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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1937
Page
5
Washington reports that the federal government, already the nation’s largest landowner, may acquire millions more under pending proposals. Four agencies back expansion including purchases of poor crop land, submarginal tracts, and range land, with administration leaders in the House said to back the plan. A light year is about 6,000,000 miles.
Astronomers note that in about twelve months the sky will present every star in precisely the same arrangement as this evening. The claim highlights predictable celestial motion and long standing models of stellar steadiness.
Dr. J Morgan, chairman of the finance committee of the High Point Commission on Interracial Relations, organized and directed a recent goodwill event at St Mark M E church. He has long worked for racial harmony and civic cooperation in High Point.
The annual Every Member Canvass of Cherry Street Presbyterian Church will be held at the church after the morning service and again after the regular evening service. All members and friends are urged to attend. Palm Sunday services are at 11 o'clock with music by the Young People’s choir. Canvassers listed include C W Robinson, Mrs Ivans, A F Parker, Mrs Alice P Simpson, H R Keno, J O Morgan, Mrs Carrie H Harris, D N Moore, and many others. Attend Young People’s Meeting.
Cherry Street church attends central district meeting of the Young People's League of the Yadkin Presbytery held at St James Presbyterian Greensboro. The First Baptist spring revival begins Sunday April 4 with Lula Mae Butler Horse from Kansas City Mo conducting song services.
Masonic notes announce regular meeting of Toussaint L'Overture Lodge No 524 at Odd Fellows Hall Thursday at 8 pm led by W B Wheeler. William Penn Juniors present a play A Better Mouse Trap during assembly hour with cast including Marion Halbrook Mary A White Charles Massey and others.
Mrs Pecolia Scotton Headen hosted a birthday gathering at the Headen residence on West Green street last Sunday. Visiting children including Nathaniel Young Leola Young Ernest Moffitt Annie Laura Clem manannaway Milton Marie Edward Lee Jones Lovelle Marion Norman Seatton Harrison Annie Burton Dorf Betty Lou Jones and Thomas Carlton Headen enjoyed luncheon and games.
We thank friends for floral designs and kindness shown during illness and death of our daughter Gladys Mae Thomas. Signed Mr and Mrs James Thomas.
Mrs Maggie Parker thanks helpers during her husband John Parker’s illness and death. Special Holy Week services at St Luke's Lutheran begin Sunday March 21 with the theme Salient Sayings of Our Suffering Savior in the Days of His Passion. Each evening features a biblical saying from John chapters 12 7 14 7 16 32 18 11 and 19 11 with events from the Passion.
The Brooks Memorial M E church plans a Sunday afternoon musical program at 4 30 inviting the public. Also noted are illness updates for Miss Mary Bright and Rev D B Saulter who suffered a stroke, plus funeral plans for Miss Viola Jackson at 3 PM Monday.
Many believed barbed wire surpassed railroads in shaping the West. It ended the era of longhorn cattle and enabled purebred stock to spread. The Great Plains shifted from open range to a nation of homesteads.
The speaker reflects on his mother’s death, noting she remained devoted after their father’s departure fifty-one years ago. He describes her as everything good and beautiful, a constant friend and confidante, and laments the lack of tributes equal to his mother’s significance.
The Associated Press notes a spring push for action as the industrial sector rebounds to its fastest pace since 1929. Steel and cotton loom large, with wage boosts and higher commodity prices supporting demand while sit-downs, weather, and inflation talk temper the advance. The AP index climbs to 105.9 percent of 1929-33, aided by rail freight and retail Easter demand.
The earths axial wobble causes the twelve traditional zodiac signs to misalign with their named constellations. Each sign shifts backward thirty degrees into the neighboring western constellation, altering the astrological mapping.
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