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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1951
Page
7
A female Army and Air Force recruiter will visit the local Post Office building on the second floor tomorrow. The office will cordially accept women interested in enlisting, with appointments and information available at the local recruiting office.
Mrs. Jimmy Thompson will entertain at her home 821 Montheux Friday at 8 oclock with a dessert bridge in honor of Mrs. Bert Morrow Jr the recent bride.
Saint Edward's Guild will serve a baked ham supper from 5 30 to eight o clock in the Guild Hall on Montlieu Avenue. The public is invited to attend.
The Wild Flower Garden Club will meet Thursday at 7:30 PM at the home of Mrs. Melvina Martin on Otteray Drive. Associate hostess will be Mrs. Harvey Matthews.
The Union Hill Home Demonstration Club will hold a meeting at the home of Mrs. Floyd Fulp on Thursday at 1 30 in the afternoon.
The Mexican hedgehog cactus endures droughts of up to five years without water. When rain falls, its central pithy tissue floods and swells to nearly twice its normal size, signaling rapid rehydration.
The column links the Runyon Awards with cash prizes and coverage of cartoons and sports writing. It notes MacArthur's Waldorf residency, Arthur Jr. fashion tidbits, a price list for tires and beef, a Duke Ellington Runyon Fund concert rescheduled to June 20, and various socialites, marriages, and personal intrigues involving the Coles family, Rita, Manville, Betsy Sherman, and others.
The Thomasville Council on Religious Education votes to suspend its local schools program for one year due to funding needs and the resignation of Miss Naomi Howie, a 12 year Bible teacher. Classes will resume September 1952. New officers named include Walter Newby as president and Wilson Hunt as vice president.
City brief announces two First Aid training sessions for Red Cross Motor Corps Disaster Division volunteers. Classes led by Mrs. Inez Clark meet Thursday at 9:30 a.m. at the Red Cross Chapter House 109 Thurston Street. another session next door at Sechrest Funeral Home at 7:30 p.m. Those interested may call the chapter house or Mrs. Wayne Livan for details.
L. L. Ray director of Foundations at State College spoke to the Civitan Club. He highlighted North Carolina farms, cotton tobacco and peanut crops, and noted State College’s world ranking among textile schools. The club voted to send officers to the Jacksonville convention. Guests C. H. Williard and W. B. Hall Jr. attended. Wilson Rogers won the attendance prize.
The text notes French Guiana became a prison colony in 1852 and mentions reforms abolishing sentences to the colony. It references a modern occupation by DP's recruited by the International Refugee Organization, though the full context is unclear.
Harold R. Beckley explains the secretive process by which transcripts from the Armed Forces Foreign Relations Committee hearings reach reporters. Stenographers transcribe in five minute relays, then mimeograph copies are censored and distributed to press groups, with costs borne by buyers.
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