High Point Elks Open New Home in features and figures
The High Point Elks dedicated a brick 1912 building on Broad Street as a fireproof lodge with clear span walls and no interior columns. The new facility includes terrazzo floors, acoustical plaster ceilings, a gas hot air heating system with air conditioning, and a fitted dining room and kitchen. Bruce Bray Jr. presided. 23 new Elks were initiated. Guests included Kenneth Knight, John Kernodle, and Thad Eure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ingram
Broad Street
Glenn Brown
E. E. Younts Inc
Elks Lodge
Kenneth R. Knight
Winston-Salem
John R. Kernodle
N. C
Roy Gregson
Ing
Jack Blackwelder
ELKS
High Point Elks
New Lodge
Elm Street
Ed Emory
Local Lions To Observe Anniversary
High Point Lions Club to honor six charter members Glenn Ward Lloyd Flythe Paul Williamson L A Welch George Johnson and Hammett Cecil. Finis E Davis of Louisville Ky will speak. Club history notes growth from 25 to over 100 members and work with the blind. Past decade activities aid children and adults in High Point area exceed $40 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point Lions Club
Glenn Ward
Lloyd Flythe
Paul Williamson
L. A. Welch
George Johnson
Hammett Cecil
Flythe
Cecil
Finis E. Davis
Louisville
Davis
Appa
Ame Nence
American Printing House For
George Covington
Joyner Burns
Kernersville
L. C. Chiles
Dave Carter
Jack Hayward
Winston-Salem Lions Club
High Point
Greensboro Artists League Meeting at YWCA
The Greensboro Artists League will meet at the Greensboro YWCA Wednesday at 8 p.m. George P. Arnold of Winston-Salem will present a painting demonstration. Jack One of High Point is president of the league.
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Greensboro Artists League
Greensboro Ywca
George P. Arnold
Winston-Salem
Jack One
High Point
Central Baptists Set One-Day Meeting at Fairmont Park
Central Baptist Association will hold its first annual meeting at Fairmont Park Baptist Church on Thursday October 15 a one day event with morning afternoon and evening sessions. Clyde H. Tucker moderates Robert Fincher vice moderator Woodrow Robbins clerk treasurer Albert Leath song leader Mrs Helen Laney organist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Baptist Association
Fairmont Park Baptist Church
Clyde H. Tucker
Robert C. Fincher
Woodrow W. Robbins
Albert Leath
Helen C. Laney
Baptist Hospital
Winston,Salem
Budget Committee
Woodrow Haywood
Mission Committee
The
Training Union
C. W. Bazemore
Baptist
the Recorder
E. L. Spivey
YWCA Presents Investment Course at High Point
The High Point YWCA offers a course titled You and the Investment World. In the first session A S Parker Jr of Perpetual Savings and Loan spoke on savings accounts and investment uses. D W Conway of Bache Greensboro will discuss industrial stocks on Oct 16 with future topics on real estate rentals trusts taxes and insurance.
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High Point Ywca
A. S. Parker Jr
Perpetual Savings and Loan Association
D. W. Conwey
Bache and
Greensboro
Conway
Alton Stanford
Vincent Spracklin
G. E. Schultheiss
The Plight of the Bachelor and a Bakery Prank
A humorous explainer on bachelors feeling the pinch of married life and a separate tale of a bakery prank. The column mocks bachelor finances and domestic temptations while recounting a prank involving a rancid ham bone mailed to a co worker at the beach and costly COD charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arch
C.o.d
FBI
Post Office Warns Christmas Mail Overseas Early
The post office urges early overseas mailing for Christmas parcels to service members. Air mail may slow in December with crowded lanes and some packages shipped by sea. Mailers should use durable packaging as overseas packages face heavy handling and delays beyond Thanksgiving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
McGee to Address Executives at High Point Club
Senator Gale McGee of Wyoming will address the High Point Executive Club at the Sheraton Hotel on Monday October 19 at 7 p m. He will speak on Uncle Sam's Current National Problems and is noted for his diplomacy studies and teaching career. Reservations for the dinner are due before noon Saturday.
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Gale McGee
Wyoming
High Point
Sheraton
McGee
Uncle Sam
Nebraska
Sen. McGee
Nebraska State
Teachers College
University of Colorado
University of Chicago
University of Notre Dame
Parks and Recreation Outlines Halloween Party Plans
The Parks and Recreation Dept unveiled plans for the annual Halloween celebration on October 31 from 7 to 10 p.m. Activities include stunts, games, a talent show, costume judging, and dancing with prizes to be donated by civic clubs due to new rules on prize solicitation. Costume and division awards cover children, youths, and adults, with separate prizes for boys and girls in children and for men and women in adults. A feature “witch calls” at 10:30 p.m. rewards those at home, with participant registration and hat-drawn prize recipients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parks and Recreation Dept
Henry of High Point Forms New Furniture Firm
Henry of High Point becomes a wholly owned Globe subsidiary. Henry Foscue announces a separate plant and sales staff with chairs and sofas in a promotional price range. Officers include Foscue president and Rochelle production chief. The line will debut in Globe spaces at the Southern Furniture Exposition Building and Chicago Merchandise Mart.
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Henry of
High Point
Henry Fos- Ssee Foscue
Henry Company
Globe
Foscue
Urer
Frank Sizemore Jr
Jack Rochelle
Tom Foster
Henry of High Point
Southern Furniture Exposition
Merchandise Mart
Chicago
Globe Furniture Co
Accident Box Score Summary
This year to date report shows 1 person killed and 73 injured in all accidents. Total property loss reported is $208 751.00.
Safe Teens Drivers Club Planned For High Point Teens
A Safe Teens Drivers Club for youths 16 to 19 will launch at a Sertoma barbecue at Senior High School in High Point. The club will meet the first and third Tuesdays at Jamestown American Legion hut, be self governing under Sertoma supervision, and aims to promote safe driving with films, speeches by race drivers, and annual driver records prizes.
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Safe Drivers
High Point
Sertoma
Safe Teens
Hollis Snipes
Jamestown American Legion
Penny Road
Snipes
Frank Shields
Fec
Sertomians
Safe
Christmas Seal Drive Names Local Chairs for 1959 Sale
Rev. Tom Haggai of Emerywood Baptist Church is named chairman and Ed Kemp of Guilford County is vice chairman of the 1959 Christmas Seal Sale by the High Point Tuberculosis Association. The sale runs from November 16 through December with funds mainly used for health education, case funding, rehabilitation, and research.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Haggai
Emerywood Baptist Ce
High Point Tuberculosis Association
Ed Kemp
Guilford County
House of Representatives
Haggai
Kemp
T. E. Hinson
District of Columbia
Canal Zone
Guam
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Hinson
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Braxton Younts Enterprise
Bruce Bray Jr
New Build
Grady Gillespie
Lutherbrough
John R. McClain
Jack Phifer
Everett Neal
Braxton Younts
Central Baptists
Baptist State Convention
Wendell C. Davis
Association
Gene Phillips
Africa
Southeastern Seminary
Wake Forest
YWCA
Forrest
Lebanon
Samuel
Marilyn Monroe
Lattin
Post Office
John Easter
Easter
G. I
Sen, Gale McGee
High Point Enterprise
Globe Subsidairy
Henry
New Furniture Firm
Barrer
Treas
Henry Foscue
Glenn Capel
Cherrie Capel
Wade St
Glenn
Janet Teague
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