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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1953
Page
2
Police reported a hit-and-run incident yesterday involving Julius W. Bryant a 33 year old Kernersville resident who said a bicycle or crash struck his parked car on North Main Street fender. No suspect was located by nightfall.
John Wesley Groce son of the Rev and Mrs J W Groce of 1007 Pine Circle Drive High Point will graduate cum laude at Asbury College Wilmore Ky among 170 graduates He plans to take up teaching as his occupation
Police jailed Isaac Kelly after he reportedly shot at a woman with a pistol. He posted a $200 bond and faces assault with a deadly weapon charge against Mary Dumas. A knife attack on Mardell McRae left her hospitalized. charges await her release. Beulah Palmer was bonded $150 for assault and disorderly conduct. A mixed verdict for Johnny Lee Griffin and Daniel Wilson faces trial June 8. A three year old girl was uninjured after a run‑in with a car near Vall Street.
Joseph Henry Loggins 81 resident of 412 Greer Street died at High Point Memorial Hospital Saturday at 1 45 after an extended illness. Born in McDowell County Kentucky April 8 1872 he worked at Highland Cotton Mills and belonged to Southside Baptist Church. Survived by five sons three daughters and numerous grandchildren. funeral at Spring Hill Methodist Church Tuesday at 11 A M with burial in the church cemetery.
Funeral services for John Amos Adams 23 of 109 Edgeworth Street were conducted Tuesday at 2 PM in the First Baptist Church by Rev. Albert S. Hale. Interment followed in Floral Garden Park Cemetery. He died aboard ship in Korean waters in February. Surviving are his widow Virginia Ann Kinsely of San Francisco, mother Mrs Mildred Bridges Adams Smith and stepfather Paul L. Smith, grandfather John H. Bridges, an aunt Mrs Thurmond Cook, an uncle Herbert Bridges, and two great aunts Dora and Stella Bridges. He had lived with the Bridges family prior to entering the service. Arrival of his body was expected Monday from California at 7:45 PM and was moved to Sechrest Funeral Home.
Funeral services for Joshua Daniel Wood 80 will be held at Oakdale Methodist Church Sunday at 4 pm with Rev T G Williams officiating. Interment follows in Sandy Ridge Cemetery. The body rests at the residence since Saturday 5 pm and will be moved to the church an hour before services. Wood lived in Jamestown since 1910 and worked at Oakdale Mills until retiring in 1933. He died Friday night at 11 03 after months of declining health.
Funeral services for Mamie Lee Hill Cagle 46 wife of Harvey L Cagle will be conducted at Clarksburg Methodist Church Monday at 430 PM. The body will lie at J C Green and Sons Funeral Home until 11 AM today then go to the home 219 Jackson Street. Interment in church cemetery follows. She died Saturday morning at City Memorial Hospital after a week long illness.
Funeral services for Mrs Janie Gray Graylick 80 will be held Sunday at Heidelburg Evangelical and Reformed church at 1 30 p m pastor Rev J A Palmer officiating The body stays at the McFadden home until 1 o'clock Interment in Holly Hills Cemetery The text also notes an expert's comment on a coined word tenigue from tension and fatigue.
Senator Joseph McCarthy travels by private plane from Dallas toward Acuna ranch in Mexico amid a hushed visit. He is accompanied by Clint Murchison Jr. and John Murchison with a Texas construction executive as an aide to the Democratic treasurer. Reporters are barred from viewing.
The mercury reached 96 degrees making May 30 the hottest day of the year and in the record books there. The U S Weather Bureau at the Greensboro High Point Airport reported the high for today at 96 degrees, beating the 1941 90 degree mark. Forecasters warned of more hot, humid weather expected Sunday.
T Edward Stubbs of J C Penney said a 50 ton air conditioning unit was installed but insufficient power prevented operation. The city will bring in transformers this week and the unit should be fully operational within two weeks.
George Robb of High Point North Carolina was elected president of the North Carolina Association of Plumbing and Heating Contractors at the close of the group's annual convention in Myrtle Beach South Carolina on May 30.
Police investigate the theft of a wagon taken from outside a Tryon Street grocery store. Clarence Sheen reported his two children parked the wagon while they shopped and found it missing when they returned.
Senator Mundt cited a Wallem and Company statement that the ship Perico was chartered in 1951 to load rice at Canton and on the return trip forced to carry 462 Communist soldiers to Canton under armed guard. The incident, tied to broader reports of ships used to move Chinese troops during the Korean War, prompted questions on red China trade and blackmail risks.
Memorial Day events span the globe with tributes in the United States and abroad. NATO commander Gruenther urges Western unity to avert civilization's collapse while Italian and Libyan ceremonies honor fallen troops. Ambassadors in France and Tripoli reflect on past wars and future peace.
LAS VEGAS Nov May 30 UP The Atomic Energy Commission will detonate an unscheduled device at its Nevada proving ground Monday morning to confirm research results. The blast may be the most powerful of 31 U S tests, equal to at least two WWII A bombs, and will end the spring Nevada series.
Tension grows as post armistice political conference in Korea heads toward the U N General Assembly if no agreement is reached. North Korean Gen Nam I called the U N provision inconceivable though not a final turn down. U S ambassador to Korea Ellis O Briggs continues meetings with President Rhee to sway support toward the U N position.
Churchill schedules six day talks spanning Europe the Middle East and the Pacific with leaders Nehru St Laurent Senanayake Memdzies Holland and Malan. Butler warns of hard times by fall due to a sterling payments crisis and a failed Washington trade-not-aid push could trigger a Western slump.
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