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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1945
Page
10
Governor Cherry told Trenton high school seniors that this generation is best equipped to tackle global issues in a May 19 commencement address. A separate item notes 30,000 pounds of poultry shipped from Durham to servicemen overseas.
In Rockingham UP-MC McLeod was re elected mayor and the five member board of town commissioners were returned. In Maxton Edwin Pate of Laurinburg was elected to succeed Francis Coxé as chairman of the Presbyterian junior college trustees. In Lumberton R A Hedgepeth, eight year board member, was elected mayor succeeding Harold A Collins. Cast iron was first made in Sussex in 1350.
Dr. Joe H. Hankins delivered a powerful sermon on The Greatest Joy of Earth or Heaven at Green Street Baptist Church. Twelve people publicly professed faith, with Dr Hawkins urging believers to win souls and bear burdens for the lost as Calvary’s cross eyes on salvation and judgment. He announced tonight’s 7:45 p.m. service on Sailing On the Right Ship and Sunday topics How Much of the Bible Do You Believe and How Much Are You Worth.
Washington May 19 John L Lewis and anthracite operators race to finish a new contract to resume mining for 72,000 idle Pennsylvania hard coal workers. If agreement is reached today mining could restart Monday as old agreement expired May 1. Key issue is apportioning a $1.37 daily pay rise across travel time, shift differentials, vacation pay and lunch time. Interior Secretary Ickes proposed the increase and has overseen idle mines.
Bern Switzerland May 19 UP Hitler wanted to kill all American and British prisoners in the closing days of the war a nazi official told Prof Carl J Burckhardt president of the International Red Cross committee Burckhardt spoke after a press conference noting the difficulties of aiding prisoners and the impossibility of entering German concentration camps He did not name the official but may have referred to Ernst Kaltenbrunner Hitler lacked power to enforce such wishes and the Himmler group did not carry them out.
In municipal court Dewey Davis aged 22 of 1009 Tate Street received a 12 month sentence for abandonment and non support. The sentence was suspended on pay terms to his wife of $20 every two weeks and it may be modified. Davis paid half the court costs.
Aachen Germany May 19 The ghost of the Weimar republic haunts shuttered schools in occupied western Germany As classes restart next month they will cover four grades and 600 pupils under American supervision A panel of parent citizens selects a school director of mixed German Jewish blood and 20 000 copies of a beginners reader and arithmetic book are printed from Nazi era texts under supervision while Germans resent Allied planning for education across zones and question future university level schooling The piece compares wartime education policy to international politics and notes a broader trend toward Germany’s reeducation as a political football
Medical primer explains hypothyroidism signs such as puffiness dry skin and hair loss. It discusses basal metabolism tests blood cholesterol tests and thyroid extract therapy with caution on dosing and potential delays in treatment. It also covers queries about tuberculosis epilepsy and high blood pressure with brief author responses.
Funeral services for Mrs Amanda McNeill of High Point will be held Sunday at 3 30 PM at Union Grove church with Rev William C Livingston officiating. Burial in Union Grove cemetery near Seagrove. She died yesterday at her daughter’s home in Ashington DC and is survived by her stepdaughter Mrs Hal A Hepler. In Thomasville Ra ron Crawford Dies. Funeral at First Pilgrim Holiness Church Sunday
Funeral services for Luther L. Swaim aged 35 were held Friday at 4 p.m. from Archdale Methodist church with Rev. O L Ruth and Rev. W B Penny officiating. Mike Tuttle sang as a vocal soloist and a trio performed two selections. interment followed at Floral Garden cemetery.
Nearly 20 individuals and groups in the city designated memorials or special gifts for the new High Point Memorial Hospital. Twenty three rooms or departments will bear names as subscriptions totaling 144000 to the building fund are acknowledged by hospital superintendent W R Peters.
Lt Col T Linus Hoban, held in a Brunswick Germany prison camp, was expected to run for re election to the Lackawanna county common pleas bench. Democrats planned a sticker and write in campaign for the imprisoned jurist.
Ritter's Lake property a 61 acre resort famed for swimming and fishing near Greensboro sold at public auction by Penny Brothers Land Co. The sale drew a large crowd despite rain and brought 32 145 dollars. W Ingram and B F Joh Greensboro bought main lake equipment and bid nine thousand dollars for the pool. Others bidding included A Brown Wade Edwards C Cecil O R Morgan and H Campbell Greensboro Smith and M C Lamb man.
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