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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1951
Page
14
In Pulaski Tennessee a mother worried about her soldier son in Korea enlisted the Red Cross. A field representative located Pvt. Alex Harwell on the front and prompted a letter home. The note said he is alive and well with a stark line about duty and danger.
Community notices from Piedmont area churches groups and organizations include lodge meetings at Odd Fellows Hall revival at Mountaine Baptist Church led by Rev Gary Lincolnton officials scheduling public services for Mrs Martha Akins in New London funeral in Hoover's Funeral Home open calls for Hossanna Tents 326 and WOOF to burn out Sunday gatherings and St Matthews Usher Board meeting details for Thursday plus auxiliary posts and post events All items are non violent civic notices with dates and places where available
Friday meeting with Mrs J W Carter and social hour at 9 30 PM as Post members gather. May 20 tent revival on Meredith Street led by Bishop Headen of Winston Salem announced by Elder Garl ington. Gary Eugene Tate celebrated second birthday with a May 13 party hosted by Mr and Mrs James Tate. Attendees included De Vee Stat David Sheaby Marva London Ronnie London Barbara Lovette Faye Lovette Edward Tate Thomas Tate Johnny Low Betty Low and Ronnie Beta Dianne Baum. Reverend W A Jones of Mars Hill to preach at St Paul Baptist at 3 PM Leroy Johnson of Winston Salem to speak at Mt Vernon Baptist Friday at 8 PM.
The County Rural Progress Campaign begins June 1 in North Carolina, promoting farm and community development statewide through prizes for communities rather than individuals. Sponsoring agencies include the State College Extension Service and Farm Bureau, with aims to strengthen farms, rural schools, churches, recreation, and local organizations.
Work has begun on a new nuclear reactor building at North Carolina State College in Raleigh. The facility, first of its kind outside restricted AEC areas, aims for completion early in 1952 and will attract scientists for research. It will produce radioactive elements for medical, industrial, and fundamental science use, with results to be published.
Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, assistant secretary of defense, told a Winston-Salem dinner that the nation's fate may hinge on how manpower is used. She urged advancing the preparedness program to ensure enduring strength and staying power, noting the acid test of stamina today and tomorrow. She denied plans to resign as Armed Forces Day activities highlighted her visit.
Detroit line says Walter Lundberg, 58, was thrown from a speedboat during a sharp turn. The craft circled back twice and struck him, causing drowning as deputies report the boat stopped after the final impact. Rescuers arrived too late to save him.
During World War II eight million blood donations were transported in traveling ice boxes from blood banks to processing labs across all temperatures. The SS President Jackson, a new luxury cruiser, boasted a speed of 19 knots enabling a world circumnavigation in about fourteen weeks.
A North Carolina prisoner testified that an Asheville bootlegger entrusted him with 160000 dollars in cash in 1946 while at the North Wilkesboro prison camp. The witness linked Fred Allen Simpson and six others to a conspiracy to defraud the government of about 750000 dollars in alcohol taxes.
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