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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1955
Page
37
A set of quoted responses discusses preferred smoking methods. Opinions vary with some favoring pipes for mature appearance and others preferring cigarettes for cleanliness and scent. One respondent notes ecigarettes as acceptable, while attitudes toward pipe odor are mixed.
Two people were hospitalized after a car struck a wall and a utility pole in the 800 block of E Green St at 6 19 p.m. Pedestrian injuries followed when Paul Lendon was hit on E Washington St. later. Driver Minnie Pennington faced a charge of operating without a license.
HPC’s High Point College reports fall enrollment at 856 students as of yesterday, with about 315 freshmen. Registrar N P Yarborough notes 200 to 225 veterans enrolled, 90 former students turned away for late deposits, and 25 more awaiting completion by tomorrow after freshman registration began in the college gym.
Jessie Mae Martin, a Negro woman of 818 Mobile Street, was treated shortly before midnight for a shoulder knife wound. She told investigators she did not know how it happened. Her condition was not serious. Also treated and released was Paul Walton, 22, a stockcar driver from 309 West Davis Street, who was shaken but unhurt in a Tri City Speedway crash.
The opening Hi Y Clubs meeting for the year will be at the YMCA tonight at 7:45 p.m. Club presidents are Edward Hill for the senior club Dickie Strickland for the Les Garcons Club and Oni Teague for the freshman-sophomore group. Members must embrace the YMCA stated goal of high Christian character.
Bassett Furniture Industries Inc raises prices by 3 percent on all new orders effective immediately. Orders written before September 1 remain unaffected. J E Bassett, vice president, says current line orders stay valid through December and some groups will be delivered after January.
Thomasville topped its blood drive quota during a Red Cross Bloodmobile visit with 192 pints donated, surpassing the 125 pint target. 226 people volunteered as donors at Memorial Methodist Church Educational Building from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday. Cletus Coley and Paul Gallimore joined the Gallon Club with their eighth pints.
City Council slated to adopt an agreement with the State Highway Commission to negotiate remaining rights of way for widening E Green St from Whiteoak to Springfield Ave. The plan includes city cooperation in possible eminent domain actions and payment of appraisal plus 25 to pre June 25 sellers. A priority list for street improvements by the state is also to be approved.
A High Point community effort delivers 100 sofas and clothing to Winsted Connecticut flood victims. Local firms supplied materials and labor from lumber to springs with drivers and gas donated. the shipment originates at Paul Manufacturing Company and is arranged through Reavis Memorial Baptist Church, Medlin contributions reduced by in kind gifts.
High Point City Council will review four traffic proposals approved by the law and public safety committee. Revisions include parking removals on W Howell St and Barbee St, designating Barbee as Centennial to Denied, new loading zones on Shera Place, metered parking on a one block street, and a 25 mph speed limit near the Catholic school on Montlieu Ave. Additional items include four utility bill petitions, a housing ordinance agent, and the sale of two city land parcels.
A humorous column reprints a questionnaire sent to pipe smokers and the writer’s witty answers. It also relays quirky local items about a TV show controversy, a baby birth scene in a hospital waiting room, a drive in door incident, and doctors' parking in a high point hospital lot.
International lecturer Cameron Ralston will speak on The Battle for Men's Minds at a High Point YMCA dinner meeting of the Industrial Management Club on Tuesday Sept 20. Rev Arlo Newell will give the invocation with Don Gibharat leading group singing. Carlyle B. Lewis introduces the speaker.
Dr. J. B. Lawrence, former Home Mission Board executive secretary and treasurer, presides a series at Conrad Memorial Baptist Church in High Point. He speaks at 11 am and 7 30 pm with daily services this week. Dr. Rand notes Lawrence’s authority on the Holy Spirit and his 20 books.
Walter W. Rapp cashier at First National Bank in Thomasville has been named County Key Banker for Davidson County by the North Carolina Bankers Association. John G. Mitchell, NCBA president, announced the appointment as part of an agricultural program linking farm leaders with bankers to promote a sound rural economy and support a statewide two week State College school for about 150 farmers and a Farm Credit Conference.
Postal inspectors hunted a poised, well dressed man in High Point after he used phony money orders to send funds to Wisconsin wives. The suspect, about 35 to 40, used stolen money order blanks from a Tennessee burglary and posed as a wholesale feed salesman to cash or misdirect the orders. Post Office cautions the public not to cash money orders for strangers and to call the post office if in doubt.
Guilford County reports a rise in gross retail collections with figures for June and July listed by the North Carolina Retailers Association. County totals show Guilford, Davidson, and Randolph counties with specific monthly and yearly amounts including 1954 figures.
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