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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1954
Page
12
Mamie Hicks of Route 2 Thomasville said her husband John Hicks 59 pointed a shotgun at her during a confrontation. He was arrested on the assault count and posted a $500 bond. Trial tentatively set for June 21.
Rev. Cecil Haworth delivers the baccalaureate sermon to 194 graduates at High Point High School. He cites Jesus Joseph and Franklin D Roosevelt and urges graduates to choose to work with high aims. Commencement follows with speeches, music, and diplomas for top scholars led by Becky Hester Wanna McAnally and David Pancoast with 96.00 averages.
Several officers including District Deputy C H Benson and Deputy Grand Master C A Outen will pay an official visit tomorrow night to Repiion Lodge No 63 Odd Fellows. The meeting is set for 7 30 p m.
Judgment entered in multiple cases as two men are fined 50 dollars plus costs for molesting women and given suspended sentences. Robert Arthur Joyce 26 Kernersville convicted for following a dentist's wife home and exposing himself. Hoover Porter 27 trucking line employee convicted of hugging and kissing a young woman employee. Both faces good behavior orders. Additional sentences include John D. Steelman 34 with 200 fine and 6 months suspended for illegal liquor possession. Stafford McKinley 42 Archdale suspended three months for drunkenness and jail cell damage. Robert Sykes 43 South Carolina 30 days for public drunkenness. William Steelman 35 two bad checks with costs.
The local chapter of the National Association of Life Underwriters will hold its annual Ladies Night installing officers G F E Schultheiss Paul S. Owen H Charles Spencer and J M Everitt with nine members receiving National Quality Award certificates for excellence in life insurance service. The 7 30 p m event occurs at the Plantation Supper Club near Greensboro with Paul W Schenck Jr officiating.
Eleven students from the High Point area received degrees at Duke University’s 102nd Commencement. Dr Reuben G Gustavson of Resources for the Future spoke, Governor William B Umstead addressed the class, and 1050 graduates were conferred at Duke Indoor Stadium with 22 degrees including Master of Arts in Teaching. Local graduates listed include Bell Grant Hall Huber Keziah Ladehoff McGuinn Semmler Shoaf Beasley.
Nineteen students from the High Point area were among 737 candidates at N C State College for degrees. Chancellor Carey H. Bostian presided in Reynolds Coliseum as 609 earned bachelor’s, 101 master’s, 25 Ph D, and 2 professional degrees.
A garbled account mentions John Tyler and a fireboat theme, noting elections and pressures in a Confederate Congress context, with hints of a death and mounting turbulence before taking effect. the fragmentary text foreshadows political upheaval and a stalled seat.
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