Senior High Closes Year with Commencement Tonight
Senior High school of High Town will close its year tonight with the annual commencement program and diplomas for the class of 9 at 8 o'clock in the school auditorium. Dr. Herbert J. Herring of Duke University will deliver the principal address. Commencement honors go to Mary Estelle Scott, Frank Arrington Thacker, Patsy Rae Gadd, Sara Haworth, Robert Lee Iton, Frances Ruth Ward, and Mary Elizabeth Iman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High T
Herbert J. Herring
Duke University
Will Iver
Rev. R. Jackson
A. Coke
D. P. Whitley
Charles F. Carwill
Mary Estelle Scott Frank Arrington Thacker
Patsy Rae Gadd
Sara Haworth
Robert Lee Iton
Frances Ruth Ward
Mary Elizabeth
McDonald
Bob . Stewart Hartley
Franken Drehle
Hugh Gordon
Donn
Donald Hendrix
Bob Hauser
Charles Mann
Neil F
Jeanne Teague
Charlotte Iman
Barbara Burton
Local Buyers Urged to Step Up War Bond Purchases
With 23 days left in the seventh war loan campaign, local buyers are urged to increase purchases as E bonds show the only hopeful progress. Through Saturday total bond sales reached 1 630 741.50 with 9 016 applications. E group neared 500 000 but trails by 218 500.50 of the 727 000 quota. The city also aims to fund a second C 54 jet plane costing 750 000, leaving 231 500.50 to go.
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E Londs
Smart
Patrick the Great
Center Theatre
Trinity Archdale to Launch Special War Bond Drive
An intensive two day Seventh War Loan drive will be staged at Trinity and Archdale on Wednesday and Thursday. Teams of girls will staff the post office buildings to receive applications and explain the drive. Proceeds will be credited to Randolph County.
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Trinity
Archdale
Randolph County
High Point
Injury Fatal To Greensboro Young Woman
Mrs. Verna Elizabeth Webb 20 of 1510 Sixteenth Street Greensboro was fatally injured when a car carrying four people crashed into a telephone pole shortly after midnight Sunday near the Greensboro Groometown road. Miss Mary Stanley 30 remained overnight in Piedmont Memorial hospital for injuries. two ORD soldiers S/Sgt George Russo and Cpl Watson Grahulski also injured. Mrs Webb’s funeral is set for 4 p.m. Tuesday at Hanes Chapel with burial in Forest Lawn.
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Verna Elizabeth Webb
Sixteenth Street
Greensboro
Greensboro- Groometown Road
Webb
Hanes Chapel
Forest Lawn Cemetery
Mary Stanley
McCormick Street
Piedmont Memorial Hospital
ORD
Post Hospital
George Russo
Cpl
Watson Grahulski
H. D. Thomerson
State Highway Patrol
High Point Road
Kittles Re-elected NC VFW Commander At State Convention
E G Kittles of Charlotte was re-elected commander of the North Carolina department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars following a two day state convention at the VFW home. New officers include High A Mathis senior vice commander E P Hymen junior vice commander and A C Ingram adjutant quartermaster.
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Veterans OF Foreign Wars
VFW
E. G. Kittles
Charlotte
Hugh A. Mathis
Lexington
E. P. Hyman
Roanoke Rapids
A. C. Ingram
High Point
V.F.W. Home
North Carolina
T. D. W. Anderson
Winston-Salem
R. Ermina Sykes
Graham
Golda Dowling
Goldsboro
A. A. High Point
Rose Doling
Golds
Ruby Sykes
New Bern
Civilla Stevenson
Staf
C. W. Wallace
Lumberton
Survived by Husband and Sisters in Greensbo Message
An obituary note notes a woman who worked at Wysong Supply in Greensbo. She is survived by her husband and two sisters Barbara and Phyllis Marybelle. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Burke, reside in Rock Hill South Carolina.
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Wysong —— Supply Company
Greensbo
Barbara Lou
Phyllis Marybelle
Mr. and R. Burke
Rock Hill, S. Cc
Openings Expanded at Norfolk Navy Yard Jobs
Raymond B. Davis of the Norfolk Navy Yard announces more openings for skilled and unskilled workers in Portsmouth Virginia. Positions include brakemen electricians pipe fitters riggers plumbers and helpers with navy transportation and affordable housing provided under civil service. Davis can be reached at the U S Employment Office 3104 North Main Street. An estimated one in 259 workers in the United States is in printing or publishing.
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Raymond B. Davis
Norfolk Navy Yard
Portsmouth
Davis
Navy
U. S
North Main Street
United States
Summer School Opens At Senior High Today
About 100 pupils enrolled for a five week summer session at Senior High. Classes run six days a week from 8 a m to noon starting tomorrow. Principal D P Whitley heads the program with assistants Muriel Bulwinkle Ruth Goodman Louisa Hatch and Ann Mendenhall. The course helps late students catch up and accelerate toward graduation. Prospective enrollees urged to contact Mr Whitley at once.
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Whitley
Two High Pointers Taken In Greensboro
Greensboro police arrested 14 people over the weekend in a venereal disease crackdown. William Forrest Hunt and McClern Goins were charged with occupying a room for immoral purposes at the Carolina hotel and posted $100 bonds each for trial June 14.
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Greensboro
High Point
William Forrest Hunt
Albert Street
McClern Goins
Rt. 4
Carolina Hotel
Prep for Reduced Coal With Johns-Manville Rock Wool Insulation
Cautionary notice urges homeowners to install Johns-Manville Rock Wool Insulation in the attic now to secure a cooler, more comfortable home this summer and to offset upcoming coal allotment reductions next fall and winter.
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E Bonds
Enior
Anne Steed
Jeanne Snyder
June Best
Elaine Forward
Bertha Lowe
Brenda Laverne Coffey
M. T. Gibson
Athalia
Bronson Mathey, Jr
Malotte
C. Excelle Rozzelle
Tor
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
Wachovia Bank
S. Main St
Nat Walker
U. S. Bureau of Standards
Sears Catalog
N. Main St
E. G. Kittles Heads
State
V.F.W. Group
Andrew Jackson Post
American Legion Regular Meeting
N. L. Garnor
Talk OF
the Town
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co
St. Joseph
Numa F. Reid Lodge
A. FP
A.M
C. ¥. Shankle
T. Gregory
Piedmont
Glenn T. Smith
Edgar C. Johnson
Financial Sec
Stanley's
Penney Co
DR. B. F. Thomas
Tererty Petr Pritt
Thomasville
Parker-Brown Lumber CO
Oak ST
J-M
Mark Twain
Reason
Fest and Safe
Ahla Ratace
Fraley Field
High Point, N
Allee
Center Theater
EES
Optometrist
North State Machine Shop
Grimes Street
N. C
Paisihary
F. Haywood
Aia
Thes Bank
Security National
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