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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1956
Page
9
After half a century in furniture making, 70 year old Martin Luther Corns receives a $3,545.32 profit sharing payout marking his shift into retirement. He plans to build a chicken house with his sons, relax at home, and enjoys winters with family.
Deputies believe the same masked assailant who kidnapped a Greensboro woman and assaulted a companion last week committed the latest attack on Roland M. Mills of Winston-Salem and an unidentified Greensboro woman on Old Gold Mine Road in Sedgefield. Mills fought back after the gunman tried to force their car toward High Point, then tied Mills and fled as the woman screamed.
Mrs Ruth Duffy district manager of the High Point Social Security Office urges students to obtain a social security number before starting work and brides to exchange old cards for duplicates in their new names. Acting now helps preserve wage credits for future survivor benefits and ensures employer records match the social security number. The Point Social Security Office operates Monday to Saturday from 9 am to 6 15 pm.
Thomasville city recreation department arranged an arts and crafts display in the Holton Furniture window on Salem Street from today through Thursday. Playground director Miss Frances announced the plan.
Emergency vaccination drive schedules free polio shots in 15 Guilford County schools tomorrow from 9 to 11 am with a Ray Street School session 6 to 8 pm for those unable to attend. Additional clinics run countywide with Guilford County Medical Society staff and public health nurses assisting.
A record long session is set by the Chair City Court for Recorder's Fisher Ferry Street. Two men face fornication and adultery charges while Daniels Koontz trial evidence may link to the state case against two women to be tried on the same charges. The two sworn men are Rachel Harrell, 24.
Police report a shotgun self infliction at 328 Connor Guilford Dusty Street. William Samuel Gilmore, 29, a Myrtle Desk Co. employee, faced a rape charge for attacking a bedridden woman with a broken leg. He left no note. The case, to be heard at municipal court, was disrupted by his death. Survivors include wife Ruby Martin King, daughter Pamela Diane, stepson Ricky Gene, mother, two sisters, and a grandfather. Funeral arrangements pending Mortuary.
A brief devotional prayer asks God to create a clean heart and renew a right spirit. The writer reflects on daily haste and seeks renewal of faith through living Christ’s teachings. An insurance executive identified as Stames Kinard from Newberry South Carolina signs the note.
Two people were injured in a Jamestown accident when a car ran off the road into a yard and overturned after hitting a tree. George Hinton Jr. and his wife suffered abrasions. the car, a 197 model, was a total loss. Hinton was charged with reckless driving. Police reported two additional weekend incidents with damage but no injuries. Joyce V. Jones and James R. Eliott were cited for reckless driving in separate crashes.
A fragmented text references false teeth and replacements, mentions a company and a drug counter context, with unclear names and places.
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