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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1931
Page
8
Voters in High Point flocked to 11 precincts with 7 289 ballots cast by two o clock as mayor and eight council seats faced a close, bipartisan contest. Officials projected turnout above 9 000 by closing time with precinct six leading in votes and civil rights notes appearing early in the morning.
Ernest Taylor, under indictment in federal and Guilford Superior court on liquor cases, was arrested in Randolph County and jailed in Greensboro on abandonment of his wife and child. Unable to post 500 bond, he awaits a Wednesday preliminary hearing. he faces other cases for possession and transport of liquor and for ownership of seized spirits, plus a $500 peace bond for threatening his wife.
A Raleigh drafted bill would let the city extend electric water and sewer lines three miles past city limits with city council discretion and a six month notice of claim period. It settles on six months, opposed by a 90 day proposal, matching Greensboro timing.
Southern Surety Company seeks a permanent injunction in High Point to bar use of a $5,500 civil damage judgment against Daniel and Helen Hassapelis. The petition, filed yesterday, claims the judgment was obtained by collusion and fraud in an auto accident case from September 3, 1930. The hearing before Judge Lewis Teague is set for May 13.
A High Point high school string quartette composed of Miss Virginia Frank Adelaide Crowell Nancy Myatt and Burt Asbury performed for the Civitan club today. R L Brinson and E J Payne led the program at the Elwood hotel luncheon meeting. Attendance prize by L R Johnston won by W F Freeman.
A Detroit telephone switchboard was busier at the time of Knute Rockne's death in an airplane crash than at any time since the Armistice, reflecting the shock and public interest in the famous coach's demise.
A Californian inventor develops an apparatus that blows currents of air over fruit still on trees to remove rotting calyces and prevent jacket rot, aiming to extend freshness and reduce waste.
Joe Kidd 37, assistant superintendent of Adams-Millis, of 1210 Thistle St, listed in safe condition after an auto crash on Greensboro highway. Son James Chernault 16 and W L Stamey Jr 18 also hospitalized. Chernault moved from Clinic to Guilford General and remains critical.
A stolen auto stripped of wheels and equipment was found deserted in woods behind Highland Mills. Equipment including tools radiator cap and three wheels were later located elsewhere in the woods. The car owner identified as J A Blue of Raeford will travel to High Point tomorrow morning to claim it. Detectives Ray Nance and Superintendent M C Hoover led the search.
Six failures occurred in North Carolina furniture during April. Five involved retailers and one involved manufacturers jobbers and wholesalers, per the Lyon Furniture Mercantile agency report. The figure rose from April 1930 but remained below the same month two years earlier. The nationwide count followed the Lyon Mercantile agency release.
Police report a second break-in at Elm Street Elementary School cafeteria in three weeks. Officers found open tin cans and no items missing as detectives investigate the incident involving hungry youths.
The News and Times of Thomasville was sold yesterday to R W Greene of Meadville Pennsylvania. Hazel which owned the paper for five years remains as adviser while Greene moves from Union City to Thomasville and will operate the plant as before.
Ted Johnson of Raleigh and T A Sykes of High Point were nominated for governor of Rotary’s 57th district at the district fifth annual convention in Durham. An election fight is expected at tomorrow’s closing session as High Point members back Sykes, a longtime club member and past president.
Authorities plan to remove squatters from the historic Espada mission in Texas and begin restoration of the structure. The move targets safeguarding the site’s heritage and returning the mission to its former condition.
Pearle Joanne Gibson, baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Gibson of 320 Boulevard, died yesterday afternoon at 6 o'clock in a local hospital after a short illness. Survived by four sisters and two brothers, grandparents and a Concord grandmother, funeral to be held with graveside services in Concord cemetery.
Master Masons of Numa F. Reid Lodge 344 A F and AM hold a special communication Thursday at 2 30 PM to lay the cornerstone of the New Junior High School. All members and visiting brothers are urged to attend. a C Howard W M H C Massey Secty.
Bernice Johnson a 19 year old colored girl of 712 Spring street was arrested here on larceny charges for stealing $20 worth of clothing from her former employer Mrs J T Tucker at 217 Edgedale drive. The clothes were found sewn into a mattress in the girl’s bedroom and she is jailed in default of $200 bond.
Durham charged with manslaughter in a hit and run killing of Woodrow Medlin was not scheduled for trial in Greensboro last Friday as reported. His arrest without bail was ordered to correct an error in the bond which read 35 dollars instead of 3509 dollars.
Creveo in Turin province is said to have the highest share of elderly residents in Italy. Among 180 inhabitants there are three women aged 95, thirteen nonagenarians, and twenty people aged 75 or older.
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