High Point civic, sports, and rail updates from local notes
The High Point American Business club meets at the country club tomorrow at 6 30 for a supper session with an engaging program. The High Point baseball club trains hard for the season and may challenge Piedmont rivals. Miss Billie Hiatt and Miss Isabel Baylor visit hometown parents and study at Saint Mary's in Raleigh. Many locals plan trips to Charleston to view Magnolia Gardens. Subways under Main Street provoke debate as candidates for city office loom with an April 19 primary. Mayor Moffitt considers a special council session to tackle pressing agenda items before Tuesday night.
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Charleston
S. C
Magnolia Gardens
The
Southern Railway Company
Moffitt
Music Club Women to Rotary Guests at High Point Meeting
The High Point Rotary Club will host a Thursday 12:30 meeting at the Sheraton with members of the North Carolina Federation of Music Clubs as guests. The program includes several musical numbers and the event appears set to be interesting. all members are urged to attend. Also noted is Rupert Cross, 16, who, though blind, recently participated in a London chess tournament.
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High Point
Piedmont Loop
Sheraton Hotel
North Carolina Federation of Music Clubs
Rupert Cross
London
Winston-Salem
Planters Independent Warehouse Company
Forsyth County
J. G. Flynt
Flynt
N. L. Crawford
H. C. Sheet
Mr. Crawford
High Point Elks Banquet Honors National Leaders
Officials and members of High Point lodge No 1155 B P O E plan to attend a banquet at the King Cotton hotel Greensboro honoring Charles H Grakelow grand exalted ruler and Fred C Thompson grand secretary. Delegates from western district expected. local figures include Thomas J Gold A E Taplin and W M Tucker and Col D H Milton. After Greensboro the officials travel to Charlotte for further meetings.
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High Point Lodge
King Cotton Hotel
Greensboro
Charles H. Grakelow
Philadelphia
Fred C. Thompson
Thomas J. Gold
A. E. Taplin
W. M. Tucker
D. H. Milton
The
Elk Organization
Charlotte
No 60 Cent License Car Containers For This Year
Raleigh March 29 AP There will be no fifty cent license car containers this year. Commissioner of Revenue R A Coughton says the new state automobile license period begins July 1 and a sleeper clause in the law makes display of the cardboard duplicate license number in a patented dashboard container mandatory. He declined to say if containers will be required with the 1928 licenses.
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Raleigh
R. A. Coughton
Commissioner of Revenue
Davidsonian staff named for 1927 28 period
B F Martin of Atlanta announces the 1927 28 Davidsonian staff with editors A N Brown W K Pritchett J B Moriarty R Lake L C Wadsworth and R C Grady among others. D W Hancock named editor and C R Rowe business manager of the 1928 Quips and Cranks. positions elected by the junior class.
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Fredericksburg
Hancock
A. T. Dillard
Greensboro
N. C
Rowe
W. J. Guthrie
Charlotte
Trabae
Nashville
Tenn
Pioneer Woman Reaches Ninetieth Birthday in High Point
Mrs. Alston Clark, a pioneering High Point benefactor, celebrated her 90th birthday at Washington Street home among friends and relatives. Born March 28, 1837, she moved to High Point in 1856 and dedicated her life to rearing and educating seven youths, aiding orphaned boys and shaping several notable figures in business and church leadership.
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Bettie Alston Clark
David L. Clark
Betty Alston Clark
North Carolina
Washington Street
Alston Clark
High Point
Charles D. Maxwell
A. Howard Maxwell
New York
Stephen C. Clark
D. L. Clark, Jr
Two Girl Employees Jump From Window in Factory Fire
In Chicago on March 29 two Wellington Stone company workers Gladys Rayner and Lacy Kinsie fled a flames blaze by leaping from a third floor window to elevated tracks. They suffered cuts and bruises but are described as only slightly injured.
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Chicago
Wellington Stone Company
Gladys Rayner
Lacy Kinsie
Four Girls Burned In Wellington Stone Factory Blast
An explosion at the Wellington Stone company lamp shade factory at Wabash avenue and Roosevelt road in Chicago burned four girls and imperiled around a hundred others before the fire was controlled. Workers rushed to aid victims and firefighters battled stubborn flames as the building suffered heavy damage.
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Chicago
Wellington Stone Company
Wabash Avenue
Roosevelt Road
New Statewide Game Law Takes Effect June First
Raleigh March 29 AP The new statewide game law goes into effect June 1. Wade H. Phillips director of the department of conservation and development corrected the mis impression that the fish law’s April 1 start also applied to the game law.
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Raleigh
Mar
Wade H. Phillips
Department of Conservation and Development
Phillips
Bids Opened Again for School Equipment for New High School
Bids for special equipment for the $700,000 high school building were opened this morning by the local school board. Firms from northern western and southern regions presented figures for cafeterias laboratories science rooms and other departments. Low bid expected to be announced tomorrow after further surveys. Regular equipment bids including desks and chairs to follow.
Propose Underpasses as Swift Crossing Relief
In a letter to citizens C C. B. Overman urges focus on underpasses for crossing relief, argues Southern Railway unlikely to fund tunnels or main-line shifts, and calls for a fifty fifty deal on practical underpasses while avoiding road delays and delays in plans.
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Henry Ford
Southern Railway
Cc. B. Overman
Contractors back five day work week plan opposed
The North Carolina branch of the Associated General Contractors association adjourned today after Norman Underwood of Durham introduced a resolution opposing the five day work week at yesterday's annual meeting. The resolution was carried unanimously.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Associated General Contractors Association
Norman Underwood
Durham
Prominent Carolinians in Chinese War Dispatches
Raleigh dated report notes North Carolina figures prominently in Chinese affairs. John Kerr Davis of Salisbury is U S consul at Nanking. Mary Murphy Davis, his wife, escaped from Socony Hill. Raleigh men Commander Julian Timberlake and Lieutenant Commander George B Ashe command ships aiding refugees and evacuations. Commander D C Godwin of Williamston serves with the Asiatic fleet. Warren of Olin is praised in Parliament for ties to the William B Preston. Wilmington and Rocky Mount are cited for missionary and tobacco man presences in China.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
John Kerr Davis
United States
Nanking
John Wright Davis
Salisbury
China
Davis
Socony Hill
Associated Press Dispatches
Mary Murphy
Julian Timberlake
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
George B. Ashe
William B. Preston
D.C. Godwin
Admiral Williams
Williamston
N. C
B. F. Goodwin
Martin County
Olin
Warren
Wilmington
Rocky Mount
Shad Season Near Record High in East Carolina
Eastern North Carolina reports one of the best shad seasons in history says Capt. John A. Nelson fisheries commissioner. Despite a March blizzard, tackle was ruined yet crews joined to fish with makeshift nets around Croatan Sound near Roanoke Island and Stumpy Point, with roe shad at about forty cents a pound and bucks around 25.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
John A. Nelson
Nelson
Croatan Sound
Roanoke Island
Stumpy Point
New York
Gender Gap in Infant Deaths Narrower Than It Seems
Among babies in the first year of life, death rates show boys 19 percent higher than girls, indicating a notable gender gap in infant mortality.
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High Point American Business Club
Country Club
Billie Hiatt
H. B. Hiatt
Isabel Baylor
8. M. Baylor
Saint Mary’s Episcopal School For
Main Street
Washington
Commerce
Music Club
High Point Rotary Club
Small Animal Hospital
A. C. Jones
N. Wrenn St
W. Broad St
Local Elk
WILPO
Davidsonian
Southern Mortgage Loan & Land Co
Carolina Mortgage Co
Commercial Bank
Spencer Coal Co
Broad Street
Ashe
East Carolina
Commercial National Bank
High Point Perpetual Building and Loan Association
A. J. Idol
V.pres
Treas
Cc. H. Ellis
Atlantic Bank & Trust Co
Randleman
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