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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1945
Page
15
Local colored community activities fill the week from bond rally and park outings to pool swims and church group events. The YMCA plans city softball, the Park Pals and Youth teams may join, and various clubs host teas, parties, and meetings at area churches and homes.
Robert M. Hanes of Wachovia Bank argues in the bank house magazine that the South will outpace other regions in the coming decade. He cites rising industrial output, banking resources, savings, and life insurance, plus needs for soil diversification, freight-rate reform, and continued modernization in textiles and education.
The Brentwood church vacation Bible school ends Friday with a 7 pm picnic on church grounds. Edgar Hartley will speak. Over 50 children enrolled, meeting daily 9 to 11:30 am. Frances Gillis of Flora MacDonald College directed activities.
Dwight Tyler Marshall, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Marshall of 502 Sunset Drive, died Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 at a local hospital. Born in High Point on June 23, 1945, he was one of twins. twin brother Douglas Lynn Marshall died June 24, 1945. Interment followed in Marshall Cemetery, Blair, Virginia, this afternoon.
Benjamin W. Matthews filed a divorce action in the clerk's office yesterday seeking dissolution from Lucille G. Matthews after two years of separation.
Mrs Alice Gooch Withers a well known local nurse died suddenly in a nearby hospital Wednesday afternoon. The funeral will be at the Gooch family cemetery in Bedford county Virginia Friday at two o clock with interment there. The funeral party leaves J C Green and Sons Funeral Home Friday morning at eight for Virginia and the body will stay at the funeral home until departure.
In Mindanao Philippines 23 year old Muhamad Dimaporo Ali leads 21 Moros to kill 44 Japanese at Fort Corcuera after Japanese murder of Ali s sweetheart and her family. Ali then ambushes reinforcements and withdraws escaping into the hills.
William Oliver Jackson 59 a tenant farmer of Rowland Route 1 died last Monday in Lumberton hospital. He was father of A C Jackson of Thomasville and was buried Tuesday at Rowland cemetery after funeral at First Baptist Rowland. Born in Robeson County he was a son of Mary Jackson and the late John Jackson and belonged to Mount Zion Baptist church.
Funeral services for Ida S Kimsey 51 wife of Thomas W Kimsey died at home 919 Asheboro St were held Wednesday at 4 pm at Mechanicsville Primitive Baptist Church. Rev William C Livingston and Elder J A Fagg officiated with songs When the Saints Go Marching Home and Does Jesus Care. Interment followed in the church cemetery with pallbearers Paul Wheeless Arch Owens Robert Trivett Thad Murray Kizer Thomas Guy E Kinney. Around 11 am Friday funeral services for Victoria Henderson 77 widow of H A Henderson will be at Eldorado Baptist Church near Denton. Rev Julian S Hopkins will lead with a burial at Henderson Cemetery after a nine o'clock home service. The body will be moved to the Peters home this afternoon at 6 pm.
Funeral services for S8Sgt. John S Westwood husband of Ruby Conn Westwood of this city were conducted at Haben Funeral Home Skokie Illinois with full military honors and three gun salutes. He died June 21 in Mayo General Hospital Gaynesburg I. He was wounded in Italy April 20 and returned home. He is survived by wife mother and sisters in Chicago. Mrs Conn Westwood attended with her mother and sister from this city.
Friends of H D and Mary Ross Idol of Forrest avenue extension regret to learn of the death of their infant son at a local hospital early this morning. Surviving are the parents, a stepsister, a paternal grandmother, and a maternal grandfather, all of High Point. Interment followed in Oakwood Cemetery this afternoon.
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