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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1931
Page
5
County and city officials prepare the preliminary 1931 budget while awaiting state figures on school support from North Carolina. The total tax rate is expected to fall from 2.19 to around 2.00 with each cent cut saving nearly 5 000 for taxpayers. The state ad valorem tax 15 cents will be added to the county rate, complicating an anticipated 40 cent county cut.
North Carolina Methodist Protestant ministers and youth prepare to convene at High Point college for the annual Pas tors Summer Conference and Leadership Training School. Noted speakers include Dr. Lawrence C. Little, Dr. G. I. Humphreys, Dr. P. E. Lindley, and Dr. C. E. Forlines with a Friday rally and a picnic dinner at the Children's Home.
Trial of John T. Carter in High Point for the murder of Earl Murphy stretched into the night as evidence presentation finished and court recesses until Monday. Prosecutor Younce says Carter killed Murphy in cold blood in what he calls an underworld war. defense argues Carter acted only to defend himself on the porch of the Carter home.
C. H. Farmer, a 21 year old textile worker, brought a wood carving shaped like a mud turtle to the Enterprise office. He found it in a tree in Virginia months ago, when it weighed about 19 pounds and is now displayed in the Enterprise window.
Clyde Farley, named authorized agent for Simoniz products in the High Point area, will move his automobile waxing business from College Street to 711 North Main Street after July 1 to gain expanded quarters.
Radio stars Amos and Andy have become Auburn automobile salesmen, announced by Jack Burris manager of Gate City Motor Company. Local buyers need only give name and address to receive a letter outlining ownership benefits from the comedians.
Mrs. James Young and Mrs. Effie Morgan represent High Point YWCA industrial clubs at the Southern Industrial YWCA conference underway at Camp Morriwood Sapphire North Carolina. The gathering opened last Wednesday and runs through June 27.
Ensign John O Beirne of the Salvation Army will preach at Wimberly chapel on the city prison farm this afternoon from 3 to 4 oclock. The public is cordially invited to attend.
Friends and relatives gather in Jamestown for the fifth annual memorial at Jamestown M E church at 2 30 PM. Dr G I Humphreys head of High Point College delivers the address with music led by Edith M Sherrod C L Gray Jr Evelyn Boyd and Adelaide Crowell. Special remembrances will mark those who died in the past year listing Walter Barbee Edith Bevan Cora Lewis Burns John Canfield Jr and others.
High Point residents may influence the new post office layout after preliminary designs were approved in Washington. Postmaster O R York reviewed the first floor and suggested changes. Eccles D Everhart Louis Voorhees and James M Workman prepared the plans for Uncle Sam. Planning and Zoning Commission chaired by Joseph D Cox will approve or propose changes, with the city council delegating this duty at the Wednesday session.
North Carolina Woodmen of the World officers and delegates prepare to travel to Buffalo New York for the nineteenth biennial national convention starting June 24 with E B Lewis D E Henderson Frank Patterson Barrington Hill Chas A Hines C W Sanders L C MecKaughan and others among the NC representatives. The Sovereign Camp meets every four years and President Frazer called a special session at the hotel Statler to review past work and plan future progress.
Police recovered chickens and chief W G Friddie urged owners to report to police headquarters at once to reclaim them. Owners may identify the birds to take them home. otherwise disposal actions may follow.
City experiences record heat with thermometers rising sharply and residents seeking relief. Hospitals report no heat related crises overnight as local pools stay busy throughout the day and evening.
The Vision of Sir Launfal cantata by Charles Wakefield Cadman will be presented by the Gilman Alexander male chorus of Greensboro directed by N Grady Miller in Wesley Memorial church auditorium on Wednesday night June 24 at 8 15. Soloists include Mrs Dewey Farrell Goodridge M Greer Fred M Phipps Miss Audrey Bruton and Mrs Gille Powell. The 30 member chorus has appeared in nearby cities and will perform with piano and organ accompaniment.
An illustrated Telephony June feature shows four dial exchanges in High Point Randleman Thomasville and Lexington linked into a network. The article notes full automatic local calls, unattended Randleman, toll forces in Thomasville and Lexington, and a single operator coordinating toll connections across towns.
The city council backs rerouting Highway 10 through the city with two main options favored. One follows Five Points Montlieu to Centennial Washington College English and to English then outward, the other goes Montlieu to North Main through downtown to South Main Ward Street and English toward Route Ten. Merchants Association backs the latter for its business-district bisecting route, though the Main Street path would be seven tenths longer yet shorter than the current northern bypass.
A High Point business group will travel to Raleigh on Tuesday to press for relocating the North Carolina Industrial Commission headquarters to the city. The Chamber of Commerce draft petition, signed by local manufacturers and leaders, urges Governor Gardner and the Council of State to choose High Point for the commission’s headquarters citing efficiency and cost reductions.
A small boy arrived at the Enterprise office seeking work. He played with a monkey being walked nearby and bit his fingers. The lad was taken to a doctor. injuries were not serious.
The 1930 census analysis released by the Department of Commerce finds High Point with 18 763 females and 17 892 males in a total population of 36 745. Whites total 29 319, with 7 229 Negro residents and 174 foreign born whites, plus 13 of other races. Married women exceed married men by 140, and there are 1 265 females and 361 males who are widowed.
Camp Uwharrie opened its annual camping season with sixty one scouts reporting for the first period. Rev Roy I Farmer will preach at the camp this afternoon at 2 30 and the parents of all scouts are invited to attend the service. The time was moved from 11 00 AM to 2 30 PM.
Opening of a state distributor here for the Parker Ventilator Manufacturing Company of New York by I B Ridge and T B Connor was made last night. The business is at 5813 Commerce Street and its first shipment goes to Thomasville Monday at noon. The Parker Ventilator is storm and filly proof and can serve as an awning. The local company will manufacture ventilators for southern distribution with C L Wilson, formerly of New York, associated.
Miss Johnsie Pugh of this city won a scholarship to a six week summer school for women workers in industry to be held next month at Christ School for Boys at Arden. The High Point Junior Service League and Mrs. M. J. Wrenn of the local Y W C A fund the program, with NC C W students listed among past recipients.
Sanitary officer Claude Hussey seeks federal aid from the Department of Agriculture as a rat invasion overwhelms a city area. Reports cite dozens of rats destroying poultry and food sources in Willowbrook and Lexington avenues. James Silver and A E Osna plan a visit to assess control efforts.
Wingate Andrews, superintendent of the city schools, will travel to Los Angeles to serve as director for North Carolina at the National Education Association sessions from June 28 to July 3. He aims to gain national perspective on the educational crisis and compare state spending, noting North Carolina’s lower per capita outlay and unemployment among teachers.
The First Reformed church announces its two week Summer Bible school starting Monday at 9 am. All church and Sunday school children are invited. Classes include kindergarten ages four and five led by Mrs. M F Crooks with Miss Hedrick assistants, first grade six and seven taught by Mrs Coy Moose, grade two eight and nine with Mrs John Hedrick, grade three ten and eleven by Mrs Elmer Hedrick, and grade four twelve to fourteen led by Rev W R Shaffer.
The Vacation Bible School of Central Friends church opened last Monday with the largest first day registration ever. Attendance grew through the week, staff are in hand, and students enjoy profitable activities and big playground groups. Early enrollment is urged for full benefit.
A B Horney chief of the High Point fire department will leave Monday for Athens Ga to attend sessions of the South eastern Fire Chiefs Association all week. He will travel by automobile with Captain John Burns of Station Number One and L F Honeycutt machinist for the local department.
About ninety eight people were taken into custody last week in a second citywide effort to curb traffic violations and improve parking and driving conditions. Police Chief W. G. Friddle praised the results and pledged continued enforcement with courtesy to out of town motorists, listing numerous named individuals among those arrested.
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