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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1947
Page
3
Weekend gifts totaling over 2000 dollars were reported by Mrs. Jesse Washburn as part of a drive to fund Bible instruction in local schools. The committee seeks 10000 dollars to hire four Bible teachers and asks residents to donate through churches or the fund treasurer Harry Williamston on Johnson Street.
Aantarctic geography note states the continent covers more than five million square miles. The claim highlights vast area but lacks corroborating data in the fragment.
Raleigh March 11 A bill to establish a two year Negro medical school linked to North Carolina College at Durham seeks $800000 in state funds. Representative Larry Burgin of Henderson county backs separate facilities arguing for constitutional fairness and to avoid mixing races at Chapel Hill.
The Guilford county gospel singing convention will take place Sunday March 16 at Colfax school starting at 2 p.m. Gospel singers are invited to participate in the singing with Carl Ham president in charge.
Rupert L. Moore 40, former High Point resident, died Sunday in Greenville S C. He is survived by his wife Mable Moore High Point his parents K W More Ethel five sisters and four brothers. Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow from the Ether Christian church and interment will follow in the church cemetery.
A 19 year old girl named Julia Patrick spotted a wrecked patrol car on Buffalo streets and used the police radio to report the accident. The car had been stolen while its owner investigated a burn and officers were searching for it.
Nassau column notes many seek island ownership off Florida but few succeed. Islands range 2000 to 50000 dollars and demand heavy upkeep. Building water power and transportation pose major challenges, plus isolation. John T. McCutcheon, Chicago Tribune cartoonist, lives on Treasure Island near Nassau for winter respite.
A Greenville grand jury was to be asked to indict 31 men named in a blanket warrant as members of an armed mob that abducted Willie Earle from the Pickens county jail before sunrise on Feb 17. Earle, 24, was found later with a shotgun wound and stab wounds on a country road. He had been arrested the night before in connection with the robbery and stabbing of a Greenville taxi driver who died.
Wake Forest officials anticipate occupancy of a new dormitory on the northeast campus by early fall. The building, originally planned as a men’s dorm, will house women due to proximity to other female dorms. Estimated cost around 600000, with progress advancing though slate shortages. The Greenland ice cap reaches over one and a half miles thick.
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