Dr. Pope to Speak at Greensboro Women’s College
Dr. Liston Pope, Yale social ethics professor and author, will speak December 9 at Aycock Auditorium Greensboro Woman’s College as part of the university sermon series. He will also address students at the noon Tuesday convocation before departing. Pope, North Carolina native now in New Haven, edits Social Action and holds Duke AB BD and Yale PhD.
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Woman's College
Aycock
Liston Pope
Social Ethics
Yale Vinity School
New Haven, Conn
Duke University
Yale University
Pope
Wesley Memorial Church
High Point
Humphrey Street Congregational Church
New Haven
Conn
Allied Calls For Speedup As Campaign Nears Close
High Point Victory loan sales through November 23 reached 1 246 006 25 dollars, about half the local quota of 2 670 000. E bonds must cover the remaining 401 450. Miss Helen Lyon earned a football autographed by the Black Bison for selling 9 000 in bonds. Barbara Hazlewood sold 6 650 and was second. The High Point drive exceeded its 3 000 goal with 21 025 in bond value and 138 05 in stamps. War finance officials plan to continue civilian savings bonds sales.
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High Point
C. M. Allred
Ing
Allred
E” Gates
Helen Lyon
Reynolds High
Winston-Salem
A. J. Simeon
Barbara Hazlewood
Bison
H. N. Williard
War Finance
Christmas music in High Point season previews regional concerts
The High Point season features carols and proams with church choirs Cantatas and cantab light services and programs. The High School chorus of 170 voices will perform the Messiah and the Community Concert Association will present the Don Cossack Russian Chorus on December 4. Popular songs include Holiday For Strings Something Benthmen tal and others, with Bobby Scalf named musician of the week as a baritone in the A Cappella choir and the School Boy's Octette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Community Concert Association
Don Cossack
Wwell
Spike Jones
Benthmental
Bobby Scalf
Bobby
High Point Faces Housing Shortage From Blighted Areas
The Public Safety Advisory Committee cites neglected welfare of older residential sections as the root of High Point s housing shortage. City leaders form a task group to study relief options and report findings amid wartime delays and influx of five to seven thousand newcomers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Theity
Oélder
Public Safety Advisory Committee
Earl N. Phillips
Sanders Dallas
UNC Alumni Meet Set for December 5 at Emerywood
Local UNC alumni plan a December 5 banquet at Emerywood Country Club with Col. W. T. Joyner Raleigh president of the alumni, Chancellor Robert B. House, Spike Saunders, and either Athletic Director Bob Fetzer or Coach Carl Snavely. Secretary Diffendaal says the event is the largest Carolina gathering since the war began. reservations required by Thursday. Tickets are $2 per person. Officers are Henry Koontz president Lawrence Ingram vice president and Diffendaal secretary.
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Jt Carolina
Chenel Hill
Emerywood
Col. W. T. Joyner
Raleigh
Robert B. House
the University
Saunders
Bob Fetzer
Carl Snavely
Carolina
Charles E. Diffendal, Jr
Ing
Carolina Alumni Association
Henry Koontz
Lawrence Ingram
Diffendaal
Local Manufacturers To Get More Lumber Soon
W L Shaddix of the Southern States Forest Fire Commission in Birmingham says furniture makers will see more lumber after year’s start but expect shortages in tupelo gum beech and other species for years. He cautions about poor timber quality and warns mills may exhaust small timber harming Long term supply.
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W. L. Shaddix
Southern States Forest Fire Commission, Inc
Birmingham
Ala
High Point
Shaddix
South
Orangeburg
S. C
Macon
McCauley to Organize Air Scouts in High Point
Captain Robert L. McCauley of the Army Air Forces will visit High Point on December 2 and 3 to aid in forming Air Scouts in the Uwharrie Council. Air Scouting targets senior boys aged 15 to 17, focusing on ground training rather than flight, with federal recognition and district officer support.
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Robert L. McCauley
Leason
Army Air Forces
Boy Scouts of America
High Point
Air Scouts
Uwharrie Council
B. W. Hackney, Jr
Air Scouting
Hackney
Nition
Local Woman Defends Against Attacker in North Main Incident
Miss Ruby Kennedy of 817 North Main street reported to police that Friday night a Black man attacked her in front of Carolina Cleaners on North Main street. She fought back, knocked him into a ditch, and escaped to her home. Authorities seek the assailant using her description.
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Ruby Kennedy
North Main Street
Carolina Cleaners
Leland Stanford Grounds in Straits of Dover
The American troopship Leland Stanford ran aground in the Straits of Dover and fired distress signals today as it carried U S soldiers homeward. The Press Association report confirms the incident with a note of the vessel in trouble and seeking assistance.
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London
The
Press Association
Leland Stanford
U. S
Straits of Dover
Police Row Turbulence Clears After City Meeting
City officials clash over Chief Lowdermilk disobedience charges as Public Safety Committee meets. Councilman Lewis says session aimed at insubordination, but report omits police friction. Director Ingram cites misrecording and vows harmony without detailing actions taken.
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C. A. Lewis
Public Safety Committee
J. A. Lowdermilk
Roy S. Braden
Director of Public Safety
E. K. Ingram
Lowdermilk
Ingram
Presbyterian Church
Scientists Endorse UN Control Of Bomb
Los Alamos scientists urge cooperation with a proposed United Nations atomic commission. They say the commission should begin with wide exchange of scientists and information to foster mutual confidence for international cooperation. Leaders Truman Attlee and King favor eventually handing over bomb control to the commission.
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Washington
Los Alamos
United Nations Atomic Commission
Truman
Attlee
Britain
King
Canada
Beaufort Captain Receives Silver Star for Luzon Action
Capt. Anderson M. Kinghorn of Beaufort South Carolina is presented the silver star for gallantry in action on Luzon while a patient at Moore General Hospital. The ceremony took place at the hospital.
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Swannanda
Anderson M. Kinghorn
Beaufort
S. C
Luzon
Kinghorn
Moore General Hospital
Nurses Head Appointed For Memorial
Mrs. Robert L. Johnston of Aberdeen will become superintendent of nurses at the Boulevard unit of High Point Memorial hospital on December 1, announced W. R. Peters, chief director. She succeeds Mrs. T Long who resigned in October after wartime service. The former Miss Mary Page Wilder trained at Flora MacDonald College and Reed Hospital in Washington. She has nursing experience at Doctors Hospital and Poly Clinic in New York, Episcopal Bar Throat Hospital in Wisshamton, D C, and for three years at Moore County Hospital in Pinehurst with the Red Cross nurses aide movement.
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Robert L. Johnston
Aberdeen
Boulevard
High Point Memorial Hospital
W. R. Peters
Art
T Long
Johnston
Mary Page Wilder
Flora McDonald College
Presbyterian School For Girl
Red Springs
School of Nursing
An Reed Hospital
Washington
Tal and Poly‘clinic
New Bog City
E Bar
Twisshiemton
D. C
Moore County Hospital
Pinehurst
Red Cross Nurses’ Aide
War Files Shipped to St Louis in Mass Move
Millions of WWII personnel records have been moved from High Point to the St Louis admin center in a vast house moving project. The transfer involved 13 427 file cabinets 750 desks 400 tables 1 050 chairs 364 typewriters and numerous machines weighing 4 158 000 pounds. The move needed 151 freight cars and sixty hours with 4 500 daily inquiries to be handled by the adjutant general’s office fourth service command.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
St. Louis
Adjutant General's Office
Eee
Fourth Service Command
Rent Control Abeyance Discussed by High Point Leaders
High Point property owners meet to hear arguments for and against rent control amid housing shortages. Co-Chairs Cam Cridlebaugh and Curtis Smith oversee a public forum at the county building discussing waiving ordinances, expanding housing, and possible apartment conversions to ease the deficit of 500 units.
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Cvill
High Point
Cam Cridlebaugh
Curtis Smith Deal
Joe D. Cox
Planning and
Ing Commission
Cridlebaugh
Visiting school adviser promotes tree planting in rural NC
Bert L. Hallman former education advisor and civilian conservation corps speaks to rural consolidated schools across a dozen timber counties in North Carolina urging rural children to plant walnuts and slash pine seedlings. City children are urged to start an arboretum as Arbor Day on March 15 nears with goals of 100000 participants. His December itinerary includes Randolph Chatham Davidson Iredell and Catawba counties.
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Pfbert L. Hallman
Civilian Conservation Corps
Arkansas
Dakotas
North Carolina
Hallman
Randolph
Chatham
Davidson
Iredelley
Catawba
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