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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1943
Page
8
Service men at the YMCA gymnasium are invited to an USO dance starting at 8 15 p m with a swing band from B T C No 10 Greensboro providing music. Hostesses with last names A through F and their husbands may attend under Virginia Frank directing. Next week’s registration at the door.
The Esse Reporter lists a busy October 9 schedule with music lectures and sports. Highlights include a Swiss music competition talk by Dr Helen C White, Roy Shield and Company performances, a Notre Dame football game, Curt Massey and Company, and various radio programs from 12:00 to 16:00 including Morning Melodies The Gapito Hour News of the World and a Centenary Methodist Church service.
The October term of High Point civil court adjourned after a record week for divorces. Court stenographer Ada Snow reported 36 divorces granted, well above previous records, and 12 more than September’s total of 24.
John A. Northcott county accountant and register of deeds of Hertford County died at his Winston home Thursday. He was brother in law of Mrs. Wiley Stone.
Publicacion de avisos para colacion de gravamen fiscal en High Point. Demandante: City of High Point y Mamie Welborn. Demandados: M C Rowland Trustee y Rowland Real Estate Company. Requiere que respondan en 20 dias de noviembre 1 1943 bajo pena de lo contrario se concederá lo solicitado.
Lt. Richard A. Short writes about USO clubs serving service members across the United States and Canada. He praises hospitality, entertainment, and facilities in St Louis Portland Bellingham and other USOs, urging support for the 1943 War Chest campaign in High Point with a $23 000 allocation to the USO.
A historical note explains the editor as a supervisor who revises and prepares publication material. He guides policy with editors in various fields, relies on community records, uses common sense, and differentiates news from propaganda. He upholds ethics, leads when possible, and remains a fallible human figure within the town.
A. C. Lovelace Jr. will present an organ recital Sunday at 7 30 p m in the First Baptist Church. The program time was changed from 5 30 to 7 30 to allow more listeners. Lovelace, a 1939 graduate of High Point College, later studied at Union Theological Seminary and served churches in New Jersey and Lincoln Nebraska before teaching music at Queens College Charlotte. He also serves as tenor soloist and assistant organist at Myers Park Presbyterian Church.
High Point police arrested James E. Franklin, 34, of Route One, and Hal B. Pierce, 37, of 714 Morris Street, as they delivered three cases of whiskey to the Sheraton hotel. The arrest occurred about 7:15 last evening. The whiskey and an automobile were confiscated, and two additional fifth bottles were found in the car. Both defendants posted bond of $300 each shortly after arrest.
Thomasville report: the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilburn E. Long died at the city memorial hospital. Funeral services are set for this afternoon at 4 at Canaan Methodist Church with Pastor W. T. Albright officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Surviving are the parents, maternal and paternal grandparents, and a paternal grandmother.
A speaker extols the USO as indispensable for lifting soldiers’ spirits and easing homesickness. He credits his parents for supporting visits to USO centers and urges contributions, calling the organization essential for entertaining those in service.
Statement of Ownership Management and Circulation for High Point Enterprise published daily and Sunday in High Point North Carolina ending September 30 1943 lists publishers and owners R B Terry Mrs R B Terry D A Rawley Mrs J P Rawley and others. It notes known bondholders holding 1 percent or more and gives average copies sold to paid subscribers in the prior 12 months.
Police report two 15 year old Point schoolboys have not been heard from since leaving for school at 8 am Wednesday. Robert William Sumner and Bobbie Gulledge are described with detailed physicals and clothing. A nationwide radio alert has been issued for the youths.
The speaker notes widespread coverage of Winchell by the Communist Daily Worker and other publications. He cites The Washington Post leading the charge and claims prior Liberty articles were not his creation, asserting years of study and numerous journals publishing the documented text.
Police search for Fred die Jones alias Broom 21 of 510 Loflin Street in connection with an attack on Sadie Barber who was beaten about the head with a rock. Barber was taken to Burrus Memorial Hospital in serious condition but her status was improving this morning.
A detailed listing of October 9 radio programming across networks including CBS NBC and Blue with opera, football updates, Navy and Army segments, music orchestras, talk shows, dramas, and news bulletins. Corrections by networks are noted as too late to reflect in the schedule.
The Women's Army Corps establishes an enlisted technicians school in Arkansas to train medical surgical dental laboratory and X ray technicians for army hospitals. An eight week course covers anatomy physiology and emergency care with practical ward training.
A fragment notes a speckled hen nesting in a bucket and mentions ada being scrap, suggesting a ditty for children with a playful rural scene. The text appears as a stray verse line likely from a children’s song collection.
Chief Petty Officer ae F Ball navy recruiter will visit High Point this week to interview young women interested in WAVES service. The Greensboro recruiting station notes the WAVES need women with various training and experience for many navy jobs. Enlistment frees a man for sea duty.
A newspaper ad from Mrs. Minnie Bingham of a White Sulphur Springs ranch asks the thief who stole her anvil and blacksmith vise to call at the ranch to recover the tools. The notice implies a full outfit of tools would interest any tool lover.
Mary Josephine Stone, 15, of 613 Highland Avenue, died at Burrus Memorial Hospital after a head on collision between a car and a transport truck at the English Street and U S Highway 1 junction. The wreck, Oct 3 at 6:30 am, also killed Pfe Donald A Corzine, 21, of Perks Indiana.
City police detained Paul Cothran aged 18 of 418 Russell Street High Point and Earnest Killin 19 of Holden West Virginia after they admitted leaving the USS South Dakota since August 28. They are held for naval authorities.
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