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The High Point Enterprise from High Point, North Carolina • Page 18

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Deaths And Funerals CLAUDE B. CHAMBERS Funeral for Claude Bradford Chambers was conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. from the Cumby Chapel by the Rev. Frank W. Marks, pastor of the Billiard Memorial Baptist Church.

Pallbearers were William Ed West, Donald Hughes, Donald Yates, Paul Medina, P. W. Wiley and Roy Mullis. Interment was in the Floral Garden Park Cemetery. Mr.

Chambers, 52. resident of 2316 Clifton died of a heart attack in the High Point Memorial Hospital Saturday at 10:45 a. m. He had been in his usual health until a few hours before his death. Guilford Native DANIEL E.

CBOMEE Funeral for Daniel E. Cramer, 73, was conducted Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. from the chapel of the Koonce Funeral Home by the Rev. Vernon A. Morton, pastor of Calvary Methodist Church and the Rev.

W. L. Smith, pastor of Friendly Baptist Church. Pallbearers were Charles Cramer, Paul Cromer, Garland Darnell, Jerry Darnell, Arthur Allen and Paul Lassiter. Burial was in Floral Garden Park Cemetery.

Mr. Cromer died at Sunset Hills Rest Home shortly before 3 o'clock Monday morning. He had been in declining health eight years and in a serious condition six weeks. He resided at 903 Smith St. A Succumbs At 87 In Asheville George Hayworth, 87, died unexpectedly in his sleep Friday evening, at his home in Asheville.

Mr. Hayworth was born in Guilford County, the son of Elie and Regina Church Hayworth. He resided in this vicinity until 30 years ago, when he moved to Asheville. He is survived by several nieces and nephews. Graveside services will be conducted Thursday at 2 p.m.

from Springfield Friends Meeting Cemetery by the Rev. David 0. Stanfield, pastor of Springfield Friends Meeting. Burial will be in Springfield Cemetery. The body will be returned to the Koonce Funeral Home Wednesday afternoon, where it will remain until the hour of the service.

Ralph Staley Dies At 52 In Asheboro RANDLEMAN Ralph V. Staley, 52, of Randleman, died yesterday in an Asheboro hospital after a long illness. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Esther Bolton Staley; and his stepmother, Mrs. Ada Staley of High Point.

Funeral was to be held at 3 p. m. today at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Randleman by the Rev. Gurney Harrison. Burial was to be in the Country Holiness Church cemetery.

Jamestown Bands Will Play For PTA JAMESTOWN meeting of the The March Jamestown ent-Teacher Association will take place in the Ragsdale Auditorium Thursday at 7:45 p.m. A meeting of the executive board will meeting. precede the general Program for the night will be furnished by the three Jamestown bands under direction of Theodore Orr and the Junior High Glee Club, directed by Mrs. Douglas Turner. An art exhibit will be staged hi the art department at conclusion of Thursday's P-TA meeting.

Mrs. Johnson Dies At 81 In Mt. Airy MOUNT AIRY Mrs. Ros Jones Johnson, 81, of 627 Sout Mount Airy, widow of Housto Johnson, died at 7:45 a.m. yeste day at the home of a daughter Mrs.

Will T. Hornaday, wit whom she lived. Mrs. Johnso had been in declining health four years. She was born in Davidson Coun ty to Jasper and Elizabeth Bar lowe Jones.

She was a membe of Haymore Memorial Baptis Church. Surviving are three sons, Free Robert and Clayton Johnson, a of Tiffin, Ohio; two daughters Mrs. Hornaday of Mount Airy and Mrs. Ed Stachoviak of Marsh field, 23 grandchildren an 21 great-grandchildren. The funeral will be conducte at 2 p.m.

tomorrow at South Street Church of God the Rev J. D. Mclver, the Rev. D. A Hensley and the Rev.

Luthe: Morphis. Burial will be in OakdaL Cemetery. The body was to be taken to the home at 10 a.m. to day from Moody Funeral Home It will be placed in the church hour before the service. Rites Scheduled For Fred Hiatt Of Ararat, Va.

MOUNT AIRY Funeral for Fred Steward Hiatt, 23, of Ara rat, who was killed in an au tomobile accident near Williams burg, Va. Saturday, will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Willis Gap Baptist Church by the Rev. Criss Sowers and the Rev. Pete Gilbert Hiatt was in the Navy stationec at Portsmouth.

A full military fu neral will be held. Burial will be in Oakdale Cemetery here. Surviving are his half sister Mrs. Ewell Harold of Ararat, Va. his wife, Mrs.

Bessie Willis; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Hiatt; one brother, Paul Hiatt of High Point; one sister, Mrs. Wil liam Boyd of Ararat; his grand mother, Mrs. Inez Hiatt; and a half brother, Clyde Vipperman ol Ararat.

Senior High To Attend Speech Festival WINSTON-SALEM High Point High School will participate in the fourth annual North Carolina High School Speech Festival at Wake Forest College March 25 and 26. Radio announcing and one act play production are on the agenda for the 120 high school students expected to take part in the festival. After dinner and extemporaneous speaking as well as debate, original oratory, and oral interpretation are included on the program. The college's speech department will conduct the festival under the direction of Dr. Franklin R.

Shirley, Dr. Julian C. Burroughs Jr. and Prof. James H.

Walton. Colored News MRS. LUVEN1A STURGES Mrs. Luvenia Sturges, 70, of 415 Short Spring died Sunday evening at High Point Memorial Hospital. She had been in declining health five years and seriously ill 12 days.

Mrs. Sturges had lived in this city for 50 years. She attended Calvary Baptist Church and in addition to her church work was a member of the White Rose Chapter of the Eastern Star. Mrs. Sturges is survived by three daughters, Mrs.

Viola Brown, Mrs. Ruby Johnson and Mrs. Ida Morris, all of High Point; one son, Osie Sturges also of High Point; three sisters, Mrs. Nora Currance of Gastonia, Mrs. Eula Bailey and Mrs.

Dovie Porter, both of Winston-Salem; one brother, Jthe Rev. Oscar Johnson of Baltimore, and 13.grand- children. Funeral will be conducted Thursday at 3 p.m. at Calvary Baptist Church. The Rev.

J. E. Melton, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be at Greenhill Cemetery. The body will be taken to the home this evening at 5 o'clock raaaia until the funeral hour.

Mrs. Brown Dies In Hospital At Age 89 STATESVILLE -Mrs. Sarah Ellen Myers Brown, 89, of Route 1, Stony Point, died at 6:30 p.m. Monday at Iredell Memorial Hospital after an illness of four months. Mrs.

Brown was born in Davie County and was a member oE Pisgah Methodist Church. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. W. G. McClelland of Statesville; two sons, W.

Allen and Johnny D. Brown of the Pisgah Church community; one sister, Mrs. D. 0. Cecil of High Point; six grandchildren; and six great grandchildren.

Funeral was to be conducted at 3 p.m. today at Pisgah Methodist Church by the Rev. B. H. Ziglar.

Burial will be in the church cemetery. Man Draws Sentence For Peeping A 21-year-old Welborn Stree man was sentenced today to 18 months at Raleigh's Central Pris on on peeping Tom charges levied against him only last night. Robert Wayne McManus plead ed guilty to prowling apartmen buildings on Eaton Place about p.m. last night, and looking in apartment windows. He was arrested after residents of the apartment house tentatively identified him from police de partment photographs.

Officer P. D. Wood told the court McManus admitted to him last night he was the man police nought as the prowler. "He told me when I talked to him," Wood said, "that he couldn't help himself. He asked me to try and get him some help someplace." McManus was convicted on identical charges on Aug.

28, 1958, and given a suspended six- month sentence, and again on May 6, 1959, and given a suspended sentence of 90 days. Municipal Court Judge Byron Haworth, in his sentencing today, ordered a recommendation included in the court order urging psychiatric treatment. Wood said today residents of the Eaton Place apartment building called police when they heard a man prowling the hallways. "There were some elderly women in one apartment," Wood said, 'and they had a gun out and were ready to shoot the first thing that Wood said the residents of the building described the man to him, and that he decided the description matched McManus. He returned to the police station and took McManus' photograph torn department files, then went jack to the apartment house and got a tentative identification.

A few hours later, McManus was arrested. Titan Passes Second Test CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Titan has passed its second ong-range flight test and the Air 'orce expects to accelerate its est program to make up for time ost because of a series of failures. One of the 98-foot intercontinent- il range giants successfully flew a course Tuesday. This was the second Titan flight over this range in a month and raised Air Force hopes the missile has icked its problems.

A rash of explosions and other mishaps in a 10 month period dating to last May have left the program several months behind ichedule. Officials said Titans probably will be fired at a one-a-week clip close the gap. The Titan has a potential range 9,000 miles. Missiles launched in the current phase of the test irogram are not fully fueled. i DR.

ALEXANDER BERKIS Dr. Berkis Author Of History Or. Alexander V. Berkis, associ ate professor of history at High Point College, is the author of a book dealing with the reign of one of the rulers in the history of Latvia. The book, The Reign of Duke James in Courtland, has been published by Vaidava in -incoln, Neb.

Dr. Berkis' account deals with he reign of Duke James over Courland, which is in the southern and western sections of modern jatvia. Dr. Berkis was born at Vladivostok, Russia in 1916. In 1920, he and his Latvian parents returned the independent Latvia, where te obtained his education.

He is graduate of the University ol with the LL.M. degree and ins been admitted to the bar as a rial lawyer. Furthermore, Berkis ad a-position at the University Latvia for the preparation of a cientific career in Legal Philoso- ny. In 1945, Dr. Berkis fled from lussian invasion of Latvia to Germany.

He has served in the Latvian refugee communities in the ca- acities as a member of commit- ees, vice-chairman, and chairman. From 1947-1950 he taught history at a Latvian High School at Greven. In 1950 he transferred to the United States. Dr. Berkis is a graduate of the of Wis- councin with an M.A.

in 1954, and Ph.D. in 1956. History is his major and philosophy his minor. Since 1956, Dr. Berkis has taught history at High Point College.

In addition to Berkis has this new book, Dr. written several articles on Latvian history. Scout Activities Group To Meet A local man will attend the Boy Scouts' Council camping and activities committee meeting to be held in Lexington tonight at 6: SO Frank Sizemore counci chairman, will preside. The com mittee will discuss the 1960 sum mer camp developments and reg istrations. Tournament Of Marbles Scheduled If you lost your marbles, or if you don't hive any and you still want to enter the City-wide Marble Tournament, the City Parks and Recreation Department will help you with your problem.

The department is sponsorinj the tournament which starts Apri 1. The tournament is open to al grade school boys who have noi reached their 15th birthday on or prior to April 15 of this year. Each contestant must use his own shooter. The department wil all other marbles. Official Marble Rules will be effective for all tournaments.

Winners will ad vance through schools to City Finals. Schedule The department released the Allowing schedule: Immaculate Heart of Mary School, April Brentwood, Johnson, April Montlieu, Ada Blair, April Ray Street, Tomlinson, April Oakview, April Cloverdale, April Emma Blair, April 11; Oak Hill, AprU 12; Allen Jay, April 13. The finals will be held at Emma Blair School on April 23. First place trophy will be awarded to the winner of the ournament and a trophy will to he school of the winner. A runner-up trophy will also be award ed.

All entries must be in by April Entry blanks may be picked up at Parks and Recreation office or at the various schools. Two Women Sentenced For Vagrancy Two local white women, convicted of immoral vagrancy at the ome of a Negro man. were giv- prison terms at Greensboro nicipal County Court yester- ay. The convicted pair was a moth- and daughter. The mother, Thelma M.

Davis, 9, was given 25 months, and the aughter, Norma Jean Riser, 26, iras given 49 months. The man, Adam Gregory, 39, of 47 N. Gilmer Greensboro, onvicted of operating a bawdy ouse, appealed a two-year road erm to Superior Court. 30 Days More For Escapee Thirty more days were added to a sentence served by Barney R. Caviness on charges of escaping from a road gang.

The sen tence was given by Judge Byron Haworth in yesterday's session of Municipal Court. Caviness escaped while serving a six month Superior Court sentence imposed on conviction fornication and adultery. In other actions. Leroy Hilton 43, was given 30 days on charges of drunkenness and also had i 60-day suspended sentence, im posed Feb. 5 for drunkenness put into effect.

He is to serve as a trusty at local city jail. Forest M. Fritts, 37, appealed sentences of 60 days on two charges of drunkenness. Frank Vaughn appealed a 30- day sentence imposed on charges of trespass. Vaughn was convicted of trespassing on the property of Mrs.

T. A. Carter after being ordered to stay away. Actors Guild Resumes Talks HOLLYWOOD (AP)-The striking Screen Actors Guild resumes negotiations Thursday with the Assn. of Motion Picture Producers.

At issue is the actors' demand or a share of profits from the sale of post-1948 movies to television. The producers offered to revive alks Tuesday after the Guild accused them of stalling negotiations in the 17-day-old strike. APPEARANCE does count! Let Us Finish Your SHIRTS Just the way you want them. Famed Gruyeres cheeses are reduced in Gruyeres, Switzer- and. It is a medieval town which as been preserved with castle and an enchanting market place.

210-212 PINE PHONE 2-3393 High Point Enterprlie, March 23, 1960 SI Thomasville Loser In Car Swap THOMASVILLE A Highway 29-70 resident came off second best in an auto swap early today. Police said they received a call at 12:14 a.m. from Bob Green of Route 4, reporting that his 1957 model automobile had been stolen. As that area is outside city police jurisdiction, the highway patrol was called to investigate. When the patrolman arrived another, older car was found on the highway near the Green residence.

Officers were of the opinion that Green's car had been stolen by the persons or person who abandoned this 1950 model. The older car was carrying two sets of license plates, both issued the District of Columbia. One of the plate-sets was affixed in the regular manner while the other was found on the inside of the auto. The car was ordered towed the parking lot behind city hall while further investigation is being made. In the meanwhile efforts were being made to recover Green's stolen car.

WORKING WOMEN Of 22 million women workers in the United States, nine million are married while one million or more are heads of families with no employed relatives. Exchange Club Visitation Dr. Marshall D. Keith announced High Point Exchange Club plans for the rest of the year today. Crippled Children visitation assignments were set during the regularly scheduled meeting last night and members were urged to care for the thousands of dollars worth of equipment in the bear vicinity.

The Annual Napkin Sale was set for May 16. Carlton Clinard, sponsored by Harold Ritch, was inducted into the club by Charles Varner. A guest at the meeting was Dewey Smith. MOVING? We will be glad to quote rates or discuss our insurance witb any prospective clients, WARNER'S TRANSFER STORAGE CO. Phone 4037 Day Thomasvillo 21340 Collect DAVIS PATROL WATCHMAN SERVICE Will PRftTFf'T VOUR BUSINESS AND BOMB TT Itmtm I I PROPERTY 24 HOURS PER CslBf Night Watchman Clock and Door Equipped With MPay Radio for Better Service JACK S.

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