High Point to Discuss Crossings With Rail Leader
Henry Miller of Southern railway to visit High Point for talks on railroad crossings. City meeting split residents into underpass and overpass camps. rerouting also debated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Miller
The
Southern, Railway
High Point
Gans Aga
Green ‘Street
Grimes Street
High‘land Mill
Eva Edgerton
G. E. Hutchens
North Main
Emerywood
Hutchens
New York Curb Exchange
Lynch & Co
Knute Rockne
Notre Dame
Fund Memo Reveals Odd Donations and a Gold Mine Offer
A whimsical memo notes government feed payments and a donor fund receiving one percent royalty from a Phoenix area gold mine proposal. It mentions a Broadway rights stake, a Name the Car contest, and a $3 000 bequest to the New York Newspaper Guild for anti profanity literature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Runyon Committee
Phoenix
Arizona
Egad
Rachel McDowell
The
N. Y. Times
N. Y
Good Woman
Pure Language League For Scribes
New Building for Epileptics to Be Dedicated Soon
In Raleigh on October 29 a new state hospital building for about 100 epileptic patients will be dedicated November 1. The Cherry building, named for former Governor R Gregg Cherry, cost about 457000 and is the first started under a 21000000 permanent improvements program authorized by the 1947 and 1948 legislatures. Cherry is invited to the dedication with the hospital board of control in attendance. Roy Purser said that in addition to this, work on the Clark building for disturbed women is also completed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
State Hospital
Cherry
R. Gregg Cherry
Hospitals Board of Control
Roy Purser
Clark
Oklahoma A and M’s Professor of Barbecue Potts Feeds Big Crowds
H Clay Potts, titled Director of Short Courses at Oklahoma A and M College, is celebrated as the Professor of Barbecue. He conducts large scale barbecues for public events, serving up to 50 000 people a year at pit prepared meals, with elaborate planning and a sauce featuring catsup Worcestershire liquid smoke and brown sugar. Potts works with Forrest Little to prepare meals and promotes Oklahoma A and M through his public feasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stillwater
Okla
NEA
H. Clay Potts
Oklahoma A & M College
Potts
Oklahoma A & M
Forrest Little
Little
North Carolina Symphony Society Launches Local Drive
The North Carolina Symphony Society begins a High Point membership drive on November 7 with headquarters at the Sheraton Hotel for two weeks. M. S. Harrison urges past members to renew via treasurer Mrs. Henry Foscue or by mailing to Box 969 High Point before the drive. Memberships range from two dollars to one hundred dollars for patrons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina Symphony Society
High Point
Sheraton Hotel
M. Harrison
Henry Foscue
Woodland
North Carolina Symphony
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Murmansk
Russia
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Missouri
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Japan
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Leyte Island
Samar
Kozane
Salonika
Greece
London Daily Herald
Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey
British Labor Party
Civil Service Commission
War Project
Avidson County
Thomasville Society of the Children of the American Revolution
Davidson
Washington
Sprinkler Corporation
Prospect ST
High Point, N. C
Ene
Saven Pan
Club
High Point Hardware CO
NFW
South Main St
Gov't
N. C. Symphony
North State Telephone CO
Paramount Theatre
S. Main ST
Bloom
Bloom Furniture Company
Washington Street
Hallowe
Guilford
Randolph
Hallowe'en Aight
Paul Stamey
Nick Lawrence
Gilbert Southern
Bloom Furniture CO
East Washington ST
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