Hickory Chapel Church Buys Education Building For Parish
Hickory Chapel Wesleyan Methodist Church completes a two story twenty room education building planned after a 1950s fund drive started by a black washwoman. The $25 000 project by contractor J C Putman will include Sunday School rooms office and choir loft with use expected by February 1. Members raised over seven thousand dollars in a day and paid off ten thousand dollars in debt on the main church in September.
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Kivett Drive
Hickory Chapel
J. C. Putman
J. Walden Tysinger
Wesleyan Methodist Church
Tysinger
Bundy
Putman
Glenn Guyer
C. Lloyd Brower
Avery Hester
Ernest Taylor
M. C. Wade
E. M. Witcher
Ira Hutchins
Rosenbergs face death sentences after ethertrial
Peiping radio reported the Allina Federation of Labor cabled President Truman protesting the death sentences awaiting Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the Americans convicted of passing atomic secrets to Soviet Russia. The report also noted the average 2 pound sugar beet contains 14 teaspoons of sugar.
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London
Peiping Radio
All Ina Federation of Labor
Truman
Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg
Soviet
Russia
Halloween Scenes at City Carnival Spark Nervous Gaze
A top picture shows a youngster nervously eyeing two spooks during High Point Halloween Carnival. A pie eating contest is pictured at bottom. The events were sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and City Parks and Recreation Department. City officials called it one of the most orderly Halloweens in High Point.
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Chamber of Commerce
City Parks and Recreation Department
High Point
Enterprise
Duke Sororities pledge five high pointer students
Five high point girls at Duke University’s Woman’s College joined 13 national sororities in the pledge list. Betsy Brandon Gamble of Hillcrest Drive pledges Pi Beta Phi, Anne Paulineau of Johnson Street pledges Zeta Tau Alpha, Barbara Anne Reid Terry and Follener Reid Terry of North Main Street join Alpha Chi Omega, and Peggy Ann Tobias of Edgedale Drive pledges Alpha Epsilon Phi. There were about 200000 college teachers in the United States in 1951.
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High Point
Duke University
North Main Street
Alpha Chi Omega
Peggy Ann Tobias
Sam Tobias
Edgedale Drive
Alpha Epsilon Phi
Lambeth And Amaker Named As Patrolmen
The city promotes two new patrolmen announced by Police Chief C. C. Stoker. John C. Lambeth, 22, of 800 Mangum Avenue, just discharged from four years of Navy service, is married with a son. William T. Amaker, 29, of 1115 East Washington Street, formerly with the State Alcoholic Beverages Control staff for about 18 months, is the other appointee.
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C. C. Stoker
John C. Lambeth
Mangum Avenue
Navy
William T. Amaker
East Washington Street
Amaker
State
Alcoholic Beverages Control Staff
Missing Auto Located By Traffic Officers
Police reported yesterday that they found an abandoned automobile in the 400 block of Fast Russell Street reported stolen earlier from Howard Auto Finance Company. Investigation continues to determine who used the car. Another hub cap theft occurred after midnight last night. Donald Staton of 706 Kearns Street reported two caps were taken from his car after he parked it around 1 a.m.
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Fast Russell Street
Howard Auto Finance Company
Donald Staton
Kearns Street
Bells to toll hourly on Tuesday for vote turnout
High Point churches will toll bells every hour all day Tuesday as part of a get out the vote campaign by the League of Women Voters. Mrs. J. T. Warren urged residents to consider election day while they hear the bells and then vote in the polling booth.
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High Point
League of Women Voters
J. T. Warren
League
Real Bird Prank Delivers Pigeons to Rural Mailboxes
Rural New York mail carriers discovered a pigeon in each of twenty mailboxes after pranksters released birds from boxes opened by George Merrill and Frank Fellows in the community.
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Scott, N
George Merrill
Frank Fellows
New York
About 30 Million Students in United States
A historical note cites roughly thirty million students of all types in the United States, reflecting broad access to education across public and private sectors during the period.
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United States
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