Andrews Seeks New Junior High School Building
About 500 junior high patrons gathered for Parents Night as Superintendent T Wingate Andrews urged support for a new building to relieve crowded, aging facilities. Local leaders praised the school while lamenting the 36 year old plant's inadequacy and hinting at upcoming action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. Wingate Andrews
Andrews
W. A. Copeland
John
Ranson
Myrtle Titman
Titman
Ira Hensley
Virginia Frank
L. L. Stookey
Maxwell Jones
City Schools Music Faculty
S. P. Keziah
Gurney Briggs
Marian Burgess
Sonny Boy
Henpecked Hero to be staged by Has Ty Hill students
The Has Ty Hill dramatic club will present A Henpecked Hero tomorrow at 7 30 in the school auditorium under the direction of Mrs L F Honeycuit. Cast is drawn from Junior and Senior Dramatic clubs.
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Hasty Hill School
L. F. Honeycuit
High Point
Musical Art Club
American Theater
Catherine Wade- Smith
Donald McGill
Police Search For Missing Man From Bangor Maine
Chief of Police McGhee reports a missing man William N Harmon of Bangor who vanished from his South Surry summer home March 5 after a fire there. He has amnesia and is described as about 40, 5 10, 180 to 200 pounds with black hair, red beard, 712 shoe, baker by trade and may seek work at garages.
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McGhee
John K. Farrar
Bangor
Maine
William N. Harmon
South Surry
Harmon
Six-Foot Club Demands Bigger Beds and Theaters
A London group called the Six-Foot club protests for larger beds roomier theaters higher buses and ready made clothes. Members range from six feet one half inch to six feet eight inches tall and meet monthly to discuss the world’s unkindness to tall men.
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London
Six-Foot
Big Jump in High Point Taxable Valuation Over Two Years
City records show a $2,256,031 rise in taxable value this year to $48,141,425, with real estate at $38,582,098 and personal property at $3,398,614. Officials cite increased property and business activity, noting $6,260,713 in corporate and personal listings and warning of underreported personal property.
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High Point
Knox
North Carolina
Glider Week Push Beckons City Businesses
National Glider Association urges High Point Chamber to back National Glider Week November 18 to 23 with publicity and support a national program to train one million glider pilots by 1935. The note stresses gliding as a path to aviation and future aircraft markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point Chamber of Ecommerce
National Glider Association, Inc
Edward S. Evans
Detroit
Board of Commerce Aviation Committee
National Glider Association
Germany
United States
The
Glider Association
Extension Dental Course Being Given in North Carolina
Dr. R O Schlosser of Northwestern University Dental School lectures this month for the 1929 postgraduate dental course jointly run by the North Carolina Dental Society and the University Extension Division. He conducts classes this week in Kinston Raleigh Greensboro Winston-Salem and Charlotte.
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Chapel Hill
N. C
R. O. Schlosser
Northwestern University Dental School
North Carolina Dental Society
University Extension Division
Schlosser
Kinston
Raleigh
Greensboro
Winston-Salem
Charlotte
Bigger Turnips On Ladd's Farm
Winston Salem news reports L. C. Ladd of Yadkin County sent a turnip to John T. Benbow postmaster weighing five pounds fourteen ounces after hearing a four and a half pound claim. The tale frames Ladd as a turnip enthusiast while noting the postal scales confirmed the larger weight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winston-Salem
L. C. Ladd
Yadkin County
Local plane flight ends in storm and return to High Point
Lieutenant George Clark piloted a charter flight with A. T. Wishart and P. C. Penn from High Point to Fort Worth. Storms over Louisiana forced a return to Tallula, then Montgomery and finally High Point. Wishart and Mrs Wishart remained in Fort Worth. Clark and Penn completed the journey in four hours and eleven minutes. Post office building expansion plans gain federal approval as Washington visit continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Clark
Charles Kenner Flying Service
A. T. Wishart
P. C. Penn
Fort Worth
Texas
Clark
Jackson
Mississippi
Forth Worth
Louisiana
Tallula
Mr. Wishart
Mr. Penn
High Point
Mrs. Wishart
Montgomery
Alabama
Atlanta
Will Seek Quick Action for New Post Office Here
Postmaster O R York City Manager E M Knox and Secretary F J Sizemore of the chamber of commerce sail for Washington to push insertion of 350000 for a new High Point postoffice in the general appropriations bill. They will confer with congress members and the postoffice department and return later this week. York already courted Senator Overman and department officials, reporting favorable replies and bright prospects for the item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury Department
High Point Postoffice
North Carolina
Congress
Washington
O. R
Senator Overman
General Appropriations Committee
Senate
Department
York
Bill Bright
Post
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National Music League, Inc
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Plymouth Dealers
Commerce
Willowbrook
Ring Drug CO
Wachovia Bank
Perpetual Building & Loan
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High Point Perpetual Building & Loan Association
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