High Point Chamber Lists 21 New Manufacturing Plants
The High Point chamber of commerce seeks info to supplement its popular directory listing 21 new manufacturing plants including Rabican, Star Upholstery, C and C Frame Works, McClosky Block, Southern Upholstery, Jer ome Hosiery, Ross-Line Furniture and others. Buyers and sellers rely on the directory. additional plants are urged to respond for inclusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Chamber of Commerce
Omber Sizemore
Ink J. Sizemore
Chamber Commerce
Sionts
Remem
Sizemore
Chamber
Rabican Manufacturing Company
Star Upholstery Company
C and C Frame Works
McClosky Concrete Block Company
Southern Upholstery Company
Clarence Coggins Comny
B and B Novelty Company
Iown and Lackey, Cecil, Inc
Young Manufacturing Company
Prospect Novelty Company
Jerome Hosiery
King and Taylor
Ross-Line Furniture Company
Big Four Easy Chair Company
Tri- City Dunbrick Company
J. R. Robins Hosiery
Syntha Chemical Company
Colonial Hosiery Mill
Jordan Machine Company
Delta Manufacturing Company
State Rejects Hamilton St. Bridge Bid
Raleigh reports the state highway and public works commission rejected the Hamilton Street overhead bridge bid in High Point as inordinate and too high after two bids. The commission notes labor and material shortages and price flux as reasons affecting bids and reiterates bids must be competitive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
State Highway and Public Works Commission
Hamilton Street
High Point
Highway Commission
Rodney Borum to Represent City in Oratorical Contest
Rodney Borum son of Mr and Mrs C M Borum Route 1 will represent the High Point division of Guilford county in the district American Legion oratorical contest at Greensboro tonight The contest joins runners from Rockingham Alamance Guilford and Caswell counties and begins at 7 30 p m at the American Legion The winner advances to a divisional contest in Asheboro on March 28 with Miss Caroline Arden the prior High Point winner as runner up
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rodney Borum
C. M. Borum
Route 1
Jamestown High School
High Point
Guilford County
American Legion
Greensboro
Person
Rockingham
Alamance
Guilford
Caswell
Young Borum
Caroline Arden
High Point High School
Asheboro
Machinery For Library Vote Set Up In City Precincts
City council designated precincts and polling places for a library tax election on April 30. Registration opens April 6 at polling places and registrars’ homes, with final deadline April 19 and challenge day April 20. Votes determine a tax of 3 to 10 cents per $100 valuation to maintain a free public library.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ardmore
Fletcher Welch
J. H. Allred
L. F. Cassell
Elm St
J. A. Davis
H. S. Ingram
R. B. Moore
Ray St
J. H. Richardson
W. C. Koontz
Daily Smith
W. H. Measle
R. Blair
J. F. Hart
Fourth St
W. J. Bennett
M. N. Cates
L. T
White Oak St
Ethel S. Jackson
J. Lawson
Cc. M. Johnson
O. E. Spencer
G. A. Kerr
L. P. Miller
Robert Martin
W. L. Brown
A. P. Saunders
Woodrow
B. W. Hackney, Jr
Gale Dowdy
Louise Edwards
Nate
S Arden
C. A. Cecil
N. Hedrick
W. Willis
S. G. Brown
J. R. Stutts
M. C. Dry
E. Green
J. C. House
E. E. Oldham
G. G. Taylor
Cloverdale
Mildred Conn
W. O. Brown
J. C. Lain
Thomasville Rotary hears high school band program
Thomasville Rotary Club members heard a musical program by the Thomasville high school band directed by Professor W B Lord at a meeting yesterday. Rev J A Neilson arranged the program. Visitors included C B Deane Rockingham C C Wall Lexington L S Richards and Sommers Richards White Plains N Y Edgar Hartley Kermit Clonninger High Point Dr R L McDonald Gilbert Ragan and Dr Joseph May. D A Long Jr presided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
W. B. Lord
Rotary Club
J. A. Neilson
C. B. Deane
Rockingham
C. C. Wall
Lexington
L. S. Richards
Sommers Richards
White Plains
N. Y
Edgar Hartley
Kermit Clonninger
High Point
R. L. McDonald
Gilbert Ragan
Joseph May
D. A. Long, Jr
Lemons Sues For Divorce From Fannie Mitchell Lemons
John T. Lemons filed a divorce suit against Fannie Mitchell Lemons claiming two years of separation as the basis for dissolution of their marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John T. Lemons
Fannie Mitchell Lemons
Local Man Named Captain of Rocket Defense Project
Wilbur Pritchard of High Point has been appointed officer in charge of the White Sands Project at Alamogordo New Mexico. The effort tests radar and tracking to intercept V-2 rockets and other missiles before reaching targets. Major Pritchard, trained at North Carolina State College, will supervise radar installations beginning early April.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilbur Pritchard
H. Pritchard
High Point
Alamogordo Air Base
New Mexico
White Sands Project
Major Pritchard
Watson Laboratories
Air Material Command
Red Bank
New Jersey
Ordnance Division
Army
White Sands
Prit
North Carolina State College
Headquarters
AAF
Washington
Fireman William Haines 63 Dies After Six Week Illness
William Haines longtime High Point fire department member and head of No. 2 station since 1928 died at a local hospital after a six week illness. He was born March 11 1883 in Guilford County and married Bessie Richardson in 1906. Surviving are his wife six children three brothers two sisters and three grandchildren. Funeral at First Evangelical Reformed church Friday at 2 PM with burial in Oakwood cemetery. Body to be returned to residence on South Hamilton street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Haines
High Boint
Capt. Long
Guilford County
Abner
Beulah Farrington Long
Bessie Richardson
Abner Long
Richmond
Grady Comer
Portsmouth
Robert Long
June Kivett
Faye Long
High Point
John Long
Ruffin Long
Lucian Long
J. G. Leonard
G. W. Myers
First Evangelical Reformed Church
Guilford Council
United American Mechanics
Dispatcher Cleared of Blame in Adams-Millis Fire Call
Fire Chief Eli K. Ingram absolved dispatcher Robert B. Hoskins of fault after reviewing a storm related incident at the Adams-Millis plant on English street. With the switchboard down, Hoskins notified the city electrician and Duke Power and reported a transformer fire, saying no other fires were on record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eli K. Ingram
Adams-Millis
English Street
Ingram
Roy S. Braden
Robert B. Hoskins
Hoskins
City Electrician
Duke Power Company
Telephone Company
Adams- Millis
Signal Corps
Thomasville Club Selects Speakers for Fall Winter Series
The Talk of the Month club in Thomasville named Ely Culbertson Dorothy Fuldheim and Whiting Williams as fall winter speakers. 225 members were recorded. Clara Harrison received nylon hose for leading membership efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Ely Culbertson
Dorothy Fuldheim
Whiting Williams
Culbertson
America
Williams
Clara Harrison
R. L. Pope
W. E. Tomlinson
John R. Perry
Romulus Skaggs
Dolan Calhoun
Julius Green
J. C. Pennington
Cleta Rich
Margaret McLeod
G. E. Crowell
Parking Fees Change Feet Walked in Detroit Study
A Detroit study shows drivers walk an average of 820 feet when paying a dime, 680 feet at 30 cents, 750 feet at 40 cents, 710 feet at 50 cents, and 440 feet at 70 cents. The data highlight how increasing parking fees reduce walking distance to destinations downtown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
INS
Sister of Mrs. J. P. Rawley Dies in Charlotte
Mrs. L. A. Bailey of Charlotte, sister of Mrs. J. P. Rawley, died of a heart attack at her Cottage Place home in Charlotte early today. Funeral services are set for 11 o'clock tomorrow at Harry Bryant Funeral Home on Tryon Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. A. Bailey
Charlotte
J. P. Rawley
Cottage Place
Harry Byrant
Tryon Street
Adams-Millis Company Declares Dividend
Adams-Millis announces a 50 cents per share quarterly dividend and re elects all officers at the annual meeting. J E Millis is president with H D Jobe R M Bundy and T Linwood Smith as vice presidents. Smith named a new director. other directors reelected include H D Jobe J E Millis Elizabeth B Adams H A Millis and T C Langley. Cancer strikes young as well as old. Cancer will kill nearly 2000 children under 21 this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams Millis
J. E. Millis
H. D. Jobe
R. M. Bundy
T. Linwood Smith
Elizabeth B. Adams
H. A. Millis
T. C. Langley
Jamestown Freight Derailment Delays Rail Traffic
A 64 car southbound freight derailed at Jamestown at 1 55 am blocking both tracks for six hours. Twelve cars toppled, seven loaded with logs, one with fertilizer and another with tobacco stems. No injuries. rail repairs and rerouted service continued into morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ED Lewis
Jamestown
Winston-Salem
Greensboro
Salisbury
J. T. Moon
Southern Railway Company
Oakdale Road
High Point
Sam H. Strickland
Atlanta
Greensro
Four Greensboro area candidates seek Guilford House seats
Representatives Robert F. Mosely and Shelley B. Caveness of Greensboro announce renomination bids for the May Democratic primary joining Clyde A. Shreve of Summerfield and Walter Crissman of High Point who already seek re nomination. The field tightens as Mosely and Caveness bring prior service and leadership roles in veterans' legislation and mill affairs to the race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert F. Mosely
Shelley B. Caveness
Greensboro
Clyde A. Shreve
Summerfield
Guilford County
Walter Crissman
High Point
Frank Hutton
Mosely
House
Greens
Caveness
Fountain Announces Tarboro Democratic Date
L H Fountain reading clerk of the state senate announced a Democratic date for Edgecombe county's late post during the 1938 39 and 41 sessions in Tarboro March 21.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tarboro
L. H. Fountain
Reading
State Senate
Edgecombe County
Warner wins Pittsburgh chemistry award for wartime work
Dr. John C. Warner, research professor at Carnegie Institute of Technology, receives the 1945 Pittsburgh award for outstanding service in chemistry. The bronze plaque honors his atomic bomb related research, presented at a dinner sponsored by the American Chemical Society Pittsburgh section.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
INS
John C. Warner
Carnegie Institute of Technology
American Chemical Society
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hamilton St
Ancey
Northampton
Vance
Nath
Wake
Cabarrus
Wilkes
Alleghany
Cherokee
Haywood
Camden
Currituck
Pasquotank
Durham
Chard
Thomasville Club
Adams-Millis Company
Torney
N. C. State Guard
Shreve
The
Sto
State Farm Bureau
Guilford Wildlife Club
Eversharp
Parker
Elwood Hotel
Zipro
Fisi
Ronson
Wagger
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!