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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1941
Page
13
A humorous magazine style piece recounts a father taking five children shopping. It follows the chaos of sales, questions, and squabbles as the family visits a food store. The dad endures repeated interruptions, kid questions, and an excess of eggs before finally heading home exhausted.
More than 500 visiting soldiers on leave from maneuvers attended a dance at the National Guard Armory hosted by the D A R local chapter the High Point Woman's Club and the Rotary Club. The event drew crowded attendance with escorts and chaperones while hotels Y M C A and Salvation Army offered stationery radios and writing materials for visitors.
Andrew Jackson Post No 87 of the American Legion will hold its regular meeting at 8 p m Monday at Blair Club House. John H King post adjutant said a large crowd is expected as hundreds of servicemen in High Point are eligible for membership and the goal of 250 members seems small by comparison. The program includes insights on air raid warnings, with Judge D C MacRae and George Edwards promoting volunteer participation.
Mr and Mrs Milton Krebs have arrived in High Point and stay with Mrs E Hyman, the mother of Mrs Krebs. Mrs Krebs was formerly Miss Ethel Hyman. Mr Krebs long served as a diamond expert with a leading eastern jewelry firm.
North Carolina Red Cross plans three regional conferences October 14 15 and 16 at Kinston Pinehurst and Shelby to rally membership and discuss civilian defense and Armed Forces service. Local High Point delegates join national figures Everett Dix and Albert E. Chamberlain to boost Roll Call participation and home front support.
A column notes political neglect shaping state offices and reveals the clerk of the North Carolina Supreme Court earns a tiny official salary of 300 dollars annually, while income from fees could reach about 15,000 dollars a year, hinting at revenue from mimeographing records and related duties.
High Point will close its white schools next Friday for the 18th annual Northwestern District Teachers Association convention in Greensboro. The district covers 15 counties. district president is C. Deskins. The theme is The Role of Education In the Changing Conditions of the South. Sessions start 10:30 am with two address programs at Avenge Auditorium, Woman's College, plus evening talks by Ruth Vick Everett, D W Daniel, and Sidney Hall. Luncheon and dinner events are scheduled at Jefferson Roof, College Place Methodist Church, O Henry Hotel, and King Cotton Hotel.
The 21st annual joint meeting of the North Carolina section of the American Water Works Association and the North Carolina Sewage Works Association will be held in High Point November 3, 4 and 5. Sheraton Hotel serves as headquarters with Louis R. Hanson as principal speaker at the November 4 banquet. City figures Arthur Kirkman Grover Zones Aubrey Setzer and Harry E. Jordan are among speakers alongside plant representatives relying on water supply.
Executive Secretary Olin W. LeBaron presented figures showing the Community Chest Drive is improving despite a late end and slow start. Only 23.3 percent of the goal has been raised with 21.6 percent of units reporting, yet more reporting units are above quotas than below. The drive continues through the week with optimism the $50,650 goal will be reached.
Funeral services for Mrs Na M Hawks 38 wife of H Hawks were held at Koonce Funeral Home with Dr A B Conrad First Baptist pastor officiating. A quartet sang Face to Face and O Love That Will Not Let Me Go with Ernestine Fields at piano. Interment Guilford Memorial Park Cemetery. Minnie Simpson 39 wife of W L Simpson died Friday. Services held at Third Avenue Christian Church Danville with Rev Sorrell presiding. Funeral procession left Koonce at noon. Interment Sipaptat View Cemetery in Danville.
The ninth annual Southeastern Singing Convention will be held at the Armory Auditorium in Charlotte on Sunday October 19, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The program features quartets such as Stamps Baxter Lone Star, Vaughn Happy Four, Carolina Ladies, Hi Neighbor, Rangers, Stany Baxter Smile a White, Church of God, Hub City, Firestone Choral and others, with left handed pianist Marion Snider of Dallas. Last year’s attendance was about twenty three thousand. Singers may contact A. H. Helms, manager, 110 Kinney Building, Charlotte. Potatoes still grow wild in the Chife area where they originated. nm
Charles Bickett Lewis 21 and Robert Franklin Davis 15 of High Point were accepted for Marine Corps service at Winston-Salem Recruiting Station. They transferred to Marine Barracks Parris Island for brief training and will receive ten days’ leave after training before assignment to a school ship barracks or foreign post. Entrance exams are at Winston-Salem station with information and blanks provided on request.
The Gospel Melody Trio will sing for the Woodmen Men's Bible Class of Highland Methodist Church this morning at 9 45. Charles Tomlinson Jr departs Monday for Biloxi Mississippi to join the Air Corps of the United States Army.
High Point Rotary Club announces readiness of its iron lung for city and surrounding areas. A three man crew, trained by the fire department, will operate from a fire station and respond via a special truck. The device can be used instantly by any qualified doctor or hospital superintendent.
About 40 outsiders began a strike at Tomlinson in High Point last Wednesday and remained out seeking a three cent an hour raise. They say the raise would add roughly 1.20 a week, claiming management would not meet with top executives and that workers were told to return Tuesday or seek other jobs. A plant representative blamed a shortage of upholstery tacks and said a substitute tack was used for necessity. Some strikers have returned to work. the outsiders say the tack change reduced their weekly pay. They are not union members.
The Western North Carolina Conference of the Pentecostal Holiness Church will meet at 612 Highland Avenue next Friday through Monday October 20 with about 250 ministers and delegates expected. Bishop Joseph H. King will preside and Rev C A Stroud will deliver the opening address. Special music and sermons will be presented in events at the host church and high school auditorium with public attendance.
Arrangements completed for the annual meeting of the Associated Credit Bureaus of North Carolina. The event opens with a Dutch luncheon at the O Henry Hotel at 2 p m and runs through Tuesday with sessions at Sedgefield Inn. Speakers include L S Gilbert R G Trosper W L Dowell and Frank T Caldwell. A banquet and open forum are planned with concluding addresses Tuesday by Mrs Pauline Lowder George W Dowdy and Edward C Moo maw. The group will elect officers and directors during a Tuesday business session.
A marriage relations council will be held at the First Methodist Church with lectures on October 13 26 27 and November 4 and 10 by prominent sociology and education speakers. Speakers include Mrs Bess N Rosa Gladys Hoagland Groves Jane Bunting and Dr Donald S Kiaiss with final talk on Parenthood by Mrs Rosa. Lectures start 7 30 pm in the basement auditorium and tickets can be reserved by calling 41426.
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