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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1959
Page
6
Guilford County deputies seek two bushy haired youths about 18 after they robbed Roy Slate at a Greensboro High Point Airport area filling station at 2 am. They demanded cash, taking about 75 dollars. one wore a light shirt and the other a sweater. They fled toward Greensboro after a car was started nearby.
W Bernard Jones will address the Industrial Management Club at the YMCA Tuesday at 6 30 pm. He is national director of a fraternal group and has trained over 2000 Virginia business professionals as a Dale Carnegie instructor. Jones earned the Bronze Star and served as administrative officer for a 10 000 man unit. He was the first military governor of South East Korea. Sponsored by Southern Coating and Chemical Co. of Sumter, South Carolina.
Dr Eldora Haworth Terrell a High Point physician is among speakers for Guilford College Founders Day 1959 events November 5 and 6. She will address chapel Friday morning and is honored as a Guilford graduate noted for distinguished service. The convocation runs two days ending with a tea. homecoming follows November 7 with attendees from both genders.
An exhibition of Abdullah Ariff’s watercolors from Penang Malaya is shown at the High Point Public Library arranged by Dr. Herbert Peterson of High Point College. Ariff has exhibited in London Paris and Charlotte and has served as art supervisor at Penang’s Methodist Boys’ School. The show runs through November 4 as the library’s third art display of the fall season.
A bid opening for a proposed educational addition to First Methodist Church is set for Tuesday at 2 30 p m in the church Fellowship Hall. Six general contractors are listed: R K Stewart and Son, J R Graham and Son of High Point, King Hunter Inc, Barker Cochran Construction Co of Winston Salem. The project is labeled a four hour bid job with a four hour prior sub bid deadline to curb last minute errors.
Greensboro War Memorial will lay its cornerstone at 2 30 p m today. Final inspection occurs Monday ahead of acceptance by the Greensboro War Memorial Fund Commission. Dedication scheduled next Sunday at 2 30 p m in the memorial auditorium with a reserved section for families of World War II and Korean War dead. Invitations for seats are at the Municipal Building reception desk.
Walter H. Caulk has been named crew leader for the 1959 census of agriculture in Guilford County. The census will start Nov. 18.
Greensboro wrestling referee Leroy Norwood escaped serious injury when his 1952 auto struck a concrete bridge abutment on a highway last night. Norwood, 62, suffered a broken rib and multiple lacerations and was hospitalized at High Point Memorial. He was en route to referee a match in Lexington when the crash occurred. Municipal Court hearings are planned after his release.
Ronald M. Falls was promoted to assistant cashier at the High Point branch of Security National Bank. The announcement came from C. M. Allred, senior vice president, and Falls joins the bank as a trainee since December 1957 after earning an AB from Duke University. He is a High Point High School graduate living with his parents at 1024 Barbee St and is active in First Baptist Church and the American Business Club. He played basketball at Duke and was a member of Kappa Alpha fraternity.
The Methodist Men's Club of Main Street Church will sponsor a public country ham supper on November 18. Tickets are available in advance. At a Friday meeting the group also approved redecorating the dining room. Miss Carol Kearns reported on her visit to the United Nations building in New York City.
Former U S Congressman Brooks Hays will deliver the principal address at Gardner-Webb College Founders and Homecoming Convocation. Dr Martin Dewey Whitaker of Lehigh University and Gardener Webb alum will also speak. Ceremonies run Oct 30 31 and Nov 1 with over 1000 visitors expected. homecoming football vs Lees McRae on Oct 31 at 8 p.m.
A brief note examines how coffee breaks affect workplace dynamics, suggesting breaks can both energize staff and offer bosses a chance to assess performance in informal settings.
Obituaries document multiple 70 to 80 year old residents with high mass services at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church and graves at Floral Garden Park Cemetery and Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery. Noted are Sally Hink Smith, Mary Ryan Welborn, Martha Victoria Johnson Stewart, Franklin Lehman, Charles A Kenia, and Charles Espete Thomas Vi Kenia.
Sallie Nance Kivett, 73, of Asheboro died after a three day illness in a local hospital. She attended First Methodist Church, the VFW and the Order of the Eastern Star. Survivors include husband James H. Kivett four sons two sisters a brother nine grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Funeral planned for 3 p.m. at First Methodist Church with burial in Oaklawn Cemetery.
Miss Florence Culler 60 of Winston-Salem died Friday night in a local hospital. A native of Surry County she lived in Randolph County before moving to Winston-Salem in 1951. Survived by sister Mrs. Thomas Lamb and brothers J. D. and Otis O. Culler. Funeral today at 3 p.m. at Pugh Funeral Home Chapel Asheboro with burial at White Hall Methodist Church Cemetery.
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