Community clubs outline weekly schedule for meetings
A dense weekly calendar lists dozens of local clubs and societies meeting across Monday to Friday. Groups include Pioneer Council No 52, Woodmen Circle, Junior League, Garden Clubs, DAR Alexander Martin Chapter, Altrusa, Junior Musical Art Club, B-Sharp Music Club, Catesby Bird Club, Union Hill Home Demonstration, Burbank Garden Club, Junior and Senior Woman's Clubs, Twenty Century Study Club, Friendly Garden Club, Weed n Win Garden Club, Business and Professional Woman's Club, Out-To-Grow Garden Club, American Legion Auxiliary, Friday Music Study Club, Philomathan Club, and Sunset Garden Club with dates, hosts, and venues noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
YWCA
High Point Garden Club
S. H. Tomlinson
William L. Hamnet
Alexander Martin
DAR
John Peacock
Johnson Street
Joe W. Johnson
Chestnut Street
J. W. Welch
E. E. Younts
Altrusa Club
Sheraton Hotel
Musical Art Club
Margaret Slate
Brentley Circle
B-Sharp Musical Art Club
Rebecca Farabee
Wallburg Road
Catesby Bird Club
James Mattocks
C. B. Mattocks
Union Hill
Claude Mooney
Kivett Drive
L. L. Grant
W. R. Grant
R. H. Sechrest
Burbank
Otteray Drive
Jamestown
I. H. Mathews
Weed ‘N Win
Worth Wicke
Centennial Avenue
Ed Thrower
Homer Hudson
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Home
Dessert Bridge Honors Bride-Elect Miss Jane Beam
Mrs Alman Butler hosted a dessert bridge and canasta for Miss Jane Beam on Sunset Drive. Green and yellow decor featured jonquils and Dutch iris with an electric percolator prize for Miss Beam. Beam will wed Audrey C Hollar Jr in April at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church. Frances Kendrick, maid of honor, for another postwedding event at Greensboro restaurant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Beam
Alman Butler
Sunset Drive
Evelyn Nance
Frances Kendrick
Beam
Audrey C. Hollar, Jr
Mt. Holly
Wesley Memorial
Mrs Dittendal To Entertain Club
The L Amusante Club will meet with Mrs John Dittendal at her Edgedale home tomorrow evening at eight o clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Dittendal
L'Amusante Club
John Dittendal
Edgedale
Ada Blair P-TA to Meet Tomorrow Evening
The Ada Blair P-TA will meet tomorrow at 7 30 p m in the school auditorium. City firemen will present a program on Fire Safety. All parents and interested patrons are invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada Blair
Dr Hutson to be P TA speaker at Tomlinson School
The Charles F. Tomlinson School P TA will meet tomorrow night at 7 30 in the school auditorium. Dr Harold H Hutson will be guest speaker on the topic Can Character Be Taught.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hutson
Charles F. Tomlinson
Harold H. Hutson
Y W C A Weekly Activities Schedule
Y W C A list of events from Tuesday to Saturday includes Jr Hi Y Teen clubs meetings Wiener Roast at 6 00 pm and various swim classes and social events for school girls and young adults with times ranging 4 15 to 8 30 pm and a Saturday dance at 7 30 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jr. Hi
Inter Club Council
YMCA
Sr. Hi
Local residents visit NC State student and report on others
Mr. and Mrs. John B. Williams visit their son Johnny at North Carolina State College in Raleigh. Mrs. A. R. Kinnery remains hospitalized after surgery with improved condition and potential visitors. Irvin Lee Johnson Jr returns home on a 14 day leave after boat training in San Diego. Mrs. George Curry moves from High Point Memorial Hospital to her sister’s home to recover from injuries. Others arrive for visits or return from Roanoke and Wake Forest College students Joann Green and Nancy Monroe spend the weekend with parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John B. Williams
Westwood
North Carolina State College
Raleigh
Johnny
A. R. Kinnery
Montlieu Avenue
Irvin Lee Jonson, Jr
Irvin Johnson
English Street
San Diego
Calif
George Curry
Homestead Avenue
High Point Memorial Hospital
T. R. Zimmerman
West Farriss Avenue
C. J. Bales
Carl Cosner
Michael
Summit, N. J
And
Worth J. Wicke
Centenmial Avenue
Joann Green
Nancy Monroe
Wake Forest College
Open House Honors Miss Ethyel Burr and George Surratt
Daniel's Home on Montlieu Avenue hosted an Open House for bride elect Miss Ethyel Burr and her fiancé George Surratt. About 40 guests, including relatives from Hastings Michigan Mebane and Denton, greeted the couple during the three to five visit. The event featured yellow flowers yellow orchids a love ly arrangement and light refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel's
Ethyel Burr
George Surratt
Clyde A. Daniels
Montlieu Avenue
Hastings
Michigan
Franklin G. Surratt
Frank Surratt, Jr
Harold Surratt
John D. Milliken
Mebane
Norman Johnson
Denton
High School Sorority Reform Sparks Student Stand
In Birmingham Shades Valley High three leaders Barbara, Leah Marie Rawls, and Charles Kidd challenge sorority impacts on school life. Barbara says vows to curb cruelty and elitism, while Charles notes peers’ focus on social life over school activities. Principal Peake says reforms begun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Kara Brown
Leah Maria Rawls
Charles Kidd
Shades Valley High School
Barbara
Charles
Leah Marie
F. A. Peake
Peake
Junior League Meeting Set at YWCA
The Junior League will hold its regular monthly meeting tomorrow at ten o'clock at the YWCA. Speakers include Miss Carolyn Reed and Mrs. Sylvia Stenhouse, speech therapists in City schools, discussing Progress a cue Therapist Program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
YWCA
Carolyn Reed
Sylvia Stenhouse
Speec
Cosmetologists To Meet Tomorrow For Hair Demonstration
The High Point Cosmetologists Association will meet tomorrow night at 7 at the Beauty School. A Claire Company technician will demonstrate corrective work on problem hair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point Cosmetologists Association
Claire Company
Joseph L. Styers Dies in Forsyth County
Joseph L. Styers retired building contractor of Rural Hall died suddenly at his home Saturday evening. He was born near Rural Hall in 1878 and lived most of his life there. Survivors include his wife Martha Covington Styers two sons Reginald of High Point and Ronald of Rural Hall one daughter Mrs Robert Hernandez of Rural Hall and one grandchild. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday Nazareth Lutheran Church Rural Hall with burial in the church cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winston-Salem
Joseph L. Styers
Rural Hall
Reginald Styers
High Point
Greensboro
Mr. Styers
Martha Covington Styers
Robert Hernandez
Ronald Styers
Nazareth Lutheran Church
Eastern Star Chapter to Elect Officers for 1953 54
High Point Chapter No. 106 of the Order of the Eastern Star will hold its regular meeting at 7 30 p m Tuesday in the Masonic Temple. The session will elect officers for 1953 and 1954 and all members are urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Order of the Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
Nurses Oppose State Senate Bill Targeting Nurse Board
High Point nurses plan a 7 30 p.m. meeting in a hospital classroom to discuss Senate Bill 258 abolishing the State Board of Nurse Examiners. Miss Lucy Lopp says the move would shift control to a governor appointed board, raise school fees, and hurt small hospital training. protests have occurred in Davidson and Randolph Counties within District 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Senate
North Carolina
Miss Lopp
State Board of Nurse Examiners
Presbyterian Home Resident Dies at 73 in Charlotte
Mrs. J. O. Earnhardt 73, resident of the Presbyterian Home for the Aged since February 16 1952, died Saturday at Memorial Hospital after a stroke. Born Bertha Je in Wilkes County she moved to Mecklenburg County in 1903 and lived there before moving to Charlotte. Survived by daughter Mrs James H Anderson Raleigh and two sons J J Earnhardt Charlotte and E S Earnhardt Thomasville. Funeral at 3 p m today from Lag an Presbyterian Church Charlotte with Rev Leslie Thompson and Rev Harold Robinson officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. O. Earnhardt
Charlotte
Presbyterian Home For the
Memorial Hospital
Bertha Je
Wilkes County
Mecklenburg County
James H. Anderson Raleigh
J. J. Earnhardt
E. S. Earnhardt
Thomasville
Lagan Presbyterian Church
Earnhardt
Leslie Thompson
Harold Robinson
Hamlin Briggs Attends National Tobacco Meeting in Atlantic City
Hamlin Briggs of this city will spend the week of March 15 in Atlantic City New Jersey for the 21st annual coming of age convention of the National Association of Tobacco Distributors NATD. The group supplies about 5000 items from 51 manufacturers to 1 300 000 retail outlets nationwide. Briggs with Piedmont Cigar Co will join discussions to keep manufacturers and wholesalers aligned with a distributive revolution strengthening independent retailers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamlin Briggs
Atlantic City
N. J
National Association of Tobacco Distributors
NATD
Piedmont Cigar Co
Firefighters tackle burning cross-tie on South Hamilton Street
City firemen were called yesterday afternoon to chop away part of a burning cross-tie of the Southern Railroad in the 300 block of South Hamilton Street. The cause was undetermined. Firemen also answered a 3:45 a.m. call to extinguish a grass fire on a back lot at 1609 North Hamilton Street.
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Southern Railroad
Hamilton Street
North
Four area students named to Duke spring Dean’s List
Duke University in Durham announced 495 students named to the Dean’s List for spring 1953. From the local area: Robert L. Ladehoff and Royster M. Tucker of High Point, Nancy Jean Gray of Thomasville, and Marcia R. Drake of Ashe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke University
Durham
Robert L. Ladehoff
Royster M. Tucker
High Point
Nancy Jean Gray
Thomasville
Marcia R. Drake
Ashe
Local Airman Killed In Georgia Accident
T Sgt Thamon John Hicks Jr 22 of 210 Beddington Road died Sunday around 12 30 in Elberton Georgia from injuries in an auto crash He was born January 21 1931 in High Point He joined the Air Force in 1948 and served in the Far East and England He was stationed at Hunter AFB Savannah Ga Surviving are his mother five brothers two sisters and a father The body will be returned to High Point for funeral services and burial Time and place to be announced
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thamon John Hicks, Jr
Beddington Road
Elberton
High Point
T. J. Hicks
Grace Chastain Hicks
Hart County
High Point High School
U. S. Air Force
Far East
Cpl
Sam Hicks
U. S. Army
Korea
Pfc
Jule Hicks
Marine Corps
Jacksonville
Fla
T. J. Hicks, Sr
Hartwell, Ga
S. J. Chastain
Emma Hayworth Dies at 66 in Leaksville Home
Mrs Emma Redman Hayworth 66 of 2605 English Street Extension died at her home this morning around 7 In declining health since November 1952 she was born January 16 1887 in Stokes County daughter of William and Nannie Redman and widow of Wil lan E Hayworth who died in 1944 She was a Primitive Baptist Church member in Leaksville survived by a daughter Mrs Dexter Welborn of High Point two sisters Mrs Bethel Sherwood and Mrs Robert Smith and a brother N D Redman Funeral plans not definite but services likely Wednesday with entombment in Memorial Park Mausoleum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Redman Hayworth
English Street
Hayworth
Stokes County
William
Nannie Redman
Willan E
Bill) Hayworth
Primitive Baptist Church
Leaksville
Dexter Welborn
High Point
Bethel Sherwood
Robert Smith
N. D. Redman
Memorial Park Mausoeum
Church Bible Class Set to Meet Tomorrow Evening
The Reaper's Bible Class will gather tomorrow at 7 30 p m with Mrs B B Redding at 225 Jay Avenue. Secret pals will be revealed at this meeting. Mrs Hamilton to host Faithful Worker's Class meets tonight at 7 30 at Mrs E H Hamilton's Archdale home. The Phi Lathea Class meets at 7 30 at Mrs J D Cabe Route 1 Guilford eyc. The Susanna by A Class Archdale Methodist meets Thursday at 7 30 at Mrs P L White Archdale with hostesses G W Powell W C Lowe and G L Miller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reaper
B. B. Redding
Jay Avenue
Hamilton
Green Street
Archdale
New Light Patterns Elevate Vintage Bathroom Tile
Old baths gain fresh appeal with light colored rubber tile patterns. Designers extend the floor color to wallpaper to harmonize from tile to ceiling, creating a cohesive, airy space.
Also Mentioned on This Page
N. C
Actwities
Madeline Hoover
Pioneer Council No. 52
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Commerce Street
Woodmen
Www. O. W
Sidney Gayle
A. B. Huff
Robert Cameron
W. C. Idol
Philomathan Club
Hillcrest Drive
Sunset Garden Club
Vernon Peace
Trinity
Buren Andrews
Paris
Manguin
Griffe
Germaine Lecomte
Pierre Balmain
Rosette Hargrove
NEA
Golden
Col Sek Ellis
Collier Ellis & Co
North Wrenn
P-Ja News
Lydia
Lydia Pinkham
VLAN
C. H. McLaughin
Willow Drive
Roanoke
Guy Brewer
Westchester Drive
Ray Wright, Sr
Greensboro Road
Joseph Styers
Forsyth County
Presbyterian Home
Tobacco
Boone Coal & Fuel
English St
Georgia
Emma Hayworth
Wesley
DR. Drake
Eckerd’s, Mann’s & Druggiste
Monark
DuPont
Monark Shade Co
N. Main
Hospital Care Association
Wright
Beltone Hewiing Cid Service
Wright Building
Christine B. Grantham
Beltone
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