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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1951
Page
7
About 23 High Pointers will gather at the Sheraton Hotel for an 8 a.m. kickoff breakfast tomorrow. Church bells at 7:45 a.m. signal time’s start as 200 residents from various districts of High Point converge, sharing diverse jobs and churches yet linked by common purpose.
The Community Chest notes three names in the Dime A Week club were misspelled yesterday. Correct spellings are Millie Moore Elmer Hoover and Jean Lanier.
A varied group plans 8 am breakfast funded by an anonymous High Point citizen. They will join in group singing under the direction of Dr. Charles Taylor, head of music in the local public schools, and listen to James.
High Point residents across churches and clubs gather for Citizenship Day to launch the Red Feather drive. Leaders and volunteers pledge to raise about $131,760.31 for ten services including Girl Scouts, YMCA, Salvation Army, and Boy Scouts, with a dime-a-week pledge and a per-employee quota of six dollars annually.
A skit outlining ideas and purposes of the High Point Arts and Crafts Workshop will air on WEMYTV tomorrow afternoon at 4 30. Local instructors and Workshop members will participate. Information will be given about the opening session this Thursday October HW at 7 30 at the Junior High School on Jones Street.
A 70 year old man, John L. Williams, is jailed on a murder charge after fatally shooting Jasper Sturdivant, 31, who accused him of eavesdropping. Williams, a retired furniture worker, faced a municipal hearing and was bound over to Superior Court with $3,000 bond. Sturdivant, killed at about 8 43 p.m., leaves a wife Flor ine and four children. A separate weekend slaying left Christie Sapp, 23, jailed for stabbing her husband Everett, 27, to death. she posted $5,000 bond. Police listed officers who investigated the case and noted the weapon, a .45 Colt revolver, had earlier been used in a Bapt ist Bottom killing. Funeral services for Sturdivant are set for Wednesday at 3 p.m. and for Sapp at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday. The bodies will be handled by local funeral homes.
Tom McCoy 37 of 435 Cliffside was arrested after a knife attack injuring James Young 51. McCoy faced assault with intent to kill charges with $500 bond after slashing Young on the left side and right wrist. Young received 18 stitches at Memorial Hospital and was released.
The Diocese of North Carolina held the last session of its Laymen’s Training Program at Saint Mary’s Episcopal Church and the YWCA. Forty-two laymen heard William T. Wirk of Morristown NJ discuss U S church work domestically and globally, including Japan, Alaska, Liberia, Panama Canal Zone, and Indian missions in the United States.
Frigid temperatures ease as the forecast calls for a high near 70 with a cool, fair day. Rev Thomas J C Smyth outlines a 20 year plan for Episcopal Church extension in North Carolina, emphasizing education, Negro outreach, and clergy salaries. Bishop Baker, Penick, and Drake discuss church education, chaplains, and growth of schools and Bible classes in Raleigh Charlotte Winston-Salem and Stokes County.
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