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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1947
Page
2
Fire Prevention Week highlights a basement furnace check, chimney and flue inspection, wiring and fuse box review, and appliance maintenance. Readiness steps include cleaning furnaces, clearing rubbish, installing 15 amp fuses, using metal fireplace screens, ash trays for embers, and grease fire precautions.
In Moscow a policeman watches as U S soldiers at an officers and staff house make noise not from a fight but from listening to the World Series game on the American forces network station at Frankfurt. The incident shows how the games travel across the Atlantic and reach Moscow through military radio.
Cane supplies about two thirds of the worlds sugar. Three million adults in the United States never attended any kind of school.
Louise Overell and Bud Gollum were acquitted by a 6 man 6 woman jury after 19 weeks of trial for the deaths of Walter and Louise Overell aboard the yacht May 15. The verdict ended a tense courtroom scene with cheering spectators, though Louise declared there would be no marriage.
Charleston, Oct 6 Funeral services planned at the residence for Elizabeth Myers Maybank widow of South Carolina senator after a long illness. She died in Flat Rock North Carolina yesterday. She was born in Charleston and attended Ashley Hall where she met her husband electing to marry Judge Frank K. Myers.
A survey of staff needs of newspapers in eastern North Carolina will be conducted by the Eastern Carolina Press association journalism committee. Publisher C. E. Bury said a questionnaire will be sent to publishers in the eastern half of the state and data tabulated for presentation at the annual Wilmington meeting in October. Other committee members are Leslie Thompson and Mayon Parker.
Olin D Hipps of High Point has been accepted as a student at St Louis University's Parks College of Aeronautical Technology. He studies aviation maintenance engineering and plans a career as an instructor with power plant designers. Parks is the oldest aviation school in the United States and admission requires top high school grades and a stiff exam. Hipps is a Navy veteran who served six months.
Having qualified as executor under the will of W A Davis late of High Point Quilford County North Carolina this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to exhibit them to Trust Department of Wachovia Bank and Trust Company at its office 209 Wachovia Bank Building High Point North Carolina properly itemized and duly verified within one year from date of first publication of this notice or this notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery on any such claim against said estate All parties or persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to said Trust Department of Wachovia Bank and Trust Company High Point North Carolina This the 13th day of September 1947 Wachovia Bank Trust Company Executor Under The Will of W A Davis 9/15 22-26-10/6 13-30
The may part of Luzon was hit as the typhoon of the season swept across the north, forcing ships like Gen W H Gordon of American President Lines to halt northeast of Manila. Several vessels sheltered as heavy rains and winds estimated at 125 mph damaged two roofs and power lines near Camp Howze Aguio.
Forsyth County Fair launches in Winston Salem during fair week with grandstand entertainment praised as superior. Horse races scheduled Wednesday to Saturday afternoons, free acts include trained animals and wire-walkers, plus a George A. Hamid revue Fantasies of 1947 each evening. Fireworks light the bandstand nightly as Jose Chitwood's Hell Drivers perform Friday afternoon.
Network programs use Eastern Standard Time. Central shifts minus one hour. Mountain minus two hours. Some stations adjust relay times locally. Last minute changes cannot be included.
A partial overheard radio grid lists network slots from CBS and ABC with programs like Lum & Abner, Jack Smith and Song, The Lone Ranger, Cavalcade of America, and Dance Half Hour. Schedule shows time stamps from 6:30 to midnight and multiple repeats.
A daytime radio grid lists programs from 6:30 AM to 5:45 PM on WHPE WHEE and related stations. Entries include The Morning Hoedown Breakfast Patrol News Morning Devotional The Variety Show Singers and orchestras with notices of possible interruptions or cancellations.
Ohio GOP leaders plan to raise about 750000 for Senator Robert Taft as he pursues the Republican nomination. Taft will announce his candidacy at a October 24 Columbus meeting and run as the state's favorite son with all funding from Ohio sources. He opposes outside contributions and caps gifts at 500 dollars while returning to Cincinnati after a Western tour.
Merchants donate gifts on display at North M Street hardware for the Chest Kickoff at High Point Senior High School. The radio quiz program on Monday night October 15 leads the drive with no admission charge.
Official returns show Saarlanders favor a political merger with France to integrate coal and steel economies under the Marshall plan. Of 50 deputies, 48 backed the three parties advocating economic union with France, while communists won two seats.
L R Hicks and J D Taiber will attend a two day Eastern airlines junior management conference October 14 and 15 at the Columbus hotel in Miami. Supervisory personnel from the Eastern system will join a discussion on current problems policies and future plans for serving the city and about 76 other cities in the southern eastern and middle western states and San Juan Puerto Rico.
The High Point College alumni executive committee met at the Sheraton to organize the annual homecoming on November 8. The event features a football game against Elon College and includes cooperation with the University Senate on a campus survey. Dr. Glenn Perry, president, says the survey will serve High Point College’s best interests.
The Supreme Court begins a new term amid potential rulings on Taft-Hartley constitutionality and labor law challenges. Pending cases include restrictions on labor union power, Nevada divorces, wartime renegotiation acts, and challenges to racial gating in real estate deals alongside church state education questions. The opening was devoted to formalities.
Cecil G. Nutter was approached by three bandits in a car while walking in East St. Louis. He tossed his wallet from the window to distract them, but the thieves took his trousers one shoe a gold pocket watch and his eyeglasses in the ensuing struggle.
Leroy Montgomery, 22, held without charge pending an autopsy after the shotgun death of his friend Mrs Ollie Mae Sweat Moore, 26, at his Rock Hill residence. Montgomery said the woman shot herself accidentally while her child played nearby. He described returning from a hunting trip with two men before discovering the woman and her daughter at his uncle’s home.
Jim Lacock the Lions club blind merchant will run the post office stand now. Lester Waterfield who ran the post office stand has moved to the Security National Bank building. The county building stand will stay open but no operator has been found yet.
Canada has raised its food production by more than 140 percent since 1939, reflecting substantial growth in agricultural capabilities and output through decades of development and policy.
Grace Murdock sues J M Murdock for absolute divorce after two years separation in High Point Municipal Court. Defendant must appear by October 14, 1947, or within 30 days, to answer the complaint. published September 13, 1947 by Clerk M W Nash.
A short factual line notes the official name of Albania as Shqiperia. It also mentions a statistic on cottonseed oil content and a population figure for Australia’s full blood aborigines, along with a measurement about the Great Lakes deep-water area.
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