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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1941
Page
10
In Charlotte on June 19 a Pitt County Negro preacher described Jericho walls collapsing during a service. Brethren fled as timbers and plaster rained down, and a late arrival’s car ended up partially inside the vestibule. He joked his speed was too fast for the rakes.
In Charleston the Marines move to restore order as the historic town waits. A leatherneck quips that bringing in a device could spark a needed wake up moment for the sleepy settlement. Local observers watch the unfolding security operation.
W R Garner, 74, lives with his 200 hives in Gray Court South Carolina, says loneliness is eased by bees. He compares bees to people insisting proper care keeps them friendly, though some can be moody when they sting if he mishandles them.
A harmless chicken snake caused a fire at a Kinston lumber yard that firefighters battled for five and a half hours. Ed Lanier recalls boys lighting the snake from a hollow tree near the yard, threatening the lumber area. Firemen used a 90 gallon booster tank refitted four times while Shorty Jenkins climbed the tree to help, and Lanier quips that progress barely wet him for about two hours and twenty minutes. In a separate incident near Mt Olive, an auto struck Nathaniel Hobbs, who was taken to a Goldsboro hospital with a fractured hip. Hobbs praised the driver as mighty nice.
State Highway Patrolman Car Lyle Ingle arrested a youth near Wilkesboro whose bicycle tray was filled with onions. Oh, yes, under.
Illicit whisky hidden under onions yields five gallons in a Greenville County scene. A mountaineer faces a warrant for attempted dynamite attack on his home amid domestic tension. A Rocky Mount girl called police in fear, then ended the call as arriving units chased a mistaken dog catcher who feared losing the dog.
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