Truck Crash Blocks Roads After Wreck On Old Thom asville Road
A 25 year old Woodbine Street man Edward Wilson McGhee was pinned in a tractor trailer after a crash on Old Thom asville Road. Rescuers freed him an hour later as traffic halted and police and fire units assisted. McGhee suffered a broken collar bone and cuts with $21000 damage to the Grubb Motor Lines tractor trailer.
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Thomasville Road
Edward
Wilson McGhee
McGhee
Thomasville
Woodbine Street
Edward Wilson McGhee
Grubb Motor Lines
Southern Railway
Albertson Road
Help
High Point
Southern
10-A Fire Department
Lexington
Thirty six students named to High Point College spring Dean's List
The spring semester ending May 31 lists thirty six students earning Dean's List honors at High Point College. Criteria require a full course load and a 2.5 average. Several graduates are noted with summa cum laude magna cum laude and cum laude honors, including Barbara Ann Ayers, Elmer Hall, Peggy Rich Wilkes, Annie Sue Jackson, and June Carole Overby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point College
Barbara Ann Ayers
Stuart
William Lee Brown
Greensboro
Brenda Coffey
High Point
Peggy Jean Davis
Gastonia
Sylvia Jane Deaton
Mooresville
Martha L. Dickens
Gordon
W. Va
Betty Gray Dorman
Pembroke
Dorcas Rothrock Downs
Thomasville
Dixie Anne Epting
Elmer 0. Hall
Elon College
Barbara Harris
Sylvia Grey Holt
Troy
Annie Sue Jackson
Elkin
Betty Lee Jarrett
Trinity
Donald Gray Jarrett Jr
Robert Ance
Don Dale Nifong
Winston-Salem
Daniel Rollins Odom
David Leigh Pancoast
Sylvia Anne Parker
Cool Weather to Persist in Piedmont For Days
The Friendship Weather Bureau and official forecasts say dry, cool conditions will continue in the Piedmont for two to three days. Sunshine and mild conditions are expected today and tomorrow with a cool tonight. A slow temperature rise starts Wednesday, with a chance of about a quarter inch of showers later in the week. Last night’s low was 48 degrees, with yesterday’s high 79 and a forecasted high near 82 today and 84 tomorrow.
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Piedmont
Friendship Weather Bureau
U. S. Weather Bureau
Woman paints 25 foot mural in basement recreation room
Mrs. Clarence Williams, a junior high gym teacher from Wheat Ridge, Colorado, decided to create a large mural for her basement recreation room. She began painting without formal art training and completed a 25 foot mural, turning the space into a bold, personal art display.
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Wheat Ridge
Colo
Clarence Williams
Smoke Smell Averts Fire At Laundry
Firemen on N Wrenn Street detected smoke at 8 48 p m and found a spark from the boiler igniting dust above the High Point Laundry boiler. A rapid hose washdown stopped the fire with no damage reported. A separate trash fire on Springfield Avenue was extinguished at 4 20 a m with undetermined cause and no damages.
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N. Wrenn Street
High Point
Springfield Avenue
Racing Fatality Case Postponed in Greensboro
Trial of three Greensboro and High Point men charged in a pre arranged race death has been postponed to Friday. William E. Taylor William Watson and James St George Fox face charges in the May 22 wreck that killed Clarence Clapp of Greensboro.
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Greensboro
William E. Taylor
William Watson
James St. George Fox
High Point
Clarence Clapp
Clapp
Mother's repeated baking faces child illness in San Diego
Edith Lichterman baked 54 cupcakes for her son's fifth birthday in San Diego. The child then fell ill with measles, delaying the party. She baked another 54 cupcakes, but the boy developed chickenpox, postponing the celebration again.
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San Diego
Calif
Edith Lichterman
Police Hold Chair Cition For Bigamy
Police jailed 23 year old Thomasville man George Small on bigamy charges after allegedly marrying Rosaline Briles while still married to Claire Jeanette Williams. Bond set at 1000 dollars pending a Municpal Court hearing.
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Thomasville
Bennettsville
S. C
George Small
W. Main Street
Chair City
Small
Rosaline Briles
Claire Jeanette Williams
Robert James Alexander
Beech Street
Alexander
Virginia Warren
Wendley Street
Alexander Puys
Hugh Bentley
Surrett Street
Route 5
Por Gdh Gchar
Benta
C. Bentley
de Davis
Florence
N. C
Ella Sapp
Hunter Court
Davis
Chamber contest winner found after delayed notice
Great Bend Kansas officials informed Mrs. Walter Rugan that she won a chamber of commerce vacation contest. The prize was a week in Colorado. She was located and is currently vacationing in Colorado.
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Great Bend, Kan
Great Bend
Unemployment at Two Year Low in Local Survey
The local Employment Security Commission reports June findings show unemployment down 810 since March to 1590 while total employment rises 840 to 39 970 in the High Point area. Construction textile and furniture lead gains with shortages in knitters loopers stenographers and machine operators amid forecast hiring demand.
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Local
Employment Security Commission Office
Ralph E. Miller
Miller
High Point
Church Names Education Director at Wesley Memorial
The Rev. R. Delbert Byrum was assigned as minister of education at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church during the Western North Carolina Conference session at Lake Junaluska. Byrum, a Duke Divinity School graduate and former Navy chaplain, will move with his wife Evelyn Rothrock and their three year old daughter to High Point.
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R. Delbert Byrum
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
Western North Carolina
The
Methodist Church
Lake Junaluska
Byrum
Union County
High Point
Brevard
Duke Divinity School
Southern Methodist University
Dallas
United States Navy
Mayodan and
Murphy
Centenary Methodist Church
Winston - Salem
Grace Methodist Church
Greensboro
Grace
General Board of Education
Nashville
Tenn
Evelyn Rothrock
Winston-Salem
High Point to Host Playground Staff Institute
Preparations for the 1959 summer season begin with a training institute at Washington Terrace Park and Blair Park. Lonnie Powell and Jim Stevens of the North Carolina Recreation Commission will direct the opening phase and Negro playground leaders will receive guidance on activities and equipment care. The program includes members of the High Point Recreation Commission and Mayor Jess Washburn with sessions led by Anne Mensendiek and others. The institutes conclude Friday afternoon with 20 white leaders expected at Blair Park. Playgrounds will open Monday and run through August 15.
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High Point
Washington Terrace Park
Blair Park
Lonnie Powell
Jim Stevens
North Carolina Recreation Commission
Raleigh
High Point Recreation Commission
Jess Washburn
Anne Mensendiek
Ashington Terrace
Taylor
Bill McDonald
National Red Cross
Jean Fritz
Sen Eee
Blair Park Training Institute
Recreation Commission
James Ellington
Ruppenthal
Madiison
McDonald
Fritz
Mensendiek
Powell
Stevens
Pool Mishap Injures Man At City Lake Pool
A Boulevard resident, Jesse A. Hiatt, 27, was injured in an underwater collision at City Lake pool on Saturday. Hiatt was struck by a diver in a restricted area while another youth, unnamed, reportedly escaped unhurt. Hiatt remained in High Point Memorial Hospital for observation.
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Boulevard
High Point Memorial Hospital
City Lake Pool
Jesse A. Hiatt
Hiatt
High Board
Wil son elected secretary treasurer of Teamsters Local 71
J E Wilson won the ballot for secretary treasurer of Teamsters Local 71 in Charlotte. The victory strengthens Ed Hargett’s backing faction and Wilson will be sworn in July 11 to fill the unexpired term of Grady Honeycutt who resigned June 9. Ballot totals: Wilson 362, Correll 300, Bailey 110, Linker 124, Lupo 38. one vote challenged, nine ballots improperly marked.
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Wilson
Grady Honeycutt
Concord
Methodist Pastors Moved In North Carolina Churches
The report lists pastor reassigments across High Point Asheboro Winston Salem and Greensboro with Reverend L E Mabry N L Oliver Harold Schram C W Faulkner and others moving between Ward Street Lindsay Memorial Calvary Trinity Fair Grove and related churches. Delbert Byrum shifts to Wesley Memorial as educational director.
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At Point
High Point
Lindsay Memorial Church
Ward Street
L. E. Mabry
Calvary Church
Asheboro
N. L. Oliver
Lewisville
Harold Schram
Lindsay Memorial
New Hope Church
Winston-Salem
C. W. Faulkner
Morris Chapel
Trinity
Nolan Harmon
J. Harley Cecil
A. R. Davis
Coleridge
Bethel-Johnston
William C. Clark
Fair Grove Church
Thomasville
C. C. Pyatt
Homestead Church
Charlotte
A. W. Wellens
Jack D. Ballard
Friendship-Shady Grove
Marion
Bobby S. Lyndon
Richland Church
Clinchfield
Giles O. Bowman
South Randolph
Grace Church
Greensboro
Delbert Byrum
Wesley Memorial
FAC Permit Tops Week's Construction
A $39,942 building permit was issued to Electronic Accounting Card Corp for an addition to its plant on National Boulevard. Construction aims to support a $250,000 expansion with new machinery and a third shift. Other permits were for repairs, including a $1,400 job at 904 Willenbarger for H. N. Russell.
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Electronic Accounting Card Corp
National Boulevard
J. W. Coltrane
H. N. Russell
Willenbarger
Scientist Davis Pursues Speed In Space and Track
Dr. Thomas R. A. Davis, head of Environment Medicine at the Army Research Laboratory, prepared a monkey for the Jupiter space flight and then finished sixth in a local sports car race in Louisville. He ties his two fast worlds together with admitted interest in racing and space medicine.
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Louisville, Ky
Thomas R. A. Davis
Army Research Medical Laboratory
Ft. Knox
Monkey
Davis
Prayer for T QDAY
Prayer asks divine presence at weddings homes and relationships guiding couples toward Christ and independence. Attributed to James Ross McCain president emeritus Agnes Scott College Decatur Georgia.
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James Ross McCain
Decatur, Ga
Agnes Scott College
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James M. Hayworth
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