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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1944
Page
10
Three Holstein cattle at State College dairy herd achieved top production as the best cow yielded 569 pounds of butterfat and 16,132 pounds of milk in the period reported.
City police prepare to prevent a bicycle theft surge amid isolated incidents in recent weeks. Chief John Lowdermilk notes no wholesale thefts yet but urges public cooperation and bicycle locking to deter thieves. One bike owned by R. B. Terry Jr with license 1187 and serial 88855 was stolen at Bay Street School.
Mrs Beulah M Dorsett of near Thomasville died Saturday morning. The funeral, led by Rev T R York and Rev Will Hopkins, was at Mount Zion Pilgrim Holiness Church Monday at 11. Interment was in the church cemetery. pallbearers included Baxter Wright Troy Freeman John Jarrell Richard Jarrell Leon Hill and Howard Leonard. A trio provided music during the service. Flowers were arranged by Miss Bertha Summey and Mrs Baxter Wright.
High Point youths ages 16 and 17 register with local draft boards to obtain draft classifications enabling beer purchases. Boards warn of penalties for underage registration and plan weekly publication of 18 year old registrants to help parents verify ages. Authorities advise birth certificates when age is in doubt.
A public meeting is set for 8 o clock tonight in the Philathea room at the First Baptist church to organize the High Council on International Relations. Civic clubs and service groups are urged to send two representatives, with election of officers and speaker plans to be discussed. The Southern Council on International Relations sponsors the effort led by executive secretary Dr Eugene E Pfaff of Chapel Hill.
We express gratitude to friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy shown during the illness and death of our small daughter Joyce Cochran and family signs off as Mr and Mrs Cochran and Family.
LeRoy Lewis of Raleigh a former secretary of the North Carolina Bankers Association and education director of the American Institute of Banking will co speak at a Merchants meeting at Elm Street School 7 45 PM October 24 The program is sponsored by the Merchants Association and the local Committee for Economic Development and aims to survey merchants and retailers for postwar planning The CEO has previously led a similar effort among High Point industrial leaders serving as a yardstick for planning
Allied forces press the Siegfried Line as Patton's Third Army closes on the Nancy area and the First Army advances toward Duren and Julich. Canadians push from the Schelde estuary, reducing a German pocket and seizing key routes toward Cologne and Dusseldorf amid heavy losses for the enemy.
Thomasville reports seventy seven men from Davidson county depart by bus for Fort Bragg for pre induction examinations. The released list names Tafton Strange Rabon Lawrence Monroe Stroud John Erie Crowell Willis Mack Sr Lee Byerly and many others.
Evening classes in Bricklaying Carpentry Blue Print Reading Estimating and Shop Mathematics start tonight at 7 p m in the Shop instructor Prof J E Reid notes Tuesday and Thursday sessions at 7 p m attendees urged to be present. The Brooks Memorial Brotherhood hosts a barbecue at 8 p m Thursday at J B Williams 518 Elizabeth street.
The late M. Bundy Jamestown mill executive's estate will form a trust fund with Wachovia Bank for the benefit of Mrs Bundy. Estimated fund value is 25000, plus 11500 life insurance to beneficiaries. Assets include 6000 real property and 1000 miscellaneous, rest in stocks and bonds. Trustee may sell the Bundy residence and reinvest proceeds as Mrs Bundy desires. After her death the trust ends and heirs, all of age, share the remainder.
Col Gordon G Bulla announces 12000 wounded service men have been flown home by air across the North Atlantic since July 6. The total includes both little and ambulatory cases as part of the D Day air transport program under the North Atlantic Division.
Casual column recalls Wendell Willkie and his death, praising his honesty and world peace aims. The writer compares Willkie to Lincoln and notes public misjudgment by critics. Also notes fond reading of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and a memory of debating days and a minister's joke about arguing before death. About 400000 home fires in 1943 are referenced.
The city of High Point buys five used one and a half ton Dodges from Fort Bragg via the U S Treasury division to mount closed type garbage bodies. The trucks average about 1,300 dollars per unit for bodies and will modernize and economize the collection system, with expected annual savings.
Rebecca Whitley, a Black woman, received a suspended 30 day sentence in Thom asville on condition she pay 2.75 to Floyd Filbert plus court costs for taxi cheating. Frank James was also found guilty of drunkenness with a suspended 30 day term and a fine plus court costs. The article also describes the Palisades of the Hudson as a high unbroken cliff over the river.
Greensboro attorney Benj T Ward has been elected president of the Wake Forest College general alumni association. He served two terms on the North Carolina State Bar board of law examiners and was a World War I lieutenant. Ward helped organize the Wake Forest College band and earned a 1919 BA and 1920 LL B. He was an intercollegiate debater, glee club member, and senior yearbook editor.
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