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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1950
Page
10
Thomasville boosts the city tax rate to 1.97 per 100 valuation, up five cents from last year, following a July meeting. The 1950-51 budget totals 422000 with about 181000 more in assessed value and funds added for a new traffic officer. Fee increases for water connections and sewer charges take effect August 1 as the council reviews revenue options.
Thomasville notes a string of sentences from a recorder's court with Lewis Barnett and others. Barnett, 30, was found guilty for a knife assault on Johnnie Park and received six months with an appeal filed. Other defendants include Robert Williams given six months suspended on good behavior, John Hicks driving drunk with 12 months suspension for license surrender, James Cowan charged with assault with a deadly weapon and Troy Bean fined for no operator license.
Permits authorizing nearly $30 000 of new construction were granted yesterday. W B Delk Construction Co received $932 for repairs and a new west entrance for the city hall to house the building inspection division. Other permits include J A Reavis frame house on Jones Street 8000 dollars M Hunsucker Jr frame house on Woodrow Avenue 12500 dollars and George Memory frame house on Denny Street 4500 dollars.
Edward A. Mallory Jr of Atlanta and Jeanne T. Kline of High Point win license. Gene Gray and Elizabeth Wagoner of Winston-Salem. Billy L. Minor and Thelma Lee Lewis of Winston-Salem listed among couples.
Thomasville notes that members of the Lions club and Junior Chamber of Commerce with their wives and dates will dine at seven o clock Wednesday night. The meal will be served by Mount Pleasant Methodist church ladies organization located off the Winston-Salem highway.
Garfield Rushing of Thomasville is suspended on payment of $25 and costs for operating without a license and faulty vehicle brakes. The record notes no operator's license and two brakes cited, with the suspension tied to payment details.
Twenty two High Point district insurance men of Pilot Life set for a 16 car special train at 6 15 p m tomorrow to join the company's annual convention in Atlantic City The delegation led by J M Everitt district manager and new Life Underwriters Association president will travel via Salisbury with cars added from Green ville Spartanburg Gastonia Charlotte Concord and Kannapolis The trip includes a number of double qualified men and their wives to attend the event
George McClure a 54 year old High Point resident was found safe after being missing for days. Danville police reported a blood stained hat and packed suitcase found by local children in weeds, with papers identifying McClure. Greensboro later confirmed his location and well being.
Thomasville city council schedules public hearing on rent de control for August 11 at 8 p m in city hall court room. Roy Hughes representing 53 petition signers says controls no longer needed and cites nearby cities lifting them. Mayor Finch abstains from vote. hearing to follow brief discussion after which council may urge governors and federal official to lift controls. Rent de control already ended in Lexington last August.
Thomasville officials approved deed of a four and a half acre site on Culbreth avenue for a national guard armory building. The council also defered bathhouse decisions, ordered a study of West Main widening, and acted on curb and gutter projects while addressing a nearby lumber-yard nuisance. Denial of self service at local stations and a funeral notice for Darrell Gallimore Jr. are noted in the report.
Funeral services for Fred Patterson Watson 48 of Route 1 Kernersville were held Monday at 2 pm from his residence and at 4 pm from Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church with Reverends Gurney Holder W L Campbell and W V Willard officiating. Pallbearers included Jay Young Roy Bondurant Johnny Welborn Bill Overcash Bill Greenwood and Walter Ryals. Ella Draughan played piano as the Draughan Trio sang. Interment followed in the Watson family plot at the church cemetery. Watson died Saturday after a lingering illness.
Everett R. Pope 41 of 1415 Long Street died suddenly this morning at Charlotte Memorial Hospital. Born November 11 1908 in High Point he was a painter by trade husband of Freida Dennis and father of several children. Survived by his mother six brothers two sisters and by numerous relatives. Body returned to High Point with funeral arrangements pending at Cumby-Davis Mortuary.
The fragment notes in Coleridge’s works are described as a collection of fragments, though Britannica credits him as a supreme English poetry critic.
The mollusk shell remains shell like while its skin continuously contributes to repair and renewal. The article notes the skin’s role in ongoing shell maintenance and growth.
Swift and Company plant food workers in Greensboro received a Certificate of Merit for safety achievement. W H Parker announced the honor, with presentation by A C Ellis in Cincinnati to P F Stanton and local reps. The Greensboro plant also earned a Certificate of Safety Achievement signed by Labor Secretary Maurice Tobin and Forestry Commissioner J Shuford.
The Statesman reports a truck plunged about a thousand feet from a bridge into the Chenab river near Sringargar, Kashmir. Fourteen people were killed and eight injured in the accident, which occurred yesterday.
David Davie Scott a Glasgow native and local tailor spoke at the Sertoma club meeting in the Sheraton hotel. Harris introduced the guest noting Scott had only recently arrived in the city from Winston-Salem and spoke with careful words despite a Scottish burr.
Mrs Addie Robinson of 1035 Leonard Street dies after long illness. Survived by three daughters Helen Harris Danville VA Alyne Parks Ophelia White High Point and two sons Hubert Otis Robinson High Point. Funeral Wednesday 2 PM at Oak Grove Christian Church. Body to Hoover's Funeral Home then residence. Church activities and visits noted for local congregations.
Ray Galloway of Raleigh, former state commander of the American Legion, has been named by Governor Scott to the state veterans commission. He will serve a five year term expiring May 16, 1955, succeeding Burgin S. Pennell of Asheville.
A W McLean vice president of Wachovia Bank Charlotte branch was named president and director of Planters National Bank and Trust Company of Rocky Mount.
Forty-one Mobile officials were dismissed for refusing to sign non union affiliation statements. Eight police officers and 33 firefighters were discharged for failing to sign by the midnight deadline set by a city ordinance.
The term chowder derives from the French chaudiere meaning cauldron used by coastal fishermen to cook a communal fish stew. Early boats chipped ingredients and shared the pot, shaping the dish’s communal character.
Certificates of incorporation filed in secretary of state Thad Eure’s office list Maryfield Incorporated of High Point to operate religious charitable educational and medical activities in the state as a non stock entity with incorporators Hanora Buckley Nora Howard and Margaret Riordan all of High Point Randolph Construction Company of High Point seeks general construction with authorized capital of 100000 and subscribed 300 by W B Delk Topsy Delk and Martha Delk all of High Point.
Charleston reported three men Gary Hanna Charles G Turner and L D Patrick were rescued after their boat failed near Kiawah Island on Sunday. The men swam to James Island and borrowed a boat before returning to Charleston yesterday. Coast guard search followed the disappearance notice.
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