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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1945
Page
6
Mrs Leslie Miller of the YWCA gives a review of Brave Men by Ernie Pyle to the Florence Nightingale club. The audience enjoyed a picnic supper on the YWCA rear lawn before the talk.
Mr and Mrs J W Rice of this city announce the marriage of their daughter Catherine Louise to Russell Flagg. Vows were spoken July 2 at Rev J A home with relatives and friends present. The bride wore powder blue with white accessories and the couple plan a short wedding trip. They will reside with the bride's parents at 616 South Main Street. A cake cutting and bridal shower honored the bride elect with gifts from guests.
The Beta Sigma Phi sorority will hold its regular meeting tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Blue Room of the Sheraton hotel. Announced this morning, the gathering continues the group’s monthly cycle with members expected to attend.
The Intermediate Girls Auxiliary of First Baptist met at Mrs. Wilbur Hutchins on Lindsay street for a business session and social hour with refreshments. The Green Street Baptist L L L class will gather at Miss Mary Morris on East Commerce street at eight. The Stephens Bible study class meets with Mrs. J R Wood on Monthey Avenue at 3 PM tomorrow. Cradle Roll teachers meet at Mrs. Dewey Smith on Scott Avenue Thursday at 7 30 PM.
The Florence Thomas Bible class will meet at Mrs. Franklin Welch’s home at 514 Parkway tomorrow evening at eight. A board meeting precedes at 7 30. Guest speaker is Mrs. Thomas who will discuss Japan. All members are expected to attend.
Mr and Mrs Alex B Kohn return to Myers Park after a visit with Mrs Kohns parents Mr and Mrs C F Grissom in this city Rev Wilson O Weldon leaves for a ministers conference in Princeton NJ and will return July 18 Mrs Macy Rimmer Miss Ollie Frances and Jane Rimmer return from Miami Beach Fla after visiting Charlie Rimmer at the Miami Naval Training School Major and Mrs A R Myatt Jr depart after visiting Myatts parents in North Main Street He is relocated in Washington as budget and accounting officer Major Myatt's wife visits Blue Ridge Ga Mrs Charlotte Guy is patient at High Point hospital improving and able to see visitors Miss Bess Sheloff returns from Lake Junaluska Mrs Kelman Gorge hosts her sister Mrs C K King and her son Keith Jr of Atlanta for a month Gomo recently returned from Washington DC to visit relatives A A Greenwood and A L Riddick mentioned in notes.
Lt. and Mrs. Bob Kiriakides announce a daughter Gaye Louise born July 2 at Royal Alexandra hospital Edmonton Alberta. Joseph William Haynes born June 30 to Mr and Mrs Robert Lee Haynes at Boulevard unit High Point Memorial hospital. The passage notes Earth crust comprises sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rock.
Thomasville bride Sgt Frances Marie Stone married Sgt Roy D. Coutchure at Camp Rucker Alabama in a double ring ceremony. Chaplain Higgenbottom officiated with music by Corporal Sandgran and soprano Sgt Viola Moeckel. The couple will reside at Rockerdale Alabama.
A column argues that if harmony with others is impossible, the best course is to leave them alone. Do not force agreement with family or neighbors. Practice courtesy fairness and gratitude while recognizing others’ right to be different. Love remains ideal but rarely achieved.
The notice lists ration categories including red stamps for meats and fats with various book numbers and good through dates, blue stamps for processed foods, sugar stamps valid through August, shoes airplane stamps with indefinite validity, gasoline coupons through September and fuel oil period validity through August, noting no plans to cancel any allocations.
The Pentagon club schedules its regular meeting tonight at 8 at Miss Margaret Dunn's home on Edgedale Drive.
The Altrusa club executive board met last evening at Mrs. Rose Thurman’s Johnson street home with Mrs. Thurman presenting the new budget. The general meeting is set for six thirty at Sheraton hotel, chaired by vice president Mrs. Sara Haworth in president Evelyn Sutton’s absence.
In a contract bridge scenario the takeout double should rest on solid values and three defensive tricks, often chosen over an overcall for safety. A misfired takeout can lead to rough outcomes as shown when South’s double in diamonds collides with weak entries and partner misreads the suit.
Four Timberwolves of the 104th Infantry division are on furlough in High Point, all with local ties: Pfc. Charles H. Lassiter, Pfc. Cecil L. Atkinson, Pvt. Roy M. McCormick, and Cpl. Ferry T. Harmon. The unit, famed for rapid Western front action, fought in Holland with the First Canadian Army, then Aachen, and now prepares for Pacific duty. Also noted is David H. Price in the Pacific fleet, a High Point native who married Lois Queen in 1943 and worked at Slane Hosiery before enlistment.
Pattern 4733 features a wand waist design with a small number of parts and a possible two button neckline. It comes in sizes 14 to 42 with size 16 needing 3 yards of 35 inch fabric. Also offered is the New Anne Adams 1945 Summer Pattern Book with free patterns for hat bag gloves and a colorful book for fifteen cents more.
Seaman Basil Miller Armentrout USNR 24 of 518 Worth Ave High Point North Carolina serves on the new high speed destroyer transport USS Truxtun commissioned Monday July 9 at the Charleston Navy Yard. He is married to Stella Gentry and is the son of Mrs Maudie C Armentrout. A Hargrave Military Academy graduate class of 1940 he worked for Carolina Veneer before enlisting in June 1944.
C H McKinnon aviation radio man second class from High Point North Carolina has returned after a 12 month Atlantic tour. He served as a gunner aboard a land based Liberator patrol plane and flew 25 combat patrols with patrol bombing squadron 112. His unit was part of fleet air wing seven and helped sink or damage several Nazi U boats. He attended High Point High School and has been in the navy since November 1942.
Lt. Col. E J Cathell, former head of the Cathell clinic in Lexington North Carolina, directs the 313th Bomb Wing medical team at Tinian Marianas. The general hospital treats B 29 crews and other fronts casualties with modern medical instruments and a trained staff.
2nd Lt. James T. Smith of High Point North Carolina is enrolled in the B 29 transition flying school at Maxwell Field Alabama as a Superfortress co pilot and second in command of the three man flight crew operating the heavy bomber.
Priv ate J Price of Rt 5 High Point North Carolina has been promoted from private and awarded the Silver Star for gallantry. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Gilbert Price of 108 Culler Street High Point and has served since December 11 1942. He went overseas in October 1944 and serves with a cavalry unit. Another member of his im-
Lt. Clifton O. Overcash formerly of Greenville Texas has been transferred to Abilene army air field Texas for further P-47 fighter pilot training He is the son of Mr and Mrs QO Overcash 1111 East Green Street High Point North Carolina.
SGT Edward E Forward Jr of the 431st signal heavy construction battalion served in Italy after being released from the Twelfth Air Force. The unit, part of the MAAF, provided telephone communications across England, North Africa, Southern France, and Italy and will support administration during the postwar readjustment in Italy.
Eleanor Welch of High Point presented the first harp recital at Lake Junaluska to an enthusiastic audience. Presented by Dr N M Harrison of High Point College the event marked the college night observance with Harrison showing campus photos and praising Welch as a rising American harpist.
At the turn of the 20th century US motor vehicle output reached 4 192 cars while in Europe Josephine Bonaparte introduced daily soap baths as a custom.
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