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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1957
Page
7
Manele 7 of the WSCS at Rankin Memorial Baptist Church will sponsor a cake and pie sale in front of JC Penney on Saturday. The sale begins at 10 am and all proceeds go to the church educational building fund.
The Ladies Aid Society of First Church of Christ will meet at 7 30 this evening at the home of Mrs Thressa Willoughby 917 Dayton St. Associate hostesses will be Mrs Laura McEver and Miss Lily Kinney. All members are invited to attend.
Four day visit by Frances and Bertha Bentley to Union South Carolina ends with return to their home. Frances Burgess leaves for Asheboro for a two week vacation and will attend the Manteo pageant with friends. Couples Chimleski return from their wedding trip and reside in Geren Doggett’s apartment while on vacation. Mrs. Sink enters High Point Memorial Hospital for surgery and shows improved condition with visitors allowed. Families Russell return from Family Conference to High Point. Jean Marie and Pearl Flinchum vacationing at Martha Washington Hotel Virginia Beach with plans to tour Jamestown and Williamsburg. W C Parker vacationing at Martha Washington Hotel Virginia Beach. Harllees visiting Ingle home for funeral attendance. Dr J W Slate admitted to High Point Memorial Hospital.
Pittsburgh officers used radio scout cars to chase a 1,400 pound steer that escaped from a Bloomfield Packing Co. truck. The animal headed toward Liberty Avenue with four squad cars in pursuit. After about an hour two cops pinned it against a fence and the steer was shot ten times.
Floyd Howe of Major Potter Read reported to police that, after an earlier claim of a 100 foot wall section missing from his summer home, additional stones were taken in a subsequent call on Wednesday night.
Fifteen contestants were named semifinalists in Long Beach California for the 1958 Miss Universe pageant as Miss Maryland Leona Gage denied marriage rumors under hostile questioning. The lineup included Miss Canada Miss Cuba Miss England Miss Greece Miss Peru and others from Europe Americas Africa and Asia. Mapita Mercado Puerto Rico won Miss Friendship while the pageant controversy drew crowd attention.
The Ladies Auxiliary to VFW Post 1960 met at the post home on Burton Street with President Mrs. Ruth Towery presiding. She announced the District 10 Meet will be held August 4 at the Greensboro post home with a 1 p.m. luncheon. A six-gift donation will be sent to Caswell Training School. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Suttenfield and Mr. and Mrs. Archie Ingram attended the Southern Conference of VFW organizations at Ashe.
Miss Anna Guyer and Kenneth Owen hosted a post engagement outdoor supper at the bride elect’s Route 1 home for about 20 guests including relatives from Greensboro Liberty Orlando and out of town. Gifts were presented to attendants and the matron of honor received a ring. The couple will marry tomorrow at 5 pm at Immaculate Heart of Mary.
The YWA of Lexington Avenue Baptist Church will hold a Bible presentation at 7 30 pm on Wednesday. Two brides elect will receive white Bibles Miss Evenly Chapman who will marry John Anderson on August 3 and Miss Barbara Short bride elect of Grady Newell who will wed on August 23.
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