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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1936
Page
5
An 18 year old Elizabeth Smith stands accused of taking the life of her newborn child. The piece frames her as a victim of harsh social pressures and springing youth, urging mercy over sensationalism and condemning the public spectacle of the trial. It notes societal risks of unwed motherhood and urges humane treatment.
A compassionate tribunal could view cases with understanding and kindness, offering punishment or aid without public branding. The piece warns against harsh historical penalties and urges care not to swing back to cruelty in modern life.
Local Rotarians dined on Brunswick stew at Gratton Foy's Rockford road home last night and will not need a full meal until Sunday or Monday a dietician says after a light breakfast and no luncheon yesterday. Out of town guests included Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Foy and others from Marietta Washington D C Reidsville and Greensboro guest speaker Robert A Schoon will discuss Old Age Deferred at next week's Sheraton meeting.
New York October 30 After more than a year boxing’s welterweight scene finally narrows to a title clash between Ceferino Garcia and Izzy Ross at Madison Square Garden with Barney Ross’s crown at stake. Promoter Jimmy Johnston posts a $500 knockout bonus as Garcia, a heavy hitter from the Philippines via Los Angeles, opens as the 6 5 favorite.
Color blindness shows higher incidence in men compared with women, reflecting genetic factors linked to the X chromosome and differing retinal cell processing between the sexes.
Miss Ruth Council of Winston-Salem president of the North Carolina State Nurses association was renominated for a third term at the Winston-Salem convention. Also nominated were Edith Redwine, Blane T. Lambe, Lucy Price, Davis Dick ens, and Josephine Kerr. Council cited changes in nursing, noted a Los Angeles convention report, and said private duty nursing holds a bright future. Membership rose from 1242 to 1410 in the last year.
Several railroads operating in North Carolina have filed proposed rate reductions with the Interstate Commerce Commission to suspend long and short haul clauses. They seek lower rates on anti freeze compounds cookies and crackers furniture and parts grain and grain products glassware lumber petroleum products stone and gravel and walnut veneer. Three hearings are set for November 9 to consider merits and public need for new service in the Carolinas.
The M. J. Wrenn Memorial Library contract was awarded to Wilson and Keziah. Construction starts Monday, with completion expected around early March. The forty by eighty foot colonial library will harmonize with campus buildings, based on plans by Eccles D. Everhart.
The Nebraska constitution prohibits state debts exceeding 100000 dollars, a restriction in force since 1875. The rule shapes fiscal limits and borrowing practices for state governments.
Bath Me October 30 Shipwrights prepared to build a Class 1 racing sloop for Harold Vanderbilt to defend the Americas Cup next summer. Bath Iron Works contracted to launch the yacht in spring at a cost of 300000 dollars. Vanderbilt intends to sail against Endeavor II Yankee and Weetamoe as the competition to Newport begins.
Tobacco sales in Rocky Mount show 596.50 pounds yesterday at an average price of 25.54 dollars. Today's sales total about 600000 pounds.
Raleigh coroner M. Waring determines Roy Wall, a 23 year old farmer, acted in self defense when he fatally stabbed Ed L. Lee. The incident details remain limited in the note.
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