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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1939
Page
9
A historic note claims that five or more mourning-cloak butterflies together signal an omen for the world in Sweden. It also mentions the Dnieper River in Soviet Russia hosting the world’s largest dam, reportedly built by American engineers.
Mrs Betty Payne Woollen 72 widow of Ed Woollen died suddenly at her nephew Pell Paynes home High Point route 2 where she had lived since April Born Guilford County September 13 1867 she was twice married first Geo W Payne and later Ed Woollen She survived by three brothers I R Payne L C Payne and Lewis D Payne Funeral at Hopewell Methodist Church Thursday at 4 pm with Rev W B Shinn and Rev H M Robinson interment in Hopewell cemetery Church will hold her body in state from 3 pm until service time
Randolph County Bar Association members adopted a resolution at their meeting expressing opposition to the proposed requirement that Superior Court judges wear robes during court sessions. J. A. Spence was named special secretary to draft a communication outlining the association’s stance.
Forrest W. Boyd of Omaha pulled three 4 000 volt wires from the tops of an auto and a truck after a collision. He was unhurt and said he did not know he was taking a chance as the insulation looked good.
A prospectus from the Educational Division at 535 Fifth Avenue New York offers a free booklet on whether epilepsy is inherited and if it can be cured. The leaflet cites famous doctors and invites readers to request the pamphlet while supplies last.
High Point city council will soon decide how to use the Main Street overhead bridge to ease traffic. The public safety and law committee will study whether to permit parking on the bridge or unloading space beside the walks, after consulting merchants and residents.
Police investigated a break in at the North Carolina Employment Service office in the Arcade Building on North Main Street. The theft reported was about 40 cents in coin with few clues to the culprit.
Sweden fights to keep sea commerce and neutrality as German naval pressure tightens in the Baltic. The admiralty bans open sea sailing, considers rail transport to Gothenburg, and coordinates convoys off Norway. Eight Swedish ships were seized or halted, most not Swedish, with timber shipments to Britain forming the core exports valued at 1.84 billion kronor in 1938.
The Main Street station of the Southern Railway System reopened for passenger service after 27 months of grade crossing elimination work. Train 34 Piedmont Limited will be the first to stop at the reconditioned station, arriving at 6 00 p m. No. 135 then arrives forty seven minutes later as the first southbound train. Train 45 was the last to discharge at the temporary West Point Avenue station.
J. C. Benton of Benson is appointed by Governor Hoey to fill the Gasoline and Oil Inspection Board vacancy caused by the death of David M. Buck of Yancey County. The oldest church parish is said to be St. John's Episcopal Church in Hampton Virginia, established in 1610.
Greensboro Oct 4 FHA state director Aubrey G McCabe announced that 128 subdivisions in eight principal North Carolina cities and towns were analyzed to raise neighborhood standards for FHA insured mortgages. Ninety eight were submitted for processing this year.
Randolph County polls open Thursday from 9 a m to 5 p m for the 1940 flue-cured tobacco referendum. Elections by secret ballot. one vote per producer, in person, with mail ballots allowed if the voter resides in another county. Polling booths listed across Asheboro and several townships.
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