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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1950
Page
7
President Truman accepted the resignation of Mark Etheridge as head of the U S Commission on Information. Etheridge cited poor health and Truman praised his services as of very great and lasting value.
Local Red Cross aims to train 7500 High Point residents in basic first aid and atomic risk precautions. Chairman Carl F. Plate says about 50 instructors will cover one person per two families and one per five workers in industry. Twenty four have completed the advanced course.
Obituaries report the deaths of W C Cox Sr of Randleman Route 1 and Mrs Sarah Belle Lambeth of Midway Township Davidson County, listing survivors, funeral details, and burial plans. Additional notices include Martha Anderson Horton of J Tom Horton and O O Williams of Back Creek with service times at Yow's Funeral Home Shiloh Methodist church and Maplewood and Fairfield cemeteries.
Dr. Harold Wayland Tribble will be sworn in as Wake Forest college's 10th president in 116 years next Tuesday. He succeeds Dr. Thurman D. Kitchin, who retired last summer. Tribble, former president of Andover Newton Theological School in Massachusetts, will be inducted by Judge Hubert W. Olive, president of the board of trustees. Main address by Dr. Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Mrs Rosa Schwab 46 wife of Leo Schwab of 305 Steele Street died at Maryfield Convalescent Home Saturday at 3 45 PM after an illness of several weeks. She was born August 12 1904 in Russia daughter of Michael and Esther G Kessler and lived in the city 25 years. Survived by husband Leo two sons William and Harold High Point a daughter Bertha Schwab Cincinnati Ohio three brothers Morris Kessler Jack Kerschner Eli Kerschner New York City and two sisters Mrs Yetta Schwartz and Mrs Fannie annes of New York. Funeral at Sechrest Funeral Home chapel Monday at 3 PM with Rabbi W B Gold and E B Ershler. Burial Hebrew cemetery on Winston Road.
Eddie Borden, ally of West Coast gambler Mickey Cohen, was subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury in Los Angeles next Wednesday. He appeared voluntarily at the FBI in New Orleans and will cover travel expenses for the California trip. Borden, a 49 year old fight manager, denied kidnapping and said he lent Cohen money during Cohen’s financial hardship.
Borden showed greater disturbance at printed stories than at other materials, stating his age as 51 years. The remark highlights his concern with media coverage.
An article notes a woman perished in a snowbank amid severe winter conditions. The report cites hazardous weather and related dangers prevailing in the region as authorities investigate the incident.
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