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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1956
Page
19
Fragments show Mrs Eva Gunter and Charles Lawrence discussing appearance and sport shirts. The page includes an accident box score with headings for persons killed injured and property loss, but content is garbled and unreadable aside from the labeled sections.
Free polio vaccine offered at 15 High Point area schools Tuesday from 9 to 11 AM as part of a county wide emergency program. About 60 clinics statewide aim to immunize youths under 20 with emphasis on teens and minority groups.
Miss High Point 1956 Anne Kerr will represent the city at the Miss North Carolina pageant in Morehead City with chaperone Mrs. Jean Davidson and Charles Jarrell of the High Point Jaycees. The event runs Thursday to Saturday with finals Saturday afternoon at the Carolina Racing Association track. Kerr, 20, departs Wednesday morning for the competition and High Point delegates will stay in local homes with a moonlight cruise and picnic planned for arrivals.
Local observers of the Ground Observers Corps who have completed eight or more hours as sky watchers will receive their wings. The ceremony is Thursday at 8 p.m. in the YMCA dining hall with Charlotte Filter Center on hand. The post, opened on A29, has 128 active volunteers and needs 75 to 80 more to cover every two hours around the clock. New observers are needed from midnight to 4 p.m. during the week. Each volunteer serves one two hour shift weekly. Many observers are housewives, businessmen and women, and girls 15 or older.
A public meeting at Guil Rand Fire Station Tuesday night will discuss a water district for Archdale and Allen Jay. Petitions for a binding referendum appear ready. the board of Randolph County will receive them after the session. The plan envisions a 10,000 person district drawing water from a Uwharrie River reservoir with an estimated one million dollar cost funded by a bond issue.
Saturday night arrests include assault threats with a knife against Harry Johnson of Prospect Street and multiple offenders charged with drunken driving hit and run and weapons violations. Others face probes for disorderly conduct with gunfire and non tax paid liquor. Court dates set for tomorrow and July 30.
The 63rd High Point Summer Furniture and Rug Market closed after 10 days with about 5,500 visitors at the Southern Exposition Building. Leo Heer said the event was one of the best in history and that September and October deliveries were prioritized. The market ran smoothly with steady buying across lines and accommodations provided for all attendees. The calendar lists market dates through 1958 coordinated by the Midwest shows in Chicago and the Furniture Marketing Association of the South.
Three automobile crashes caused nearly 1500 in damage in the city. Lollie S. Yates of Trinity had the heaviest damage at 500 on a station wagon that hit John W. Mendenhall of High Point after following too closely. Harry D. Johnson of Prospect Street sustained 400 damage in a crash with a truck. Henry B Grubb of Toon Street had 100 damage in a second incident at 5 30 pm. A third collision caused 200 damage to another car involving James C. Stewart and Harry J. Atkinson. No arrests were made.
The piece recounts a courtroom scene with a Negro defendant named John who pleads for probation but receives six to ten years. He admits kleptomania and recurring theft while explaining his impulses. The judge offers a jail term to deter him, and John asks his girlfriend to come, though she declines. The narrator pivots to humorous essays on filters, Bermuda shorts, and Japanese beetles at home.
Bloodmobile Colonels Ayéoth described as High Point native and executive secretary of the High Point Merchants Association is a Kiwanis and Toastmasters member and Wesley Memorial Church board associate. John W. Lindsay Sr. is a Rawle Moses and Co. executive, Navy veteran, Kiwanis and Jaycees member, and Wesley Memorial Methodist Church affiliate. Harold H. Odum, Big Bear Supermarket manager in Jamestown, born in Avington Virginia, longtime Kroger alum, and Lions Club member lives with his wife and two daughters.
Thirteen Bloodmobile colonels were named as drive officials for the first Bloodmobile visit of the new year at the Armory on English Street. The drive aims to exceed last year’s 1,879 pints and reach a new quota of 1,955 pints.
Paris announces an autogramme service for travelers across France. Messages travel from post offices to service stations using the recipient's car license number. signs display names and numbers. Attendants will check plates to deliver messages. Charge is 3.60 dollars.
Mrs Mary J Swink 81 widow of D F Swink died in High Point Memorial Hospital Thursday afternoon Funeral services were held Saturday at Bethel Methodist Church near Wadesboro conducted by Rev J P H McNatt and Rev Paul Bunn Pallbearers were N M Sexton M L Bame J G Workman W O Younger J J McDowell and Clarence Farr Interment followed in the church cemetery
The tenth district VFW meeting and auxiliary are hosted by Post 619 and its auxiliary at the Post 619 home on Greensboro Road in High Point. Mrs Shirley Isley of Gibsonville will preside supported by Maude Osborne from Albemarle as department senior vice president. A luncheon at 1 and the meeting at 2 are planned with about 200 attendees.
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