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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1956
Page
11
Local charity calls for community support inviting donors to give a full gallon of blood to bolster regional medical reserves. Organizers emphasize safety and eligibility guidelines and thank volunteers for participation.
Forecasters warn Piedmonters of a new cold wave from southwest Canada. Thursday night and Friday are expected to be the coldest spell yet with highs around 50 degrees and lows near 20 as a sharp front moves through. Skies remain generally fair tonight and tomorrow with a rise to 47 tomorrow.
Alcoholics Anonymous will hold a members only meeting tonight at eight o'clock in the parish house of St Marys Episcopal Church. Information available by writing to P O Box 5053.
High Point asks donors to supply 450 pints of blood during the three day Bloodmobile visit to the Armory on English Street Wednesday through Friday. The quota increases 75 pints from prior visits and supports Civil Defense needs for serum albumen. Doctors and volunteers from High Point College join the Red Cross in coordinating transportation and donor hours.
Ten finalists will be judged tonight at 8 in Memorial Auditorium High Point College. The winner will represent the college in the Maid of Cotton contest in Columbia South Carolina. Judges include Jim Capps Ann Jeffries Betty Metcalf Holt McPherson Miss Bobbie Minogue and Jeff B Wilson.
The High Point Chamber of Commerce mails ballots to about 800 members to choose seven new directors from 14 nominees. The new system ensures representation across professional, automotive, construction, financial, manufacturing, wholesale, and other categories. Retiring members must wait a year before eligibility again.
A religious prayer asks Our Father to place daily chances to help others. It seeks Spirit given vision to notice needs and to remove hatred jealousy gossip and intolerance so someone may see Christ in us. Roy H. Stetler Harrisburg Pa publishing agentEvangelical United Brethren Church
The Pilot Club partners with K Gordon Murray Productions to present Oberammergau and the Passion Play at High Point Senior High School on December 17. Proceeds benefit civic projects aiding the physically and mentally handicapped. Club president Mrs F L Warford appeals for church cooperation and bulk ticket purchases.
Two men are jailed on charges of breaking and entering larceny and receiving after allegedly burglarizing Ballinger's Sport Shop on E Washington Street. Clyde Leftwich and Willie Walton faced bond set at 1000 each and were to appear in Municipal Court November 28.
The Guilford Grand Jury reported county institutions are generally very satisfactory after tours of 10 facilities. It praised Allen Jay Oak View Whitsett and Union Hill Schools the county home and county farms No 1 and No 2 while noting needs for larger detainment rooms better toilets and drinking facilities for whites and Negroes. It also urged Jamestown School drainage review and improvements and described Jamestown grounds as muddy. The jail was in good condition but overcrowding cited with possible need for more cell block space. The jury recommended raising grand jury pay to 10 per day and discussed a firearm case in court slated for Nov 30.
The High Point Kiwanis Club opened the 1956 Christmas Cheer Fund with a $50 check, boosting receipts to $180. Other early donors include the Lions Club $100 Peacock Bible Class $25 and Pilot Club $5. The fund plans a store for Dec 21–22 from 9 am to 9 pm with vouchers redeemable for food and gifts.
Dwight Holland and Ellis H. Snuggs, two hospital patients, described their recovery after a tractor trailer plunged off a Norfolk bridge. Holland faced multiple injuries including broken ribs while Snuggs suffered a black eye and multiple broken fingers. Both men, veterans of long driving careers, plan to return home soon and praised each other as skilled drivers.
In Ramseur three downtown stores were burglarized Sunday night stealing merchandise and cash over 800 dollars. Craven Kivett Department Store lost about 500 in menswear, Watkins Leonard Hardware about 290 in guns and ammo, and Ramseur Pharmacy also hit. Entry was by smashing glass at hardware and drug stores and by jimmying the department store lock. Sheriff Wayne W Wilson said professionals from outside Randolph County are suspected and the intruders failed to crack the hardware safe.
Asheboro attorney J. Harvey Luck, former State Legislature candidate, won Democratic bar backing for Randolph Recorder's Court solicitor. If appointed by Randolph Board of County Commissioners, he would join Republican Judge H. Wade Yates, newly elected. Luck, from Cedar Falls, UNC Law graduate, has practiced locally since 1949.
A October 1956 furniture industry report by Seidman and Seidman shows shipments set a record pace, surpassing 1955 with a 7 percent October gain over September and 9 percent higher than October 1955. New orders rose 3 percent from September, with October orders up 2 percent from October 1955.
A Kannapolis girl aided authorities by naming four suspects in an armed hold up at a High Rock Lake cabin last week. The men Earl Messmer J D Powell William Franklin Pethel are being held on heavy bonds with preliminary hearings likely this week. Sheriff Cox said more victims may exist and two unnamed men were included in the original list of 13.
The local school board will award contracts for track construction and athletic field improvements at the Junior and Senior High Schools. It will review bids for bleachers lockers and basket racks for the Health and Physical Education Building and be updated on negotiations with the city to widen and pave Locke Street near the Junior High. The board plans to donate a way for the project and help fund the street between Ferndale Drive and Chestnut Street.
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