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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1942
Page
6
Peggy and Fay scheme during a tense island weekend as Baldy clashes with them about moving to New York. Nigel misses Fay, while Peggy uses listening as leverage and contemplates coordinating to trap Michael and Fay together. To Be Continued.
Mrs. Banks C Rogers hosted a bridge party at 505 Woodrow Avenue to honor Miss Virginia Bennett the bride elect who will wed Ross Armsworthy of Thomasville soon. Prizes included guest soap and soft handkerchiefs with refreshments served to a guest list of Bennett family and friends.
High Point College music department presents a year finale recital in the college auditorium under Miss Vera F. Whittock. The program features the college choir, Girls' Chorus, and community student soloists with Mozart and Gretchaninoff works, a Negro tune and Irving Berlin medley. A piano, organ, and cello lineup includes Elinor Younts, Dorothy Coltrane, and other local singers and instrumentalists. After the program, the College Choir hosts a Blair Country Club party. alumnae are invited.
Mesdames Laurance Ingram and Robert Hubbard led top scores at Emerywood Country Club’s ladies bridge luncheon. East-West high scorers and contract players also honored with savings stamps. Club hostess Mrs E T Howard and a gala luncheon preceded a series of duplicate club games and Family Night dinner planned for the weekend.
The Lottie Holden Bible Class will meet tomorrow at three o'clock with Mrs. C.F. Runday at her Newton Street home. All members are urged to be present.
Reader tips promote Kellogg's All-Bran as a mild remedy for constipation caused by low dietary bulk. Regular intake with water aids normal elimination by acting on the contents of the colon rather than drawing moisture from elsewhere. If no improvement, seek a doctor.
Mrs Elliott S Wood won low gross with 96 and Mrs Sidney Larter took low net 98 20 78 while Miss Jean Hardin claimed low putts during Ladies Day at Emerywood Country Club. About twenty five women golfers played at nine AM with luncheon afterward in the clubhouse. Mrs George T Wood chaired the meeting and announced handicaps would be refigured before the next tournament.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars meets Wednesday evening. The Tea and Ladies Club gathers Thursday at Mrs E S Wall s Hillcrest Drive. Family Dinner Night at Emerywood Country Club requires reservations by Thursday noon. Friday hosts Philomathean Club at Mrs H A Millis North Main Street and Mrs V D Sale Jr hosts Canterbury Club at Otteray Drive. Saturday features a luncheon for Mrs John Lumpkin at Lindsay Street and bridge at Mrs B Francis Hendrix s West Howell Street.
The Business and Professional Club of the Y W C A held a supper meeting at the Adams building. Reports on the Regional Conference in New Orleans were presented by Mrs Hamer Miller. Plans were made for a June 16 dinner honoring Miss Nelle Ansley, with a $10 navy relief contribution approved.
Miss Betty Cummir il hosts the MU chapter of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority for its regular meeting at her Edgedale Drive home this evening starting at 1 30 according to a late announcement.
Domino Club members honored Mr and Mrs Bob Hoskins at a Friday buffet supper at Owen Ritchie's Rivett Drive home. Mr Hoskins departs soon for U S Army duty. After supper guests enjoyed cards and informal dancing with members and guests including Bamalis Guarvino Gibson Vance Wall and others.
Mrs Elizabeth H Covington and her brother Welch Harriss traveled to Baltimore to be with Harriss Covington who will have knee surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital tomorrow morning following a liner injury suffered while playing baseball. Audrey Anita Shaw born here yesterday to Mr and Mrs Fred R Shaw.
Mr and Mrs E P Jacobs of Greensboro Road spend the week in Portsmouth and Norfolk with Mr and Mrs J D Heilig and Odell Jacobs. The trip followed a visit to Bowers Hill Va as the party traveled. a normal domestic social item with scattered names and places. A sheriff remarks on a six page complaint about a dog bite incident, noting dog behavior and the overlong document.
The Blair Park Clubhouse unit of the American Legion Auxiliary held memorial rites for two deceased members Mrs Margaret Pegram a Gold Star Mother and Miss Abs Alice Pitts a War Mother. Officers elected included Mrs Leigh Starnper president and Mrs C B Stainback vice president. Delegates chosen for the department meeting in Asheville next month were Mesdames Tom Bates N W Williams John Raper Ro L Waynick and C B Stainback with alternates named. Plans for Memorial Day grave decorations and Poppy Day were announced along with sponsorship of a Girls State participant by the Auxiliary and Kiwanis. A program on child welfare was also presented.
Miss Eva Ward of Asheboro and Tracy R. Wallace of Clarkton wed in a ceremony in Washington DC on April 27 with L V McLean officiating. Wallace, a Navy man, will base in Asheboro after a short honeymoon as Ward works in an Asheboro textile plant. A second couple, Miss Mary Elizabeth Lawrence and Lewis Carlton Chriscoe, tied in Coleridge with Rev James H. Trolinger officiating and will reside in Asheboro. The third item notes Lula Mae Hammond's engagement to Victor Albion Sprague, of Brooklyn, announced by her Asheboro parents.
May 20 Davidson County officers arrested Steve Cody a resident near Thomasville who escaped a prison camp near Carthage two weeks earlier. He had been serving six months for reckless driving and license revocation. Deputies Green Kennedy Myers Kasler and Captain Crotts of the State highway camp caught him at Cody s home.
The United States Marine Corps announced the enlistment of James A. Reece of 206 Venable Street and George A. Moser Jr. of 113 Thurston Street High Point into the Leathernecks for the emergency duration. They report to Marine Barracks at Parris Island for initial training. The service also notes a change allowing former World War I veterans to be appointed private first class for limited guard duty, while civilians and those without prior experience are named privates.
Diamond and sapphire rings valued at 2082 dollars were stolen yesterday from a Charlotte jewelry store. Detective Chief Frank Littlejohn said Tom Barren of Gastonia would be charged with grand larceny. Six rings were found in Barrett Snockers when he was arrested in the uptown business district. The jeweler did not know of the theft and an inquiry was made by officers.
Special to The Enterprises from Thomasville details invite notices for two weddings of Margaret Louie Cook to Thomas Mclean Sumner and Virginia Mae Cook to Frank Simmons Lambeth at St. Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church New Orleans on June 19 1942. Lambeth son of James and Mrs Lambeth of Thomasville works with WMFR radio in Thomasville. Sumner son of Wood Sumner of Louisville is finishing studies at University of Louisville. The report also covers Garden Club activities, local social events, and community notices in the town.
Actor Lew Ayres says after two months in an Oregon conscientious objectors camp he hopes for noncombat work in the Medical Corps. He notes he has not been in the Army long enough to know his preferences and fears assignment to a combat unit. Meanwhile a Missouri incident reports a canceled 300 coed trip to a Fort Leonard Wood dance due to a tire emergency, prompting a War Department protest.
Homestead Florida May 20 Two trucks loaded with dynamite from Birmingham Alabama to Key West collided eleven miles north of the city causing a massive explosion. The blast cratered the highway and destroyed the vehicles. One driver and a passenger escaped. Names given include O W Cox 39 of Verbena Alabama saying the dead were called Junior Bates and a man named Waites.
An eclectic wartime radio schedule lists programs across CBS NBC and local stations. Entries include news bulletins, dramatic serials, music programs, comedy sketches, and sports segments featuring Amos and Andy, Captain Midnight, News from Wart, World War broadcasts, and various orchestras and dance bands.
In Philadelphia a four foot chicken snake allegedly swallowed a china nest and endured a tummy ache. Curator R Conant explained snakes typically swallow then break shells, but china eggs do not. He attempted to extract the decoy as it went back the way it came.
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