Milk Fund Joins Baby Clinic Drive For Underprivileged Children
The Milk Fund campaign in High Point has reached 1 266 25 dollars toward a 2 500 goal due by June 15. Howard Blair Jr co chair man urges faster contributions by mail to P O Box 1939 or deliver to the High Point Enterprise office on North Main Street. The fund supports milk distribution in city schools and the baby clinic at the health department aiding hundreds of children annually. Contributions from local groups and individuals are listed with several small donations and a previous total of 1 092 25 dollars.
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P. O. Box
High Point Enterprise
North Main Street
Junior Service League of
High Point
Louis
Jonathan Cox
Ed Mendenhall
High Point Rotary Club
Charles T. Ingram
Fred Thomas, III
Julia Dianne Stamey
Household Arts Club
U.D.C
Edwin Hedrick, Jr
Snake bites in the United States reach over a thousand yearly
An estimate shows more than 1000 people are bitten by snakes annually in the United States with about a 22 percent death rate.
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United States
Wake Forest College Grants 151 Degrees At Commencement
Wake Forest College conferred 151 degrees at the 113th annual commencement in Winston-Salem. Dr. Theodore F. Adams delivered the address. Irving A. Carlyle was elected board president, Carrol Weathers as succeeding vice president, and a general faculty raise approved. Alumni officers were elected including Judge Hubert E. Olive as president.
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Wake Forest
Wake Forest College
Theodore F. Adams
First Baptist Church of
Richmond
Board of Trustees
Irving A. Carlyle
Winston-Salem
John A. Oates
Fayetteville
Carro) Weathers
Raleigh
Clarence
Superior Court
Hubert E. Olive
General Alumni Association
J. Winston Pearce
Durham
D. D. Blanchard
Wallace
John Vernon
Burlington
Ira T. Johnston
Jefferson
Lions Club in Thomasville Receives Fourth Straight Award
The Thomasville Lions club earned the district trophy for blind activities for the fourth year in District 31 B. Delegates at Asheville reported during a luncheon at the Thomasville Woman's Club. Thomas F. Johnson chaired blind work. Romulus Skaggs received the on time reports trophy.
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Thomasville
Charles Prevost
Lacy J. Johnson
Romulus Skaggs
Frank Spencer
Winston-Salem
J. D. Fraley
Spencer
Thomasville Lions
High Point
Greensboro
L. K. Johnson
A. C. Stephens, Jr
Raleigh
W. FE. Lambert
Herman Bray
Karl Koestline
Calvin Leonard
Local Attys to Attend Bar Institute at UNC Chapel Hill
A number of local attorneys will attend the fourth annual legal institute for state bar members June 6 and 7 at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Silas Casey, president of the High Point Bar association, says the North Carolina Bar Association sponsors it and the Institute of Government conducts it. Registration opens 4 p.m. Friday and runs until 5 p.m. Saturday. Lectures cover changes and interpretation of laws enacted by the 1947 general assembly.
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Annnual Legal Institute
State Bar
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
Silas Casey
High Point Bar Association
North Carolina Bar Association
Institute of Government
General Assembly
First Baptist to Hold Wednesday Evening Worship Service
The regular midweek services will be conducted at First Baptist church Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock. The entire group will meet in the auditorium for a 15 minute worship service of the young people's department. Following the worship service an educational film in color will be shown. Visitors are invited to attend.
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First Baptist Church
Young People's Department
Spanish American War Vets Convention Sets June Dates
The 24th annual North Carolina United Spanish American War veterans convention meets June 15 16 and 17 with about 250 delegates expected. A B Frost of High Point is state commander and Mrs Love T Hughes of West Asheville leads the auxiliary. Sheraton hotel will serve as headquarters.
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North Carolina Department
United Spanish American War Veterans
A. B. Frost
High Point
Love T. Hughes
West Asheville
Sheraton Hotel
Committee forms to back U S information abroad program
Ralph McGill leads new committee of educators publishers and civic leaders to press for Mundt bill congressional approval and funding for the state department international information and cultural program. The group aims to raise the nation’s voice in peace and war to foster international understanding. The Mundt bill would authorize funding and operation after the program was dropped from the last fiscal year House appropriation.
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Washington
Ralph McGill
Atlanta Constitution
State Department
International Information and Cultural Pi
Ram
Congress
McGill
Committee For United States Information Abroad
House
Rep. Mundt
Jeak
Than Daniels
Raleigh
Tor Heel Killed In Japan Flight Crash
Tokyo reports 40 dead when four engined army courier plane from Korea crashes on a mountainside 30 miles southwest of Tokyo. All aboard die including 36 military personnel and four civilians. Among the victims is Pvt. Tessie S. Gray of Farmville North Carolina.
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Tokyo
General Headquarters
Korea
Pvt
Tessie S. Gray
Farmville
N. C
Giant New Zealand drydock towed 13,500 miles to Wellington
A massive steel drydock weighing 17,000 tons and measuring 584 by 117 feet sits atop New Zealand after being built in England and towed to Wellington by two tugboats over a 13,500 mile voyage. In a separate note from Charlotte, Pee Dee Express property was ordered sold for 52,000 dollars to McLean Trucking of Winston-Salem in a federal court writ.
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New Zealand
England
Wellington
Charlotte
Pee Dee Express Company
McLean Trucking Company
Winston-Salem
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