mt Vernon Baptist Church at 4 pm today, a donation request from Mrs J E Melton, and a dinner party by the Y s Gay Girls club in honor of Helen Boulware now with Des Moines YWCA. The club plans a park gathering on July 6 with rain backup at 8 30 pm, plus a Weiner roast at the YWCA and meetings for Practical Nurses club on July 8 and Acme club on July 9 with various times.
Paul Mitchell Robinson will preach at the Presbyterian church today during the 11 o'clock service. The Missionary Society hosts a tea at 4 to 6 p m at 110 Normal Street and invites public attendance. St Marks church choir presents Miss Pearl Wright in a recital at 8 p m, with Wright a William Penn graduate now living in Philadelphia. program includes The Lord's Prayer and Goin' Home.
An ad claims Alco-Haven offers a treatment that purifies the bloodstream and removes alcoholic poisons. It contrasts with mere sobering up and promises restoration to full health plus a free booklet by request in a plain envelope.
All Lilies of High Point are asked to meet tonight at 8 p m for business of importance. The City Union Ushers Board will meet at the First Baptist church this afternoon at 3 p m, according to T H Simpson, president.
The Y M C A Bombardiers lead the softball league and play an all star team drawn from Elks Pyramid club Wm Penn stars South Side Barbers and Macedonia. Ab Covington and Harold Davis manage the all stars with players meeting at 2 pm for lineup and the Bombardiers list James Toby W Spencer D Robinson P Moore D McCoy Alvin Holley J Pennix C Strickland J Sims J A Rowe F Dawson and R Gilmer. Whitway Barber Shop sponsors the game.
White Rose chapter No 157 O O E S held its bi monthly meeting at Odd Fellows Hall with Mrs Armeta Byrd presiding. Mrs Rose D Jenkins of Greensboro conferred past worthy on five members and a grand district deputy was honored. A musical program is set for United House of Prayer Monday at 4 pm. Elder Rosa Blakely will lead a quarterly meeting today at Bethel Holiness at 3 pm. All members are urged to attend.
Mr and Mrs J W Carter of Downing Street hosted guests on Wednesday including Miss Cusanders Avis Mrs Thunderbunk and her daughter Marlene from New York City and Mrs C Mayfield of Greensboro.
The Community Sympathy club will hold its regular meeting with Mrs. Tom Clegg Coolidge on Monday.
Funeral services for Mrs Flora L Lam were held Thursday at 2 p m at Clench Hill Friends meeting house with Rev Seth B Hinshaw and Rev Harlan L Creech Jr officiating. Gray Bowman sang with accompaniment by Mrs Ben Humble. Pallbearers were Lam beth grandsons Albert, Benjamin, Harvey, and J T Lowe plus Fred M Kearns Jr and Gilbert Cooper. Interment followed in the church cemetery.
Funeral rites for Ambrose A Sharp well known James Town resident were conducted Saturday at 11 a.m. in Yows Funeral Home chapel by Rev. Paul Tudor Jones and Rev. Sam Smith. Mrs Lynn Willard McGinnis sang two selections with Harry Wiple on piano. Pallbearers included H C Simmons Fred Austin R G Johnson Charles Bolton Robert Bolton and George Bolton. Interment followed at Oakwood cemetery in the family plot.
Wade Monroe Holder, killed in a traffic crash on Greensboro road Thursday evening, was laid to rest Saturday afternoon at his parents’ home in High Point Route 3. Services were led by Rev. F. L. Setzer and Rev. J. A. Grout with mixed and ladies quartets performing. Flowers were carried by Willing Workers and Sun Shield classes. Interment followed in Fairfield Church Cemetery.
A North Carolina tour from Fraley Field to nearby airports aims to prove aviation is here to stay and benefits cities like High Point Lexington Greensboro Thomasville. Weather delays and minor incidents aside, pilots report rising activity and public interest in flying as training and community ties grow at the field.
Raleigh July 3 RAF The North Carolina state highway patrol begins repainting 423 cars into silver and black two tone schemes after six years in generic paint. Col H J Hatcher says the refreshed livery will deter speeders and reassure the public that patrols are active though some may not be caught. Prior to 1942 patrol cars were silver and black.
Representative McCormack faces the GOP platform as a clash over foreign policy and domestic policy. He accuses the Republicans of surrendering to reactionary forces, says the platform abandons social security expansion, education aid, and price relief, and claims Taber will steer foreign policy after the campaign.
Revival services start at 7:45 PM at the Church of God 1301 Redding Street. Evangelist F F Johnson of Cleveland Tennessee will address the congregation, drawing on years in foreign missions. Oscar Jones serves as pastor and presides.
The UNC summer session reached a record 4493 students in the first term registration. Enrollments span 37 states plus the District of Columbia, with 3603 from North Carolina, and 19 foreign students from 13 countries. Programs cover law library science pharmacy public health and most fields, except the Medical School.
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