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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1940
Page
6
Madeline Hoover files social and club activity notes for the office. Office hours listed as 9 AM to 12 PM with contact phone 4568 for inquiries and event details.
Piano pupils of Mrs Charles McAnally performed in an informal spring recital at her Ferndale Drive home. The program included solos duets and trios with a social hour after. Awards were given for practice hours and a Davidson College summer music camp party travelled to join 60 other students for weekly Sunday concerts.
Marmola tablets claim to help adults with thyroid related obesity lose fat without starvation or exercise. The ad states over thirty years of sales and more than a million boxes distributed. It notes Marmola is not a cure, and urges consulting a physician for diagnosis before use. Consumers are urged to buy from their druggist.
The local unit held a called meeting at the YWCA to discuss plans for the American Legion Auxiliary department convention opening June 23 with the North Carolina Legion Post convention. Reports covered memorial services, parade participation, meals at the Sheraton, a Gold Star Mothers luncheon, and junior activities including a swimming party, picnic, picture show, and dance.
Tentative plans for installing new officers of the Women of the Moose were set for next Wednesday night. Mrs Goldie Dean of Charlotte, state dean of the Academy of Friendship, is invited to be the installing officer and to visit the local group during the year. The public will be invited to attend.
Seven representatives from the local Business and Professional Women's Club will attend the BPWC federation's annual convention at Blowing Rock today through Sunday. The event opened with an executive board meeting. Retiring president Mrs Oriana B James and new president Miss Rachel Moser will attend, with James chairing tomorrow's luncheon on program coordination. Other delegates include Misses Pearl Bumgarner Birtie White Carrie McGirt Feral Green and Mrs Gladys Stainback. Notables at the four day program include Margaret Hickey of St Louis MO national education chairman Mrs D M Gurganus Raleigh state president and Mary Anderson director of the Woman's Bureau US Department of Labor. Officers will be installed Sunday.
J. W. Harriss of High Point North Carolina arrives in Havana aboard the Caribbean Clipper from Miami with G. Curtis Smith. The two men fly from Miami in a 20 ton four motor clipper, viewing the Florida Keys, Gulf Stream and Atlantic en route to the Spanish town for a Caribbean visit.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Railway Express employees host a city lake picnic at 6 30 p m with calls to Mrs Roy Smith or Mrs R J Kirby. At 7 30 p m the Y W C A board meets at the Adams Memorial building. Friday 4 p m parties by Mesdames Cummins honor Mrs Kathryn Cole of Detroit with a musical tea at Emerywood Country Club. Saturday 9 30 p m the Piedmont German Club hosts a June dance at Emerywood Country Club with Will Bradley and his orchestra.
Mrs B C Barksdale will present her pupils in a piano and violin recital Friday evening at the Woman's Wesley classroom of Wesley Memorial Church. Assisting will be baritone E H Easter. An invitation goes to the public and to patrons and friends.
John Lindsay Jr. undergoes treatment at Burrus Memorial Hospital. Miss Lucy Benton and Miss Mary Bouldin visit New York hotels. Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Atkinson and daughter Mariann visit Annie Atkinson in Jacksonville after a World’s Fair trip. Mrs. S. E. Montgomery leaves with Mr. and Mrs. Guy Pierce for Detroit and Cumberland visits. Paul Brewer recuperates after a tonsillectomy. Miss Kitty Stansell stays with Miss Eleanor Younts. she is C. M. Stansell’s daughter. See H. S. Price returns home after fall treatment at Burrus Memorial. Baxter Ridge family to Fontana Kansas for two weeks. Billy Key visits grandparents in Archdale. Mrs. Dan Curran hosts sister Mildred Barger before UNC summer school. Mrs. Valette J. Harris heads to Myrtle Beach for summer stay.
The High Point Graduate Nurses Club held its final meeting of the season at the Adams Memorial Y W C A with Mrs. Fred Bartlett as guest speaker. She spoke on The Aerial Nurse Corps of America, describing duties on large transport planes and the idea of taking the hospital to the patient. Fourteen members attended.
The Ladies Bible Class will hold its regular monthly meeting Friday at 7 30 p m at Miss Lillian Vincannon residence 203 Tomlinson Street All members are expected to attend. Rankin Memorial Church hosts an ice cream supper Saturday from 5 to 7 p m in the basement proceeds aid Sunday School funds.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Monarch Club postponed their Monday night weiner roast at Taylor's Cabin. They will join the Monarch Club for a fish-fry at Municipal Lake Tuesday evening. The weiner roast will be announced for a later date.
Piano pupils from Thomasville and High Point groups will perform in a recital at the Elim Street School tomorrow at 7 30 pm. The public is invited. The Tete-a-Tete Club meets at the Springfield Road clubhouse tomorrow at 7 30 pm.
Fitawari Berou, newly named commander in chief of Haile Selassie’s imperial forces in Ethiopia, departs Jerusalem by air to lead the campaign against Italy. The former minister of war said in an interview that now is their golden chance as Abyssinian prayers rise in Jerusalem and Jericho churches.
Unofficial reports claim that France via U S Ambassador Bullitt advised Germany that all French troops have left Paris. A new graphite based coating reportedly renders a plane invisible after flying above 100 feet.
A reflective piece argues couples should seek only the pleasure of family life from children for about twenty years as the children grow up and become independent. It notes disillusionment can arise if grown children become ingrates or distant. It urges understanding from parents toward their children's adult lives.
Public Safety reports High Point had no traffic deaths in the first four months of 1940, ranking eighth among 25 000 to 50 000 population cities. Raleigh shows 7.7 fatalities per 100 000, Winston-Salem 19.1, Greensboro 26.1, with national averages at 11.9 for group, 14.3 overall, and U.S. rate 21.5. North Carolina listed at 2:39.
London June 13 Deputy government leader Clement Attlee told the House of Commons he could not say when Prime Minister Churchill would make his next general statement of the war. It had been expected that Churchill might speak today.
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