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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1953
Page
2
HAL BOYLE imagines if all churches closed and a sign reading Going out of business appeared. The piece argues a nationwide sitdown would spark a religious revival and overdue appreciation for ministers as they are forced to confront devotion, sacrifice, and the call to lead.
Former President Harry Truman headlined an all day Armed Forces Day observance at Fairfax Air Force Base in Kansas City Missouri. He planned to speak outdoors at 3 30 p m about defense without a prepared text. He has recently emerged from a political pause and spoke of defense starting from 1905 the year he came of voting age.
Senate Labor Committee Republicans, with one exception, tentatively agree on a formula to exempt strictly local business firms and public utilities from Taft Hartley. The lone dissenter is Sen Irving M Ives New York. The plan sets dollar thresholds for interstate commerce exemptions.
Washington report shows managers of 159 veterans hospitals say funding shortages are the most critical problem. Beds stay vacant, hiring of doctors nurses and dietitians is limited, and budgets restrict care. Subcommittee hearings and a Teague briefing highlighted the issue as replies to a House inquiry unfold.
A Boston based survey by Admiral Distributors shows metropolitan Boston homes have 720000 television sets and 719056 bathtubs, indicating more TVs than baths in the area.
Rain flurries spread across much of the United States under cloudy skies as the Southern Atlantic Coast held the sun. Galveston recorded 3.48 inches in 24 hours, with Lake Charles 1.98 and Texarkana 1.69 inches. Oklahoma City 1.35 and Jackson 1.14 inches. highs rose to 93 in Jacksonville Florida as unseasonably hot weather persisted on the South Atlantic coast.
Tar Heel editorial writers convene for their annual conference in Chapel Hill. Charlotte editor Harry Golden will address the group on The Conscience of the Editorial Page at a dinner session. Four critique groups are led by Shoemaker McKnight Ivey and Resch. Alan Barth and Louis Dey spoke at sessions. Reed Sarratt is program chairman.
Capt. Zach Dean of Douglas Kansas, the last repatriated American war prisoner to leave Tokyo, interrupted his trip to Honolulu for a belated honeymoon with his wife Abigail. The Deans, married in Tokyo in February 1951, had been apart eleven days since their wedding and planned three or four days visiting nightclubs and beaches. Dean was captured on April 22, 1951.
Rev. M. A. Pollard, formerly the church pastor, will preach nightly at 7 30 o clock from May 17 to May 24 with special music featured at each revival service.
Sunday services listed for Gospel Tabernacle and nearby churches include Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. and worship at 10:45 a.m. with a sermon on The Will of God Must Have Priority. Evening evangelistic hour at 7:45 p.m. Features youth fellowships and various midweek activities.
City Baptist pastors will hold their weekly meeting at the First Baptist Church at 10 50 a m Monday. All Baptist pastors are asked to attend.
The lesson-sermon on Mortals and Immortals will be presented in all Churches of Christ, Scientist next Sunday. The Golden Text is Romans 8 6. Services Sunday 11 a m and Wednesday 8 p m. Sunday School 9 45 a m. Reading Room open 3 to 5 p m Wednesday and Friday.
Sunday memorial services begin at 11 am with graveside flowers afterward. M C Wade, secretary and treasurer of the cemetery association, will collect dues. At 7:30 pm Rev Joseph Carroll, a ministerial student, will speak to the WYPS. Also at 7:30 pm the monthly missionary meeting is scheduled.
The church lists a full Sunday schedule with nine events including Morning worship at 10 55 a m and a 6 p m Directors meeting. Also notes WHPE FM broadcast and a 7 30 p m Evening worship. Weekday activities include Nursery night Boy Scouts Training Union meetings and adult study sessions.
Sunday School at 9 45 a m and morning worship at 11 a m with a sermon I am the Door by Rev Lloyd Sechriest. Wednesday mid week prayer meeting at 730 p m.
Radio programs on WHPE and WHPE FM include BB Green Pastures Saturdays at 7 p.m. The Christian Brotherhood Hour airs Sundays at 7:30 a.m. with WHPE and WHPE FM. Sunday schedule features Sunday School at 9:45 a.m. worship at 10:45 a.m. Youth Fellowship at 6:50 p.m. Evangelistic service at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday has church business meeting at 7:30 p.m. Choir practice at 8:30 p.m. Thursday hosts Daily Vacation Bible School instructors meeting. Saturday hosts annual Sunday School picnic at City Park from 2:45 p.m.
Sunday features 9 45 a m Sunday School and sermon on The Creation and Fall of Man. Youth Fellowship at 6 30 p m in the Recreation Room with Junior Youth in the Chapel. Quaker studies in the auditorium led by Mattocks Haworth and Rowe. Ministry and Council meet at 7 30 p m in the Clara I Cox room. Monday Workers Council meets at DeWitt and Nina Cooke home on Westchester Drive.
A sermon urging Christians to heed Paul's guidance from Thessalonians. It argues modern anxieties mirror ancient trials and urges faithful living, hope in the resurrection, and readiness for Christ's return. It cites Thessalonians passages about comforting the bereaved and the rapture to encourage steadfast faith.
A devotional reflects on Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy greeting the church at Thessalonica. It highlights faith, labor, hope, and mutual love as examples, urges quiet conduct, diligence, and good works, and ends with Pauls benediction and a call to perseverance amid persecutions.
Sunday activities include Communion at 9 30 a m Sunday School at 9 45 a m and service at 11 a m The MYF group meets with choir supper and evening worship featuring a sound film Visit To Corinth The life of St Paul Monday official board meeting Wednesday junior and senior choir practices and mid week service
Sunday includes church school at 9 45 a m and morning worship with the sermon What Are You Living For The vesper service at 5 30 p m features The Secret of Happiness followed by MYF snack supper and programs. The week lists meetings for Official board Susanna Wesley Class Brownie Troop Mr and Mrs Class Family night Wesley Hall Chapel Choir and Cub Scout organizational session.
Sunday services list 9 45 a m Sunday school 11 a m worship with The Master Workman Junior Youth Missionary Society meets at 11 a m Children story hour 6 30 p m Junior Youth service Senior YPS 7 30 p m Evangelistic hour Wednesday praise service and business meeting Saturday the local Pilgrim church joins Pilgrim Youth of the zone for a youth rally at Thomasville Pilgrim Holiness Church at 7 30 p m
The weekly schedule lists services and activities starting Sunday at 9 45 a m with Sunday School Regulation nursery for children 4 5 Sunbeams 4 30 p m Chorale 6 15 p m Training Union and 7 30 p m evening worship with William I Spradlin Jr speaker Intermediate and Royal Ambassadors programs run through the week with choir rehearsals Boy Scouts Cub Scouts and league meetings plus a Saturday children's choir rehearsal ahead of a festival.
A church week plan lists 9:45 a.m. Sunday school and 6:30 p.m. MYF supper with no evening service. Monday features a 7 p.m. Women’s Society and Weslayan Service Guild covered dish supper and installation of officers. Other days include Primary Choir, Spiritual Life Fellowship, Family night, Senior Choir, Bible study, and various youth and choir activities.
Sunday schedule includes 8 a.m. Holy Communion and Corporate for Youth, 9:30 a.m. Church School and Bible Class, 11 a.m. Litany and Ante-Communion by the rector. Wednesday features 10:30 a.m. Holy Communion and Intercessions. Rev. Thomas J. C. Smyth will deliver devotions over WMFR at 8:15 each morning this week.
Sunday schedule features Dr. Roy E. Watts preaching on Our Brothers in Black at 11 am with church school at 9 45. Senior and Pioneer Fellowships meet. Monday Women and Men of the Church dine and discuss with Dr. Harold J. Dudley as speaker. Wednesday prayer hour 9 to 10. Mid-Week Union Service at First Methodist on Alcoholism Is a Community Problem at 7:00 pm.
The article notes General Electric scientists have pursued a fully electronic, low‑cost air‑conditioning unit with no moving parts, targeting operation via tubes or solids. It discusses urban rush hours, a Toronto Tribune misread item, whooping cough mortality in infants, a resignation caused by removal, a cocktail origin, thumb pulse idiosyncrasies, UN Secretary General Hammarskjold, narcotics history, the Internationale hymn authors, and a caveat about 3D films affecting theater demand.
Emmanuel Lutheran posts a Sunday schedule with services, Sunday school and church activities. Events include Morning worship at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Evening worship featuring a foreign mission program. Weekday meetings include Boy Scout, Cherub and Carol Choir rehearsals and Brotherhood. A barbecue supper will feature Hawkins and Vaughn as speakers.
The church lists Sunday Bible School at 9 45 a m morning worship at 11 with a sermon on The Ordinances of the Church as Set Forth in Your Bible Youth meeting and study classes at 6 30 p m and Evening worship at 7 30 p m with a sermon titled The Great Tf Wednesday Hour of Power at 7 30 p m
Sunday schedule lists 9 45 Church School at both churches 11 Morning worship at Crestwood 730 Evening worship at Randolph
Lt Gov James B Allen finished a Bryce Mental Hospital tour and boarded a patient bus to the University of Alabama campus. An inspector questioned his identity and he admitted the error before leaving to seek another bus.
Georgia schools superintendent M D Collins explains how his eight siblings chose their names. He started as Mania Doc Collins at six, then Marion David Collins at sixteen to honor relatives, and finally Mauney Douglas Collins when he began teaching at twenty one.
The country editor comments on cinema drawing real box office appeal while noting partisan U S Senate discord. He says Democratic focus on the election wanes as Republicans quarrel. The remark frames entertainment value against political tension.
Honolulu engineer J Willard Edwards, creator of a 364 day fixed calendar, toured Japan last summer promoting his system. He reports strong interest from Japanese students and teachers while noting no one wants the responsibility to implement it yet.
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