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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1933
Page
3
Division Six’s drive on Employers reports high success as many employers sign the consumer code cards. NRA campaign workers push to conclude this week with progress expected midweek and thousands of cards distributed in mills factories and retail establishments.
Editor notes safety rules prepared by Ranged Hussey for local pupils. The slogan Stop Look and Live urges crossing only at crosswalks with signals, looking left and right, staying on sidewalks, walking on the same side with others, and avoiding turning back in traffic. It warns of dangers from passing vehicles and stresses careful, alert behavior.
High Point records August fire loss totaling 16046 with Belk-Stevens as top claimant at 13221. Home of R J Wagner and Wachovia Bank building losses also noted. Building and content values, causes of fires, alarms, equipment used, and false alarms summarized.
F M Jarvis of 1307 Bencini Street claims a backyard bean vine now about 20 feet long may surpass other vines in length. He pulled the vine yesterday and reports several other yard vines of similar length bearing beans.
Leaders in a bipartisan drive forecast Randolph County voting dry by 2500 votes and claim every precinct will go dry. A prohibition rally at 3 PM in Asheboro First Presbyterian Church will feature John W. Clark of Franklinville as the principal speaker launching the dry effort with other speakers announced.
Greensboro College in North Carolina starts its 87th scholastic year Tuesday with a joint meeting of faculty and officers in Main building. Registration runs through Wednesday, with recitations beginning Thursday at 8 a.m. The formal opening at Odell Memorial auditorium features Dr. S. B. Turrentine, president, delivering a welcome message and a musical program. President Turrentine notes expected higher enrollment.
Elder F. J. Washburn of the Primitive Baptist church will preach at the home of George King in High Point route 1 Thursday night at 7 30.
Hosiery workers planned celebrations with a 3 p m program by the American Federation of Labor and a 7 p m mass meeting at the Senior high school under the Industrial Workers Association. Banks city offices and the public library closed while emergency services and Elks events continued. IObservers note heavy outbound travel as residents head to country or beach for the long weekend and schools prepare to reopen in two weeks. Thanksgiving on November 30 is noted as the next holiday.
Guilford council No 23 Jr U A M held a regular meeting at 110 1 2 East Washington street with D A Neese presiding. Reports from the state meeting in Hickory August 22 23 and plans for future gatherings in Winston Salem and Lexington were shared amid a large attendance and several visiting councils. Neese announced seven candidates to be initiated September 5.
Cherry Street Presbyterian colored church marks Students Day with a morning sermon for youth planning to attend schools. At 7 p.m. the Good Will program precedes the 8 p.m. Students Day program performed by students heading to colleges. registrars request all departing students to register.
Local home owners expect a surge of loan applications as the North Carolina branch of the Home Owners Corporation brings in a group of appraisers to inspect properties. Realtor 8 C Clark notes the state office will review applications before local negotiations begin, aided by recent mortgage firm acceptance of corporation bonds.
High Point with 25 hosiery mills and thousands of workers will begin under the new fair competition code starting Monday. The code fixes minimum weekly wages of 12 dollars in the South and 13 dollars in the North for most workers, with 8 dollars for learners and protections on substandard workers. Temporary provisions limit footing operations to 35 or 40 hours and set a five day work week with no make-up Saturdays. The code also defines learner status and wages for the first three months and anticipates a code authority of eight manufacturers and labor and recovery administration representatives. Public release notes a forthcoming full text and plans for uniform resale conditions.
Community Exchange on North Wrenn Street lists registrations for barter and labor. A White woman seeks to swap a Victrola for an organ and chickens for a chest of drawers. A White man offers work in exchange for clothes for a four year old boy and a four month old girl. Eight White men seek farm shares, while seven people found permanent work and eleven received temporary jobs through the exchange. First Re formed church ladies assist at the Exchange this week.
High Point municipal court calendar shows trial possible September 21 in the $25,000 heart balm case of Charles Prevost against State Senator Jeter Blackburn of Wilkes county for alleged alienation of Prevost's wife Josephine. The suit, filed after the 1945 general assembly, names Blackburn a former lawmaker and seeks damages. Jurors listed for the Sept 12 and Sept 19 weeks accompany the notice.
August permits total 10 797 in value down from July 19 2000 yet the number of permits issued shows faith in recovery. Dwellings stores mills and a service station are listed among projects totaling mainly on National Recovery Act influenced activity. Largest permit 4000 for a store and residence on Commerce Street.
A three act play entitled Spooky Tavern will be presented by the Lebanon M. P. church Ladies Aid Society at Oak View school Thursday evening at 8 o clock. Miss Emma Wray and Rather Brooks direct a cast featuring Lon Hacker John Wimberly Joyce Wingate and several students with thrills and a surprise ending.
Mr and Mrs L B Johnston and daughter Becky Mall leave this morning by motor for Hawthorne New Jersey where they will reside and Johnston will become principal of a new high school opening there this fall He resigned last month from the local high school after twelve years as principal to undertake the new work.
The Oaksdale Cotton mill pond on Deep River near Jamestown was drained for Dr. W. Ed. McAnally to illustrate how erosion deposits have filled the reservoir. Eroded hillsides threaten Deep River’s city water supply with mud and sand if not addressed.
The Industrial Workers Association will hold a mass meeting at 7 oclock Monday evening on the Senior high school campus. The gathering is open to members friends and the public with no formal Labor Day observance. The regular Sunday Bible class meets at 9 45 this morning in the hall.
Western Union announced it signed the President reemployment agreement with NRA modifications for the telegraph industry. The code covers nearly 50,000 United States employees and limits weekly hours to forty eight, with exceptions for managerial and certain supervisory staff and emergency repair workers. Blue Eagle cards and blue label stickers are being displayed and placed on all telegraph messages.
The Carolina Motor Club will be closed all day Monday in observance of Labor Day. Officials said the office will reopen for normal business on Tuesday.
James Edward Bethea of the Virginia Theological Seminary will officiate at the 11 oclock service at St Marys Episcopal Church. Dr H Norwood Bowne will lead the morning service. Church members are asked to note the change for the early service from 730 to 800. Public invited to attend.
Claude A. Smith, longtime principal of the Elm Street graded school in High Point, has resigned from the city schools system to enter business. Superintendent T. Wingate Andrews says Smith was popular with teachers, students, and patrons, and a recommendation to fill the vacancy will go to the school board soon.
High Point College will offer four new sociology classes this year including An Introduction to General Sociology The Family The Family Case Work and a General Sociology course through the Extension Division. Courses aim to serve regular students and local social workers with practical evening sessions starting September 26 under qualified instructors led by Dean P B Lindle.
Maurice Wilson of the mechanical drawing and industrial art department resigns after four years. Seven resignations this year leave the department without an instructor, E T Howard having previously left. Budget and opening plans for September 18 are under discussion.
Members of High Point post 619 VFW and its auxiliary will attend church services at Calvary Methodist on East Green Street tonight. They are asked to assemble at 7 30 o’clock and ex service men in the city are invited to attend.
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