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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1945
Page
6
Twenty service men from the overseas replacement depot in Greensboro will be guests at a benefit dance hosted by VFW Post 619 and its Auxiliary. The event at the VFW home on Broad Street runs from nine to twelve as part of a weekly fundraiser supporting rehabilitation work for veterans and their families.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars met at the VFW home on Tuesday evening and planned a bingo party for Saturday July 28 at the home. Mrs Hazel Swanson was welcomed as a new member and several other names were voted on.
Mrs. Frank Wall, chair of the Camp and Hospital committee, reports May and June activity totaling 268.90 for hospitalized boys at Camp Butner. Donations include 183 for 19 radios and 25 for workers, plus 7 for comic books and over 2700 gifts such as games, books, and cards from numerous local organizations and clubs.
The Amazon Cotton Mills office staff held a party in the mill recreation room on Tuesday evening to honor Mrs Lindsay Russell the former Miss Bessie Newby Mrs Dorcas Clinard and Bill Mack former staff employees. Games stunts and bingo preceded refreshments. Gifts included china crystal and a prize for the honorees.
The Theta Kappa chapter of Tau Phi Lambda sorority will hold its meeting tonight at eight o'clock at the Sheraton hotel.
Send twenty cents for the High Point pattern book to Pattern Dept. in New York. Print size and style number your name address and zone. Book offers free patterns for hat bag and gloves with patterns priced at fifteen cents more.
The Officers club of the Magdalene Rebekah lodge will meet this evening at eight at Mrs. Cal Hughes home 928 Forrest avenue for the regular monthly gathering. The Magdalene Rebekah lodge also schedules its regular meeting Friday at 7 45 pm with officer installation and all members urged to attend.
The Red Cross board meets tomorrow evening at seven at the Sheraton hotel. Fifty two nurses aides will receive their caps after the board session. Reports on various phases of Red Cross work will be heard at the meeting.
Nichols announce daughter Mary Jane born July 3 at Washington Street unit High Point Memorial hospital. Macon announce daughter Carol Ann born July 2 at Washington GA SB. Kinsey announce daughter born July 4. Kinsey former Eleanor Parsons of Pennsylvania. Kirkman announce son Danny Eugene born July 4. mother Jewel Lee Rhyne and father Lindsay Edward Kirkman. father serving with Air Force in India.
Mr and Mrs Willis Wright Sr of Elizabeth City spent the holiday here with Mrs Willis Wright Jr at the McCall home on Colonial drive. Miss Rosella Stannard of Raleigh visited Winston Salem after staying with Misses Jean and Margaret Stamey on Lindsay street. Pvt Hubert O Bud Hayworth is on a ten day furlough visiting his mother at 102 South Main street after seventeen weeks infantry training at Camp Gordon. Miss Mildred Parrish of Nashville Tennessee visits her parents on Trinity Street this week. The text notes asbestos use dates back to ancient times including Vestal lamp wicks and Roman cremation cloths.
Central Press notes earthworms becoming key soil builders for hobbyists and large farmers. Worms aerate soil, boost nutrients, and yield bigger crops as experiments by Christopher Gallup and Worthington Ohio show. A special breed raised for fast reproduction and limited movement is now sold to gardeners, with worm farms shipping 400 worms for five dollars.
Sara Sparks directs Personal Service and Customer Relations for Western Union Telegraph focusing on preventing telecom troubles. She traveled from a San Francisco conference and believes postwar changes will create new openings for women in communication, including future desk machine facsimiles and customer understanding.
The North Carolina State Board of Education formally opened bids for arithmetic textbooks for public schools and ordered bid tabulation for approval. It planned adoption of the 1945-46 nine month school year budget, about 41 million dollars, plus salary schedules for teachers. A resolution on local lunchroom practices was referred to a committee for discussion.
In a fast West vulnerability hand South's declarer misplayed after a diamond start. A late heart finese let West cash two diamonds and the club switch, costing a sure contract. Meanwhile a side note questions where the first gasoline station began in North America.
The narrator describes a secret garden hidden on a hill with a dim green light, a shrine to the dead, and a basin of birds. She contrasts a harsh public persona with inner gentleness, noting hidden gardens in every life where life and death mingle unseen.
About thirty local USO hostesses from Lake Herman hosted thirty ORD service men for a Fourth of July box supper there. The girls prepared the boxes and delivered them to the lake where the men enjoyed boating dancing and swimming. Chaperones were Mrs C W Davis and Mrs H D Smith.
Sunday gathering at the Thorn ton home featured special guests Mrs Reid Goodson and her son Reid from Salisbury now in service. Visitors included Mrs Wanda Cole from Baltimore and relatives of P F Smith and Miss Claudia Thornton spent time in High Point and with Mary Evelyn Farrington a patient at a hospital.
The Philathea class of Pisgah Baptist church will meet Friday at 7 30 PM with Mrs Roy Liner at her Thomasville road home. A note describes long indigenous outrigger weapons once used by primitive peoples in Borneo Palawan Sumatra and the Philippines to kill game.
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