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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1959
Page
9
The forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies and light rain Tuesday. Tonight will drop to 46 with a high around 56 tomorrow, then cooler through Thursday with some clearing. Temperatures average 3 to 6 degrees below normal, with a normal high of 59 and a low of 43 last night.
Dr. W Kenneth Goodson of Charlotte opens a week long preaching mission at First Methodist Church with a 730 pm sermon titled I Have a Candidate He outlines Christ life from birth to crucifixion and burial noting sin as the big issue He asks what happens if Christ wins or loses and urges faith in Christ for a vote He continues with morning and evening talks through the week naming topics and times.
Harold Thomas of Auckland New Zealand Rotary International president arrives for his first High Point visit. He will address the High Point Rotary Club at the Sheraton Hotel and later meet 36 club presidents from Local Rotary District 769.
Firemen responded to a sprinkler triggered alarm at a warehouse on West Commerce and Tomlinson streets at 8 23 this morning. Investigators found no fire and noted water in sprinkler pipes. A later call at Rockspring Road and Pinehurst Street was deemed a malicious false alarm with no fire found. A seven year old girl near the box denied tampering.
A Midway Drive-In theater report describes a man who said the Lord directed him to pay five dollars as restitution for slipping into the cinema as a child. He insisted the contribution go to the theater, though staff suggested giving it to the mission that helped convert him.
Three men released on bonds totaling 1050 pending a December 7 Municipal Court hearing on nine counts. Jefferson Johnson 56 Daniel Wilks 29 and Lawrence Moffett 38 face disorderly conduct resisting arrest gambling and related charges. Seven High Point officers conducted the raid.
Randolph County Sheriff Wayne Wilson and deputies arrested six people over the weekend in a bootlegging crackdown. Those charged were Clara Frazier with seven quarts, Alva McKinley Cobb with 82 gallons, Minnie and Gladys Caviness with a small quantity, Claude Cheek with one gallon, and Sterling Wilbur Allen with one gallon. Each faced charges of possession or possession for sale of non tax paid liquor.
Gov Hodges led a 17 hour delayed tour to Europe with businessmen from High Point. Dowdy and Phillips say the trip could relocate a toy maker to the area and boost European shipping through North Carolina ports. Phillips warns the port may become crowded while Hodges praised the diplomacy and promised follow up with European firms. Local contacts included meetings in Hamburg Munich and Paris with executives and a potential plastic tile producer.
Mrs Jewel Cruthis of 207 Lawndale Dr remains in Memorial Hospital after a wreck that killed her sister Mrs Juanita Collins Hardy 34 of the same address. Hardy died on arrival from a crushed right chest. The crash occurred about 12 15 a m near Highway 311 Service Station Forsyth County. The two women were thrown from the car as it left the road into a ditch. Funeral services set for Harold C Davis Chapel with burial in Floral Garden Park Cemetery.
A Sunday crash injures James Belton of Freemont Street who is listed as doing nicely at High Point Memorial Hospital. The accident occurred when a car driven by James E. Padgett failed to negotiate a curve on Kivett Drive, hitting a tree and causing about 500 dollars in damage to the vehicle. Padgett was cited for failure to reduce speed. A second collision at Taylor and Grayson streets involved John Mills and Sanford Ball Jr., with Mills cited for failure to yield right of way. about 500 dollars in damage to Mills’ car.
The week’s building and repair permits reached 459000. The YWCA at Thurston Street by J R Graham & Son costs 335049 and a Vall Street recreation center by the same firm cost 35000. Other permits include additions at Harris Covington Hosiery Mills 18000 and Bivens Caldwell office 17000. Residences include Walter Gibson Wendover Hills 18000 and 1606 Laurel Lane 20000 and 217 Woodbury Street 4500. Repair permits total 11650.
Bobby Dale Lomax 29 of Route 1 Jamestown bound over to Superior Court on fraud charge for allegedly setting fire to a dwelling. Bond set at 2000 after testimony. Lomax living at Robbins Avenue residence owned by Hilton Realty Co. Janice Dockery 17 pleaded guilty to assault and remains in custody pending Domestic Relations review after scratching officer Toliver during drunkenness arrest. Three men fined for liquor violations. Betty Sue Taylor given four month sentence suspended for five years plus 75 fine and costs for liquor possession of two gallons non taxed whisky.
Moscow radio reports a special apparatus built to detect cancer in early stages. Inventors say the device uses sonic waves that reflect differently from diseased versus healthy tissue, according to the London AP dispatch.
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