Services At The Churches SPRINGFIELD FRIENDS Anniversary Service
The Springfield Friends church held its 173rd anniversary service with Rev. Milton Hadley hosting and Dr. Hornbell Hart of Duke University as guest speaker. The program featured Roy Padgett singing How Beautiful Are Thy Tabernacles and Blair Richardson managing birthday gifts for a social hall fund. Dr. Hart urged believers to model Christ by serving others, even in small acts like giving water or denying self to feed the hungry.
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Springfield Friends Church
Thy Tabernacles
Roy Padgett
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First Methodist Worships Highlight Music Program
Rev. Wilson O. Wel don preached on How Much Do You Care inviting Christian discipleship. An all music program followed with soprano and violin solos and anthems by the choir including Jubilate Deo and God So Loved the World. Mrs. T. E. Strickland was organ accompanist.
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Nevin
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Sergei
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Neidlinger
Fibeich
Hubert Barrier
Hilltop
Wyles
Kramer
Dorothy Wells
Stainer
Lord
Keating
T. E. Strickland
Memorial Service at Wesley Memorial Honors Ex-Service Men
At Wesley Memorial Methodist Church 11 o'clock service Sunday, Rev. Paul Hardin Jr. preached on Love In Action. A memorial plaque honoring Wesley Memorial boys who gave their lives was presented by ex-service men and accepted by W. B. Hall. Bascom Whitaker led the organ, choir sang Festival Te Deum and As Torrents In Summer. Vesper service at 5 pm featured Thoughts On Music by Hardin and a senior high school acapella choir.
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Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
Paul Hardin, Jr
Sam H. Strickland
W. B. Hall
Stewards
Bascom Whitaker
Buck
Elgar
Hardin
Carl G. N. Cronstedt
Sneior High School
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Schuetky
Nyvall
Christiansen
God
Luther Mueller
Gerald N. Brant
Christian Science Lessonon Punishment Theme May 5
Sunday services focused on Everlasting Punishment with the Golden Text from James and excerpts from Isaiah and Mary Baker Eddy. The lesson urged that sin brings its own penalties and moral justice mirrors divine order.
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Christian Science
James
Mary Baker Eddy
Registration Light in City for May Primary
Democratic primary registration is unusually light as two weekends pass since books opened. Louis J. Fisher Jr. warns voters must register by next Saturday to vote on May 25. Voters who moved precincts face disqualification without a release certificate. registrations during weekdays run through the local registrar. Registrars will be at polling places next Saturday.
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County Elections Board
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Billie Jarrett 2 Dies After Illness in Local Hospital
Billie Grayson Jarrett aged 2 of 307 Centennial avenue died at a local hospital Sunday afternoon at 3 45 after a three week illness. Born in High Point on June 11, 1943, he was the son of Cicero J. and Sadie Wall Jarrett. Surviving are a brother and sister. Funeral services will be at Sechrest Funeral Home chapel Tuesday at 4 30 conducted by Rev. Fred W. Rockett with interment in Oakwood cemetery. The body will be returned to the home this afternoon at three.
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Centennial Avenue
High Point
Cicero J
Sadie Wall Jarrett
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Ernestine Jarrett
Fred W. Rockett
Grace Lutheran Church
Oakwood
Iranian envoy to report Russian troops withdrawal in Iran
Iranian Ambassador Hussein Ala was to report to the United Nations Security Council that Russian troops have largely withdrawn from Iran. Delegates expect a prompt submission before a midnight deadline, potentially closing the case if unchallenged.
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Ne York
Unit Nations Security Council
Russia
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State Department
Washington
Azerbaijan
Railroads to discontinue select trains under fuel order
The railroad will discontinue some trains and cut sections on others to meet the fuel saving order of the Office of Defense Transportation effective next Friday. Trains 7 and 14 between Richmond and Danville, Virginia, and 19 and 20 between Washington and Atlanta will be discontinued. One section will be removed from trains 33 and 34 on the Washington to Atlanta route.
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United States Probes Russian Postwar Trade Pacts
Washington reports the United States is examining Russia’s postwar trade accords with Bulgaria Romania Hungary Poland Czechoslovakia Finland and Iran and Manchuria. Officials warn against exclusive or dual country deals that could push political aims through economic leverage.
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Speeders Drop In This State During April
April moving traffic violations show a small drop in speeders from last year while many other offenses rise. Licenses revoked or suspended climb from 597 to 957 with about half due to drunken driving. Speeders fall from 1116 to 1032. faulty equipment offenses rise from 581 to 787. passing on hills and other infractions jump to 252. Apprehensions without license increase from 522 to 790 as more cars on highways are blamed and patrols report higher alertness. Ward and Hatcher depart for a national traffic safety conference in Washington called by President Truman.
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Highway Safety Division
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H. J. Hatcher
Nnational
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Prison Break Rampage Ends in Fatal Rock Confrontation
FBI probes the uprising at the Rock jail where Bernard Coy 46 of Louisville tied up guards and seized a rifle, killing Bert Burch and others including Sam Shockley 36 and Joseph Cretzer 35. The escape attempt collapsed as Coy Cretzer and Hubbard died in a pipe filled corridor amid gunfire.
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Louisville
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Los Angeles
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Tennessee
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Gardner Sells Interest in Cleveland Mills
O. Max Gardner announced J. P. Stevens and Company of New York have acquired his interests in the Cleveland Cotton Mills in Shelby. Gardner will remain active as a Stevens company member. the sales price was not disclosed. The mill employs about 1,000 workers with 526 looms and 28,000 spindles.
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O. Max Gardner
the Treasury
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Mills
Stevens Company
Funeral Rites for Lee County Sheriff Dorsett
Funeral services will be held here today for Glenn G. Dorsett 56 former sheriff of Lee County who died at his home here Saturday.
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Glenn G. Dorsett
Lee County
Burlington Mills Stock Draws Buyers
In New York on May 6 investors bought a scattered mix of listed stocks led by Burlington Mills amid general market softness. Leaders lagged including U S Steel Bethlehem Chrysler General Motors Southern Railway N Y Central Goodyear Montgomery Ward Boeing and others. Cotton futures opened lower and livestock markets showed mixed activity with steers and heifers slipping while demand remained strong for certain cattle categories. Dry goods trade noted coal strikes threaten mill operations with two weeks coal supply for many plants and expectations of output curtailment in the south as wool goods stayed quiet.
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Potatoes Market Brief From Chicago on May 6
Potatoes arriving 174, on track 148, shipments 1 050 Friday 703 Saturday 30 Sunday. Old stocks moderate supplies fair market steady. New stocks moderate demand moderate market weaker. Idaho Russets U S No 1 3 50 to 3 90 Colorado Red McClures 3 50 to 3 80 Minesota North Dakota Cobblers good quality 2 30 Montana long white U S No 1 2 15 Louisiana 100 lb sacks Bliss Triumphs U S No 1 3 75 California 100 lb sacks long whites U S No 1 3 75 to 4 00.
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Walking shoes offered as strike vote unfolds in Atlanta
The AFL Algamated Association of Street Car, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes seeks 1.36 dollars an hour and a 40 hour week, up from 1.03 and 44 hours. In Atlanta 1350 operators to vote today on a new agreement with Georgia Power after six days on strike. A prior deal was rejected over pension terms and a wage rise from 86 cents to 1.12. Also, 35000 CLO shipworkers postponed a midnight strike at Bethlehem Steel coastal yards.
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Dental Leaders Opposed To Compulsory Health Measure
Dr Harold Willenbrand of Chicago told the North Carolina Dental Society meeting that compulsory health insurance cannot meet national dental needs. He cited vast costs for fillings extractions and restorations and urged ADA backed federal grants for research education and child dental care nationwide.
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French Voters Give Leftists Major Setback
Paris voters rejected a communist socialist backed constitution in a nationwide referendum. Official interior ministry totals show the constitution defeated by about 1.18 million votes, with 9,450,570 ballots for and 10,243,? against across 93 departments, about 80 percent turnout.
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Morehead To Be Represented At Port Meeting
Miami hosts a three day South Atlantic and Florida ports conference starting Thursday with representatives from Morehead City Charleston Georgetown Brunswick Savannah Miami Tampa St Peters burg Pensacola Port Pierce Jacksonville and Port Everglades. Interstate Commerce Commission Chairman George M Barnard will be principal speaker at Friday dinner.
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