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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1961
Page
11
The Friendship area reports an end to summer-like warmth with scattered showers and possible storms this afternoon. A high of 65 today gives way to a low around 40 tonight, with wind and clearing skies. Tomorrow remains partly cloudy and cold with a 48 degree high. The five day outlook shows near normal temperatures and light rain.
James Edward Morgan was bound over to Superior Court on a felonious hit and run charge after fleeing a wreck leaving his injured companion James Lamb. The Feb 24 crash at Montlieu and Main injured Lamb, with Gerald R. Zimmerman unhurt. Police estimated $375 total vehicle damage and traced Morgan to a nearby residence.
Raymond C. Hallett of Jacksonville will speak at a High Point Life Underwriters Assn meeting at the YMCA tomorrow at 12 15 p m. He is director of agencies in Prudential Insurance Co of America's South Central offices.
Three fire trucks responded to Bray Electric Co on 195 S Centennial Ave at 8 15 a m for a storage room fire in the mezzanine that spread to the attic but did not burn through the roof. Heavy smoke filled the building and the room suffered heavy fire damage along with destroyed electrical supplies. Investigators seek the cause while another hospital sprinkler alarm triggered at 9 04 a m due to a sprinkler system failure.
Thomasville Davidson County Board of Education Chairman D W Mc Culloch and County Schools Superintendent FE Lawson Brown will speak at the Pilot Grove Boosters Club meeting tomorrow night. Boosters president Carroll Beusse urged full attendance for the 7 00 p.m. program in the Pilot School auditorium.
A Court of Honor will be held Thursday at 7 30 PM at First Baptist Church for Boy Scout Troop 3. Award and merit badge recipients include Richard Bullard Rusty Forest Charles Bowers and Steve Lasine.
High Point Mayor Jess Washburn joked to President Kennedy that the city is ahead of the nation’s leader in economic stimulus through municipal construction. He cited $6.45 million under contract and plans to sell $4 million in bonds to fund early contracts for water sewer and electrical projects including fire stations and a new sewage plant.
The Thomasville bank's board of directors voted a quarterly dividend of 10 cents per share on stock of the First National Bank. The dividend is regular and payable to stockholders of record. George D. Finch, president of the First National, presided over the meeting.
Fair Grove firefighters extinguished a trailer blaze owned by Odell Welborn on Highway 62. Alarm at 8 p.m. drew 35 firefighters. Estimated damages about 200 dollars. Cause believed to be faulty wiring.
Mrs Clara Mae McGuire won $1000 in Small Claims Court seeking double indemnity for the death of son Marvin Booster McGuire after a 1959 arrest near Lexington. The insurer Pilot Life defended that the head injuries were not accidental. an appeal was filed.
Five Republican candidates headed by Lawrence H. Hancock filed fees to run in May as Democrats react with caution. The slate includes Rob ert D. Davis James H. Eagle Floyd D. Mehan and James A. Stanley for City Council and vows a two plank platform opposing the annexation program and urging a two party system. A GOP rally at the county building drew a small crowd with absent prominent Republicans.
A GOP slate unveiled last night lists two retired glass company workers a milling firm executive an insurance executive and an industrialist for city offices. Notable names include Hancock Davis Eagles Mehan and Stanley with backgrounds in manufacturing finance education and public service. Hancock the mayoral candidate is 66 a retired Pittsburgh Plate Glass veteran and community trustee.
The county board of elections named a city board for two years with Mrs. Hunter Dalton and J. Alton Stanford as holdovers and James Hayworth replacing Paul Clapp as Republican member. Arthur Utley Jr. announced the appointments. The new board will meet to elect officers for the biennium.
Jamestown Rotary members heard a district report from Winston-Salem at a club meeting. William Saunders introduced Ralph Davis who presented survey results on employer employee relations and the club's relations committee. New members Bill Stamey and Vic Griffin were welcomed. visiting Rotarians included George Davis Jess Taylor Jim Ruark and Jack Sharpe.
Police investigate the theft of a $15 raincoat from the Sheraton Hotel lobby at 10 30 a m yesterday. Joe Honeycut of Sunset Drive reported the incident.
Citizens raise funds to bring the North Carolina Symphony to High Point for two free children concerts and one adult show in April. The drive to cover the local share lags behind, threatening no free concerts for High Point children this year.
Grace Loucks Elliott former general secretary of the National YWCA will headline the annual meeting at Adams Memorial YWCA Thursday at 6 30 p m Her career includes leading wartime mobilization and USO work and recent posts in Lebanon Wells College Beirut and travel in Pakistan She will address Never Underestimate the Power of a Woman and be introduced by Miss Dot Gueth.
A Wilmette minister Charles M. Crowe offers a prayer asking Heavenly Father for kinship, dependence for deeper life, and healing comfort. He asks mercy for those who have turned away from God and seeks honest bravery in daily life through Jesus' name.
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