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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1945
Page
10
Local attorneys at the Bar Association meeting express disapproval of a proposed law library funded by court costs for the High Court. Some argue funds should come from city or be unnecessary while others see minimal impact beyond fines and costs.
Raleigh hosts a four day conference opening Tuesday sponsored by the regional War Commission. WMC personnel from North Carolina Maryland Virginia West Virginia and the District of Columbia will attend to discuss problems and methods of handling apprentice training during and after wartime.
The Raleigh city council votes to keep bids for a 3,335,000 bond refunding non pledged to utility profits while allowing callable options. They add school revenue pledges and set March 27 for sale. two more meetings planned before bids are opened.
Judge C N Cox of the juvenile court addressed the High Point Ministers Association on delinquency as a national problem. He urged home church and community involvement with Christ in the home and noted growing unchurching in the city. The talk at First Baptist and the follow up forum included ministers and Superintendent Charles F. Carroll.
The Grand Lodge convention of the B P O Elks scheduled for New York City in July 1945 has been cancelled. Dr. Robert South Barrett says the suspension follows War Mobilization Director James Byrnes guidance to limit gatherings of more than 50 people. The move marks the first Grand Lodge suspension in 77 years.
Funeral service for A. J. Sides longtime Kannapolis resident who moved to Newport News Va. 16 months ago was held Sunday at Whitley chapel Burial was in Carolina Memorial Park He died Wednesday afternoon in a Hampton Va hospital after a stroke Surviving are his widow Mrs Bessie Harrington Sides two sons Pvt Robert Glenn Sides of France and Harold Jack Sides of Newport News six grandchildren three daughters Mrs Sebert Dancy Orwe Ruth Sides all of Newport News a brother Alex Sides of High Point and a sister Mrs Mamie Whitley of Norwood
High Point's Walter E. Crissman, serving in the North Carolina House, describes his duty as public service. A native of Surry County, Crissman rose from local legal practice to politics, leading Guilford County Democrats, guiding Green Street Baptist Church, and serving on Junior Order boards. He married Wilma Planter of Chattanooga on April 6, 1935.
A Sunday School Evangelistic conference will be held at the First Baptist church in Greensboro Tuesday evening at 7 45. Every Baptist Association in the South will have such meetings on this day. The attendance goal for the South is 25000 and 500 for the Piedmont Association. The event is part of the Southern Baptist Centennial Crusade for One Million Souls for Christ.
A Shoshone woman, Sacajawea, known as the Bird Woman, is proposed for a New York university honor in recognition of her crucial aid to the Lewis and Clark expedition. The note emphasizes her long overdue recognition after more than a century of obscurity. Wash eggs immediately before using.
Woodmen of the World Piedmont Camp No 6 meets every Tuesday night at 1 30 PM Members urged to attend and all visiting sovereigns cordially invited Glenn T Smith Council Commander SAGAR O JOHNSON financial Secy
A slaughter bound bull escaped from a truck near the Tomlinson Hamilton Street shops and charged staff. Tomlinson worker Mack Caudill and supervisors Ray Nibbelink T. G. Ferguson and G. B. Stroud restrained the animal after a near hour chase, ending with the bull back in the truck bound for the abattoir.
Mrs LeWallen spoke for her husband Sam Harr ison LeWallen in a Municipal Court plea claiming a long marriage and eight children, asking mercy after she said he did not usually drink and that a dispute over a sick child led to the strike. Judge D C MacRae suspended judgment on condition no future violence.
First reports from the 1945 Red Cross War Fund drive will be announced by J. Grady Goldston, fund chairman, at the March luncheon meeting at the Sheraton hotel. High Point's quota is 59 500 dollars, to be reached by March 15.
Thomasville police investigate a Sunday night hit and run near the Baptist orphanage involving five white youths. Tom King, a local Black man, was injured severely when struck by the vehicle and taken to City Memorial hospital. An X-ray is planned to determine injuries, believed to include a broken leg.
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