Family Service Bureau Guides Those In Need In High Point
The Family Service Bureau, a United Fund agency in High Point, helps 40 to 50 new cases monthly via executive secretary Miss Gladis Kivett. It handles alcoholism, budgeting, and family tensions, referring to other agencies when needed. Services are free if unable to pay, staffed by a 19 member board of professionals, seeking a caseworker to handle growing workload.
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High Point
Family Service Bureau
United Fund Agency
United Fund
Bureau
Gladis Kivett
America
City firemen battle fire at abandoned frame house near Maryfield
Firemen fought an outside assignment outside the city as an abandoned frame house behind Maryfield Convalescent Home burned. The blaze destroyed salvaged lumber and burned for about two hours. Irvin Davis owned the property and blamed scraps burning by his wrecking crew for sparks that sparked a dead tree.
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Route 6
Maryfield Convalescent Home
Greensboro Road
Irvin Davis
Davis
Gene Horney
Hepatitis Cases Reach Total of 124
Three new infectious hepatitis cases, two yesterday and one the day before, raise the county total to 124. Health officials note weekly cases below recent averages but offer no waning epidemic predictions. A nurse says 10 to 15 daily immunizations of contacts are being given with gamma globulin.
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County Health Department
Health Department
High Point
Jamestown
Randolph Baptist session opens second day program
ASHEBORO The 19th annual Randolph Baptist Assn session continued at Balfour Baptist Church with Carl King presiding. Speakers included Dr Hoyt Blackwell Mars Hill College on Christian education and Dr W K McGee on Baptist Hospital work. The Rev C M Strickland reported on the Baptist orphanage. Pharr of Charlotte First Baptist spoke on Sunday schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheboro
Randolph Baptist Assn
Union Grove Baptist Church
Balfour Baptist Church
Carl King
Association
Esterday
Hoyt Blackwell
Mars Hill College
Baptist Hospital
W. K. McGee
C. M. Strickland
Eener Pharr
Charlotte’s
First Baptist Church
Mrs Flora Wagner Westmoreland Dies At 81
Deaths and funerals notice for Flora Wagner Westmoreland 81 widow of C Dewitt Westmoreland. Services held at Memorial Methodist Church with Rev Harold M Robinson officiating. Pallbearers listed. Burial in City Cemetery after extended illness. Died Monday night at High Point Memorial Hospital.
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Thomasville
Flora Wagner Westmoreland
Memorial Methodist Church
Harold M. Robinson
Carlton Myers
Paul Leonard
Charles Curry
Warren Curry
Bobby Pearce
Richard Pearce
City Cemetery
Westmoreland
C. Dewitt Westmoreland
High Point Memorial Hospital
John K. Upton found dead near Asheboro
John Kelly Upton 72 of Route 1 Seagrove was found dead near his home with a shotgun wound to the chest and a gun nearby. Sheriff Coble Maness investigates with a possible coroner inquiry. Surviving: wife Addie Hedrick Upton, a son J. T. Upton, two daughters, a sister and six grandchildren. Funeral services incomplete.
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Asheboro
John Kelly Upton
Seagrove
Coble Maness
Upton
Addie Hedrick Upton
J. T. Upton
Winston - Salem
H. M. Johnson
Franklinville
Randolph Added To Disaster List
Randolph County joins Chatham and Harnett as drought disaster areas in North Carolina. Gov. Umstead notified by Agriculture Secretary Benson of the additions. Guilford was on an earlier list. Drought affected farmers may buy livestock feeds at reduced prices from Commodity Credit Corp surplus stocks.
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Asheboro
Randolph County
Chatham
Harnett
North Carolina
Umstead
Secretary of Agriculture
Benson
Guilford County
Commodity Credit Corp
Rental Cars Planned to Ease Shortages After Local Closure
Furniture buyers visiting home shows were told there will be enough drive-it-yourself transportation despite Jack's U-Drive-It going out of business due to new state liability rules. H. E. McDaniel of Carolina Driver-Self said his company will continue serving buyers and will not release its cars until after the furniture market ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. E. McDaniel
Carolina Driv-er-Self, Inc
Jack
U-Drive-It
McDaniel
Airport Officials Dine, Discuss Guilford Airport Needs
Greensboro and Guilford County leaders will join tonight for a Greensboro High Point Airport Authority dinner to discuss airport needs. Authority members planned a 4 30 p m business session followed by a 6 p m dinner at the Airport Restaurant. Topics include a new administration building, taxi strip and parking, runway extension, and adjustments to the new control tower before a Civil Aeronautics Administration inspection in about 10 days.
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High Point
Greensboro
Guilford County
Greensboro High Point
Ma Il
Civil Aeronautics Administration
CAA
Mrs Mattocks to Visit Home for Interior Decorating Talk
Mrs C B Mattocks will address the interior decorating class at 7 30 p m at the Junior High School. Following the talk the class will travel to Mrs Mattocks home at 8 o clock for a study of its workshop officials announced.
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C. B. Mattocks
Arts and Crafts
Wachovia to Build West End Drive-In Bank Office
Wachovia Bank and Trust Co plans a new West End neighborhood office off West Point Ave and English St in a Colonial style building with handmade brick. The drive-in teller windows, large off street parking, and convenient access for West End, Fairmont Park, Oak Hill, Emerywood, and nearby areas are highlighted. Customers from downtown High Point may use the West End office without moving accounts.
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Wachovia Bank and Trust Co
West End
State Banking Commission
Bland W. Worley
Wachovia
West Point Ave
English St
Worley
Bank
Fairmont Park
Oak Hill
Emerywood
Prospect Rd
Thomasville Rd
Westchester Dr
Thomasville Highway
U. S
High Point
UF United Fund near forty thousand in hand
Campaign Chairman Bland Worley reports the United Fund total at noon today as $39,830 with a two day progress. a large jump is anticipated after first volunteer reports tomorrow at an 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. meeting at the YMCA with refreshments provided. The fund aims for $184,740.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Fund
Bland Worley
YMCA
Worley
Locals Hear Yadkin River Land Claims Plan
Delegation from High Point prepared to present city claims to the federal General Services Administration in Washington. Mayor Covington and others plan a 2 p.m. conference with GSA officials to urge halting a 19 000 acre sale on the Yadkin River watershed until Congress acts on High Point's petition to sue the government to confirm ownership for hydroelectric development.
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High Point
Yadkin River
General Services Administration
Washington
GSA
George Covington
Amos Kearns
L. Roy Briggs
Local Power and Water Commission
Jesse Washburn
Max Elliott
Tom Peyton
GSA Lands Division
Clyde R. Hoey
Greensboro
Congress
Clara Cox Apt Playground Adds New Supervisor
Clara Cox Apts playground program gains momentum with the hiring of Mrs. G. R. Wallin to run a pre school age program and a Golden Age Club. Evelyn McNeely notes training in industrial plant programs and outlines a push to recruit arts and crafts staff and additional workers for a broader local effort. The Golden Age Club is the city’s second such unit, with about 75 members in the first club.
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Clara Cox Apts
Evelyn McNeely
City Parks and Recreation Department
G. R. Wallin
Circle Dr
Miss McNeely
Clara Cox
Mrs. Wallin
Expecting Rain? Think Again Sky Forecast
The weatherman says no rain yet with mostly fair skies. Tonight will be cooler around 52 degrees followed by a high near 78 tomorrow. Friday should stay fair and warmer, with Saturday bringing more cloudiness and warmth. Last night’s low was 55 and today’s high near 74.
First Session of Piedmont Baptists Opens at Green St Church
Green Street Baptist Church hosts delegates from nearly 80 churches for the Piedmont Baptist Inn opening. About 400 people expected for a two day meeting moving tomorrow to Eye Park Baptist Church in Greensboro.
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Green St. Baptist Church
Piedmont Baptist Inn
Eye Park Baptist Church
Greensboro
W. M. York
J. Clyde Turner
A. Leroy Parker
Asheboro St. Baptist Church
T. L. Sasser
Draft Objector's Trial Delayed by Witness Unavailability
Unavailability of a key witness forces a recess until Friday morning in the draft evasion trial of Ray Junior Brewer, 26, of Route 8 Lexington. Brewer, who relies on conscientious objection to military service, is charged with failing to board a bus for induction on August 4. Trial will be by jury.
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Salisbury
Ray Junior Brewer
Route 8
Lexington
Brewer
Prayer for TISDAY ends with prayer for healing in thee
A church prayer asks God to comfort the broken hearted and weary, pleading for healing oil and wine of the Spirit for suffering humanity. Led by Dale Oldham of Park Place Church of God in Anderson Indiana, the intercession seeks divine aid for individuals and nations.
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Dale Oldham
Anderson
Ind
Park Place
Church of God
Bond Issue Funds Hinted to Ease School Enrollment Strain
Local schools expect state bonds to aid expansion as 1948 50 million issue splits favor counties and districts by need and ability to pay. High Point Guilford allocations discussed. Pruette cautions no final figures yet. Enrollment rose to 8 265 this year amid war baby first graders and planned facility needs include Oak Hill and junior high upgrades.
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Dean B. Pruette
General Assembly
State School Board
Pruette
Guilford
High Point
Ward 2
Ray and
Johnson St
Oak Hill
Cloverdale
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Randolph
Flora Westmoreland
John K. Upton
Wachovia Bank
United Fund Rising
Piedmont Baptists
Munroe Husbands
Continental Fellowship
American Unitarian Assn
Sheraton Hotel
Unitarian Fellowship
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