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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1949
Page
5
State Representative O A Kirkman said he would not introduce a local bill for a staggered term city council in High Point. He noted no rush to pass it, citing potential political issues in May elections and opposition from civic clubs, with a later introduction possible.
Paris reports the coalition government led by Premier Henri Queuille gaining the edge as Cantonal elections tally shows government parties with 1.38 million votes of 4.0 million counted, the Communists second in total vote but fewer offices, De Gaulle’s RPF holding 171 seats.
Percy Payne Jr. of High Point College will direct the 1949 Student Talent Show at High Point High School. The show runs April 1 and 2 in the school auditorium with student cast and volunteer crews from all classes. Jon Barnes Dewey Greer and J Henford helped draft the script with early February revisions.
Sunday services across Christian Science Churches centered on the theme Matter. The Golden Text from Jeremiah 3 23 cites salvation in the Lord. Psalms 97 5 notes hills melting before the Lord as the whole earth’s presence. Eddy’s Science and Health emphasizes Spirit omnipotence omnipresence and omniscience refuting matter as actual.
Born in Evansville Indiana on September 1 1900 she toured the world from child performer to Biegfeld Follies star. She appeared at the Lotus club in London and Winter Garden New York and married Jack Pickford. Her final role was Sally in the musical comedy Sally. She died in April 1936.
By Lulian Campbell Central Press Writer notes a Rhodes scholar 1910 13 who edited national magazines and U S newspapers. His early popular books include The Haunted Bookshop and Parnassus on Wheels and Kitty Foyle inspired the film with Ginger Rogers winning an Academy Award.
Dictionary note defines gregarious as a noun describing a flock herd or community inclined to herd together with Latin origin from gregarius.
A concise reflection on the saying that man is a thinking reed, highlighting Blaise Pascal's view of human fragility coupled with intellect.
A brief historic note lists the birth of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach in 1685 and Russian composer Modeste Mussorgsky in 1835, alongside Bowling Green in New York City being set aside as a public park.
Former Senator C. Douglas Buck of Delaware marks a birthday anniversary today.
Marine Sergeant Bruce Hunsberger will be in the naval recruiting offices in the Post Office building on Monday Wednesday and Friday this week. Emphasis is on 18 year olds for one year enlistments and on the reenlistment of reserves.
The Macedonia Church of the Living God announces cottage prayer meetings for the coming week at 1802 Old Trinity Road Tuesday 7 p m and 1014 Grace Street Thursday 7 p m and 1026 Grace Street Saturday 7 p m. Bible school is Wednesday at 7 p m at 1105 Lake Street.
Jack Cook of Thomasville was in jail this morning without charge in connection with the February 15 break in at Watson's Mobile Station here. The case involves a nighttime entry and remains under investigation by local authorities.
A Seaboard Air Line Silver Comet struck an automobile at a grade crossing 18 miles south of Raleigh. The train continued on with about three hour delay and one passenger injured. The driver reportedly left the car on the tracks for help.
Police seized pure cocaine valued at 1.95 million dollars and arrested three alleged narcotics ring members Ralph Lopez 32 John Lopez 38 and Jose Gonzales 28. A detective posing as a chambermaid helped gather evidence with janitor cooperation. All three were arraigned and held on illegal possession charges.
The United States Civil Service announces an employment examination for substitute Clerk Carrier at the Sophia Post Office. Applicants report for a written test at 8:30 a.m. April 7. Local secretary W. T. Winslow says full information and applications are available now.
A group of southern Democrats seeks House support for a substitute that raises the minimum wage from 40 to 65 cents an hour while keeping the rest of the wage-hour law unchanged. The move follows a meeting that included two labor committee members as the administration bill faces rules committee clearance.
In Maryville Tennessee a helicopter and ground crews battled rugged Smoky Mountain terrain to rescue four survivors from Friday’s twin engine Cessna crash. Detroit passenger Stephen Walker 46 hiked 25 miles over 42 hours to summon help and was in good shape at a hospital. Doctor Haralson was dropped by helicopter and reported two stretcher cases and two walkers among the rescued.
Former UNC president Harry Woodburn Chase, chancellor of New York University, told the Commercial Education association in New York that education is the key to ending southern demagogues. He blamed backwardness on inferior schooling, not the people’s stock.
Evangelist Fred Garland presents The Man Who Forgot God at Southside Baptist Church tonight at 7:30. Pastor Rev. W H Barker invites the public to attend with no admission charge.
London reports King George's right foot circulation has improved after surgery. He can now rise from bed for part of each day, doctors say, marking a notable recovery milestone in the royal regimen.
Do not rush into work, plan your tasks and work quietly at a steady pace. Seek originality in the child born today, along with courage ambition and tolerance that should spell success over the next year.
The note corrects a claim about copper proportion in a material, stating General Omar Bradley and a counterclaim that the Rock was fortified by the Seracens in 711 are irrelevant to the copper percentage, and clarifies the actual percentage near seventy five.
Nanking reports Premier Ho Ying-chin selected a cabinet ending an internal crisis. The official news agency will publish the full list tomorrow after submission to Chiang Kai-shek for approval, a move tied to peace efforts and opposition from communist war criminal lists supporters. The Control Yuan also accused former Premier Sun Fo of misappropriating 110 million Gold Yuan.
Fourteen year old Betty Ruth Stroud a bride of six months was killed shielding her mother from a shotgun blast fired by her father C C Adcock 45 year old farmer of Joelton He was charged with murder and held without bond Adcock claimed self defense after an argument at the house Ruth stepped in front of her mother and took the shot in the chest
ASHEVILLE March 21 44 A wildly driven automobile injured two pedestrians and collided with four cars within two minutes near Haw Creek. Larry Lee Wilson 20 of Haw Creek was seriously hurt. J S Gibbs 27 of Weaverville jailed on charges of drunken driving and hit and run driving held in default of 10000 dollars.
Delegates began registering today for the fifth annual North Carolina Safety School at North Carolina State College. Top authorities in safety education insurance labor management relations and industry will lead the course which runs through Wednesday, organized by the North Carolina Carriers Association the North Carolina Society of Safety Engineers and the Board for the Conservation Manpower in North Carolina industry.
In Arundel Sussex residents pay no water charges as supplies come from reservoirs and wells on the Duke of Norfolk estate. The arrangement exempts inhabitants from standard water rates.
Police report a curious case of children entering a locked house on 417 Cable Street to play with toys. They allegedly found the key in the mailbox, entered, played with items, and left without replacing them. No law prohibits using toys.
Secretary of the Army Royall told the Senate armed services committee that war is not imminent but is at least a possibility. He urged setting the active army at 837000 officers and men with 750000 in the national guard and emphasized planning for years ahead rather than crisis to crisis. He noted the world situation remains dangerous with fluctuations likely for years.
An explosion at the University of Virginia veterans trailer housing area damaged 15 trailers and several cars, destroyed a laundry, and injured two people, student Robert K. Parrott and his wife, burned in the fire. The blast sent a 300-gallon tank arcing through the air, hitting a house roof. University president Colgate W. Darden Jr. said it appeared caused by a failed automatic safety valve.
Glen Keck of Van Buren Street was listed as a missing person at police headquarters. He has been missing since Saturday and was last seen driving a 1947 cream colored Ford. no clues to his whereabouts had been found by noon today.
West End lost telephone service when a midnight fire destroyed the exchange building. Fire crews from Southern Pines and Pinehurst battled the blaze which spread to a nearby filling station roof. The exchange housed a grocery store and restaurant. no estimate on when service would be renewed.
LILLINGTON March 21 Trial of Tom Wood Jr 29 for slaying his wife is set in Harnett superior court Solicitor Jack Hooks will ask Judge Burgwyn to order a special venue. Mrs Wood was found in a creek near Erwin last December she had been stabbed 48 times Defense attorney Doffermyre seeks a continuance.
President Truman nominated Jacob C. Bowman for U S marshal in the western district of North Carolina to replace the retiring Charles R Price. In the middle district, William D. Kezziah was named to succeed the late Edney Ridge pending Senate confirmation.
Mari 21 Mrs Lorraine Koehler a 14 year old San Francisco house wife won fourteen thousand five hundred dollars on the Stop the Music program yesterday She plans to start a chinchilla farm with two chinchillas valued at one thousand dollars as part of the prize for identifying Paramount On Parade.
The Georgia Warm Springs Foundation treated 853 infantile paralysis victims in the year ending September 30. Foundation president Basil O'Conor reported the average patient stayed 85 days. the organization was formed by the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt to aid polio sufferers.
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