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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1950
Page
10
Thomasville planning report outlines land-use maps and charts for the city and surrounding area. It stresses need for a zoning survey, future land-use plan, and citizen participation to guide development and prevent unwanted industrial or residential mixing.
Federal conference leaders announce an expansion plan raising benefits for about 3 million old age and survivor recipients. The increase averages 7.5 percent, with checks arriving around October 1 if action occurs by July 31. otherwise November. The chart shows monthly boosts by beneficiary type and family supplements for wives widows and children.
A car fleeing police on the Raleigh highway near Chapel Hill wrecked after a chase. Effie Johnson Lassiter 36 a local Negro school teacher was killed. Fred Winston and Herbert Watson were critically injured. Patrolman E C Parnell said Winston faces manslaughter reckless driving and speeding charges.
City playgrounds finish league play with top two teams from each league in a best of three series for the championship. Nine playgrounds host events including horseshoe and ping pong tournaments plus crafts, storytelling, and radio program activities through the week with Ada Blair, Brentwood, Clara Cox, and others involved in daily schedules.
A quiet mother recalls Dalton as a boy in a cowboy suit the day the photo was made. Dalton, now focused on art, prefers oil painting on paper with chalk as a second choice. He did little schooling for three months to devote time to art and letter writing for school uses. He sought a summer job with a local sign company but was not needed. He plans to finish high school and pursue art as a career with oils and paper.
The article notes doctors increasingly write prescriptions in plain English. Williams recalls his pharmacist licensing exam where he claimed the top score, joking a grading mistake. He admits geometry was not his strong suit, yet he married the teacher.
After a year as students in the school of X ray technology at City Memorial hospital in Winston Salem two High Point girls serve as assistant instructors in the school. Miss Ann Dowd daughter of Mr and Mrs G E Dowd of 300 Highland avenue and Miss Rolene Dellinger daughter of Mr and Mrs E A Dellinger of High Point Route 2. Both graduated from High Point High school in June 1947 and then attended Lees McRae College Banner Elk for X ray prep. At Lees McRae they were members of the Christian Council Phi Theta Kappa and the Sullivanian sorority.
Rotary meeting for 32 Piedmont North Carolina clubs closes at Sedgefield as H B Spruill and Curtis Smithdeal lead discussions on committee duties and officer training. Thomas R Lyndon, 72, of 211 West Russell street dies after illness. funeral set at Main Street Methodist with burial in Oakwood.
Thomasville’s Battery B of the 540th field artillery battalion may be called to active duty as non divisional units are mobilized. The 540th trained at Fort Jackson July 2 16 earning high marks and two local guardsmen are set to receive written commendations.
Two Jamestown area carriers, Harold Williard and Billy Hassell, lead The Enterprise Most Popular Carrier contest. The survey continues with entries. deadline is midnight July 31. The top vote getter wins an expenses paid trip to Washington, D C in August.
Saturday afternoon crowds in downtown High Point watched as a police car and an ambulance converged on the Main Washington street corner around 4 30. Clyde Hedrick of Thomasville about 30 fainted on the busy corner and was taken to the Boulevard unit for treatment. He rested at the hospital before returning home.
The national association of real estate boards will cooperate in any sound program to help servicemen in the armed forces keep their homes. Congressmen drafting Korea crisis manpower bills express concern over home mortgage obligations of draftees and reservists called to active service.
North Carolina police chiefs urge new means to prove drunken driving, noting many offenders evade punishment. They cite shared frustration with current evidence and call for public support to curb drunk driving as a rising highway death rate is examined in a related report.
A detailed list questions the City of High Point and Guilford County raise about the Housing Authority. They challenge why payments in lieu of taxes were delayed, demand dates and amounts, compare to private penalties, and probe management fees, repairs, utilities, and tenant criteria. The letter seeks transparency on tenants, income checks, and potential referendums for additional housing facilities.
Shark Industries, based in Stuart Florida, announces it will go out of business after catching thousands of sharks for liver oil. The move follows a shift to reliable synthetic methods for producing Vitamin A.
Sums up wartime events from July 14 1945 including Allied and enemy ship losses, navy air raids on Tokyo and surrounding areas, Doolittle’s plans for renewed bombing, mass occupation-zone raids in Germany, and Petain trial developments in Paris. Mentions Admiral Nimitz MacArthur and Gen Doolittle with projected future operations through August.
The analysis notes a year with many new items especially in television furniture and plastics, with rising prices but steady quality. Buyers will see a wider choice though no formal market until January, as manufacturers keep displays and some sales staff on to handle off season buyers.
About 1,400 4 H club members from every North Carolina county arrive in Raleigh for the 25th annual state 4 H Club Week opening Monday. The five day event honors a silver anniversary, features speeches by former Tar Heel 4 H alumni, demonstrations, livestock and dairy judging, health and public speaking finals, and officer elections with Governor Scott addressing Tuesday morning's opening session.
Private duty nurses in District 9 covering High Point Thomasville Asheboro and Lexington will raise eight hour rate from 8 to 9 dollars effective August 1. Mrs Jack Barrier district chairwoman said hospital patients will no longer pay for nurses meals hospital will bill the nurses directly.
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