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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1958
Page
6
Local items cover election chatter about Jabber Lanier and his uncle in a sheriff race, fall foliage views around Wallburg and Lexington Avenue Extension, and farmers tending grain after Thursday rains. Denton sewer plant progress, Harris brothers plant plans, and a Denton Fall Festival praised. Kerrersville taxi franchise terms end with no service, a student stock ing misread, and Denton water works bid day humor as bids opened.
Gov. Orval Faubus pledged never to reopen the Little Rock high schools on an integrated basis unless the people vote for it. He warned the federal government would have to enforce any reopening, and said he would continue the fight with Washington as he spoke to about 5,000 at a senior citizens picnic in Crestview Florida.
The article notes early American sculptors Hiram Powers Horatio Greenough and Thomas Crawford as the first native figures in U S sculpture, marking a pivotal moment in the country’s artistic development.
Gov. Hodges will launch four prelegislative conferences in Durham Kinston Waynesville and Salisbury to brief Tar Heel lawmakers on the governor's study commissions. Public sessions start daily at 3 p.m. with open attendance and no push for a legislative program. The governor also attends Piedmont Airlines prop jet service ceremony in Winston-Salem and Formica Flakeboard plant opening in Farmville.
The text states the distance from Brownsville at the Gulf of Mexico in Texas to the northwest corner of the Texas Panhandle as 801 miles. It describes a coast to plains route across the state.
Funeral services held for James V. Gunter 53 at 812 Morris Street and Glencoe Church in Rockingham County with interment in church cemetery. Other services noted for Samuel Edward Hoover 39 formerly of High Point, Emma Willey Jarvis 84, and related interments and arrangements in local cemeteries.
Firemen reported two calls yesterday involving oil space heaters. At 4 10 p m on Newton Street the smoke pipe separated from an oil heater in R H Hubbard’s residence. At 5 37 p m a smoking oil circulator prompted a response at Mrs Sue Kearns’s residence on Kearns Street. No damage reported.
Funeral services for Mrs. Annie McDaniel Rudd 80 wife of George T. Rudd will be held today at 4 p m from Koonce Funeral Home Chapel Reverend E W Price Jr pastor of Green Street Baptist Church will officiate Interment in Oakwood Cemetery She died in Baptist Hospital Winston-Salem Saturday morning at 1 o'clock after four months ill health and three months serious condition She resided at 408 E Russell St The body will remain at Koonce Funeral Home until the service time
Citywide report shows 17 persons killed and 0 injured this week. Year to date totals list 627 killed and 4 injured across all accidents with property losses noted.
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