High Pointer of the Week Mrs Silas McBee
Mrs Silas McBee has served as a mentor to 60 to 80 nursing students yearly at High Point Memorial Hospital School of Nursing for nine years. She works as dormitory councilor from 4:30 pm to about 9 am, aiding emergencies, easing homesickness, and supporting studies. Her leadership spans dorm duties with Mrs Mina K Wilson and earlier choir mother roles at St Mary's Church. Born Helen Elizabeth Meroney, she grew up in Mocksville, trained as a nurse after Mitchell's College and Long's Hospital, and married Silas McBee after illness interrupted her training.
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Robert Marks
Silas McBee
High Point Memorial Hospital
School of Nursing
Boulevard
Ers
McBee
Mina K. Wilson
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church
Snow Studio
Tich
Odell Hardware Store
Mocksville Hardware Co
Meroney
Mocksville
Mitchell’s College
Statesville
Long’s Hospital
Capus Waynick
High Point
Mother's Day
the Enterprise
Mothers Day
Mother
Guy Fisher
It's A Great Fair by Jenkin Lloyd Jones
A controversial NYC World’s Fair piece lauds the exhibit’s imagination and scale while criticizing press kit shortages and travel-editor behavior. It praises 51 nations displays, GM Futurama ride, Ford Disney display, and Michelangelo’s Pieta, framing the fair as a bold $100 million gamble and a symbol of free society.
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Jenkin Lloyd Jones
New York City
Chicago
Flushing Meadows
Council On International Expositions
British Commonwealth
Ussr
Bangkok
Thailand
Kowloon
Hong Kong
New York
General Motors
Ford
Disney
Michelangelo
St. Peter’s
Rome
Vatican Pavilion
Christ
Egypt
America
Sally Rand
Billy Rose
Bob Moses
Poems and letters on mothers and local issues
A readers poetry tribute to mothers titled My Mom expresses longing and gratitude for mothers’ love, while Town residents respond to Urban Renewal Reed Street worries, defend property rights, and note local travel cautions in High Point and a tourist overlook of Blue Laws.
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Horton
Enterprise
Reed Street
City Street Department
W. W. Horton
the Enterprise
High Point
N. C
R. A. Peatross JR
Richmond
Virginia
Firsts Mark Springfield Friends Meeting History
Springfield Friends Meeting celebrated its 191st birthday amid a record of northern Carolina Quaker firsts. The Springfield site hosted the state's first normal school and first model farm, both established in 1867 after the Civil War.
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Springfield
Normal School
Model Farm
Friends
North Carolina
South Carolina
Indiana
Bush River
Guilford County
Baltimore
Baltimore Association
Joseph Moore
Moore
Agriculture Department
William A. Sampson
Maine
Nathan Hunt
Guilford College
Alien Jay
Protests Grow Over Hazardous Highway 109 in Davidson County
Thomasville and Denton residents along Highway 109 criticize the aging 20 mile route blaming faster newer cars and young drivers for repeated crashes. Denton Mayor Joe Taylor says talks with highway officials are underway as petitions circulate to speed improvements. Local editor notes rising injuries and deaths this year with 10 000 more injuries versus 8 000 last year and calls for immediate action.
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Thomasville
Denton
Joe Taylor
Jimmy Glenn
Winston-Salem
Highway Commission
Chair City
Tod
Junior
Davidson County
Motor Vehicles Department
Firemen Train With Realistic House Fire Drill
Curtis Smithdeal invited Willow Creek golf course sponsors to watch Wallburg firefighters train in a house provided for practice in Abbotts Creek Township. Crews set up problems, simulated rekindled flames, and demonstrated fog nozzle effectiveness while bystanders watched. Plans for an 18 hole course include lakes and swamped creek edges, with completion aimed before year end. The Piedmont Research Station will host a May 19 small grain field day in Salisbury County, focusing on varieties and fertilizer. Tobacco transplanting has begun as summer nears.
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Willow Creek Golf Course
Abbotts Creek
Davidson County
Wallburg
10-A
Curtis Smithdeal
Willow Creek
Piedmont Research Station
Salisbury
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London
Crystal Palace
Philadelphia
Corliss
Henry Adams
Pat Fisher
South
Robert
Herbert Skeen
Shell
Silver Valley
Marvin
Burts
By Braxton
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