First Music Week Opens With High Point Glee Club
Virginia Frank reviews the Woman’s College of UNC glee club’s high quality National Music Week concert at Senior High School in High Point. Forty voices blended clearly, audience understanding every word, though attendance was small due to venue shifts. A Junior High program follows with international themed selections and a finale featuring Home Again and The Spangled Banner.
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Woman's College Glee Club
Junior High Glee Club
High Point
Greensboro
Paul B. Oneley
Glee Club
Woman's College
University of North Carolina
Junior High
Oncley
Woman's College of the University
Rangements
Co. F. Tomlinson
Maureen Moore
Paul Oncley
Mr. Oncley
Myrtle Titman
Alma Andrews
Miss Titman
Miss Andrews
Mary Ann Thomas
Scotland
Mary Ann Coe
Loch Lomond
Robin Adair Weel
Germany
Byron Grandjean
Peter, Peter
Pumpkin Eater
Gaily the Troubador
Ireland
Arthur Kaplan
Londonderry Air
France
Ruby Parker
Normandy
Alphea O
America
Royster Thurman
Mrs Mary K Loflin Dies In Winston
Mrs Mary K Loflin 63 longtime Winston woman died at Baptist hospital at 5 30 Monday after declining health since February Born December 1 1874 in Davidson county she moved to the city with husband R L Loflin 40 years ago They operated a millinery store and undertaking business later retiring Surviving son R A Loflin granddaughter Mary Joan and sister Mrs Lou Yarborough Funeral from First Baptist Church with Dr A G Conrad and burial at Oakwood cemetery
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Mary K. Loflin
Baptist Hospital
Winston-Salem
R. L. Loflin
Mary Joan
Lou Yarborough
Tyler
Texas
Elm Street
First Baptist Church
A. G. Conrad
Oakwood Cemetery
High Point Municipal Band Rehearsal Tonight at Coliseum
The High Point municipal band holds its second rehearsal tonight at the Coliseum off Willowbrook Street starting 7 36 p m. Directed by H C Goble the group will meet twice weekly on Tuesday and Friday nights and aims to be ready for the city lake opening in late May.
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High Point Municipal
Coliseum
Willowbrook Street
H. C. Goble
Gobie
Parks and Playgrounds Division
City Lake
Air Conditioned Coaches Expanded on Southern Through Trains
Southern Railway officials announce air conditioned coaches now in regular service on all through trains. Since January 1 more than 100 coaches have been renovated at Spartanburg South Carolina and Chattanooga Tennessee shops at about 10000 dollars per car. Dining cars were air conditioned two years ago.
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Atlanta
Southern Railway Company
Southern Railway
Spartanburg
8. C
Chattanooga
Municipal Lake to Reopen for Fishing on May 10
Warden W. R. Hull announced the municipal lake will reopen to local fishing enthusiasts on May 10 after a 40 day spawning season closure. Boats have been repaired and painted in preparation for Tuesday morning reopening.
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W. R. Hull
Hull
Fraudulent Firms Listed by Post Office Department
A monthly list of newly discovered fraudulent companies is supplied to all post offices with instructions to stamp mail addressed to these concerns fraudulent and return it to the sender.
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U. S. Postoffice Department
Grand Jury to Consider Bills in Mangum Killing
Greensboro grand jury began session at 2 PM to consider bills against Bat DeJournette his wife Kate and Elmer Williams in connection with the killing of 21 year old Garland Mangum. Evidence includes Mangum’s last seen location near Memorial Stadium bloodstains tracks coat and pistol leads.
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Guilford County
Bat DeJournette
Kate
Elmer Williams
Garland Mangum
Greensboro
Mangum
Deep River
Deep River Church
Pomona
Delaurnettes
Williams
Hubert Kellum
Cherry Street
Sheriff's Department
Young Mangum
Memorial Stadium
Sweet
Kellam
H. L. Koontz
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington
Bat
Opening Services at Poplar Ridge Church
Opening services will be held at the new Poplar Ridge Friends church four miles below Mt. Vernon M E church next Sunday May 8. Sunday School at 10 a.m. preaching by Pastor Mrs. Cora Lee Gardner at 11 a.m. Dinner on the grounds. Afternoon services will feature special singing.
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Poplar Ridge Friends Church
Mt. Vernon M. E
Cora Lee Gardner
Oil Stove Fire at Parsonage Extinguished
A fire in the Friends church parsonage at 108 West Green Street was put out by local firemen yesterday after 5 PM. Very little damage was reported.
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Friends Church
West Green Street
High Point Permit Records Largest Building Project Yet
Lt J E B Horney notes the Em erywood Housing permit for a 286 room brick apartment complex on North Main between Farriss and Emerywood with three permits totaling 250000. Two $50000 permits and one $150000 permit cover three buildings. contract not yet let. A separate permit issues a two story seven room frame house for A G Marsh costing 4350.
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J. E B. Horney
High Point
Emerywood Housing Corporation
North Main Street
Farriss Avenue
Emerywood Court
A. G. Marsh
First Aid Instructors Course Opens With 41 Attendees
Forty one persons from schools, industry, Girl Scouts, police, and parks attend the first session of the Red Cross first aid instructors course led by Dr Otis Marshall. The program runs through Friday and resumes Monday for another week with 30 hours total training.
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Red Cross
Otis Marshall
Fir Aid
National Red Cross
Small Decline In Postal Receipts
April postal receipts at the local post office totaled 20306 60, down from 20515 43 in April 1937. March total was 20470 70, showing a slight $174 10 loss. Postmaster Clark calls receipts a barometer of business and notes a smaller April decline than expected. California Oklahoma and Texas lead U S in petroleum production.
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8. C. Clark
Charles A Ward Dies After Illness at 77
Charles A Ward 77 a Groomtown area farmer died at home last night at 7 50 following months of illness. Born Guilford County July 27 1861 he married Mattie Hayworth August 16 1887. Survived by widow seven sons two daughters sister and half brother. Funeral at Red Hill Baptist Church Wednesday at 11 with burial in church cemetery.
Miss Harriott Elliott Speaks to Greensboro High Students
Miss Harriott Elliott head of the political science department and dean of women at Woman's College Greensboro visited the city and spoke to senior high school chapel attendees this morning. She argued that radio and newspapers plus teachers’ work make today’s students better informed and more capable of facing present and future problems, sharing personal student-life anecdotes to illustrate her point.
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Harriott Elliott
Woman's College
Greensboro
Miss Elliott
Irene Parker
City Abandons Expedited Suit Over High Point Hydro Plant
High Point abandons efforts for a special term to speed a $5 776 750 hydro electric project case. Judge E C Bivens will hear contempt charges against Mayor Grayson and eight council members tomorrow in Greensboro. The suit challenges city authority to issue revenue bonds and proceed with the plant. In captivity the Indian rhinoceros rubs off its horn.
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High Point
Guilford County
J. W. McGuinn
Board of County Commissioners
Greensboro
E. Cc. Bivens
J. Paul Williamson
McQuinn
Unification Debate Highlighted at Wesley Me Methodist Church
On Wednesday evening a church gathering at Wesley Me Methodist discusses unification of Methodist bodies as the Episcopal south conference sits in Birmingham. The conference narrowly favored the plan by 436 to support there is strong opposition challenging the move and potential legal battles follow if approved.
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Wesley Me Methodist Church
Methodist Union
Me Episcopal Church
South
Birmingham
Don't Keep on Having Constipation
An advisory on treating constipation by increasing dietary bulk with Kellogg's All-Bran and ample water. It explains that bulk means a kind of food not fully consumed, leaving a soft mass to aid bowel movement, and suggests daily All-Bran and water for relief.
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Kellogg
Boel
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