Children Of Vets to Get Schooling
The local county veterans service office offers application blanks for children of disabled or deceased veterans of both world wars to begin schooling in state colleges and universities. Merit-based scholarships are limited by the state statute with specific allotments for disability levels and wartime deaths.
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Veterans Service Office
State Veterans Commission
Veterans Administration
Commission
Seth
Weather forecast: cloudy and warm through Thursday
The Friendship bureau reports a cloudy and warm period with Thursday also partly cloudy and warm. Temperatures projected: high 85 tomorrow, high 83 today, low 55 tonight, low 45 last night.
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Friendship Bureau
Woman Overcome by Smoke From Bed Fire
Firefighters found an elderly woman unconscious on a bedroom floor beside a burning bed in a rooming house. The bed and mattress smoked heavily. she was revived with artificial respiration and oxygen at a hospital. Identity confusion arose between Mrs W A Jones and Etta Peel. The fire was caused by smoking in bed and damage was limited to the bed with water damage noted.
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Ak i Jones
Pose
Mrs. Jones
Jarrell
W. A Jones
Etta Peel
Woman fires three shots at Jamestown merchant then shoots self
A High Point woman fired three shots at W A Mathews of Jamestown's Mathews combination store, missing all and then shot herself in the chest. She was in critical condition at Memorial Hospital. State Patrolman E D Young arrived at the scene and described the sequence between Mathews and the woman, who was later identified as Mrs. Cummings. The incident occurred around 5 PM outside the store, with the weapon recovered near the victim. The paper notes Mathews and wife had recently married and cites further details on the confrontation.
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Memorial Hospital
Jean
North Main
Jamestown
W. A. Mathews
E. D. Young
Mathews
Burrows Mathews
Recorneas
Cum
Jean Cummings
High Point
Enterprise
Jim Jeffries
Gospel Preacher Attracts 7 000-8 000 Daily
Oral Roberts, 33, from Oklahoma, draws 7 000 to 8 000 nightly to tent meetings. He markets faith in God over theology and doctrine, stating his power lies in faith and inspirational speeches. The preacher asserts the times are right for a gospel revival.
Huge Gospel Tent Draws Thousands on Thomasville Highway
Roberts, a tall former football and baseball player, speaks with a gentle voice yet claims great magnetism as crowds gather at his gospel tent on the High Point Thom asville highway. Since the meetings began four nights ago attendance has averaged 7 000 to 8 000 daily with 1250 already converted.
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Roberts
High Point
Thomasville
Extra Work At No Cost For City Parking Lot Repair
City residents feared costly repairs as workmen tear up the Green Street lot. Thompson Arthur Construction says the base caused water collection and will fund all base improvement and re paving. City Planner Malcolm Little calls the setback unfortunate but unavoidable.
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Green Street
Thompson- Arthur Construction Company
Malcolm Little
Unemployment Office Closed for Confederate Memorial Day
The Unemployment Compensation Division will close tomorrow per manager Ralph Miller. Claims must be filed Friday due to the May 10 state holiday Confederate Memorial Day.
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Unemployment Compensation Division
Ralph Miller
Miller
Jamestown Municipal Races See Light Voter Turnout
Jamestown voters cast M votes in a light turnout election. Tom Ragsdale won unopposed for mayor. Council seats went to J. N. Williard Robbins Tilden RK. BE. Bundy and Roy Sullivan, the sole newcomer, who beat W. OC. Campbell by two votes in the April 24 primary.
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Jamestown
Tom Ragsdale
J. N. Williard
Robbins Tilden
RK. BE. Bundy
Roy Sullivan
Sullivan
W. OC. Campbell
Johnson and Tomlinson Defeated in Municipal Elections
Voters chose a mayor and five councilmen for two-year terms. L. R. Jarrett, Sr. defeated Tom Johnson for the fourth ward council seat 812 to 659, while C. T. Kennedy beat Bill Tomlinson 779 to 710 in the third ward. W. W. Rapp was elected mayor, unopposed for mayor pro tem, with Charles Eanes and Arthur Black also winning council seats. Green filled Lt. Curry Regan’s unexpired term and was unopposed in the first ward. Mayor Harry B. Finch did not seek reelection. The light turnout followed calm contests and sunny weather.
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Tom Johnson
L. R. Jarrett, Sr
Bill Tomlinson
Cc. T. Kennedy
Tomlinson
Kennedy
San
W. W. Rapp
Charles Eanes
Julius Green
Arthur Black
Rapp
Harry B. Finch
Green
Curry Regan
Charles
Jim Crews
Black
Reek Tes
Boswell
Luther
George L. Hundley
Election Board
Montgomery Kearns Contest Highlights Local Election
Dale Montgomery and Kearns staged a spirited campaign in the closing days. The League of Women Voters and the Junior Chamber of Commerce backed turnout while 3,204 votes were recorded for A. Lewis and the grand total 5454. The new mayor and council will take office at City Hall in a joint session next Tuesday morning.
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High Point
NEW City Council
Amos Kearns
Kearns
Arthur M. Utley, Jr
Yewry
A. Lewis
City Hall
Wrenn Street
WMFR
Neil
Dale Montgomery
Neill
Es Unns
Local Girl Receives Suspended Term in Larceny Case
A 17 year old Nancy P. Tysinger of 230 Clara Cox was sentenced by Municipal Judge D C MacRae to 12 months suspended on condition she stay with her grandmother and be supervised by the girls commissioner. She is prohibited from High Point without parents or grandparents and was charged with two counts of larceny immoral vagrancy reckless driving and no operator license.
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D. C. MacRae
Nancy P. Tysinger
Clara Cox
High Point
Frances Mull Wins World Peace Medal in School Contest
Frances Mull daughter of Mr and Mrs O H Mull of 909 Trenton Street won a gold medal for first place in the annual high school world peace study and speaking contest held at Senior High School. George Coltrane and Donnie Harris also spoke on How Can We Help to Build World Peace in the Atomic Age.
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Frances Mull
O. H. Mull
Trenton Street
George Coltrane
Donnie Harris
Ruth Goodman
Alice Page White
Martha Haworth
Jack Byerly
John Haworth
H Point Chapter
United War Federalists
University of North Carolina Extension Division
High Point Bar Association
The
World Federalists
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Joe Temple
Jess Washburn
0. A. Kirkman
Horace Ilderton
William D. Lewis
M. L. Patrick
Kk. W. Myers
Council
Mings
Se Mathews
Camm
Hd Baies
Fae Montgomery
Ape
Temple
Washburn
Hayay
W.lewis
Hedgecock
Darris
Bataee Ward
Russell
Oral Roberts
Thomasville Highway
Miss Mull
Haworth
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