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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1956
Page
21
A memorial service for the Rev D Boyd is set for 11 a.m. at Central Christian Church. Boyd helped found and locate the local church and died Thursday morning at his home 27 Home Place West Oakland.
The High Point area launches the High Point 10-A Jamestown and Guilford Fire Departments join a house to house canvass from Nov 18 to 24 to raise funds for the Muscular Dystrophy Association nationwide campaign. Co chairs Eugene Clement and Carl R Shelton announce local support and patient services funded by donations.
Sherman Aycoth, executive secretary of the High Point Merchants Association for two years, resigns effective December 1 to become assistant at Good Will Publishers in Gastonia. Dick Culler, the association president, notes the group has strong membership and finances. The Aycoths reside in High Point with four children and attend Wesley Memorial Methodist Church.
Rev. Donald Kuhn of Washington D C will head High Point College religious emphasis week. He will speak publicly lead devotions and advise students Sunday through Wednesday under the theme Making College a Vocation. Kuhn is a Oklahoma native and former Methodist church leader with the National Board.
The Student Christian Association outlines a week of activities led by campus leaders. Highlights include Memorial Auditorium assembly with Rev. Kuhn, informal Coke party, WHPE radio broadcast, vespers, and evening dorm discussions led by student presiders across Monday to Wednesday.
This fragment from This and That by Forrest Cates riffs on husband tactics and misadventures from laundry starch to pie jokes and tireless tires. It also lampoons soap operas and camera woes while sharing a second grader’s unedited store request in a playful newspaper column.
Police report two separate mishaps left Mrs. Ida Yow injured and taken to High Point Hospital after being struck by a car while on Montleu Avenue. The driver was identified as William Jackson Wardell, 30, of Meadowbrook Street. no charges were filed.
Dr. Donald S. Huber son of Mr and Mrs Walter C Huber of 719 Forrest Ave leaves High Point Tuesday for Okinawa and the Far East after internships at Charity Hospital New Orleans and service as a Marine lieutenant His education traced from Duke University through 1954 when he earned an MD He will rendezvous with other doctors in Memphis and travel by car to San Francisco then fly to the Far East Police and hospital reports cover separate local accidents with minor injuries and vehicle damages in the city notes including an Olga Street resident Doug las Archer and others involved in two car crashes on Brookhall Road S Main and E High Streets and Gordon Street Cedrow Avenue near 11:50 am complete information on injuries and fault varies
Guilfora County Welfare Department appeals for beds clothing dishes and utensils for a large High Point family of 5 months to 16 years. Father works but income is limited. Four room home lacks running water and bathroom. three beds and only three forks. Donations can be left at West Green welfare office. call 3446 to arrange. Thanksgiving goal set by welfare worker.
About 150 people gathered at the Civic Center in Thomasville for the annual Deaf and hard of hearing social hosted by the First Baptist Church Sunday school. Attendees from North and South Carolina enjoyed a menu of turkey dressing and gravy with a gabfest after games, while many planned to stay with friends after the event.
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