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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1929
Page
12
A county court opens Tuesday with 99 cases on the docket for the jury term. Prohibition violations lead with 41 cases, followed by 18 reckless driving charges and 11 assaults. The list includes numerous liquor law violations, drunkenness, abandonments, larceny, prostitution, and other offenses with a mix of colored and white defendants.
Kingston Missouri reader Mrs Harrip V Eastin says she weighed 100 pounds and could not work until taking four bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports full recovery and notes her sister-in-law also gained strength after the last baby.
A 60 day detour will redirect traffic on route 77 south of High Point during a one mile widening to a 40 foot pavement. J W Mills of the fifth highway district announced the plan with specifics for turning points and reentry at the Ragan place. RR G Lassiter Construction Co holds the contract for the project.
City council members plan a special Friday meeting at 7:30 p m with North Carolina Public Service officials to discuss amending the citys nearly forty year old street car contract to name street buses. If agreed the company would cover unused street railway tracks in multiple city belts and sections along North Main English Adams Millis Green and South Main to end of lines.
Phyllis answers the call with a romantic tone as a caller asks who is speaking on the phone in a Tit-Bits excerpt.
City council to meet Southern Railway officials at 10 am Monday to review plans for eliminating grade crossings. Attendees include two chamber of commerce representatives and City Planning and Zoning Commission members. Public input previously urged underpasses and overhead bridges while some favored rerouting tracks.
The North Carolina state highway commission met in Raleigh and awarded contracts for three new district projects. Low bids include Nello Teer for eight miles on new route 65 in Caswell and Roxboro areas at 61 875.60, T A Loving and Company for road work on the same route at 36 865, Hobbs Peabody for a new overpass on route 90 near Lexington at 17 820, and R G Lassiter for widening route 77 near High Point at 37 904 plus Hobbs Peabody for two new structures on route 77 with bids around 9 000.
M. Hoover, bondsman formerly with the Carolina Bonding Company and later with M. Ernest Welch, was ordered held for Superior Court on embezzlement charges. A $390 bond was set. about $300 is involved. Prosecutor Cr. A. Smith, now of Charlotte, previously of this city, appeared. Hoover is represented by L. B. Williams.
Police report no trace of Pearlie May Lucas 16 and Wilma Duncan 17 who vanished from 412 Ennis Street Monday night. Family and officers urge possible witnesses to come forward, with Pickett Mills identified as a location where they were last seen after 7 PM.
The white crab spider changes its body color to match the bloom it inhabits, blending with petals for camouflage. Researchers note this color adaptation enhances concealment, aiding predatory stealth and avoidance of predators in diverse flowering hosts.
Dr Frederick K Taylor former director of the Health Maintenance Bureau of the North Carolina State Board of Health announces his return to private practice in Internal Medicine. Office hours at 807 Commercial National Bank are 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM and 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, excluding Sundays, with other times by appointment. Telephones Office 4646 Residence 2460.
Joe Proctor age 27 of 214 Church Street died last night at 8 39 at a local hospital after several days illness. He was born in High Point son of Samuel and Mary Luke Proctor and worked recently at the High Point Hosiery Mills. Surviving are his widow Nell Smith, a daughter Jacqueline, his mother, two brothers John W U L Proctor and two sisters Fannie Embler and Alice Proctor. Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 PM at the home with Rev O L Ruth of Pilgrim Holiness Church officiating. Burial in Spring Hill cemetery.
The Allen Jay high school opened a new cafeteria serving sandwiches soup cakes and candies funded by the Parent Teacher association. First day patronage was strong and a yearlong operation is planned. Miss Pauline Sheets hosted a Glenola Baptist group night with forty five guests. a fiddlers convention is set for October 25 at the school auditorium with an 8 oclock start and small admission fee.
Astronomers determine a star's youth or age by analyzing the color of its emitted light and related spectral properties. The method hinges on temperature, composition, and evolutionary stage, enabling age estimation for distant stellar objects.
Dr. Ernst Derindinger, Catawba College professor, leads art extension courses for city schools now at Elm Street School after initial sessions at the Sheraton hotel. The first of two courses in the present year runs 16 weeks, tracing art history from Egypt’s pyramids. Weekly classes meet Mondays at 4 PM with strong faculty participation and some attendees seeking credit.
City council rejected a request from pool hall operators to reduce the pool table tax. A$50 per table levy was retained while discussion considered a graduated scheme taxing the first two or three tables at $50 and each additional table at $25. Fred N. Tate urged keeping taxes high, citing pool rooms as breeding grounds for crime.
Councilman Parker defeated his rivals after a heated clash over proposed cuts, successfully maintaining the tax at fifty dollars per table. The decision keeps current rates in place despite opposition arguments.
Washington reports Belgium's ministry of science and art holds the highest share of the government budget per figures from the department of commerce.
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