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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1955
Page
9
Guilford County schools plan to open tomorrow with the largest rural enrollment in memory. Superintendent E D Idol predicts total enrollment over 18000 by month end, surpassing last year’s 17000. No double sessions. emergency space remains in use across 31 units as schools prepare to welcome teachers.
Forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with a high near 85 and a low around 68. Holiday travelers return tonight, traffic may surge, and schools reopen Wednesday while local officials note limited rainfall and anticipate more normal conditions tomorrow.
Father William E. Pearson is named chaplain at St. Joseph's Hospital Asheville by Bishop Vincent S. Waters. Father Thomas B. Walsh from Durham becomes assistant pastor at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church. Diocese of Raleigh announces several priest appointments across North Carolina.
Firemen answered a single call yesterday to a flooded oil circulator at 1205 Park Street. The blaze was out upon arrival.
A prayer by Richard W. Graves from New Wilmington Pennsylvania requests guidance to honor God in labor. It speaks of useful work as worship and honest craftsmanship as a sign of sonship to the Creator through Christ the Carpenter.
The Red Cross flood disaster relief fund appeal is met with more than 10 million dollars in contributions nationwide. High Point chapter chair Mendenhall confirms the local quota of 2000 is fulfilled and no further donations are needed. Kathleen Harris works on Port Jervis flood rehab while Ellsworth Bunker credits American generosity.
Shirley Ezell Jr. is charged with murder in the death of his 18 year old wife. A preliminary hearing was tentatively set for today at 2 p.m. in Asheboro before Justice of the Peace E. H. Morris. Ezell remains jailed in Randolph County without bond while awaiting further proceedings.
THOMASVILLE The theft of an automobile here yesterday is under police investigation. The stolen vehicle is a 1946 model Ford two door sedan. It belonged to Dallas McElreath of 517 Fisher Ferry Street, authorities said.
Annual Owen Spivey reunion set to be held at Dover Baptist Church. Relatives and friends are invited to attend for a day of fellowship and memories.
The board plans a 7 a.m. meeting to decide between the Welch and Waynick properties for a new second ward school. A Welch option could trigger a court ruled condemnation process, while choosing Waynick could seek non suit of the action. Citizens opposed to Welch pressed their case at a board meeting last week.
Irene Honeycutt of 105 Phillips St. was in critical condition at Baptist Hospital after a car driven by Roman C. Marion failed to stop at Trinity Ave and Prospect St and struck the railroad embankment. Marion, 31, of Route 5, was charged with running the stop sign. The 1:05 a.m. accident damaged the vehicle beyond repair.
The Central Carolina Bridge Association will sponsor a charity duplicate bridge tournament at the Mayfair Cafeteria in Greensboro Saturday. Open pair two-session games with sectional rating. Registration 12 15 p m closes when play begins 1 p m for qualifying rounds. The championship session starts 7 45 p m. Proceeds go to the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults. W H Holderness and Mrs E J Sachs direct the event.
Only a handful of celebrations were planned as many communities retired from labor. Canton and Waynesville held small events while Durham hosted a barbers union convention with U.S. Senator Sam Ervin slated to speak. Waynesville wrapped up its apple festival, leaving Canton with the main Labor Day celebration.
Educators from the Carolinas and other Southern states discuss ways to boost resident participation in hometown school affairs at the University of North Carolina. The conferences are a joint program of the National Citizens Commission for Public Schools and the National and State School Boards Assns.
Labor Day notes mark Social Security as a nationwide program now covering about 69 million people in 1955. About 4 million retired workers receive benefits and 1 percent collect survivor, widow, or parental benefits. The program now includes self employed farmers and farm workers, broadening universal coverage. A free booklet "Your Social Security" is available at local offices.
About 524 first through third graders joined the public library summer program. Participants earned clown cards and dots for each book read, balloons for six books, and clown pins after twelve. Reading certificates went to 142 for eighteen books. Johnson St. School led with 108 participants. A hobby show for older students awarded multiple prizes across several schools.
Leta Washtie Creech Sessions 85 resident of 600 East Guilford Street died at home at 3 50 am after extended illness. Born January 14 1870 in Columbus County she had lived in Thomasville two years and was a Cheerful Hope Baptist Church member. Survived by son W H Creech and numerous grandchildren great grandchildren and great great grandchildren. Burial at Cheerful Hope Church Cemetery after services at home and church. Emma Taylor Davis 75 of 1102 English Street died Sunday morning at Oak View Nursing Home after two years poor health. Born December 25 1879 in Wilsonville she had lived in High Point 25 years and previously in Hamlet. Survived by four sons four grandchildren one sister and two brothers. Funeral Monday at 3 pm Sechrest Chapel with burial in Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery.
Funeral services for Jonah Lee Cooper 49 of Route 2 Thomasville were held Sunday at Bethel Methodist Church at 3 PM. Officiating were Rev. R G McClamrock Rev Fred Journey and Rev Ralph Osborne. Interment in Holly Hills Cemetery. Died Friday at 6 10 PM at home after six weeks illness.
Mrs M R Harris Sr age 89 of Route 2 Thomasville died at home on Fisher Ferry Street Ext after several months ill health. Funeral service Sunday at 4 30 PM at Fair Grove Methodist Church with Rev James A Allen officiating. Interment in church cemetery family plot.
Kearney Odell Wilson 48 of Route 2 Thomasville in Fair Grove died at home about 7 this morning after a week of illness. Born October 13 1906 in Davidson County he was a lifelong Davidson County resident. Survived by wife Ida Belle Embier son Roy Wilson daughter Mrs Lee Rider mother Mrs Ellen Wilson three brothers Reid Harvey and Frank Wilson four sisters Mrs John Myers Mrs Emma Wilson Mrs Lem Andrews and Mrs E R Barnes and two grandchildren. Body at Siler Funeral Home pending funeral arrangements.
Funeral services for Eva Diane Lambeth four day old daughter of Arthur Lee and Wyonia Geraldine Crawford Lambeth were conducted Saturday at 2 pm from J C Green and Sons Funeral Home. The Rev H Glenn Lanier pastor of First Methodist Church presided. Burial was in Liberty Baptist Church Cemetery. The child died in Baptist Hospital in Winston Salem on Thursday.
AP reports Labor Day weekend violence in North Carolina left at least 16 dead and 164 injured in 102 wrecks from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight tonight. The list cites numerous traffic crashes and the names of victims across multiple counties, plus a shooting at a Charlotte club and a fatal apartment fire in Burlington.
City police report multiple assaults and liquor law violations. Bobby Price 19 and John Grady 39 face cross accusations and bonds set at 100, Sept. trials listed for Sept. 19. Other suspects include Robert Perry 50 and Ruth Young 32 charged with assault and liquor violations, with Sept. 12 or Sept. 19 court dates and bonds set. Dillard Martin, Percy Rothrock, Streeter Dunlap face drunk driving charges with Dunlap jailed. Jesse Clinton 27 charged in Domestic Relations Court for child support with $300 bond.
Layton Smith and a woman he was with were involved in an incident at 227 Reed Street yesterday. Police report states the woman accidentally threw a butcher knife, wounding Smith who was treated and released from the hospital. No charges filed.
Firemen reported a short circuit in an automobile caused the blaze. The car owned by Robert Pierce of Fisher Ferry Street was parked in front of Pierce's Grocery. damage described as slight.
Evangelist Billy Graham attracted about 62,000 people over four weekend appearances at Ocean Grove Camp Meeting. He warned that social problems threaten American homes more than communism and urged discipline from Scripture with prayer and traditional punishment to foster obedience.
Four men were arrested in Thomasville on reckless driving charges during Labor Day weekend. Robert Lynn Cecil, 17, posted $300 bond and faces Recorder's Court on Sept. 19. Jackson Sanders, 32, and an unnamed 32 year old, both Negro, posted $100 bonds and have Sept. 16 dates. Hoyt Lee Smith, 28, posted $100 bond with Sept. 12 date. Robert Lee Small Jr. was jailed on drunk and disorderly and resisting arrest, posting $300 bond for Sept. 19.
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