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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1937
Page
10
High Point announces the Yuletide shopping season will open Saturday with the turning on of Christmas lights and the display of merchandise. Toyland will be open in all stores for youngsters as mothers and fathers bring children to see new toys. Merchants expect strong demand and a record season with innovative gift lines and unusually appealing Christmas merchandise.
Atlantic Greyhound corporation asks the North Carolina utilities commission to raise passenger bus rates from one and a half cents to two cents per mile. The petition, filed in Raleigh, requests approval to adjust fares across its routes.
Police report three men attempted to steal from the Carolinian cafeteria by removing the large front safe to the kitchen and prying at the combination. The break in occurred overnight with two thieves lifting the safe while a lookout watched. The rear gate was unlocked and the crime shows amateurish handling despite a broken combination.
F D Weir of Blue Bird Cab says Ray Cook and Evelyn Rush rode to Mangum and Wise and returned for the fare. After Weir stated the 75 cent charge Cook attacked with a knife, sending Weir to Burrus Memorial hospital for five stitches and leading Cook to be indicted for assault with a deadly weapon.
Contractors Blythe Brothers A H Guion and Company and the Drainage Engineering Company work on the grade crossing elimination project to honor Thanksgiving. Guion leads grading for the first span footings on Wrenn Street Bridge and continues work on the wall at the passenger station. The drainage crew handles sub surface drainage under the Main Street temporary bridge. Higthe Brothers follow drainage work with grading for the northbound passing track in front of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass plant.
Police reports show 6 traffic arrests in the past 24 hours including two reckless driving, two red light, one speeding, and one driving drunk. Bob McKinney of 1211 Filbert Street was released after a $100 bond. Havner, 35, of 526 Centennial Avenue, jailed on a $500 bond for drunk driving.
Quiet day in High Point as residents stay home for turkey preparation and church services. Some residents travel to Chapel Hill for a grid classic between Carolina and Virginia or to Charlotte for Davidson versus Wake Forest.
Kernersville announces first quarter honor roll across grades from one to eleventh with names including Mary Frances Redman Walter Linville Ann Linville and O B Hendrix. The Girls Glee Club officers and members are listed, and the high school will edit a school paper with Mary Warren as editor in chief and Lavelle Michael as assistant editor.
In 1936 the United States produced more soybean oilmeal than linseed oilmeal for the first time, signaling a shift in crop processing and feed ingredient usage nationwide.
Philadelphia man Robert H. Nutt recalls how he remembers names by creating visual associations. He demonstrates with 250 New York scales executives, explaining that attention at introductions is crucial and showing playful memory hooks like bowing to a cow on skis for Bowkoski and Forshay as fore.
Gangland hit at a Thanksgiving Eve gathering in a restaurant and bar killed Harry Millman, described as the last of the Purple gang leaders. Four others wounded, including Harry Gross and Harry Cooper. bystanders Harry Shulak and Abe Butensky among victims. Two gunmen used .45 pistols as witnesses described a possible additional accomplice. Millman survived a prior bombing attempt last August.
E W Cates 78 prominent Thomasville retired businessman died in a Melbourne Florida hospital from injuries suffered on a fishing trip with his son Everett Jr. He is survived by his wife Blanche Pendleton Cates, son Everett Jr, daughter Mrs Meade B Hite, and granddaughter Miss Peggy Hite. The body will arrive Friday and funeral plans are not yet set.
A prayer meeting is announced for November 27 at the residence of Harvey Brady in the Oak Dale cotton mill community with Rev. Charles K. Gentry of Hayworth Memorial Wesleyan church presiding. The note adds that about 17 percent of U S merchant tonnage under the American flag is accounted for by tank steamers.
A legal notice lists multiple real estate transfers across Guilford County including High Point Township and Jamestown Township. Transactions involve A Grimes and Charlene Grimes Carter to Rosa L. Grimes, L B Johnson et al with Guilford County, and mortgage transfers such as Mortgage Corporation of Virginia to Sally L. Moffitt. Also noted are transfers on West Green Street and on the High Point Freeman Mill road with several tracts.
The Boy Scouts launch an annual Christmas toy drive with 600 scouts at First Presbyterian Church Wesley Memorial and First Reformed. They plan to canvass the city, collect up to 10 000 toys, then deliver to the department for repair at the Scout quarters 2913 for missed sections.
Iowa State College researchers unveil Iojap a new popcorn variety claiming 15 to 20 percent higher yield and 25 percent superior popping. A separate device variant describes a 3 500 pound autom traveling at 15 miles per hour delivering momentum beyond a shell fired at 3 000 feet per second.
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