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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1946
Page
13
The High Point library board, now a six member body, voted to abolish the main branch rental division and change to free book issuance effective October 21. Books out remain on rental terms. Negro branch service continues as a voluntary Alpha Art club program.
The 25th annual convention of the North Carolina Association of Real Estate Boards begins Monday at 9:45 a.m. at the Sheraton, with 200 plus attendees expected from across the state. Henry V. Koonts of High Point presides, Blake Thompson of High Point serves as secretary-treasurer, and Boyd T. Barnard of Philadelphia, head of the national association, is set to speak.
High Point council No. 23 and York Rite Masons convene in the armory Friday at 3 30 pm with royal and select master degrees at 4 pm followed by a 6 30 pm buffet. Super excellent masters degree to close. Dignitaries including Dr J R McCracken attend. music by York Rite choir.
The High Point Tuberculosis association announced chairmen for the Christmas Seal sale to begin mid November. Key postings include Tom Gold Jr. as general chairman and Mrs. E P Wilson heading the Negro planning committee with plans for expanded health education and a ministerial institute.
White schools in High Point will close next Friday at noon to enable principals and teachers to attend the Northwestern district meeting of the ICEA at Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, starting 2 p.m. Cafeterias will not serve. Colored schools operate as usual. The district includes 15 counties and meetings span Winston-Salem Greensboro High Point.
In September 263 drivers were charged with overtime parking in High Point. Of these, 117 were visitors and 226 citations were canceled. Ninety nine High Pointers provided reasons for erasure, and total penalties paid reached 377.50 dollars.
Four year old Donnie Floyd Medlin son of Mrs. Mary M Turner died after an extended illness at his grandfather Archie L Medlin’s home on High Point Route 4. He was bared in High Point December 12. Survived by mother and half sister Mary Duncan Turner. Body at J C Green Funeral Home in Thomasville awaiting funeral arrangements.
In Thomasville 139 workers and union leaders tied to the Thomasville Chair strike are cited to appear before Judge E Hoyle Sink in a restraining order hearing in Guilford County. Thirty three share further contempt citations.
After World War II the First Presbyterian Church in High Point organized a young adult Sunday school class in 1946. Howard Pancoast teaches the class with Dr. A B Croom as president, J H Hogg as vice president, and Elizabeth Ennis as secretary treasurer. Members range about ages 25 to 38 and the group engages in quarterly business meetings with fellowship dinners in the church dining room.
Local Republicans announce a concerted drive to register voters for the November 5 election. L F Ferree says precinct chairmen will meet Monday night to plan registration day next Saturday. Books close after Saturday. A speaking engagement in High Point by Hobart Albemarle attorney may also occur, with a barbecue planned for the end of the month.
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