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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1931
Page
7
Democratic and Republican leaders push for robust slates ahead of filing deadline April 14. Hidden drafts hint at incumbents seeking reelection while others retire. Registration books open Saturday and run through April 14, with primary on April 21 and general election on May 5.
More than 150 children attended the first of a series of educational picture shows at the Paramount theater. The program included travel film Around the World with the Martin Johnsons and Harold Lloyd's Welcome Danger. Mrs. Ben Moore and Roy I. Smart spoke on the sponsorship. The league plans weekly Saturday morning shows and aims to influence youth culturally through suitable cinema. High Point is said to be the first North Carolina city to adopt the movement.
The William Penn high school musical department under L L Stookey and George F. Allen will stage the fifth annual musical revue tomorrow afternoon and night in the new auditorium. Matinee at 2 45 and night show at 8 30. Ample seating reportedly available for all.
A humorous short item notes a traveling salesman waiting outside and a witty reply about a moustache, rendered in a playful Tit Bits style.
Wade P. Renfrow, chairman of the High Point township democratic executive committee, praised the county board of elections for selecting the first municipal board of elections under the new city charter. He said the move should strengthen local government and carry special significance.
Beatrice Alderman produced On Midsummer's Day with Cloverdale School pupils last Thursday. Credits to Misses Bodie, Moore, and Mrs. Shelton for success. List of child performers includes Katherine Strother, Margaret Ann Craig, Marcella Wright, Ester Ray Wilson, Virginia Pugh, Susie Mae Canady, and many others.
The primary for party nominations for the May 5 general election will be held on April 21, correcting a prior typo in the city elections board advertisement. The correction confirms the April 21 date as the primary day.
John R. Lane aged 54 died at his home on South Fayetteville Street Asheboro this afternoon after three weeks illness that had been improving. He had lived in Asheboro four years leaving behind nine children all in Asheboro. His wife Annie Lineberry of near Ramseur had died earlier. Funeral services will be held at the Asheboro Baptist Church Sunday at 3 30 p.m. with burial in the church cemetery conducted by Dr. O G Tillman.
An old time fiddlers convention was held at the Randolph county courthouse tonight under the Patriotic Order of Sons of America. Several hundred people attended and several prizes were awarded.
A special High Point gathering at the Sheraton Tuesday at 4 pm will outline definite plans for the 1931 City Beautiful campaign. Focus areas include yard and garden contests, school essay contests, a spring flower show, and the fall festival. Garden clubs prominent in the new leadership include Sizemore Cox White Millis Hedrick Hayden and others.
Dr Landrith of Texas and Chicago will address a mass meeting at the First Methodist Protestant church Friday evening under the High Christian Endeavor Union. A veteran reformer and former Ward-Belmont president and Cumberland Presbyterian moderator, he advocates good citizenship law enforcement and world peace for youth.
Carl Mack, a High Point ex service man, whose $909 adjusted service certificate was found in a Hamilton street trash pile last week, was located yesterday at the United States Soldiers hospital in Hampton, Virginia. Bruce H. Carraway of the American Legion local post reported the policy will be returned soon.
Reported estimates place the earth's age at about 1.5 billion years. Scientists discuss dating methods and geological evidence supporting this timescale.
M. G. Jackson a middle aged salesman of 643 Wesley Place was slightly injured yesterday afternoon when an elevator fell at the Rose Furniture company store on English street. He was thrown against the elevator top injuring his head and hip. Yow's ambulance took him to High Point hospital where he was treated and dismissed.
A Great Will air party arrives in High Point for a full day of aerial feats at Charles Kenner Field on Greensboro road. The squadron includes planes from Charlotte Winston Salem and Raleigh with parachute jumpers Freddy Lund Art Davis Betty Lund and George Sheely among the performers. Promoters say thousands may attend for the first local glimpse of a real air circus.
Tour Manager says thousands enjoy the visit of aviators. Rockingham committee chair Deane praises the event and wishes a happy landing. Great crowds saw performances and a reception, with Sauerborn and Davis commended. planes will offer passenger flights for holders of good will tickets during the day.
The High Point tax foreclosure suits proceed as Judge T. B. Finley in Guilford superior court upheld the right to collect attorneys and advertising fees and interest under state law. Rupert T. Pickens attorney for Industrial Bank of Richmond drafts the appeal for the North Carolina Supreme Court to be filed soon, likely Monday or Tuesday.
In morning worship the Rev. R. I. Farmer will speak on The Christian Family. Musical program directed by Prof. E. B. Stimson features Prelude Vision Traumerei by Arthur Fidler anthem In the Lord Will I Put My Trust and Andante Cantabile. Judge Lewis E. Teague speaks at 6 pm on My Six Years In the Municipal Court. The vesper series ends this season with next Sunday 8 pm worship and new program. Also notes church school at 9 45 am.
Miss Genevieve Pearce Moore of this city will have two original compositions played at the Tar Heel composers evening program during the state Federation of Music Clubs meeting in Goldsboro from March 26 to 28. Her pieces are A Little Maid with words and music by Moore and My Sins and I with music by Moore and words by Lexie D. Robertson. Other featured composers include Mrs Crosby Adams of Asheville Charles G Wardell of Winston Salem and Lamar Stringfield, all noted beyond North Carolina.
Reverend George T. Tunstall, pastor of East Green Street Baptist Church, has bought a home at 310 Woodrow Avenue from A. E. Taplin and plans to move with his family, expecting installation early in the week.
A New York exporter visiting High Point said local mills run against orders and offer no close-outs or distress goods. He noted the business must buy cheap to sell cheap, but found no bargains here despite searching.
A High Point man visited a bank and demanded one hundred dollar bills. The teller offered twenties saying they were out of fifties and hundreds after cashing many veterans loans. The man accepted seventy-five twenties, pocketed them, and departed disgruntled by the small payout.
The annual North Carolina Student Ministerial Association meeting, postponed from last fall due to illness, will take place at Elon College on Saturday March 28. Officers include Peeler as president Plitt Swicegood Swaim and others. The program features devotions lectures on carrying the torch to the world and making the message live with sessions on athletics church unity and a conference banquet.
Dr Ernest R Groves University of North Carolina sociology professor and author on marriage family relations and adolescence will speak on The New Meaning of Childhood next Tuesday at 7 30 pm in the High Point Senior High auditorium This final high school parent teacher meeting of the year invites all citizens to attend.
The names of Warren G. Brown A Pink Samuels and Bruce H Carraway three High Point justices of the peace are listed in a state omnibus bill introduced in the legislature by Representative White of Chowan county The bill sets a six year term starting April 1 1931 or when present terms end unless another date is specified
City unemployment survey, conducted over four weeks, nears final tabulation for a council and Emergency Committee on Unemployment joint meeting later this week. About 1,900 registrations since the bureau began four months ago show 40 percent still out of work, with 15 percent not located yet and 10 percent having left town. Construction and spring hiring have eased demand, while locals offer domestic help and part time work continues.
Building permits totaling nearly 30000 were issued by Chief A B Horney. Major March items include a 9000 ice cream plant at North Main Street by J E and R T Amos and a 7000 roof repair for the Millis Isaacson and Goldstein building after last month’s fire. Also approved were four dwellings on English Street, a 3000 filling station for R B Gantt, a 1000 Sunday school room for English Street M P church, a 1200 dwelling for J P Elkes on East Russell Street, and a 1100 four room addition for Mrs Bertha Cagle.
Funeral services are planned this afternoon for Jesse H Crater at Vickery Chapel at 2 30 led by Rev BE O Peeler with burial in Fairfield church cemetery Also services for Mrs Anne E Culler 83 will be at Pleasant Grove M P church at 2 o clock with interment in church cemetery Rebecca Bates 50 dies Saturday at 12 4 and service at First Wesleyan Methodist at 2 30 with burial in Oakwood cemetery
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