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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1962
Page
11
A local weatherman forecasts the dry spell continuing for another week with widely scattered showers possible Thursday and Friday. No rain at the airport this month, and temperatures are expected to stay near seasonal normals with a high near 78 tomorrow and cooling to about 50 tonight.
An organizational meeting for standard first aid for the general public will be at the High Point Red Cross chapter house 109 Gatewood Ave tonight at 7 30. Mrs Elizabeth Ennis chair man says the ten hour course is open to all residents 15 and over with no charge.
C Robert Clark of Denton will join High Point College as a special instructor in music this September. He will direct the concert band and teach wind and percussion. Clark trained at Peabody and studied with noted teachers. He is a 1956 HPC graduate and will earn an MA in music from Appalachian State in June. He has played with several major orchestras and served in the Army Field Band. He has taught band in Lenoir Central Davidson and Denton high schools. He is married to Marian Linthicum of Randleman and has three children.
Construction activity rose in early May with total value at 168 900 amounting to levels seen in late February and March. Memorial Parks Inc. led with a 45 600 office on English Street. other permits covered new residences and repairs totaling 12 141 for the week.
The Halo Beauty Shop relocate to 203 Hayden Pl owner Sallie Evans announces the move from former address 121 Hayden Pl. The change updates the business location and preserves its services for local customers.
Guilford County officials report a private survey finds the surplus food program delivered to the needy about half as much as Mecklenburg County's program. About 4.4 percent of Guilford residents received free food allotments versus 8 to 10 percent in Mecklenburg. The report prompted discussion amid an investigation into Mecklenburg's program.
J D Walls of Clara Cox Apartments says a man stabbed him in the thigh then fled. Bobby Monroe Fields of E Lexington Avenue was found after a foot chase, charged with assault with a deadly weapon, held on $500 bond. Walls and Fields give conflicting accounts of the incident.
Liba Rogers of Ferndale Junior High has a science exhibit on teenage smoking and lung cancer selected by the North Carolina Division of the American Cancer Society. Displayed in Raleigh at the State Medical Society convention, the eighth grader prepared the project under Lane Green and used rat experiments to illustrate cancer effects. The exhibit, awarded second place at the local Science Fair, goes on display in Raleigh until Wednesday.
State Rep. Ed Kemp of High Point will be guest speaker at the North Carolina Bakers Council annual meeting at Sedgefield Inn. Council executive secretary William C. MelIntire Jr. says Kemp will speak at a banquet marking the first day of the two day event.
John Richard Trotter a 25 year old resident of High Point drowned after a boat capsized on a lake off Highway 311 near Archdale Two companions Bill Warren and Sam White attempted rescue but Trotter disappeared beneath the water and was not recovered for over an hour His death was attributed to drowning Funeral services are planned at Glenola Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery.
Dr. Thomas D. Garner pastor of St. John's Church Nazareth Pa will give two addresses at the 24th annual meeting of the Southern Synod United Church of Christ to be held in High Point at the First Evangelical and Reformed Church Tuesday and Wednesday Approximately 300 lay and clergy delegates from 71 churches in Piedmont and Western North Carolina expected Speakers include Dr A R Keppl Dr Donald Dearborn Dr D E Faust from Catawba College Salisbury and others from Nazareth Children's Home Crescent and the North Carolina Council of Churches
Police investigated three automobile accidents Saturday and Sunday and charged three drivers. Raymond Wesley Shuford 61 of Route 1 Trinity was charged with drunken driving in a three car collision at 1005 a.m. Saturday. Miriam Johnson Morrow resident Lindsay Street was charged with making an improper left turn after a collision at 800 p.m. Sunday. Clyde Edward Henderson 21 of Sherrod Avenue was injured in a collision at 1140 a.m. Saturday and charged with speeding.
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