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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1955
Page
9
The Weather Bureau forecasts cool, partly cloudy to cloudy conditions with showers Tuesday. A cold front from Canada brought weekend lows, with 56 overnight and 72 today. Janet may affect interim weather as rain chances persist through the week.
Guilford County Forester John Spivey urged landowners that a brush burning permit law takes effect Oct 1. Permits required midnight to 4 pm within 500 feet of woods from Oct 1 to June 1. outside those hours no permit but take same care. Outside city limits no permit needed within 100 feet of a dwelling. Permits free from county forester district wardens and listed agents. safety measures urged for trash burners and cleared vegetation around burners.
Charles Taro, vice president of Southeastern Marble and Tile Company, pursues tile mosaic as a relaxing hobby after hours. He assembles designs from leftover materials, teaches a mosaic class at the Arts and Crafts Workshop in High Point, and maintains a basement workshop with a terrazzo floor and carved pipe bowls.
Two men and a woman were arrested on non taxpaid whisky possession charges with intent to sell. Benjamin F. Rainey 53 of 208 Hay St Myrtle S. Pitman 34 of 211 Morgan St face Oct 3 and Oct 5 trials. John H. Wear 60 of W Lexington Ave Ext charged with assault. trial Oct 7. Two further assault cases set in Domestic Relations Court this week.
Obituaries and funeral notices for Joe Carl Wagner Ramon Elwood Atkins Sr Ernestine Grant Ezra B Charles list services in Thomasville Fayetteville High Point Lexington Oakwood and Guilford Memorial Park details name ages places churches dates and burial sites include family relations and pallbearers. Wagner 16 died in Winston Salem auto crash. Atkins golf pro led Fayetteville Country Club. Grant former employee at Adams Millis. Charles former flooring contractor died in Salisbury Maryland hospital.
Funeral services for Miss Alice MacRae Caldwell a noted civic leader of 531 Park Way were held at Sechrest Chapel Sunday at 3 30 p m by Dr Roy E Watts pastor of First Presbyterian Church Interment was in the family plot at Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery Pallbearers listed as Ernest McCall Sam Harris Scott Parker Joe Cox Jimmy Foscue and Pete Moffitt Miss Caldwell died unexpectedly at her home Thursday evening
Employment in furniture factories rose from 34 500 in July to 35 500 last month according to a State Department report. Gains in textiles and tobacco stemmeries boosted non farm employment in August 1.9 percent above August last year.
N H Collisson vice president of Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp will address the Piedmont chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Management at tomorrow night's dinner meeting at Starmount Country Club Greensboro.
Municipal Court Solicitor J. V. Morgan disclosed his resignation will take effect on October first. He served as prosecuting attorney for four years and four months and cited heavier civil practice duties. Judge Walter Crissman is expected to select a successor, who will serve until the next general election.
Some 150 dentists and their wives from Central North Carolina attend the annual Third District Dental Society meeting at Sedgefield Inn October 2-3. Dr. Philip J. Modjeski of Richmond Virginia and Dr. Leonard Rapoport of Baltimore Maryland deliver clinic talks on Inlay Technique and Drug Therapy in General Practice. Modjeski is a professor at the Medical College of Virginia School of Dentistry. A golf tournament opens the event Sunday at 11 a.m.
Melrose Hosiery Mill workers returned to their jobs with a wait and see attitude as a 25 member policy committee, formed at a mass meeting of nine local mills, readied to meet Wednesday night to chart a new wage bargaining course. Cope said boarders grew tired of waiting for management to raise wages, marking the renewed unrest following a July walkout that sparked wider strikes.
W. E. Mitchell vice president of Melrose Hosiery Mill denounces Friday walkouts by boarding room workers. He says management called workers together, will not tolerate continuing strikes, and cites a contract with the boarders union while stating the company is fed up with the situation and will not endure further incidents.
The North Carolina Paraplegia Association meeting in Thomasville stressed morale building and more public education for paraplegics. Dr. James H. Semans of Duke and J. Marie Grant urged affiliate links with national groups, hospital outreach, and accessible Wake Forest College facilities.
Thomasville police report 25 year old Monroe Garrett of Wagstaff St was arrested on a Gainesville warrant for adultery alleged to have occurred in Hall County Ga on August 14 He waived extradition and awaits Hall County officers in custody Ernest Hunt 1007 Blair St was in serious condition at City Memorial Hospital after drinking canned heat Arch ie C Lambert Sr 52 of 610 Concord St was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon alleged to threaten William F Lambert with a knife Bond set at 100 and case to be tried in Recorder's Court today
Raymond Lee Clonninger a 23 year old Greensboro resident faced the opening session of a one week term in Superior Court. He pled guilty to unlawful taking of an auto and Judge L Richardson Preyer heard the case. A detective and a car lot employee testified. The judge withheld judgment pending possible rebation and the term includes many highway robberies burglary and felonious assault cases as part of 69 matters on the trial calendar.
A chamber meeting at Snow White Restaurant plans formation of an industrial development corporation to aid Thomasville growth. Board directors will discuss a new committee, with equity from an $850000 water and sewage bond issue approved Sept. 12. Cliff Black joins the Merchants Association board, replacing Douglas Bray who moved away.
82 mph on Pomona Rd results in $75 fine and costs and a 6 month license revocation for Rupert W. Whitaker, 40, of 921 Millis St. He appeared before Judge Archie Myatt in municipal court. A notice of a bond and a 30 day sentence for Glenn Newsom on drunkenness were also handed down.
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