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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1950
Page
13
A man lent a post hole digger to a friend who kept it hidden in a garage corner for weeks. At a city golf banquet the borrower accepted a medal on the lender’s behalf, placing it in his pocket. He now asks for the medal to be returned, while keeping the digger. The columnist jokes about patience and mentions radio sportscaster Gordon McLenon.
High Point college plans an expansion costing 60 000 to 70 000 to enlarge dormitories and campus facilities for a projected 710 students in the 1950 51 term. President Dr Dennis H Cooke says 485 boarding and 225 day students are expected, with more applications still being taken.
High Point National Guard units receive a Recognition Service 7 30 p m at First Baptist Church. Ministers and church choirs participate as Rev A S Hale presides and Rev Paul Tudor Jones preaches. Organist Miss Eva Staples and Miss Mildred Crowder direct music.
The 700 plus new first graders in High Point and Southwestern Guilford county are described as the healthiest group in the area. Dr. Loren Wallin reports over 75 percent meet health standards thanks to year‑round pre-school clinics assessing nutrition and general health, with immunizations provided and school nurses coordinating follow ups after classes settle in.
The statewide big feeding operation will offer a solid meal for about 40 cents in 13 public school cafeterias for 7,000 students. Superintendent Charles Carroll released the manager list and noted that only Mrs. Snyder is new, replacing Bertha Buie. schools close at noon Wednesday, cafeterias open Thursday.
Blood needs rise as Red Cross calls for a 25 percent boost in local quotas. Charlotte bloodmobiles visit High Point Tuesday and Wednesday to collect blood donations from residents. Two shipments of blood, possibly including High Point donors, have been sent from Charlotte to Korea.
Four H and Future Farmers of America members from the High Point area will bring prize calves to the fourth annual fat stock show and sale on Wednesday September 13 at the Borden Gibson plant. The event runs 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with judging at 11 a.m. and sale at 2 p.m., using the Danish system of ideine to award purple ribbons.
High Point shows busy August via postal receipts labor reports and building permits. New construction topped half a million dollars with 29 houses and 16 commercial structures. repairs added about 37 000. Job openings rose 80 percent from July and wages edged up as carpenters and other trades faced shortages.
The city ends the practice of free Wednesday afternoon parking as red meters resume full operation. Overparking tickets return to fullBooks on Wednesdays year round, Labor Day marks the shift to regular full day hours for merchants. Downtown merchants influence traffic bureau timing for midweek half holidays at grocery stores barber shops and related businesses.
Officials of the local Army and Air Force recruiting office announced that August enlistments exceeded quotas by more than 40 percent for the largest month since the office ceased to exist as a main station. Forty three Air Force and ten Army enlistments were recorded, with quotas of 21 and 17 respectively. Direct enlistments into the 11th 82nd Airborne divisions are now being accepted.
In Thomasville the recorder's court tried 164 cases in August per Clerk Preston Bray. Public drunkenness led with 38 cases, followed by 20 each for violation of the prohibition law and reckless driving, 13 for assault with a deadly weapon, and 13 for speeding.
The Guilford area saw cooler and drier conditions in August with 3.31 inches of rain, 1.93 inches below normal. Average temperature 74.1 degrees, low 55, high 92, wettest day August 18 at .71 inches, heavy fog on four days, winds up to 29 mph.
SEPTEMBER 3, 1930 Twenty years ago Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte completed the first nonstop Paris to New York flight in 37 hours 18 minutes 30 seconds matching Lindbergh's feat in the opposite direction. They prepare to depart for Dallas to claim a $25 000 prize. Tobacco prices hold near eight to nine cents a pound in eastern North Carolina as growers delay sales. An anti low-price protest movement forms in the region. Tomlinson Chair workers strike over a new time-check system. A large whisky still was seized near High Point with four men arrested. SEPTEMBER 3, 1940 Ten years ago Britain pledged never to surrender or sink its fleet in case of war with the United States.
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