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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1937
Page
7
Amateur photographers must submit outdoor snapshot prints by Tuesday to The Enterprise Snapshot Contest Editor. Weekly prizes include Univex or Cadet cameras, plus portrait attachments. Professional entrants may display but are ineligible for prizes.
A busy New York scene features marble Public Library lions, Rainbow Room heat, and a wave of talent. Martha Raye headlines at the New York Paramount while Odets and Luise Rainer branch into Westchester drama. Maxell Anderson’s son and other stars’ kin pursue theater, with Shuberts reviving Florence Desmond and Hecht’s Villa inspired work stirring Hollywood departures to Broadway.
Arkansas prepares a vast funeral tribute to Senator Joseph T. Robinson with an estimated 25 000 mourners. The body will lie in state at the capitol before a 3 pm service at First Methodist Church led by Rev H Bascom Watts and Rev James Thomas. Burial follows at Roselawn Memorial Park as political lines form over his successor.
Mrs. Romer Grover plummeted 90 feet into a well near Wilson while a friend watched as her year old son fell in. She clutched the bucket chain to arrest her fall and swam with the child to safety as neighbors summoned workers. The child escaped serious harm. Mrs. Grover suffered deep cuts to her hands.
The article notes many buyers will attend the summer show with parking plans arranged. The school board allows parking in the lot below the post office and police will permit out of town visitors to use regular spaces without tickets.
E K Bryson's Calumet Dick son of Gallant Fox triumphed in the $10,000 Sussex handicap before 18,000 fans. The gelding ran a 2:04 1-5 mile and a quarter, earning $8,200 and lifting 1937 earnings to $27,140 with jockey Joey Wagner guiding the winner. Esposa finished second, Dark Hope third, while Carvola and others trailed in the ten-horse field.
Duke university hosts its seventh annual summer school for coaches with sessions on football track basketball and training led by Wallace Wade Carl Voyles Eddie Cameron and Dumpy Hagler. The program includes lectures demonstrations and a daily schedule for a week featuring hands on coaching and technique fundamentals.
The Uwharrie camp closes a successful summer with seven weeks of Cub Scouts and Scouts from High Point Salisbury and Winston-Salem. Merit badges earned include ten to fourteen by top pupils George Shellhorse and Ralph Cox. Court of Honor set for High Point at Wesley Memorial church and Salisbury dates to be announced. Camp open weekends for troops before fall.
During the Atlantic round trip in 1937 pilots Dick Merrill and John Lambie relied on three watches for navigation. A navigation watch an aero chronometer and a standard chronograph helped determine their position.
The United States Army retains only one airship in active service, the C-13, stationed at Sunnydale California, marking a shift in lighter than air operations.
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