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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1953
Page
11
Thomasville city council approved a revised business license tax plan at a special meeting. The new schedule taxes every business operating within the city or regularly doing business from outside the city limits.
Gary Davis, Greensboro native and longtime radio figure, is named general manager of WHPE in High Point. Davis will start tomorrow and will continue his news broadcasts, with 17 years of sponsorship of a daily 12 15 p m news program. He has served on the High Point City Council and is active in local civic groups.
Thomasville police arrested Fred Nelson 42 of 601 Kahler Street on charges of larceny of an automobile belonging to his nephew Clyde Phillips. Nelson released on $300 bond pending July 10 hearing. Car taken to Salisbury wrecked. driver jailed for drunken driving. Nelson charged with aiding and abetting drunken driving. R P Phylo May of Davidson County arrested for violating prohibition laws. released on $50 bond with trial tentatively July 10 in Thomasville Recorder's Court.
Thomasville erected three large reflective signs along the Thomasville Lexington superhighway to call attention to the city’s alternate route to the business district. City Manager Everett W. Schadt said the state highway department placed the signs yesterday at Salem Street, National Highway and Lexington Highway entrances.
Obituaries and funeral notices report Mrs. Bessie Mor ris Berrier of Route 11 Thomasville, aged 73, funerals at Pine Woods Methodist Church with multiple pallbearers. burial in church cemetery. Ida B. Long of 312 Spring Street dies at University Memorial Hospital Chapel Hill after four months illness. Funeral at Heidleburg Evangelical and Reformed Church. interment Holly Hills Cemetery. Roger Delk Mendenhall, 8, dies at home in High Point Raleigh Farm area. service to be held at Cloverdale Church of God High Point with burial in Floral Garden Park Cemetery.
Two petitions demand council pass ordinances to back every stop sign in the city. Municipal Court Solicitor J V Morgan and the police department urge surveys to designate through streets and where stop signs are needed. The attorney general notes designation must be by town ordinance, not police, while yield right of way signs are being tested at hazardous intersections to bolster penalties for violations.
The weatherman warns of continued hot and humid conditions with partly cloudy skies on Wednesday. Forecast calls for a high around 93, low near 68, and a stretch of widely scattered afternoon or evening thunder showers. The mercury should stay above 70 tonight.
Eighteen countries will be represented as about 30 young men and women attend a five week International Student Seminar at Guilford College starting July 3. The program is sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee and directed by Rev. William Parker.
The High Point chapter of Order of Demolay will confer the Chevalier Degree at 8 p.m. in the Masonic Temple. Billy Green and Ronnie Brewer will receive the honor, given for exceptional service to the order and active civic church and school involvement.
Realty transfers list numerous lot deeds in High Point Township and Jamestown Township. Transfers include Ralph J Steelman to Walter D Steelman in Golfcrest Development No 2 and Federal Housing Commission to McAdden and Horlick, Aline Bridgers to Melvin Carter four lots, and multiple families buying lots in Golfcrest Spencer Heights Brentwood Lincolnshire and Piedmont Homes areas.
Friends of Representative Walter E Crissman backed by the High Point and Davidson County bars push for a Superior Court judgeship. Governor Umstead named seven judges yesterday and signaled more appointments may follow. Crissman supporters vow renewed effort to secure his bench seat despite initial disappointment.
George Dean reports bids will be received Thursday at 2 p m for paving Rotary Drive from Chestnut to Whit tier Streets and several other projects. Bids go to the Public Works Committee for recommendation to Council. Also bids for Gordon and East Washington Streets and for blocks on Forest and Hawthorne Streets. Additional bids soon on Lindsay Street widening and Silk Street paving as engineers finalize data.
Merchants Association president H. M. Ridge announced stores will remain open tomorrow after noon due to the July 4th holiday. Most local retail and grocery businesses will close Saturday for the weekend holiday, with about 95 percent of High Point's industrial population already on the one week mid summer holiday.
Danbury Rubber Co of Danbury Connecticut will exhibit at the High Point furniture market opening July 6. The firm will display rubber and vinyl tile flooring in Greensboro in the Carolina Virginia Distributing Co booth with Diffendals Floor Covering providing a 1700 square foot demonstration area showing wearability and decorative quality.
Bobby Smith was appointed by the City Council as the clerk of court for the Thomasville Recorder's Court. He succeeds George Lyndon Jr., who becomes City-County tax collector under a consolidated office. Lyndon will shuttle between offices until the basement tax center opens in several weeks. Cedric Clinard will assist with clerk duties in Lyndon’s absence.
Superintendent Dean Pruette warned Guilford County’s 18 000 cut to High Point’s current expense budget will strain this year’s finances and force reserve use. He noted reduced capital funds drop plans for a new second ward school, cafeteria at Senior High, and home economics renovations, with two or three years before full effects hit.
Chicago furniture dealers report cautious buying at the market closing Friday after a two week run. Sales for the first five months of 1953 show a six percent gain to boost industry outlook, with chrome dinette sets the only price weak spot due to steel cost shifts. Dealers foresee later orders at the Southern market opening Monday as buyers balance optimism with vigilance.
The Carolina Motor Club announces a half price sale starting tomorrow July 1 1953. License tags for autos trucks and large trailers will be reduced though farm plates and small trailer tags remain excluded. City tag price stays at 1 dollar per tag says Mrs Thelma Ryan manager.
New pharmacist Joseph Furman Bland of Thomasville has passed the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy examinations at the University of Chapel Hill. He is among 27 applicants to receive state licenses.
Miss Jennie McGinnn fourteen year old daughter of Mr and Mrs J R McGinn of 314 Bay Street has been declared winner in the State Intermediate Sword Drill held Friday at Fruitland Baptist Assembly in Hendersonville. She will represent North Carolina's more than 3 000 Baptist churches at the July 18 South wide drill at Ridgecrest Baptist Assembly competing with winners from Florida Georgia Kentucky Mississippi and Missouri. Jennie belongs to the First Baptist Church and was coached by church secretary Miss Helen Starnes.
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