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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1958
Page
11
G Preston Oakley 511 Denny St was shot in the head at 1010 Gordon St by estranged husband Kenneth Peele who surrendered at police headquarters. Oakley underwent surgery and remained near death as doctors tried to remove the bullet, while Peele faced open charges.
Police continued the inquiry into a fatal Ferndale Drive crash that killed 26 year old Hubert Alexander Williams of 1502 North Hamilton Street. Williams, alone in a 1950 car, was speeding east when he crossed a traffic island and struck a tree, dying at Memorial Hospital about 4 30 AM. He was pulled from the wreck after about a half hour of effort. He served in the U. S. Navy and had worked for Marietta Paint & Color for three years. He was married March 6, 1955 to Diane Hedgecock and leaves a wife, two daughters and relatives in Virginia and Tennessee. Funeral services are set for Tuesday at 11 AM at Koonce Funeral Home with burial in Floral Garden Park Cemetery.
Greensboro. Four Randolph County residents are named in a Middle District Federal Court suit filed by Allstate Insurance Co. against Albert Henry Goins. The company seeks a ruling that it bears no liability for an auto accident on Highway 220 south of Greensboro involving Goins and another driver Fagg. Hooker and Howell are listed as passengers. Southeastern Insurance has paid Fagg 2050 in damages. Fagg sues Goins for 50000 in Guilford Superior Court. Allstate says Randolph and Southeastern claim liability.
Police say Frank Barnes 47 of S Hamilton Street shot his wife with a .32 caliber pistol as she lay in a friend's home on S Main Street. The couple argued and Barnes was arrested for felonious assault and carrying a concealed weapon with bond set at $600.
Obituary notices report the deaths of Otis W Bowman 64 Bridges St a WinstonSalem native and High Point pumping station operator Rook at 3 05 am in High Point Memorial Hospital and Mrs Charles J Clodfelter 79 of Oakview Rd with services at Shady Grove Baptist Church Interment follows in church cemetery Pallbearers listed for Bowman include Bill Hardy Robert White Jimmy Hardy Don Yates R W Walker and C W Spencer Interment at Floral Garden Park Cemetery. Mrs Clodfelter died at home after years of declining health with services conducted by Rev Frank Penninger and Rev Kenneth Crouse.
Funeral services for Avery Fin ton Rook aged 54 were conducted Sunday at 2:30 PM in the N Main Street Baptist Church with Reverend Neil J Armstrong and Reverend D W Charlton officiating. Interment followed in Floral Garden Park Cemetery with pallbearers Joe Yarbrough Paul Scarce Joe Mikels J C Dillard E B Kindley and Frank Ly
Aptitude tests for upholstery classes at the Industrial Vocational Center Jamestown and in Greensboro will be held Wednesday in the Employment Security offices at 10 am and 2 pm in Jamestown and 9 30 am in Greensboro. Bruce Roberts says the center can handle 12 students per class and the night upholstery class is full. Jack Bryant teaches. courses run six months, five days a week, four hours daily. The Jamestown center opens its new facilities with upholstery the first offered. Three other vocational classes may begin this month. testing dates to be announced.
The Dayton Rubber Co. Cushioning Division announces a Miami plant for foam fabrication warehousing and sales led by L C Pape with operations starting the first week in September. The Miami unit will offer the complete Dayton line of molded and fabricated foam products for furniture makers with custom cushioning. Similar facilities already exist in High Point and Chattanooga, Tenn. Dayton Rubber pioneered foam latex and urethane production for furniture and allied markets.
High Point is asked to send representatives to the Southeast Urban Renewal Clinic in Atlanta on Sept 22 23. Over 200 cities are expected to attend the ACTION sponsored event, the seventh regional clinic led by 50 civic and business leaders. Lexington and Thomasville are also invited to participate.
The trivium comprised the first three liberal arts grammar logic and rhetoric guiding medieval studies and school curriculum in early universities.
Guilford County teachers and students prepare for the 1958 59 school year with James town and Jamestown James town opening at 9 a.m. and Allen Jay at 6 30 a.m. Students attend half day with no cafeterias serving lunch. Overcrowding leads seventh graders to study in a renovated wing of the old sanatorium.
A porch from a third floor of a Fall River house ripped away when a rope caught on a passing car bumper. The car dragged the porch, damaging a parked vehicle below.
The weather bureau reports fair warm conditions for the day with a high near 88 degrees and humidity around 88 percent. Tonight cooling to about 60 with tomorrow reaching low 80s and a 50s night low. The week starts warming after Wednesday with about an inch of rain expected later, Labor Day 1958 noted the clear conditions.
The Guilford County Board of Commissioners will hold its September meeting in Greensboro tomorrow at 9 a.m. The board will hear monthly reports from county agencies and departments and will receive milk bids for county operated units.
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