City to Auction 20 Tracts in Largest Sale in Years
The City of High Point will auction 20 property tracts at 11 a.m. Monday at city hall. Most parcels are industrial with notable residential listings. foreclosures for taxes and street assessments financed the holdings. Starting bids range from 150 to 3,000 dollars across numerous blocks and streets including Wrightenberry English Ward Sunset and North Hamilton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Wrightenberry Street
Burton Street
English Street
Ridgecrest
Ward St
East State Street
Moffitt
Hamilton Street
Dayton Street
Sunset Drive
Clyde Street
Davidson County
Main Oo
Hammer Street
Ward Street
Southern Railroad
Carr Street
Hedrick Street
Chandler Street
Emery Street
Hillcrest Drive
English Aereen Streets
Whittier Street
Whitehall Street
Hedgecock
Willowbrook and
Taylor Streets
Willowbrook Street
Gas odor absent but death linked to manufactured gas
Report notes no gas odor but explains death may result from ordinary manufactured gas. It states the victim's blood absorbs an element of the gas causing tissue change.
Colorless Topaz Once Mistaken for Diamonds
The article notes that for years colorless topaz was confused with diamonds, highlighting historical misidentification and the evolving understanding of gemstone clarity and value.
A L Hazzard And Son Face Trial On Assault Charge
A L Hazzard and son Marion Grayson Hazzard go on trial in municipal court for assaulting Wade P Renfrow at a local football game on October 21 1945. Witnesses and evidence were in progress as the docket moved through various guilty pleas and minor offenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. L
Marion Grayson Hazzard
Wade P. Renfrow
Renfrow
Clyde Bogar
Negro
Hilltop
Marvin Otts Bollinger, Jr
East Washington
Steele Streets
Paul Morgan
Louise Martin
Ernest Kersey
Raymond Cundit Mabe
L. D. Cox
Henry Fritz
E. S. McGhee
David Campbell
Piedmont Apartments
Clyde W. Cox
Jamestown
Willie H. Winslow
Rt. 2
Thomasville
Fred Dixon
Leonard Street
Aslee Williams
Jessie Richardson
Dassie Gregory
Louise Ethel Lewis
Radio Workshop Resumes Classes With Talks Tonight
The radio workshop resumes at Bay Street School at 7 30 tonight with Pat Taylor of WMFR speaking on Business and Radio and Tom Evans discussing Advertising Agencies in Radio. Betsy Saunders says the session will interest business people and attendees will register for announcing directing speaking dramatics and script writing courses. Voice audition schedules will also be finalized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay Street School
Pat Taylor
WMFR
Tom Evans
Betsy Saunders
Community Radio Council
Miss Saunders
Elks Host Ladies Night Dance With Orchestra
The Elks club invites wives sweethearts and guests to an informal dance Saturday from 8:30 to midnight. John Peddicord and his orchestra will play favors for the women guests. Hosts Mrs and Mrs McCain assist as hostesses while Wayne Sullivan Baron Andrews C N McCain Horace Ilderton and J M Thomas head the committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elks Club
John Peddicord
Wayne Sullivan
Baron Andrews
C. N. McCain
Horace Ilderton
J. M. Thomas
Permits Issued For Two New Residences
City building inspector issued permits for two houses this morning. Grover L. Dunn at 154 South Main will build a brick veneer one story seven room home on East Farriss costing about 10000 dollars. Mr and Mrs Coke Trimnal at 912 Barbee road will build a one story five room frame house at 914 Barbee street costing about 5000 dollars.
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Grover L. Dunn
South Main
East Farriss
Coke Trimnal
Barbee
Barbee Street
Jaycee Scrap Paper Drive Opens Sunday
The Jaycee sponsored scrap paper drive begins Sunday at 1 p m with trucks canvassing city residential areas to collect magazines newspapers and cardboard boxes. Proceeds go to the Jaycee scholarship fund at High Point College.
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Chamber of Commerce
A. Jaycee
High Int
Jaycee
Baker's
Archie Myatt Resumes Law Practice Here in High Point
Archie Myatt returned to High Point after more than five years in the army where he rose to colonel and served on General MacArthur’s staff. He will reopen his law practice in the Security National Bank building with Mrs Myatt and children joining him later from Chattanooga.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archie Myatt
Army
High Point
Security National Bank
Rupert Pickens
Myatt
Chattanooga
Tenn
Col
Fort Bragg
First Army Corps
Fichelberger
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
ASA
Pacific
Japan
United States
Philippines
U. S
Col. Myatt
Guam
Wake County
Thomasville Mayor C. M. Hoover Sr. Dies at 121 Salem Street
Charles M. Hoover Sr. prominent Thomasville resident dies after extended illness at his home. Born April 17, 1867 in Davidson County he served as mayor for Thomasville and held longtime roles with the Main Street Methodist church and Hoover Chair company. Survived by wife Eva Leach two sons Charles Jr. and James, daughter Theresa and one grandchild. Body remains at Green Funeral Home pending arrangements.
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Thomasville
Charles M. Hoover
Salem Street
Davidson County
P. A
Margaret Holmes Hoover
Eva Leach
Hoover Chair Company
Lexington
Charles M. Hoover, Jr
James Hoover
Theresa Hoover
The
Green Funeral Home
Fire Extinguished In Home Of Wilbur Jones
A smouldering fire of undetermined origin last midnight charred one room and choked with smoke the house of Wilbur Jones near Emerywood golf course on Rockford road before High Point firemen extinguished it. Most furniture in the den was removed. the fire did not spread. Jones, sleeping upstairs, was awakened by smoke and helped fight the blaze until responders arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilbur Jones
Emerywood
Rockford Road
High Point
Jones
Car Stolen From Park Way Near Sheraton Hotel
Mrs. Louis Tanner reports a 1940 black LaSalle sedan stolen from near the Sheraton hotel after 7 p.m. yesterday. The car, locked, has not been recovered by police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Tanner
Parkway
High Point
Sheraton Hotel
Tanner
Skyway Club Officials Head to Cleveland for National Air Show
Skyway club President Ed Lewis and Vice-President Robert D. Reed depart Fraley Field for Cleveland Ohio to attend a national air show starting tomorrow and running through November 25. They fly in Reed’s two place Taylor craft stopping in Roanoke Virginia Marlington and Wheeling West Virginia en route and plan a return to High Point on November 17 if weather cooperates.
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Ed Lewis
Robert D. Reed
High Point Skyway Club
Fraley Field
Cleveland
Ohio
Reed
Aviation Club
Roae
Marlington
Wheeling
W. Va
High Point
Quebec Breweries Dominate Canada's Output
Quebec hosts eight of Canada’s 73 breweries yet accounts for about half the country’s beer production. This concentration highlights the province’s strong brewing capacity compared with others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Quebec
Police Report Shows October Crime Increase Over Last Year
Major offenses in October rose from the previous year per the police department. Aggravated assault reached 24 cases this October, totaling 221 for the year. Burglary, larceny under 50, and auto theft also rose with notable income figures and recoveries listed.
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Tenteen
Funeral services for S W McKinney held Sunday
Samuel Wesley McKinney 57 died at his High Point residence after two years of declining health. Born January 20, 1889 in Basin West Virginia, he worked 15 years for Carolina Container Co. Surviving include his wife six daughters and four sons. Funeral at Union Tabernacle prospect street conducted by Rev Clay Childress and Rev W H Barker with burial in Mechanicsville cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Wesley McKinney
High Point
Rt. 5
Basin
W. Va
James
Alice Mills McKinney
Carolina Container Company
Iwana McKinney
Letha Sifers
Essie Sifers
Whipple
Ethel Wood
Beckley
Beulah Moore
Opal Persinger
Oak Hill
James McKinney
Jack McKinney
Vincent McKinney
Amigo
Earl McKinney
Dallas
Texas
Martha Winston
Montcalm
George McKinney
Herndon
Robert McKinney
Akron
Ohio
Arthur McKinney
Chicago
Union Tabernacle
Prospect Street
Clay Childress
W. H. Barker
South Side Baptist Church
Koonce Funeral Home
Mechanicsville Primitive Baptist Cemetery
New Scout Troop Formed at North Main Baptist Church
A Boy Scout troop has been organized at the North Main Street Baptist church with Doug las Mashburn as scoutmaster. Sponsored by the men's Bible class under D. O. Ward. Meetings every Monday at 7 in the men's classroom. Boys 12 and older who wish to join are welcomed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Main Street Baptist Church
Douglas Mashburn
D. O. Ward
USES Reverts to State Control After Tomorrow
United States Employment Service facilities shift from federal to state administration on November 16. Ralph E. Miller says the local office will operate under the North Carolina Unemployment Compensation Commission starting November 15 with no staff changes and new state hours. Mason E. Swearingen notes services remain the same and six point program continues in the High Point area. Topaz and citrine are November birthstones.
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United States Employment Service
Ralph E. Miller
North Carolina Unemployment Compensation Commission
North Carolina State Employment Service
Miler
Mason E. Swearingen
Greensboro
Winston-Salem-High Point
High Point
Aae
Paul Webster Smith Called To Maine Funeral
Paul Webster Smith of 1118 Council Street left this morning for Portland Maine where he accompanied the death of his father Burton Smith who died after a brief illness Funeral arrangements were completed as he departed
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Paul Webster Smith
Council Street
Portland
Maine
Burton Smith
Smith
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City
A. L. Hazzard and Son
Radio Workshop
Elks
Furniture Exposition
Southern Furniture Manufacturers
Jaycee Scrap
C. M. Hoover, Sr
Skyway Club
Breweries
S. W. McKinney
North Main Baptist
Miller
Eversharp
Elwood Hotel
Wagger’s
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