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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1950
Page
6
The Garden Gate garden club met at Chestnut street with Mrs Clyde Jones presiding. Mrs T J Beam spoke on conservation outlining natural resources and human resources and noted NC Garden club programs and upcoming contests and events.
Miss Bennett, bride elect of Baxter Port of Winston Salem area, was feted at Hillcrest Manor with a morning party hosted by Mrs William R McKenzie. Guests included Sara Coe Hunsucker Jean Hardin and out of town attendees Mrs Tom A Finch Anne Barber. further luncheons at Emerywood Country Club and club events were scheduled for the day and next.
James R. Mattocks gave an informative talk on birds at the Green Acre Garden Club meeting held at Mrs. Harry Lee Lam's West Bay Street home. He discussed bird species, migration, habitat, and noted more birds in High Point now than in the past. a new slate of officers was elected for fall duties.
Mrs E R Anderson was elected president of the Tuesday Afternoon Garden Club at a meeting hosted by Mrs F L Gordy at her Montlieu home with 24 members and 3 guests. The slate to be installed in September includes Marvin Shields as vice president J W Johnson as secretary L W Hooker as treasurer and H D Minnis presiding.
The Junior Service League met at the Adams Memorial YWCA to hear progress on the city schools speech therapy classes. Sixty eight children receive therapy, with six colored and sixty two white, ages six to 18, from twelve of thirteen High Point schools. Margaret Neely heads the therapy program and classes are at the Junior high school basement. The annual meeting is set for Friday April 14 at Emerywood Country Club.
Miss Wincie Cagle, the bride to be, was honored Sunday with a lingerie shower after a canasta gathering at the Gold Room of Borden's. High scores went to Mrs Howard Horney and John Banks as guests toasted the upcoming wedding to N L Bowman Jr. with Shamrock decor and a white sweet pea corsage.
The YWCA Business and Professional club met with president Miss Helen Betts presiding. Miss Elizabeth Hedrick presented a program of musical pictures. Betts and Marjorie Welborn will represent the club at the interstate conference in Charlotte March 18 and 19. Guest Miss Margaret Carter of High Point college attended.
Altrusa club members Miss Marcella Carter and Mrs. Alice Gorman were welcomed as full members during a dinner at the Sheraton Hotel attended by twenty five. Miss Hazel Johnson chaired with Jessie May Young Sarah Holmes and Dorothy Ward assisting. The ceremony stressed Altrusa principles and ideals and included distribution of constitutions by laws and handbooks. A Raleigh banquet plans were outlined and a Greensboro letter backing Mrs Erns tine Milner for vice governor was approved. The High Point club will observe Altrusa birthday April 12 with Salisbury Greensboro and Winston-Salem clubs joining at the Thomasville Woman's club.
The Mothers Prayer Band will meet tomorrow at 2 30 PM with Mrs Edna Weaver at 109 Wall Street led by Mrs Will Sexton. The Men's Catholic Club of the Immaculate Heart of Mary church hosts a St Patrick's benefit party Thursday evening for the public in the church recreation hall on Montlieu Avenue. A loose contact point on breaker points causes an engine to miss.
Mr and Mrs Joe Brown moved yesterday to 913 English Street from the Gantt apartments where they lived since their marriage. Murray Cooke son of Dr and Mrs Dennis H Cooke visits with family at 821 West College Drive during spring break from UNC. Mrs James C Grissom of 407 West Bay Street is hospitalized with satisfactory condition after surgery. Mrs Cletus Kennedy Route 5 remains hospitalized at Boulev ard unit of High Point Memorial Hospital but now allowed visitors.
At a Cleveland convention two ideas were offered to help poor women wear corsages with strapless gowns. William Guy proposed a neck medallion with a single flower on a silver cord. Mrs. Tommy Bright described a corsage with built in wire to hang from the dress and support weight to prevent sagging. Two thirds of red bean seed production occurs in Twin Falls county Idaho. about 10 000 tons of kapok fiber are used for American mattresses.
Mr and Mrs Thomas C Lamar announce the birth of a son on March 9 at St Luke s hospital New Bern The mother is Constance Zaytoun of New Bern and the father a former High Point resident Also noted is the Johnsons announcement of Lewis M Jr born March 11 at Boulevard unit High Point Memorial Hospital. Louisiana accounts for about two thirds of US shrimp catch.
Curfews were used as signals for townspeople to extinguish fires to protect timber cities, a practice noted in the Encyclopaedia Britannica as a response to fire threats in such communities.
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