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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1942
Page
11
The narrator recalls taxi drivers in High Point and a near missed bus journey across 250 miles. A punctual cabbie promises a return but fails to appear. On the bus, he meets a distiller from Alamance County who shares tales of sugar shortages and a judge’s deal on whiskey materials and bonding.
Dr. Marvin Longworth Slate a Stokes County native and High Point physician is noted for his training at Wake Forest University Maryland General Hospital and residency at Maryland. He serves on Burrus Memorial and Guilford General hospital staffs and recently moved to 511 North Main Street. He is active in the North Carolina State Medical Society Guilford County Medical Society and the Southern Medical Association. He is a former Lions Club president and a deacon board member at First Baptist Church. He married Marion Elizabeth Wolfersberger on December 24 1933 and they have two children Margaret Elizabeth and Marvin L Jr. He enjoys football basketball baseball flowers especially roses and keeps a medical scrapbook.
Ker s Esso Service announces a new auto repair department at North Main Street. Under F C Burney the skilled mechanic the shop will offer body and fender work and painting to provide motorists with better service.
The local Red Cross chapter plans its annual meeting Monday night at 7 30 in the Sheraton Hotel ballroom. No dinner or guest speaker. reports from Home Service Roll Call Production and other committees will be heard. The program includes singing led by Carl N Cronstedt and a solo by Irving Berlin's Angels of Mercy. Election of new directors will close the session.
Frank L. Judish, director of trade and industrial education in High Point schools, is borrowed by state and Federal governments to supervise national defense training classes. Superintendent Carroll said Judish will serve three months from March 9, remain a local employee, and stay connected with local vocational programs. The move reflects North Carolina’s role in expanding defense training as millions must be trained for a potential 7 million military personnel, with High Point cited for leading local defense classes.
In High Point the abrupt dismissal of Arnold J. Koonce from the Civil Service Commission stirred a hullabaloo. City Council acted in secret drawing fire from Republicans and Democrats alike, though many say Koonce served five years with fairness and public interest, not party politics, prompting strong protest from various community groups.
Randolph County farmers oppose locating a U S Army camp in the Trinity Back Creek Tabernacle and New Market area. They warn it would remove three million dollars in taxable property and force 800 families to abandon homes. Representatives were sent to Washington to discourage the plan, with more meetings planned to press opposition.
Rabbi Eugene Mihaly of New York is appointed to lead High Point’s Jewish community. He is a son and grandson of chief rabbis and was ordained at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. A Baltimore-born scholar with a PhD from Columbia, he has preached in Philadelphia Boston and Baltimore during earlier years. Phillip Silver, head of the community, says programs for adult Bible study Hebrew life and history will begin, aiming to foster inter faith cooperation and revitalized communal life.
High Point organizers urge residents to donate one or more books for soldiers in the Army Navy Marines or air Forces. Mrs. Nancy Kirkman Poston says the campaign has been only somewhat disappointing but groundwork is laid for broad donations with a 188 books already donated. Public libraries schools YWCA post office lobby box invite entries and names to be logged.
J Floyd Brown a Jamestown Township constable for 12 years announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Guilford County sheriff subject to the May primary. Incumbent Joe S Phipps will run again and John Storey and John Walters are expected to announce. Brown long served in Guilford County law enforcement since 1912 with Greensboro police and as deputy sheriff. He aided in captures of Edwards and Ed Clausson and now lives in High Point circuit. He pledges to serve all the people and pursue economy and substantial service.
Civilian Protection will be the topic at the second general defense course meeting on Tuesday night at 7:30 in the Senior High School Auditorium led by E. M. Knox. About 1,200 volunteers attended the first meeting, with sessions covering Fire Protection Emergency Medical Services Public Works Emergency Emergency Utilities Air Raid Wardens and Police Protection.
Students and faculty at Senior High School have contributed 64 books for the Victory Book Campaign. The student committee includes Betty Fillison, Ruth Coltrane, and Harold Craven. A decorated donation box sits in the library while announcements continue and plans to visit study halls next week for further appeals.
The High Point Rotary Club plans its annual All-American Follies on March 13 and 14 to support its crippled children’s clinic and to pay for an iron lung. Under Phil W. Grandjean, nurses from the Health Department logged 420 visits last year to crippled children, with clinics held at Health Department offices. The event aids many children to walk again and improves lives otherwise compromised. Continued on page 10-13.
Three leading Guilford County figures J Ed Millis James A Doggett and Charles Hunt announced their candidacies for county commissioner challenging incumbents George A Stansbury R Flake Shaw and J W Burke The trio bring civic leadership from High Point Greensboro and Pleasant Garden amid county political turbulence following an audit driven controversy Hunt a dairy farmer and Guilford Agriculture Board member has also served on the Haw River Soil Conservation district and Guilford draft board
Fund list shows numerous donors and amounts totaling 15041.36 with contributions from individuals and organizations including Quality Furniture Co. and Elizabeth Irving. The column reflects a second collection and mass participation in the war relief drive.
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