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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1950
Page
9
Guilford County election records show 1,814 new registrations in High Point as part of a two week period. Officials note no major changes are expected in total turnout. Greensboro and surrounding rural areas added 1,191 voters in the same span. The final High Point tally reached 11,217 voters after recent registrations.
J. O. House, president, led over 245 men at a First Baptist church banquet in Kotte. Dr. C. C. Warren spoke, L. B. Og acted as toast master, and Wood’s quartet with Bobby Carrigan Hall, Jack Kay, and Noel provided music. The Woman's Missionary Union served barbecue. House appointed the new minister and the group voted to meet monthly on the Monday after the last Sunday.
Mrs Jennie Duryea of Seamaeae will headline a Women’s Society of Christian Service event at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church. The talk on Conditions and Needs in the Near East will run 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with Mrs Arthur Kale and Mrs Jack Shasas guiding arrangements and devotions.
Large number of entries in the Enterprise Pick The Winners contest delays announcing weekly winners until Thursday after noon. Prizes remain available after tomorrow afternoon. Four weeks remain in the contest with this week's games already listed. Next week winners will be announced on Wednesday as usual.
Dr. Dennis H. Cooke and Dr. E. J. Coltrane of High Point College travel to Wilson for the installation of Dr. D. Ray Lindley as Atlantic Christian College president. They will join a 2:30 Board of Education meeting in Kinston and participate in related events and fundraising discussions with church leaders.
High Point college enrolls 777 students this session with 171 veterans, 101 fewer than last session's 272. Registrar N P Yar borough notes the drop and says veterans’ maturity had steadied campus life, while draft and deferments shift focus toward study and future careers.
A truck swerved to avoid another vehicle and struck a parked car on Beamon Street causing about 155 dollars in damage. The driver was Roy T. Hire of Winston-Salem Rt. 2 and the struck car owner was Herman Forbes of 402 Harrison Street.
Civil action seeks 2500 damages from Henderson and Mooney Manufacturing Co for two and a half years of sawdust and shavings blowing onto Kennedy’s property. He testified waste filled his driveway up to four inches and even appeared snowlike before a separator and furnace were installed. The case arose alongside a separate collision suit filed by G. M. Beck against Leon Sharp with claims of 900 and 600 in damages respectively.
Civil action from E. L. Hobbs against Louella Hobbs seeks an absolute divorce on separation grounds. The fragmented text also mentions wildlife like armadillos crossing a river and odd references to nests and winter homes, though details are unclear.
City of High Point will raise transmission voltage from 2400 to 4160 volts at four distribution points Linden avenue Southern avenue Commerce street and North Main street under a contract with Duke Power. The change aims to cut power loss and save money, with payback expected in two years and no replacement of main lines needed. Additional equipment will be purchased, and costs are not yet exactly determined. Power loss averaged six percent, nine percent in October.
Six students from Junior High win honors in a poster contest judged from over 200 entries. Winners in Mrs. Jeannette McArthur and Miss Mary Martin classes include Marilyn Pruett Anne Hicks Shirley Ann Turner Barbara Ellington Caroline Roberts and Nancy Rogan. Prizes were donated by Hugh Smart.
The assistant manager of a local chain, D. R. Powell, was jailed on embezzlement charges after $1,500 vanished from three money bags. Bond set at $2,000. Powell, of McLellan Stores at Highinton, claimed not to know what happened to the missing funds during a transfer to the bank.
City workers will observe Armistice Day as a holiday. The High Point hospital remains in doubt. Mrs. Whitaker, widow of the late Dr C L Whitaker, suffers a collapse since the start, while members of the High Point association of Life Underwriters attend to matters.
Joe Brown recounts High Point Halloween celebrate last night with a downtown parade and church entertainments. Neighborhoods near the college followed the traditional trick or treat pattern with no major tricks reported though some trash cans were overturned in a few spots.
In Thomasville on November 1, former Senator William B. Umstead urged Democrats to back state representative candidates and stressed the ballot as essential to government and freedoms. Local figures including Charles Mauze and Charles Hagan spoke on fitness for office and re election efforts.
Thomasville city council met for the third time to consider changing a residential zone to an industrial district. The session followed a deadlocked second meeting as councilmen, residents of Carolina avenue and Liberty drive, and C. M. Wall and Sons Box company sought a compromise. The zoning commission submitted a report urging action in citizens’ best interests, but no report had been filed previously due to claimed lack of quorum. The council refused to act without a written zoning report.
B. Dean named director of works for the City of High Point arrives to assume duties. He plans to find a home soon while his wife remains in South Carolina.
The Friendship weather bureau logged a 47 degree low last night, the lowest in the state. Forecast calls for a high near 85 today, one degree above yesterday's peak, with a low around 50 tonight.
Stockholders of the High Point Randleman era railroad approved leasing the line to the Carolina and Northwestern railroad at a Monday meeting. R L Eddington secretary said a seven year lease of the Southern Railway System money stockholder in both sides, transfer of the lease does not affect the railroad's corporate identity or local operations from High Point to Asheboro along a belt line south of the city. The line handles no passenger traffic.
Mrs. Sarah Cody Cash of 412 Winslow Street reports her husband, a Navy serviceman, has been evacuated to a Tokyo hospital after injuries from a C119 Flying Boxcar crash on October 12. He has regained consciousness and is recovering satisfactorily from a fractured rib.
The Bolta company with offices here, distributors of plastic products to the furniture industry, is holding a meeting tonight at the Sheraton hotel starting at 6 30. Manufacturers have been invited to attend the dinner meeting and inspect new patterns designed for promotion during the winter furnishings markets.
Police report heavy vandalism in Emerywood during Halloween with 16 fire calls in 24 hours. Fire crews battled leaf pile blazes fueled to reach woods, endangering homes while 30 to 40 street lights were knocked out. Two youths cited for misbehavior and several drunkenness cases noted. downtown crowds deemed orderly.
Thomasville held a citywide Halloween street party with contests and parades sponsored by the city recreation department and the Junior Chamber. Prizes ranged from 50 cents to a dollar for costumes and cats, with few disturbances besides a reported assault on Nathaniel Mack, a 50 year old Black man, who was hospitalized. Dan Carlton Fills, 28, Nine National Highway, faces an assault with a deadly weapon charge.
Thousands lined Main and East Washington streets for a wild Halloween celebration with parades, stunts, and prizes. A three year old in blue with a lace parasol drew wide notice among costumed crowds. police reported few arrests and the fire department logged fourteen alarms amid light damage from prankish leaves and fireworks.
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