Inez Clark Leads High Point Red Cross Chapter
Mrs Inez Clark arrived from Lexington to become executive secretary of the High Point Red Cross. She praises the local board members and highlights the chapter house on Thurston street, noting High Point is among five North Carolina cities with a chapter house. She cites membership of 14000 and strong regional support.
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Inez Clark
Lexington
High Point
American Red Cross
Agency of Mercy
Clark
Red Cross
Southeastern
Atlanta
Humphreys
Rct
Oth
Henry Foscue
Page Harris
Ages Services
Jace Haworth
Pennel Practice
Harriss Jarrell
E Service
Lu- Lee
Home Service
Mary Welborn
Interst
North Ocaroina
Thurston Street
North Caroa
Greensboro
Wilmington
Fayetteville
Charlotte
North Carolina
Winston-Safem
College Students Establish Blood Donor Drive at High Point
High Point College volunteers form a Red Cross blood donor program. Over 100 students registered and 60 typed with four donors already giving blood after urgent hospital calls. Freshman Lee Bridges answered a 12:30 p.m. appeal for an O negative donation to aid a very young child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point College Activities Committee
American Red Cross
Lee Bridges
T ville Turkey Raisers Birds Prove Hardy After Years Of Work
Thomasville police desk officer Frank Pennington raises turkeys as a hobby. He started with 14 birds and lice issues, then expanded to about 200 birds this year with significantly higher survival as he learned feeding and care. He buys day old birds in April and plans a Thanksgiving pot.
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Wint Capel Enterprise
Thomasville
Frank Pennington
Pennington
Penington
Page &B
Welfare Head Notes Drop In Business
Guilford county Welfare Department reports a slight decrease in activity for October with 25 new old age assistance cases and eight new aid to dependent children cases. Revisions reached 31 in old age, with 11 terminations and four rejections. dependent children saw 14 revisions, eight terminations, and two rejections. The Greensboro meeting in Mrs. Blanche Stern's office was attended by Charles Phillips, Miss Annie Pegram, Logan Porter, Miss Betty Evans, and Miss Gladis Kivett.
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Guilford
Blanche Stern
Greensboro
Charles Phillips
Annie Pegram
Logan Porter
Betty Evans
Kivett
Randleman Centennial Celebrations Begin With Weeklong Events
Randleman gears up for a week of centennial activities marking 100 years since the first cotton mill. The program, led by Chamber president John D. Huggins, includes church services tours of plants donkey basketball masquerade football game and a street dance. Community groups Lions Rotary and churches share credit for growth.
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Randleman
J. D
Doc” Huggins
Chamber of Commerce
First Methodist Church
Rancieman
Lions
Rotary
Randolph County
Ingold
Naomi
St. Paul
Tryon Street Man Pays Off $34 Parking Bill
Thurmond Kelly of 1506 Tryon street cleared the largest traffic fine tab by paying $34 at the High Point traffic bureau. Clerks Peggy Justice Wolfe and Sara Cook noted the payoff covered violations from December 17, 1947 to October 22, 1948. Kelly quipped about parking costs as he settled the bill.
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High Point
Peggy Justice Wolfe
Sara Cook
Thurmond Kelly
Tryon Street
Kelly
High Point Nurse Recounts City’s Early Medical Journey
Mrs. Josephine Soyars, High Point’s first registered nurse permanently located here, recalls the city’s medical rise from a 1900s wooden frame hospital to the expanding facilities of today. She notes initial limited funds, private duties, a 1904 clinic, and gradual growth amid typhoid epidemics and evolving care.
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Ity
Joe Brown
Ber
Ttem
Josephine Ars
Ib Point
Soyars
St. Andrew's Flame Hospital
Lynchburg
Richmond
New York
High Point
Sam Wils
Methodist Protestant Church
D. A. Stanton
J. T. Burrus
Burrus
Republican Rally Set at Emma Blair School House
The High Point Republican club led by president J. T. McGhee and 4th ward precinct committeemen sponsor a rally at Emma Blair school house next Wednesday night October 27 at 7 30. County Chairman McNary of Greensboro and all county candidates are expected, with speaker Ben Spence of Siler City the Republican candidate for State Treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point Republican Club
J. T. McGhee
4Th Ward
Emma Blair School House
McNary
Greensboro
Ben Spence
Siler City
Spence
Coole
North Carolina
Methodists To Launch Training Program
Twelve Methodist churches will sponsor a training school at First Methodist Church beginning Sunday night October 31 at 7 30. Officers include Rev Kenneth W Goodson director and Miss Myrtle Davis. horace Molick, Harry Bell and John Cagle handle publicity. Courses cover children, literature, Bible with children, teaching adolescents, youth and home making, young adults, New Testament content and values with texts. Open to all denominations.
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First Methodist Church
Calvary
J. Leonard Bayle
First
Kenneth Goodson
Highland
P. A. Sherrill
Lebanon
D. D. Broome
Lindsay
Don A. Payne
Main Street
E. M. Jones
Oak View
N. L. Oliver
Rankin
J. F. Cagle
Ward Street
M. G. Ervin
Welch Memorial
H. E. Bolick
Wesley Memorial
Paul Hardin, Jr
Archdale
F. Setzer
Kenneth W. Goodson
Myrtle Davis
Horace Molick
Harry Bell
John Cagle
A. W. Fraser
Teaneck
N. J
W. B. Ferguson
Nashville
Tenn
Elsie Ellen Moore
High Point
Smither
Raymond A. Smith
Greensboro
McLester
E. H. Ould
Roanoke
Dahlberg
Church
Virginia R. Chapman
Henderson
Chamberlain
A. J. Walton
Duke University
Durham
N. C
Goodspeed
Organ Recital by Piedmont Guild Set for Wednesday Night
The Piedmont Chapter of the American Guild of Organists sponsors a public organ recital at 8 o clock Wednesday evening in First Presbyterian Church. The program includes Bach pieces such as Sleepers Wake Rejoice Beloved Christians Come Now Saviour of Us All Come Sweet Death Prelude and Fugue in D Major and G Minor plus works by Franck Mendelssohn Edmundson Middel schulte and Dupre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Piedmont
American Guild of Organists
First Presbyterian Church
Bach
Franck
Mendelssohn
Edmundson
Etude
Middelschulte
Dupre
Piedmont Chapter
The
Looking Backward in 1928 Political Fever Mounts
Joe Leslie recalls the 1928 national race as Hoover Smith tension grows with regional shifts and campaign efforts in the North Atlantic states. The Tucson missing hunter tragedy is noted along with a Mars telepathy anecdote and Graf Zeppelin plans. High Point announces a new building site for the Enterprise.
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Mhoover-Smith
Maryland
Allegheny
al Smith
North Atlantic
Jefferson
Jackson
London
Mars
Oomaruru
Lakehurst
N. J
Graf Zepplin
United States
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Tae
Edward V. Mitchell
Randolph
Jop Leslip
Enterprise
High Point College
Benn
T'ville
Turkey
Boulevard Unit
High Point Memorial Hospital
Washington Street
Winston-Salem
Josephinne Soyars
Republican Party
Methodists
Joe Leslie
Florida
Charles Evans Hughes
Herbert Hoover
Hughes
Smith
Albany
Hoover
Washington
Tucsoni
Ariz
Foot
South Main Street
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