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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1934
Page
3
The High Point DeMolay held a stag dinner at the Biltmore hotel with members attending from the Carolina theater. Plans for the annual Homecoming Ball were discussed and scheduled for Emerywood Country Club. The chapter announced the initiatory degree will be staged next week.
Grover Buie, charged in a March assault on his 16 year old niece Geneva Elkes, was bound over to the June term of Superior Court after a municipal court arraignment. Judge Teague found probable cause and set a $2,000 bond for the next criminal term. Elkes testified she rode in Buie’s car against her protests and feared reporting the incident due to his warning.
The Enterprise will publish Sunday May 18 a sixteen page rotogravure section depicting scenes at the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago. It will feature scores of photographs of exhibits and displays at the World's Fair including many scenes near Chicago. High Point readers who attended the Fair will recognize some of the images.
Tonight at 7 30 the Junior High School holds Parents Night with a one hour program showcasing school activities. Proceeds from a small admission go to rebinding and adding periodicals to the library. After the program, parents may visit rooms and discuss with teachers, with an art exhibit open to the public.
Dr. Ralph W. McDonald of Salem college is installed as president of the Schoolmasters club at a Winston-Salem meeting held at Calvin Wiley school. Dr. A. P. Kephard of Greensboro presided, and H. A. Helms led post banquet discussions on fiscal policy for education and North Carolina tax relations.
A. Kirkman chairman of the Guilford county highway safety committee of the Carolina Motor club spoke to about 60 commercial drivers and truck owners at High Point city hall urging proper brakes and equipment. Police Chief W G Friddle outlined a free safety institute to test brakes lights horns and other car equipment within the next few days with testing zones planned.
In Goldsboro NC on May 10, observers note colossal pines in Duplin County and Maury Wood plantation. Forester R W Graeber records a 44.5 inch diameter tone leaf pine 110 feet tall with first limb at 50 feet. Comments include traffic safety efforts and local anecdotes about logging and a far reaching Kempton village.
Drought conditions devastate strawberry and truck crops in Bladen Brunswick Colum and neighboring counties including South Carolina. Plants shrink, berries die, and harvests lag behind last year with many growers unable to pick due to the heat and drying fields.
In HOPESTOWN Illinois on payday Mayor Walter Trego collected 50 cents and aldermen two bits each as the town celebrated its incorporation in 1877.
Toronto inventor Henry McCardle unveils an electrical control unit to detect intoxication. The device estimates inebriation by measuring oxygen levels based on a breath sample from a glass rod, with a meter indicating the degree of drunkenness.
Mrs Lanier of Norfolk reports long indigestion headaches and low spirits. The ad promotes Miller's Herb Extract Herb Juice as the genuine original herbal laxative and urges a bottle from Cecil Drug Co in Tulsa Oklahoma.
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