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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1960
Page
7
Deaths and Funerals list services for Luther T. Tucker L. C. Lowe J. H. Carroll Mrs. Robert Elwood Mendenhall with services at Mechanicsville Primitive Baptist Church Rankin Memorial Methodist Church Floral Garden Park Cemetery Springfield Friends Meeting and Springfield Cemetery. Burial arrangements set with local pastors officiating.
Funeral services are planned for Jipsie Robert Layell 51 at Highland Methodist Church today at 2 30 p m with burial at Floral Park Cemetery. The service will be led by Rev Earl Black. Also funeral for Horace Justice Stepp 64 at Koonce Funeral Home Chapel at 2 p m with burial at Floral Garden Park Cemetery. Stepp died suddenly en route to High Point Memorial Hospital after a year of declining health. He lived at 104 Welch Street.
The 56 year old Dewey Leslie Reid died Thursday evening at High Point Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. His funeral was conducted at 2 30 PM yesterday by Rev Kenneth Crouse at Lebanon Methodist Church with burial in Oaklawn Cemetery Winston Salem. Pallbearers were Adrian Watson Homer Sanders Russell Harris Raymond Elliott Jordan Spencer and Richard Lowe.
Willie R Morgan 55 of Asheboro died Friday night at John Umstead Hospital Butner after two months of declining health His wife Mrs Fsta Slack Morgan three daughters Mrs Ralph Davis Franklinville Mrs Lester Maness Route 2 Randleman and Mrs Adrian Ussery Valdosta GA four grandchildren two sisters and two brothers Funeral at 4 p m today Asheboro Congregational Christian Church Rev Clyde Fields burial Randolph Memorial Park
A classroom phase driver training course will begin tomorrow at Senior High School. Classes run 1 30 to 3 30 p m Monday through Friday for three weeks. Thirty students are in the classroom phase and 48 receive behind the wheel instruction. Instructors are Herbert Hipps St Frank Shields and A J Simeon. Eligible students planning to attend Senior High School in 1960 61 may enroll.
Mrs. Nannie M. Lawson 83 of Route 1 Walnut Cove died at 5 a.m. yesterday en route to Danbury Hospital after a heart attack. She is survived by four daughters a son two sisters a brother 28 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. Funeral at 2 p.m. tomorrow Burroughs Fowler Funeral Home with burial at Mount Gurr Cemetery Kernersville.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee criticizes the U2 affair and argues the May 1 flight into the Soviet Union should likely not have been undertaken. It notes poor handling worsened the situation and cites limited information from top officials as it pressed for answers before Eisenhower's Far East trip.
In Labelle Florida a dare sparked a beehive flipping game by schoolboys. Police reported boys turned over hives to be chased by swarming bees. County Judge R M Harris warned harsher punishment if the stunts continued and the participants agreed to quit.
The Univac 1105 in Chapel Hill works with two other electronic computers to process 40 percent of the 1960 census data while 40 percent is computed in Chicago and 20 percent in Washington. The three centers compile data in the fall to produce the final report. Crucial steps include house-to-house collection, E. D. Books and microfilming, then FOSDIC translation onto magnetic tapes.
George Thomas Wood III son of Dr and Mrs George T Wood Jr completed his medical internship Friday at Walter Reed General Hospital Washington DC. He was promoted from first lieutenant to captain in the Army Medical Service and among 36 interns and 22 residents graduating at Sternberg Auditorium. Major General Thomas J Hartford spoke to the graduating officers. Wood, a 1955 Duke University graduate, earned his MD from University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He and his wife Nancy Blum reside at 9258 Piney Branch Rd Silver Spring Maryland.
The Campanile of St Mark's in Venice stands 325 feet tall. It collapsed in 1902 and was subsequently rebuilt.
The NAACP delegates approve a nationwide boycott of South African goods as part of a civil rights program urging US action against apartheid. They call for UN intervention if needed, plan future conventions in Atlanta and Portland, and press anti discrimination measures in unions education and college policy.
Students at Jefferson Union High School offered help and $100 reward to track down vandals who damaged a school bus and chopped down trees in front of the school. Principal K. W. Christopher confirms the clubs posted the reward for apprehension and conviction.
Roy Wilkins NAACP executive secretary will be honored with the university’s outstanding achievement award as the convention enters its final day at the University of Minnesota. The event highlights the society and hospital administrative practices discussed across the weekend.
A group of 64 leaders from business, labor, education and government met at the American Assembly to discuss how stable prices could accompany growth and low unemployment. They urged all to boost productivity and promised a free booklet, Prices, Growth and You, from American Assembly at Columbia University.
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