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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1947
Page
2
A C54 transport of the U S Far East air force departed Shanghai with five tons of cholera serum supplied by the Chinese government. The serum will be kept ready in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, to combat a potential outbreak during the Mecca pilgrimage.
In Providence Rhode Island on November 14 a fierce explosion and fire injured thirty nine people two critically as about 400 fled the bowling recreation center, flames rushing through a 150 by 120 foot building. Witnesses described windows blown open and panic as bowlers sought exits amid the blaze. A note mentions a dessert of pears with Camembert cheese.
Washington officials said a bumper national wheat crop is possible next year despite seeding delays in the Great Plains. A USDA report notes about half of Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado and New Mexico remain unseeded as of November 1 due to dry weather, but prospects look strong in the Pacific Northwest, Rocky Mountain states and the east.
Grand Rapids voters will witness the Daniel Boone Turkey Shoot on November 22 and 23 where marksmen must aim at dead turkey heads protruding from crates rather than live birds, changing the target for the annual event.
Governor Earl Warren, California’s only two party nominee chief executive, enters the Republican presidential race with two limits. He will not campaign actively or seek delegates elsewhere, but may allow California to place his name before the national convention. He rejected a second place on the ticket and would not pursue the vice presidential nomination.
Bridge teachers gathered at the Hotel Pierre in New York for the first postwar convention since before the war. The article highlights Mrs. A. Leonard Guitar of St. Joseph Missouri and a sample hand showing how East can force defense and set the contract, with comments on bidding and lead choices.
Dr. H F Easom, superintendent of the Eastern North Carolina sanatorium at Wilson, is named president of the fourth district medical society. He succeeds Dr. Claiborne Smith of Rocky Mount. New officers include Dr. Howard Foster of Norlina as vice president and Dr. Robert M Whitley of Rocky Mount as secretary treasurer.
Eastern standard times are listed with a note to subtract one hour for central and two hours for mountain zones. Stations may adjust relay to fit local schedules and last minute program changes are not included.
Radio and network guide lists daily programs from 6:00 to midnight including News at 6:15 and 11:00, sports features with Red Barber and Bill Stern, dramas The Thin Man and The Sheriff, variety acts with Fanny Brice and Spike Jones, interview programs Meet the Press and Guesta talks, and several music and comedy segments across CBS ABC and NBC networks.
At the North Carolina health education conference in Charlotte on November 14 speakers urged expanding health facilities and education. Frank Webster of Raleigh, Dr. Hamilton McKay of Charlotte, and Dr. Vane Hose of Washington spoke on hospital capacity and public health service. Kyser urged pooling resources for better health in a banquet transcription before about 150 attendees.
Funeral services for Mrs Bessie Rebecca Woodle Hedrick 48 former resident of 308 Reid Street Thomasville were held Thursday at 3 PM at First Pilgrim Holiness Church with Rev F W Henry Rev T C Vaughn Rev W L Cockman and Rev T R York officiating Pallbearers included Dayton Jones Bruce Jones Ray Woodle Emmitt Woodle Oscar Smith and Sid Smith Interment followed in the Thomasville City Cemetery Administratrix notice issued for the estate of Mrs Jewel Atkins Guilford County North Carolina requests creditors to present claims within one year from first publication.
The Right Reverend Henry Knox Sherrill bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church finishes a southeast goodwill tour with a Sunday sermon at St. John’s Episcopal Church Wilmington assisting in the arte-communion service by Bishop Thomas H. Wright of the Carolina diocese retired bishop Thomas C. Darst and rector E. W. Hallack. He is accompanied by C. M. D. Davis president of Atlantic Coast Line railroad and church council member.
Dr. Hugh J. Morgan of Vanderbilt University will address more than 100 physicians from across the state at a dinner opening a regional meeting of the American College of Physicians. He is president of the national group and served as chief medical consultant for the U S Army during the last war.
William Barrett Taylor 58, formerly vice president of Taylor Brothers Tobacco Corp. in Winston-Salem, died Wednesday in a Jacksonville hospital Florida. He reportedly suffered a heart attack a few hours before death. Relatives here have been notified.
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