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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1959
Page
11
High Point police struggle to identify the adult or adults who sexually assaulted two young girls last week. Capt. W C Johnson urges parental vigilance and public help to prevent further incidents, noting one child was with two playmates when abducted on the way to nursery school.
More than 20 local churches schedule Thanksgiving services this week. Most are Thursday with nine at tomorrow evening including Lebanon Methodist Jamestown Randolph Presbyterian Archdale Brentwood Baptist First Reformed and Emmanuel Lutheran Churches and First Church of God. Tomorrow evening services run 7 30 to 8 15 p m with a 7 45 Salvation Army and 8 15 Main Street Methodist. Thursday 10 a m services at Providence Wesleyan Methodist First Presbyterian First Methodist and St Marys Episcopal. First Baptist at 8 a m and Wesley Memorial 9 a m Crestwood Presbyterian 9 30 a m. Ashland Street Free Will Baptist Archdale 7 p m. The Rev Henry H McFadyen retired of Oak Ridge preaches at Brentwood Wednesday 7 30 p m with a social hour after in the Fellowship room.
A list of more than 50 proposed street name changes in High Point will be reviewed at a council committee meeting tomorrow after approvals by the planning and zoning commission. Public hearings preceded the plan, with residents clashing over several proposed names. The session also includes talk of creating executive training posts for police and fire departments.
A Protestant chapel altar at Corpus Christi Naval Air Station was dedicated to Cmdr. Hubert D. Hill a naval aviator who died last April at 41 The altar funded by base congregation honors his service and his family including wife Beverly and four sons Chaplains James L Carter and Worthington Campbell Jr led the memorial service last spring.
In Okmulgee Oklahoma a man named Johnston who once had a one car family ends up with two cars after buying a new family auto. His wife now has her own transport when a gift car arrives, delivered to the Johnston driveway via Mrs. Johnston’s mother.
Four automobile crashes reported yesterday afternoon in High Point caused a total of 1230 in property damage. Incidents included a Mangum Avenue rear end involving Richard Weatherly and Donald Grace, an Emerywood Court North Main Street collision with Grace Crowder and Harrell Matthews, a Rotary Drive pole collision by Rexford Proctor Jr, and a parked car rear impact on North Main Street involving James Greene and Harold Hager. No serious injuries noted.
Glenn Foy Wiley appealed a four month sentence for driving while revoked after fines were noted as ineffective. Richard Latimore seeks a jury trial on indecent exposure. Mary Bailey received a four month suspended sentence for liquor law violation with conditions. Claude Brown involves a theft linked whisky purchase. Wade Johnson receives suspended sentence and damages payment for injuries in a fight connected to the same incident.
J H Mourane a Jamestown School faculty member since 1948 was named Exchangite of the Year by the High Point Exchange Club for his work on club projects including the crippled children program and shut in party. Lester Morgan was last year’s honoree and guest speaker Tully Blair of Security Life and Trust Co Winston Salem spoke on The Last Mile with the line Within ourselves lie the hopes of ourselves. Guests and members attended with their wives.
The revival series led by Rev. Charles Manuel and Rev. Paul Blankenship will run each evening for the next three weeks at Park Street Methodist Church.
A devotional prayer asks God to draw near this day and guide the anxious soul. It seeks steadfast strength through divine truth and enduring love, ending in Jesus name. Reverend Charles M Crowe of Wilmette Parish Methodist Church signs the prayer.
Rain drenched the Central Piedmont today with about an inch by noon and more expected. Forecasters predicted clearing skies by Wednesday with colder temperatures, followed by fair, moderately cold weather Thursday with frost on the pumpkin. temperatures ranged from 44 last night to 65 today and 55 tomorrow.
High Point Civil Service Commission, facing a shortage of 22 police and 13 fire personnel for 20 square miles to be annexed Jan 1, studies a combined fire police force. Two applicants qualified for each corps, prompting a proposal to staff annexed areas with dual trained teams to speed response and cut costs. The idea, tested in Winston-Salem with claimed $30,000 annual savings, would use dual trained teams that switch between policing and firefighting as needed.
A public hearing is scheduled for December 14 on proposed interim zoning steps for newly annexed areas. A planning and zoning subcommittee set the date while studying a major overhaul of city zoning laws. The measure aims to protect residents during the annexation and apply amended rules as the city expands by 20 square miles on January 1. Special zones will cover outlying residential areas lacking immediate water and sewer, and the commission will get authority to consider locations of new businesses.
Cranberries will be stocked at major supermarkets and restaurants in High Point for the holiday. Ocean Spray confirms East coast packing and government inspection clearances. Colonial Winn-Dixie Kroger and A&P run specials on cans and allow mixed purchases with price notes and limits.
Ed ward J. Zigler 20 of Walnut Cove faces manslaughter charges after a Nov 17 auto truck crash on Highway 29 70 that killed 66 year old Salisbury resident John Adam Peacock. Peacock suffered a compound leg fracture and head injuries before dying at a local hospital. Zigler posted a $1,000 bond after being charged with an improper left turn.
The Rev. and Mrs. John Reavis donated a six acre campsite near Trinity to the Central Baptist Association, accepted at its Oct. 15 annual meeting. A resolution of thanks was released, signed by local pastors and ladies, stating the area will be used to bring glory to the Master's name.
Reverend Clyde H. Tucker moderator of Central Baptist Association visits a campsite with Reavis, Mrs Reavis, W. W. Robbins clerk treasurer and W Frank Marks association missions chairman in a staff photo by David Cox.
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