Gas Station Permit Issued in Thomasville
A $20 000 building permit was issued to Fremont Mendenhall for a Buck Young Oil service station at Unity Street and National Highway in Thomasville. Contractor Bruce Smith will build it. Sinclair products planned. The site near Unity Street Methodist Church faced zoning issues but was approved last year. Two other permits follow this one: a $1 000 home addition for M L Hynes and an $800 home addition for Grover Bally.
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Thomasville
Fremont Mendenhall
Unity Street
Jim Miller
Buck Young Oil Co
Bruce Smith
Sinclair Products
Unity National Highway
Unity Street Methodist Church
Miller
M. L. Hynes
Cole Street
Grover Bally
Carolina Avenue
Charge Faces Man Leaving Hospital
James Humphries 28 of Small Street was arrested after leaving City Hospital where he was treated for a knife wound. He faces an assault with a deadly weapon charge for a stabbing April 12 at Carroll Street. Humphries posted $400 bond and awaits Recorder's Court May 1 alongside Brutus Fant Jr who was also charged and released earlier.
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Thomasville
James Humphries
Small Street
City Hospital
Humphries
Alt
Brutus Fant Jr
Carroll Street
Lincoln Street
Fant
Recorder's Court
Ambulance Driver Charged With Hit and Run
Thomasville police charged John T. Cannon an ambulance driver with hit and run after a Sunday crash on the Thomasville High Point highway. Cannon says he had an emergency patient to City Memorial Hospital and that Vernon A. Steede swerved and struck the ambulance causing damage to the left rear fender.
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Thomasville
John T. Cannon
Koonce Funeral Home
High Point
Vernon A. Steede
Dogwood Drive
Cannon
Thomasville High Point
City Memorial Hospital
Steede
Auto Fatalities Show Increase Across Nation
National Safety Council reports 8,080 traffic deaths in the first quarter, up 5 percent from 1958. March fatalities rose 9 percent year over year to 2,790, with 300,000 disabling injuries overall. The council cites complacency as a factor in the higher highway tolls.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Easiest Cheese Grating When It Is Chilled
A brief note states that chilling cheese makes grating easier. It suggests firm texture is achieved when cheese is cold for shredding and carving.
Thomasville bond issue urged by mayor at Rotary meeting
Mayor Ker mit Cloniger appealed to Thomasville Rotarians to back a 1.75 million dollar bond proposal for water mains and two new sewage plants. He noted state law requires pollution reduction by 1961 and said bonds would not raise taxes due to the city’s finances.
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Thomasville
Kermit Cloniger
Rotary Club
Woman’s Club
Cloniger
R. L. Pope
Tom A. Finch
Finch
Rotary
Heraldry Discussed At Randleman Rotary Meeting
Carl Smith of Greensboro led a discussion on heraldry at the Randleman Rotary Club meeting in the high school cafeteria. He explained that coats of arms began as a means to distinguish foes from friends when armor concealed faces, and noted heraldry as a medieval system of identification.
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Randleman
Randleman Rotary Club
Carl ‘Smith
Greensboro
Smith
Rotarians
Grier Newlin
James Hanner
Dillard Paper Co
Driver Held In Highway Fatality
Thomas A Harris 23 of Charlotte was killed when he stood beside his parked car on Highway 29 70 seven miles south of Lexington. Kenneth C Gibbons 43 faces hit and run manslaughter and DUI charges after a pursuit by State patrol and local officers.
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Lexington
Thomas A. Harris
Charlotte
Highway
Here
Kenneth Craig Gibbons
Richard L. Sigman
Welborn D. Adams
Sandstone
Harris
Adams
State Highway Patrol
Officer Sigman
Davidson County
M. E. Black
Gibbons
Greensboro
Sigman
Black
Acme Mills Contracts Awarded
ASHEBORO Work starts immediately on an addition to the Acme Hosiery Mills plant on Pritchard Street. The general contract was awarded to John V. Barger and Co. of Mooresville for a 23000 square foot east end addition for knitting and greige goods hosiery. Other contracts went to M. L. Eakes Inc of Greensboro for air conditioning and F R Holliday and Co for sprinklers. Acme and affiliates McCrary Hosiery Mills and Sapona Manufacturing celebrate their 50th anniversary.
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Asheboro
Acme Hosiery Mills i
Pritchard Street
John V. Barger and Co
Mooresville
M. L. Eakes, Inc
Greensboro
F. R. Holliday and Co
Acme
McCrary Hosiery Mills
Sapona Manufacturing Co
Cedar Falls
Scientists and engineers drive aircraft industry talent
The nation's missile and aircraft sector employs more scientists and engineers in research and development than any other industry, per the National Science Foundation. Planes, official publication of the Aircraft Industries Assn., notes 85 000 scientists and engineers in the aircraft industry, with 52 000 tied to research and development.
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Washington
National Science Foundation
Aircraft Industries Assn
Caning Victim Injured in Street Fight In High Point
William A. Jones a 79 year old resident of 305 Pine Street was admitted to the local hospital with two gashes on his head from a street fight. Thelma White of High Point was detained as a suspect as Jones says she accosted him on E Washington Street and struck him with a cane. Injuries not believed to be serious. The incident occurred about 11 15 a.m.
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William A. Jones
Pine ‘St
Jones
E. Washington Street
Scouts Honor Court Tonight At High Point District
Scouts will present thirty one advancements and awards at a Boy Scouts honor court tonight at 7 o clock. Troop 4 meets at the Scout Hut on Parkway for the court of honor. First class recipients include Wray Hodgin Gareth Beshears Johnny Lindsay. Second class recipients include David Modlin Fred Thomas III Mike Hedrick Jim mie Gayle. Merit badges go to Bobby Gray Mike White Jimmy Hart Irwin Coffield Ned Covington Bobby Morgan Brantley Kearns Frank Sizemore III Steve Linthicum Doug Howard Johnny Lindsay Wray Hodgin Fred Thomas II Roddy Ball Tommy Walser Trudge Henry Malone and David Modlin Gareth Beshears Jimmy Millis.
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Troop 4
High Point
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Duke
Wavanna
Jou ON
Magic Sponge Zoo
Texize
Aple
Tetley
Tetley Tea
Komberly-Clark
Kraft Spaghetti
Caning
Thelma ‘White
Jane Austen
Pepsi-Cola
Fox
Spring Garden Street
Pepsi-Cola Company
New York
Mee
Wena
Wateg
Neilson Coupon Clearing House
Box 351
Clinton
Iowa
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