Decontrol of Prices to Dominate Southern Furniture Meet
The 36th annual Southern Furniture association convention opens in Sedgefield Tuesday with about 200 members from 16 states. Bion D. Howard will discuss price decontrol, followed by an open debate on removing furniture price controls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Furniture Association
Sedgefield
Bion D. Howard
Price
Home Furnishings
Office of Rice Administration
Howard
George J. Keyes
Association
George W. Heaton
Myers Park Baptist Church
Charlotte
I. G. Greer
Thomasville
Dudley D. Carroll
School of Commerce
University of North Carolina
Carroll
Henry Foscue
Forest Products Laboratory
Madison, Wis
City officials press Southern Railway for underpass and station upgrades
Mayor Earl N. Phillips and City Manager Roy S. Braden conferred with Ernest Norris, Southern Railway president, in Washington. Norris promised thorough investigation and immediate attention to Ward and Highland street underpasses and the railway station, including platform and shed extensions. The talks postponed earlier wartime repairs and signaled a fresh push for safety and traffic capacity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl N. Phillips
Roy S. Braden
Ernest Norris
Southern Railway System
Ward
Highland Street
Norra
Washington
Compa
New Jeans
Phillips
Norris
Norris Ia
Ward Street
State Board Allows 190 Out of District Pupils in High Point
The state board approved attendance for 190 out of district pupils in High Point city schools for this year. Transfers require board approval to count toward attendance credits, or the district risks losing teachers. Most students come from families with ties to High Point, mainly in junior and senior high schools. Notable pupil counts include Ray street 46 and Johnson street 7, with districts listed as Allen Jay 17 Archdale 4 Hasty 14 James town 61 Oak View 22 Sedgefield Garden 3 Trinity 42 Union Cross 2 Union Hill 18. Oak View and Florence districts are excluded from totals as assigned to specific High Point high schools by the state board.
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State Board of Education
High Point
Charles F. Carroll
State Board
Carroll
Ray Street
Johnson Street
Elm Street
Ada Bieir
Emma Blair
Allen Jay
Archdale
Hasty
Jamestown
Oak View
Sedgefield Garden
Trinity
Union Cross
Union Hill
Florence
Republicans To Hear Morton On Monday Night
Hobart Morton prominent attorney of Albemarle will be principal speaker at a Republican rally at the county building Wednesday night. F Ferree local chairman announced plans and invited State Chairman Sim DeLappe and all county candidates. Ralph W Slate Morton’s college friend will introduce. A barbecue for precinct workers and organization is planned for Monday night before the election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hobart Morton
Albemarle
F. Ferree
Sim DeLappe
Lexington
Ralph W. Slate
Morton
Ferree
Mechanicsville Council Plans Weekly Meeting and Music
Mechanicsville council number 347 of the Junior Order United American Mechanics will meet Tuesday night at 7 30 in the hall. Milton Vick directs a special music program after the business session as the council opens a membership drive inviting all members to attend.
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Mechanicsville Council
United American Mechanics
Milton Vick
Festival of Fun to Play Paramount One Night
Carl Mason delivers Festival of Fun at the Paramount Theatre Tuesday for one day. The veteran showman boasts a 30 year career with Abbott and Costello ties and Geo Evans Minstrels. The cast includes the Sextet of Sirens and acts by Betty Larue Hank Reese Bess Carlson and Sy Hedler Orchestra.
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Carl Mason
Paramount Theatre
Abbott & Costello
Bud Abbott
Lew Costello
Steel Pier
Atlantic City
Carl
Geo. Evans
Honey Boy” Minstrels
Festival of Fun
Sextet of Sirens
Long & Macon
Betty Larue
Tops
Hank Reese
Bess Carlson
Phila
Sy Hedler
Noted youth leader to speak at High Point event
Dr. Hoover Rupert of Nashville will preach at First Methodist Church at 11 am and again at 7 30 pm as part of a city wide youth rally. The program features the High Point High School A Cappella choir, youth fellowship leaders, and a scripture reading, inviting all to attend. Separately the Piedmont region reports first results of High Point’s hybrid corn project yielding up to 129 bushels per acre on one plot, with recordings by WPTF to air later.
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High Point
Methodist Church
Hoover Rupert
Nashville
Tenn
First Methodist Church
Rupert
Baker University
Boston University School of Theology
Kansas
Brookline
Mass
Methodist Churches
Claude McKinney
High Point High School
Carl G. N. Cronstedt
Hazel Zimmerman
First Church Youth Fellowship
Betsy Hardin
Wesley Memorial Youth Fellowship
James Brown
First Church
Piedmont
Comene Agricultural Society of
Society of
R. B. Royal
Trinity
Royal
C. B. Shackelford
Allen Jay School
J. S. Waggoner
Guilf
Shaklefo
C. V. Kester
Society
Wagoner
WPTF
Raleigh
Shackelford
Royal Farms
Ted Leeper
Shackelford’s
Sheraton
Kester
Leeper
Proram
Dean I. O. Schaub
E. R. Collins
Ont
State College
A. W. Blair
College of Agriculture
City Memorial Service for 77 Men Set Nov 10
A memorial service for 77 High Point men who died in service will be held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. in the high school auditorium Kenneth Royall under secretary of war will give the principal address. This is the third city memorial service following 1942 and 1944 observances. Families will be invited and presented with inlaid wooden plaques.
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High Point
Kenneth Royall
High Point Plans City Wide Hallowe en Party
High Point prepares a downtown Hallowe en event with ghosts goblins and witches. Merchants have donated prizes and about 250 dollars more is needed to cover expenses before a final planning meeting at the county building. Officials civic groups and merchants will finalize program details by Tuesday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Merchants Association
Chamber of Commerce
Gilbert Gray
Belk- Stevens
High Point Declares Air Mail Week 1946
Mayor E N Phillips proclaims October 27 to November 2 as Air Mail Week in High Point. The chamber of commerce plans a special cachet on air mail letters and urges residents to use air mail via the local post office and truck route to the airport to show support for the service.
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E. N. Phillips
High Point
Chamber of Commerce
National Air Mail Week
Furniture Capital
S. C. Clark
Phillips
Post Office Department
Washington
National Air Mail
Coia
Earl N. Phillips
Emer gency Housing corporation of High Point forms
C L Amos president of the new firm says two new committees are set up to locate sites and arrange construction. The site committee is led by W T Powell, Amos R Kearns, and Ed Mendenhall. The plans and materials committee is led by E E Younts, DeLos Hedgecock, and J A dandson. A board meeting is planned for Monday to hear reports and advance plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emergency Housing Corporation of
High Point
C. L. Amos
W. T. Powell
Amos R. Kearns
Ed Mendenhall
E. E. Younts
DeLos
Hedgecock
J. A. Dandson
Nurses Ann Seay and Pattie Gibbs Promoted to First Lieutenant
Two North Carolina nurses, Lt. Ann Seay and Lt. Pattie Gibbs, promoted to first lieutenant in the Army Nurses Corps. Seay, transferred to Augusta Georgia to surgery, has family roots in Franklin and trained at Georgia Baptist hospital. Gibbs, from Reidsville, trained at St. Leo’s Greensbor o and served with High Point clinic before enlisting April 1945 and reporting to Oliver General Hospital in Augusta.
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North Carolina
Ann Seay
Pattie Reid Gibbs
Army Nurses Corps
Oliver General Hospital
Augusta
Seay
Lawson General Hospital
Atlanta
James H. Seay
Route 1
Franklin
Georgia Baptist Hospital
School of Nursing
Huey Hospital
Homerville
Camp Rucker
Ala
Samuel M. Gibbs
Main Street
Reidsville
Gibbs
St. Leo's Hospital
Greensboro
City Health Department
High Point
Oliver General
Scout Awards Will Be Made Tomorrow
The Boy Scout court of honor will be held Monday at 8 PM in the junior high auditorium. The public may attend as scouts receive awards across troops 3, 4, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 20, 23 and 30 including life, star, first class, carpentry, plumbing, home repair, wood work, painting, music, swimming and other honors.
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Budd Montgomery
Ray Greene
Sam Cridlebaugh
Eddie Hair
Lane Greene
Sonny Sorrell
Bobby Culler
Charles Kearnes
Bobby Harrington
Tommy Charping
Chad Rogers
Bill McGuinn
Jimmy Lovelace
Norman Zimmerman
Tobis Jackson Embler
Floyd Bottoms
Joel Key
Clarence Ridge
Cecil Pitts
Charles Jones
Billy Voncannon
Donald Wood
Jerry Culler
Bill Green
C. L. Corn
Bobby Glover
W. B. Delk, Jr
Charles Shufelt
Harold Schwab
Harold Rabham
Max Shoaf
Clarence Greenway
Clyde Garrison, Jr
Marion V. Bernard
Pete Jones
Clarence Brown
Bob Fountain
Troop
Don Elkins
Charles Fletcher
Bobby Gurley
Cyrus Brooks
Gary Reddick
Don Andrews
Homer Peace
Hubert Peace
Donald Boyles
Bobby Cagle
George Coltrane
Bill Haley
Joe Aldridge
Roger Davis
Claude Yates
Kay Andrews
Donald Hancock
Bill Cain
Housewives Asked To Help Relieve Paper Shortage
Ed Thrower co chair of the scrap paper drive urges housewives to collect old paper from basements and garages and place it on fronts or curbs for JayCees pickup at 1 pm Sunday November 17. Proceeds support the JayCee scholarship fund at High Point college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Thrower
JayCees
JayCee Scholarship Fund
High Point College
New Directory Tallies 268 Local Manufacturing Firms
The chamber of commerce releases the updated directory What's Made In Hi Point and Who Makes It. The 104 page booklet lists 268 manufacturing plants with names and addresses, up from 104 plants twenty four years ago.
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New Manufacturer Directory
New Chamber of Commerce
Hi Point
the Press
Special Services at Archdale Methodist Church
Archdale Methodist holds 11 o'clock morning service conducted by Rev. W. B. Penny with the church school officers and teachers in attendance. An evening service at 7:30 will feature Rev. George B. Clemmer, superintendent of the Thomasville district, who will deliver the message and preside at the quarterly conference.
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Archdale Methodist Church
W. B. Penny
George B. Clemmer
Thomasville
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Emm Meads
Southern Furniture
Flo Greeson
Winston-Salem
West End
Brentwood
Hoover Street
Springfield Road
Enterprise
Braden
Paramount
Hallowe’en
Max Weavil
Civics
Archdale Methodist
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