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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1956
Page
40
The article extols the Big Chair in Thomasville as a symbol of the area’s thriving furniture industry and community spirit. It notes the chair’s draw for travelers, its role as an institution, and the livelihoods it supports, while contrasting bigness with local character and prosperity.
At THS this year student spirit rises from stronger faculty, enthused eighth graders, and a full Spirit Week plan. THS leaders include Kent Loop as president and Joyce Myers as vice president across multiple homerooms with others organizing pep rallies talks bulletin boards and activities leading to lasting school spirit. Senior and junior class officers are listed with president treasurer and secretary names across homerooms as student bodies mobilize for Friday game against Kannapolis.
Miss Josie Grimes announces one week per student on the new electric typewriter arriving at the school. She notes graduates will enter offices with such equipment and that the room also adds an automatic printing calculator and four standard typewriters.
The Junior magazine drive mobilizes students citywide to raise funds for the upcoming spring prom. As of Thursday, solicited total reached 1227.73, higher than last year, with Martha Harrison leading sales by a wide margin. Leroy Hill chairs the drive. homeroom captains include Bowers Barrett Craughn Young Patterson Lopp and Lambeth. Drive ends September 30.
Judy Morris, a THS Chorus junior and key soprano last year, was elected president. Other new officers include Julia Richardson as vice president Peggy Brown as secretary Karen Whitley as treasurer and Ann Harris Barbara Johnson Georgia Ivey Bonnie Stillwell Hazel Williams and Judy Little as librarians.
As more homerooms reach full PTA participation a new school drive record looms with the Tuesday close. The 2023 peak stands at 1 071 members and Thursday afternoon list includes Miss Betty Welch and Mrs Harold Modlin rooms plus Mrs E C Burrus H C Hudgins and Mrs Wanna Faye Murphy rooms. Co chairs are Mrs Mildred Proctor and H C Hudgins.
The list shows boys outnumbering girls in homeroom presidents by nearly three to one. Gurney Reddick is elected president of Mrs Harold Modlin's homeroom with Roy Stamey as vice president and Elizabeth Smathers as secretary.
Knoxville city detective Ross Sims found burglary evidence at his doorstep as he prepared to go to work. The break in involved three radios clothing and jewelry stolen from a residence. A taxi delivered two packages containing the loot to his home.
BENSON North Carolina Senator W Kerr Scott attacked the soil bank program during a Mule Day event, accusing the Eisenhower administration of turning the program into a political fund to buy votes. He cited allocations favoring northern states and claimed little aid reached small southern farms.
Officials report uranium showings along a Colorado to Pacific Northwest gas line route but no evidence of commercial potential.
Gov. Luther Hodges will address the opening ceremony for the Philpott Furniture Corporation in Lexington on Monday. The plant, formed by United Furniture Corp. of Lexington, will produce modern bedroom and dining room sets and employ hundreds, with plans for expansion.
In Oklahoma the coyote hunt eases after state funds for bounty run dry and hunting slackens, reducing pressure on wildlife and altering local predator management. The shift follows months of activity from wildlife officials and hunters.
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