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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1959
Page
9
In High Point Township a drive to boost Negro political influence shows limited progress with only about 200 new Negro registrations since December, far short of a 100-per-week target. White registrations dropped more steeply during a purge, while about 110 new registrations since Feb. 15 mostly came from Negro voters.
Actor Lloyd Nolan and writer David Yellin start a producing partnership in New York. They launch activities by reeset ande ony vane.
City planners seek a thoroughfare plan via a fall survey. Bob Griffin the planning director says the study will cost about 60 thousand dollars with one third funded by the state and federal governments. The two phase survey will map external and internal traffic and use home interviews to chart daily trips. Local workers will assist and a consultant may supervise.
Six men faced gambling charges after a Friday raid at James T. Farrington’s Route 1 Colfax home. Officers confiscated proceeds, Farrington received a six month suspended sentence and court costs. Aubrey A. Atkins of Kernersville was fined $25 and had winnings confiscated. Ralph J. Smith of Greensboro and Ervin E. Smith of Colfax were among others charged.
Charles T. Ward of Clemmons won Class A with a perfect 25x25 in a shoot-off. George A. Minter of Draper defeated Dr. Joe S. Evans Jr. of Henderson in Class B shoot-off after tying 45x50. Mrs. G G Perry claimed Class E with 42x50. Prizes went to H H Hillill Bud Smith Ray Idol Harry Frye Hunter H Galloway Jr in Class 1 and George Minter Dr Joe Evans in Class 2. James Conrad and Mrs H F Hill III also competed in the National Skeet Shooting Assn event.
Guilford County commissioners in Greensboro reviewed a death probe system with Dr Allen B Coggeshall of Greensboro as examiner and Dr T E Terrell of High Point as assistant. The session began at 9 30 a m after the board served as tax equalization and review body.
A vivid rural scene follows a photographer as Spring roams the farm. A ewe and her three lambs, plus a maiden sister, traverse the landscape while Peres, nearly late, observes a steer curious about the flashing lights.
The N A P A High Point warehouse on Steele Street will gain a 10 000 square foot addition at a cost of about 53 300 dollars. The total expansion reaches 85 000 dollars and the project aims to finish by June. General Manager R B Garber Jr announced plans include more staff for the expanded warehousing operation and a small retail addition at 401 E Washington St.
Easter holiday to extend for High Point city schools with four day shift. Original May 28 closing moved to June 3 to account for the extra holiday and remaining school weeks.
Sale of the Oakwood Court Apartments to J W Samet by the Gantt estate heirs brought about $75 000 in proceeds. The three building complex will be remodeled with enlarged parking. no extra units will be added. Henry Shavitz Realty handled the sale for Security National Bank trust department managing Gantt heirs holdings.
Identical twins Mrs. Merrill L. Anglesey and Mrs. Glen Brock, both 19, each gave birth to a daughter within 19 minutes at St. Mark's Hospital in Salt Lake City.
The Friendship weather forecast predicts a 10 degree jump by tomorrow with today's high near 58 rising to 68. Tonight's low should be around 32 after a 28 degree night, with temperatures averaging below normal before a cooler spell returns Thursday.
Thomasville police arrested Garland Henderson 47 of Clodfelter Apartments after finding whisky in a house he rented. He was charged with possessing intoxicants. Henderson posted a $500 bond and is to appear in Thomasville Recorder's Court on April 6.
Dan W. Grace, 48, of High Point, was severely injured when his car ran off Highway 220 and crashed into a pine tree five miles south of Asheboro. He was listed in critical condition at Randolph Hospital with head injuries and fractures. State highway patrolman C. C. Moore said Grace was the sole occupant and investigators would await further details from Groce once Grace can be questioned.
Fire trucks were sent to the 100 block of Nathan Hunt Drive at 9 20 a m to find city work trash. Crews said the operation had a permit and the blaze stemmed from ignition of cleaning rags in a Dempster Dumpster near Myrtle ath Co with no damage reported after a 5 12 a m alarm.
Roy Franklin Oakes, 27, of Route 1 Randleman, was to stand trial for his life in Guilford Superior Court Greensboro for the second time in a year. He was sentenced to die in the gas chamber on May 30 last year after his conviction for the first degree murder of his wife Alice Mae Oakes on March 6. The new trial began this morning and was expected to occupy most of the week.
Huntington Mayor Harold Frankel was praised for the city’s All-America designation but faced a blunt prank call. A caller congratulated him and then demanded he send the “All-America garbage truck” to his house to pick up the garbage.
A devotional prayer asks eternal guidance toward unselfish living. The speaker, W Ralph Ward Jr a Pittsburgh pastor of Mt Lebanon Methodist Church, seeks self forgetfulness and omission of self interest in daily service.
The Egyptian cubit defined the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger used as an early unit of length. It anchored construction and trade standards in ancient Egypt and varied slightly by region and royal authority.
Firemen answered a blaze near Springfield Avenue and the highway yesterday at 5 10 p m. Chief Clyde Wilkerson said the barn was out of control before rescue crews arrived. Lloyd Clodfelter, owner on Springfield Avenue, estimated more than 200 bales of hay were inside.
In 1874 Rhode Island designated a holiday later known as Memorial Day, becoming the first state to mark Decoration Day as an official observance.
About 500 people attended the open house for the new $80,000 Children's Center School on Holly Grove Road. The building, completed last January and funded by a $50,000 bond plus $30,000 in contributions, was opened by Roy Lohr and other Davidson County Board of Education members. The center, established in 1955 for the handicapped, has operated within the public school system with state aid for the past two years.
High Point churches announce Holy Week events including Jehovahs Witness memorial tonight at 8 at Kingdom Hall and multiple services led by pastors from First Presbyterian Burlington Greensboro and others. Revival meetings at Green Street Baptist West End and Noon to 3 PM Good Friday at Wesley Memorial. Holy Communion observed at First Pilgrim Montlieu Lebanon and other churches with speaking pastors and cross themed services.
Ruth G. Duffy of the High Point Social Security office reminds self employed persons to report earnings for social security with income tax returns. For 1958 the social security tax is 3 percent on the first 4200 of net income, due by April 15 1959, and a complete Schedule C with Form 1040 is required if net income equals or exceeds 400.
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