Drownings At High Rock Lake Claimed Two Men
High Point man Raeford Ingram 41 of 811 Park Street and Thomasville resident Albert Hunt 24 died in separate water accidents at High Rock Lake near Lexington. Ingram fell from a boat while netting fish. Hunt’s boat capsized near 2:30 am Sunday. Coroners ruled both drownings accidental, with Woodward rescuing two girls in Hunt’s incident. Ingram’s funeral is set for Tuesday at Friendly Baptist Church.
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High Point
Thomasville
High Rock Lake
Lexingie
Raeford Allen Ingram
Park Street
Albert Paul
Bill) Hunt
Culbreth Avenue
Ingram
W. G. Fritts
Davidson County
Everett Ingram
Raymond R. Robertgone
Fritts
Raymond Woodward
Odessa Wright
Evelyn Creed
Davidson
Woodward
Hunt
Dividson County
House Burned In Thomasville Complete Loss
May 3 Thomasville report says a nine room two story frame house at 2 Peace street owned by a Negro woman, widow of Robert Payne, was a total loss. Firemen found only charred walls after arriving at 10:45 p.m. The cause is undetermined. Mrs. Payne was away. About 2000 observers gathered as flames raged until 1 a.m.
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Thomasville
Peace Street
Robert Payne
Payne
VFW District Officers Elected Across North Carolina
Moulton Avery of Greensboro was elected commander of the Sixth District VFW at a Sunday meeting in Moulton. Other officers include M. H. Inscoe, Kenneth Huffines, Joe W. Pridgen Jr, Thomas Turner, S. B. Whitaker, and Julian A. Lindsey. District covers High Point Greensboro Gibsonville Chapel Hill Hillsboro and Durham with about 50 delegates. An endorsement backed building a North Carolina cottage at Eaton Rapids Michigan and reappointment of state adjutant A C Ingram. Memorial service led by Thomas Turner preceded business. Next district meeting to be held in Gibsonville post home.
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Moulton Avery
Greensboro
Sixth District
Veterans of Foreign Wars
M. H. Inscoe
Durham
Kenneth Huffines
Gibsonville
Joe W. Pridgen, Jr
Thomas Turner
S. B. Whitaker
Julian A. Lindsey
A. C. Ingram
High Point
North Carolina
V.F.W. National
Eaton Rapids
Mich
V.F.W
Chapel Hill
Hillsboro
Avery
Church Council Supports Bible courses in North Carolina schools
Dr. Stanley C. Harrell reported that the executive committee of the North Carolina Council of Churches endorses continuing Bible instruction in public schools. The group cites the McCollum decision as unclear and calls for explicit local guidance before changing the program.
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Stanley C. Harrell
N. C. Council of Churches
Supreme Court
Champaign-McCollum
North Carolina Council of Churches
McCollum-Champaign
Piedmont Camp WOW to Host District Initiation
Piedmont Woodmen of the World No 62 will host district initiation Tuesday at 8:00 pm in the W O W lodge 311 West Street. Camps from Asheboro Thomasville High Point Greensboro and Rural Hall join. dignitaries Nick Newberry Hiram Melvin Wade Newton attend. The Asheboro camp leads initiatory work with Greensboro officers overseeing the ritual.
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Piedmont
W.O.W. Lodge
West Street
Asheboro
Thomasville
High Point
Greensboro
Rural Hall
Nick T. Newberry
Hiram Melvin
Wade Newton
Drive Launched Here to Aid Inmates of Mental Hospitals
A North Carolina statewide drive to fund radios and records for inmates of state mental hospitals was started in High Point by the Goodwill Group. The effort aims to place central radio receivers and turntables in Morganton Raleigh and Goldsboro hospitals to provide music and entertainment, with all gifts directed to the project. Thelma Ball will serve as treasurer at 408 Jones Street High Point, and funds will be used solely for the initiative.
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High Point
Goodwill Group
North Carolina
Goodwill
State Hospital
Morganton
H. O. Lineberger
Morganton Hospital
Raleigh
Goldsboro
Thelma Ball
Jones Street
Wilmer Betts
Registration Lag in High Point Democratic Primary
Registration for the May 29 Democratic primary in High Point shows very slow activity on the first opening Saturday with about 50 registrations estimated by Wade Renfrow of the Guilford county elections board. Books reopen on two Saturdays and May 22 is challenge day before the election.
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High Point
Wade Renfrow
Guilford County
Library Adds New Books To Public Collection
The High Point public library has added numerous titles across genres including fiction biographies and reference works. Notable names include Thornton Wilder Truman Capote Agatha Christie Emily Post Arthur Upfield and Joe DiMaggio among others.
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High Point Public Library
Thornton Wilder
Robert St. John
Pilgrim's Inn
Elizabeth Goudge
Thomas Wolfe
Pamela H. Johnson
Ralph Ingersoll
Norman Angell
Robert Penn Warren
Alfred C. Kinsey
Truman Capote
North Carolina
Richard Walser
Frederic F. van de Water
Albert Idell
Mary Jane Ward
Vicki Baum
Edgar Maas
Noah D. Fabricant
Bar Nothing Ranch
Rosemary Taylor
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Florence M. Bauer
Thomas Sugrue
George R. Stewart
J. D. Ratcliff
Arthur W. Upfield
Dornford Yates
Kay Boyle
Parris Mitchell
King’s Row
Henry
Katherine Bellamann
Frances Winwar
John Godey
Margaret Scherf
W. C. Tuttle
Virginia
Samuel Amberlain
Agatha Christie
Jere H. Wheelwright
Nelis Gardner White
Josephine Pinckney
Max Brand
Rebecca Marsh
Jim Farley
James A. Farley
Alice Ross Colver
Josephine Lawrence
R. E. Coker
Taylor On Special Mission To Paris
Myron C. Taylor said he is in Paris on a special mission for the President but works for Mr. Truman and does the talking. He is the President's representative at the Vatican and would not discuss a report on whether European governments should outlaw communist parties. He arrived in Paris last night from London.
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Paris
Myron C. Taylor
Truman
Taylor
Vatican
Air Mail Growth Driven by Individual Letter Writers
Postmaster S C Clark credits individual writers for the rapid rise of domestic air mail. A survey shows social and personal letters make up 70 percent of air mail from High Point. He notes business use grows but space remains small. average domestic air mail travels 1402 miles in 1947 and weighs under three fifths of an ounce. Daily air mail handling at High Point averages about 30 pounds, with over 28 million pounds and nearly 800 million letters flown nationwide last year.
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S. C. Clark
Clark
Post Office Department
High Point Post Office
High Point
Mrs H M Wall Succumbs After Long Illness
Mrs Sally Glover Wall 29 wife of Henry M Wall died at 439 South Wrenn street after six months of declining health and a three month critical period. Born November 23 1918 in Rutherford County she moved to this city fifteen years ago and worked at Thomas Hosiery Mills. Survived by husband parents and several relatives. Funeral arrangements pending with Koonce Funeral Home. services at Pentecostal Holiness church Wednesday at 4 PM.
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Sally Glover Wall
Henry M. Wall
South
Wrenn Street
Rutherford County
Hoyle
Selma Bright Glover
Thomas Hosiery Mills
Pentecostal Holiness Church
Highland Avenue
Wall
Hoyle Glover
Vestal Edward Wall
Robert Lee Wall
Shirley Ann Wall
Norman Grubb
Belle Glover
Washington, D. C
James Glover
Edgar Glover
Clinton
Style-Right Beauty Shop Wins Name Contest
Mrs Judy Payne of North Main Street won Hege's Beauty Shop new name contest started April 21. The winning name Style-Right earns $10 in free beauty treatment. Style-Right, formerly Hege's, is run by Mrs Jerry Trogdon and Mrs Shirley Pope at 244 South Main Street.
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Judy Payne
North Main Street
Hege’s
Payne
Jerry Trogdon
Shirley Pope
South Main Street
High Pointer Injured In Auto Wreck
Four men and three women were injured in two separate highway crashes near Greensboro late last night. A head on collision at Route 421 and Route 62 left six hurt, with names including Robert Wannamaker and Lacy Harper of Greensboro and Ita McKenna of Washington DC. X rays awaited. A second crash on Reidsville road left John Cziakowski with a deep arm wound.
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Greensboro
Iree
Robert Wannamaker
Lacy Harper
Jack Steed
High Point
Ita McKenna
Washington, D.C
Wannamaker
John Cziakowski
Ft. Bragg
Reidsville Road
Mrs. Lauretta Veach Dies in Thomasville at 89
Lauretta Christine Veach 89 widow of John Wesley Veach died at her son Cleveland Veach’s home in Thomasville Sunday morning after a period of declining health. She was born May 10 1858 in Randolph County and lived in Randolph and Davidson counties. Surviving are four daughters three sons 37 grandchildren 53 great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren. Funeral from Zion Reformed church Monday at 3 30 pm with burial in church cemetery.
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Thomasville
Lauretta Christine Veach
John Wesley Veach
Davidson County
Cleveland M.veach
Rike
Randolph County
Old Trinitty
Robert
Catherine Clinard Johnson
Randolph
Davidson
Rt. 1
Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church
Woman's Guild
Zion Reformed Church
Calvin Leonard
C. FE
Ridge
Rural Hall
W. C. Lyierly
Newton
Marriage part of service by Oakland police
Oakland police officer Arthur L. Vaughan, an ordained minister, presided over a marriage ceremony at the station. Dolores Lissie, 18, and Odrian Orlando Bergen, 22, a merchant seaman, wed with two newspapermen as witnesses. The tale notes a desk sergeant calling Vaughan for the parson and a radio broadcast of Lohengrin’s wedding march.
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Oakland
Calif
Arthur L. Vaughan
First Baptist Church
Pleasanton
Arthur
Lohengrin
Vaughan United
Dolores Lissie
Odrian Orlando Bergen
Everlasting Punishment Sermon Across Christian Science Churches
Sunday May 2 lesson-sermon focused on everlasting punishment with the golden text from Psalms and citations from Psalms 130 7 and Science and Health. The service urged hopeful trust in the Lord and practical living with true motives as guidance for redeeming the soul. About 60 million acres in the United States were urban areas parks roads and railroad rights of way in 1940.
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Christian Science
Israel
Mary Baker Eddy
United States
Local Observance Marks National Music Week Events
National Music Week runs May 2 to 9 with a Junior High glee club festival Wednesday at 12 30 led by the seventh grade under the school music department. Mrs R I Quigley is state chairman and urged community musical cooperation. A radio program yesterday featured music students of Mrs Sidney Gayle on WHPE and WHPE FM, arranged by Mrs Walter Tice with performers Helen Lois Swarringen Jean Larcom Carolyn Murray Joan White and Dorothy Lewis highlighting Guion Gershwin Copland Chasin and Griffes. Also noted: 728 million acres of range land across 17 western states support part of the year for about 75 percent of the country’s sheep.
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R. I. Quigley
Quigley
Musical Art Club
Sidney Gayle
High Point Radio Council
Enterprise
WHPE
Whpe-Fm
Walter T. Tice
Radio Council of the Musical Arts Club
Helen Lois Swarringen
Jean Larcom
Carolyn Murray
Joan White
Dorothy Lewis
David Guion
George Gershwin
Aaron Copland
Abram Chasin
Charles Griffes
Sears Roebuck Plans 3000 Warehouse Near Main Street
The city issued a permit to Jim Wright and Mrs H R Broadhurst to construct a 3000 warehouse behind Sears Roebuck and Company on Main street. Sears Roebuck rents its current site from Wright and Broadhurst and will use the new facility for overflow goods. E E Younts is the local contractor, with construction of brick, concrete and steel to begin soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Wright
H. R. Broadhurst
Sears Roebuck and Company
Main Street
Wright
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Lexington
Ant
Hedrick Coal Company
Reid Street Baptist Church
R. L. Kizer
Unity Methodist Church
Stonewall
Martha Parrish Hunt
Flossie Mae England
Tony Rodger
Horace Douglas Hunt
Elwood
Woodrow Hunt
Frances Tolson
Boyd Kindley
Elzie Kindley
Moyer Childress
Carl Hunt
Guilford Venetian Blind CO
RING
Spiv” Allred
Pek” Ring
Warner's
West Broad Street
High Point Laundry
Reed
Hamilton
W. Burton
ICE Delivery Company
A. E. Sherron
Security Bank
N. Main ST
Hei Ith
Wrenn St
Church Council
Piedmont Camp
Wow
Hedgecock Lumber CO
Rae Ced
Mdon
H. M. Wall
Nat Walker
Walgreen
High Pointer
J. W. Veach
Lester's
Guilford Optical CO
W. B. Fluharty
J. W. Southerland
Western States
Cecil's Office Equipment CO
Main ST
A. Keiffer Payne
Lewis Motor CO
Wrenn
Sears Roebuck
t.Joseph
Ptacts
St.joseph
Taylor's Shoe Repair Shop
N. Wrenn St
Wat
America
OEP
S. Main
Center Theatre
Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile Insurance Companie
Farm Bureau Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company
Home Office
Columbus
Obie
Henry J. York
Security National
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