Balboa trip notes and local civic scenes
Roaming through Balboa Panama High Pointers recall Broadway style sightings as a banner reading Hear Haggai prompts reflections on Rev Tom Haggai. Articles recount earthquakes in South America and school art displays at Ragsdale High with Lance moments from Wesley Memorial services and local civic chatter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Broadway
Balboa
Canal Zone
Panama
Flendy Gwe
Meevuy
Snow
Haggai
Grady
Earth
PTA
Jamestown
Kenneth Miller
Lucy Oliver
Ragsdale High School
Rose Corum
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
Ralph W. Lockman
C. C. Herbert Jr
Wesley Memorial
Emily Crowe
Polly Bingham
Realty Transfers High Point Township and Raleigh Area
Real estate transfers include William Johnston Spillers and wife to John R. Spillers Jr. and wife a parcel from Edward L. Grimsley property. Sanders Raleigh Abbott and wife to Globe Furniture Co. two Park Street tracts. Marshall M. Short and wife to R A Phipps and wife a Wendover Hills lot, and reverse transfer. Jack B. Cook to Virginia R. Cook two Northview Heights lots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point Township
William Johnston Spillers
John R. Spillers Jr
Edward L. Grimsley
Sanders Raleigh Abbott
Globe Furniture Co
Park Street
R. A. Phipps
Marshall M. Short
Wendover Hills
Marshal M. Short
Sallie J. Smith
Jack B. Cook
Virginia R. Cook
Northview Heights
Sassafras Leaves Show Three Shapes on One Twig
The sassafras tree exhibits three leaf shapes on a single twig with some leaves unlobed and others bearing two or three lobes. This variation occurs on individual branches.
Death Valley Secrets Reported Near Abbotts Creek
Enterprise staff recounts Death Valley near Abbotts Creek in Davidson County where locals speak of unexplained deaths and alleged bootlegging raids. Interviews with sheriff's deputies, former officers, and residents describe train wrecks, poison whisky, and mysterious fatalities at the trestle and creek bank, with few definite details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fay Everhart
Death Valley
Raymond Bowers
Homer Lee Cox
Frank Miller
Lexington
Florida
Superior Court
Sheriff's Department
Embler
G. M. McCoy
Southern Railway
Death Valley Crossing
Death Valley Road
Lexington Gas Plant
McCoy
Longview Road
Davidson County
Snowbird Cherokees Build Water System In Smoky Mountains
A Cherokee work group from the Snowbird Community Club, with federal help, digs and lays out spring-fed water lines and reservoirs for 26 systems serving 47 homes on the Snowbird Reservation near Robbinsville North Carolina. Led by PHS sanitarian Edmund Youngbird and engineer Lawrence Perez Jr the volunteers dig wells clear springs and construct concrete reservoir walls throughout winter.
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Robbinsville
N.C
China
Snowbird Community Club
U.S. Public Health Service
Snowbird Reservation
Smoky Mountains
Graham County
North
Carolna
Jesse Crowe
Crowe
PHS
Edmund Youngbird
Cherokee Indian Hospital
Public Health Service
Lawrence J. Perez Jr
Perez
Ade
Jackson
Ammons Rattler
Rattler
Youngbirds
Also Mentioned on This Page
Braxton
Bill Ragsdale
Miller
Sukie
Bob Conner
American Assn. of
Philadelphia
Conner
Sheraton Hotel
George Covington
Chamber of Commerce
Wright
Terra Firma
Forestdale
Thomasville
Memorial Park
C. L. McGee
High Point-Wallburg Road
Wake Forest
St. John's
Smith Reynolds Airport
Newark
McGee
North Carolina
Piedmont
Washington
Twin City
Sassafras
Spinner
Bonnie Moore
Snowbird
Bob Seymour
Clarence Jackson
Youngbird
James M. Nicholson
Wake Forest College
College
Baptist State Convention
South
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