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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1952
Page
2
A Mullins blonde named Mary Alice Floyd was honored as Strawberry Queen at Chadbourn’s festival. Frances Bone Edwards, a 20th century graduate from Columbia College in Washington, D C., attended as a guest.
B Bass 25 of Route 5 Thom asville was hospitalized May 2 with a bullet wound to the hip after a high speed chase with High Point officers L Dawkins and L Stallings. He posted 700 bond for a June 30 Municipal Court hearing while recovering. Bass faced charges including assault with a deadly weapon in the course of the chase and gunfire toward officers during the pursuit.
Soviet and East German forces dig trenches set roadblocks and fell trees along the Czechoslovak frontier to clear a 1,600 foot no man’s land and establish a three mile wide zone. German inhabitants will be moved from the dead zone as authorities claim to deter Western sabotage and prevent escapes to the West.
City merchants launch a mid June promotion to honor fathers. Each store will invite customers to register dads for a prize and display the gift in the storefront window the week before the drawing. Drawings occur at 4 pm Saturday with winners announced in Sundays Enterprise. Out of town registrations eligible.
Mrs. Ambrose G. Smith aged 55 died early this morning at Reidsville hospital after a six month illness. She is survived by her husband four sisters and is the step mother of Mrs. W. E. Mitchell and A. Glenn Smith of this city. Funeral services are set for 4 PM at the First Baptist Church in Reidsville.
Senior Class members at High Point High School may attend a talk tomorrow afternoon at State College Raleigh about the Furniture Manufacturing and Management course. Professor E Sigurd Johnson will present the program from 1 30 to 3 o'clock with Foscue noting his role in starting the course. Also mentions root pressure lifting sidewalks due to tree growth.
Forty two cattle were readied at the City Water Plant for the Chamber of Commerce show. Calves will be paraded at 10 a.m. and sale begins at 1 p.m. with buyers from across the state expected to bid. Calves weigh 800 to 1100 pounds and ribbons will be awarded after judging.
A confusing report describes repeated dog and boy bites near 1033 Street. Investigator A J Hines notes the four year old David Lee Laws and another boy unnamed as victims, with vaccination status mentioned and the Lake area near Sebestest on York noted in context.
Friends of Hazel and Frank Freeman Hope residents of James town regret the death of their infant daughter Jan et Creech Hope at High Point Memorial Hospital this morning. Surviving relatives include a sister Lee Ann and the maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Sidney J Creech of Burlington and the paternal grandfather Rev R V Hope of Burlington. Graveside services will be held at Alamance Memorial Park Cemetery in Burlington this afternoon at 5 o clock.
The Moravian Concert Band of Winston-Salem will give a concert at Memorial Hall Sunday afternoon starting at 2 30. Local residents E N Carter and Frederick Tyler will be included as band members. The event is sponsored by the City Recreation Department.
Wade S Weatherford Jr a congressional hopeful named his six year old son Wade S Chip Weatherford III as campaign manager marking the youngest campaign manager in history. The boy pledged to provide sound advice on all occasions.
Washington dispatch reports about 400000 postal workers facing no pay this weekend unless Congress approves quick funding. Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson orders all postmasters to withhold future pay including their own until further notice, linking the issue to President Truman's steel mill seizure and a tied up appropriations bill.
In Greensboro seven men charged with a $50,682 bank robbery in Leaksville on April 17 are slated for federal court trial next week. District Attorney Bryce Holt said the criminal-assignment is set for June 2 as scheduled.
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