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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1953
Page
10
Thomasville council prepares to decide on extending fire protection to businesses and individuals who pay the fire tax. A swimming pool bathhouse plan, using old designs, may be acted on, after prior bid funding issues. Other items include Highland Ave. lot sale, Americanism Week plans, and committee reports.
Floyd Brown 20 of High Point remained in serious condition after being shot during a suspected break in at Saunders Grill. Doctors said he responded to emergency surgery to remove bullets and that recovery would take days. A 15 year old High Point girl who drove the getaway car has been turned over to welfare officials for an anticipated Friday preliminary hearing. she offered a confession though no charges were listed yet.
The Thomasville Civic Center on Randolph Street completes its first year since opening in September 1952. The $350000 project, renovated with $34408.13 from the Community Foundation and city leadership under Hubert Henderson and J D Foust, hosts 850 seats and a variety of activities. Attendance reached 48118 visits in 11½ months as teens dances arts classes and business gatherings filled the halls. Plans for year two include six daily open hours and nightly club use plus AA little theatre and scouting leadership meetings. The center is praised as a model in the Piedmont region and regarded as a civic pride.
A camel can produce up to two gallons of milk daily according to the report.
Mrs William Duchaine aged 37 became a grandmother immediately after giving birth to a daughter in Bristol Hospital The same day she and her daughter delivered newborn girls in separate births both in the same hospital facility in Bristol Connecticut.
A reported fact states that the duration of a blink spans from one to ten percent of a second. It notes variability in eye closure speed across observers and conditions.
Thomasville United Fund organizers named officers and committees for the October drive. R C Jenkins announced N C English will head admissions, Paul Hassler budget, and Harry Brown Finch the drive committee with Glenn Pendleton as initial gifts chair and others overseeing manufacturing, retail, city employees, schools, and publicity. Committees will contact plants and firms with payroll deduction urged but not required. house to house solicitation will not occur.
A quintet of conservation program meetings for Davidson County were announced with sessions at North Davidson School, Hasty Agricultural Building, Churchland Agricultural Building, Denton Agricultural Building, and the County Building in Lexington. All start at 7 30 p m on listed dates: Sept. 18, 21, 23 and 25.
In Orchard Park New York Victor Moench who runs kennels refused to board a 160 pound Great Dane. The owner demanded the dog sleep in bed with Moench because of snoring but Moench said the dog would not sleep and he would not risk the welfare of his other boarders.
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