Piedmont Triad forms first fulltime COG office
Greensboro officials announce the Piedmont Triad Council of Governments now operates a fulltime office on Summit Avenue. Lindsay Cox, former Guilford County planning director, is the first fulltime executive director guiding a regional unit including Forsyth Guilford Davidson and Randolph counties with a new work program and an employed secretary. A consultant is preparing major studies while several area governments consider joining, and the next council meeting is set for August 28.
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Greensboro
Piedmont Triad Council of Governments
Lindsay Cox
General Motors Acceptance Corp
Summit Avenue
Cox
Guilford County
Forsyth
Guilford
Davidson
Randolph
Council
Council of Governments
Special Service Set At Temple Memorial Baptist Church
The Rev. Emanuel Rucker and choir will lead a service at Temple Memorial Baptist on Taylor Street at 3 p.m. Sunday. The Rev. L. L. Macon is pastor of the church.
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Emanuel Rucker
Temple Memorial Baptist
Taylor Street
L. L. Macon
Zoning Requests To Be Studied In Guilford County
Guilford County Board of Adjustments will hear two requests Monday at 8 a.m. at the Administration Building in Greensboro. Floyd Hollifield seeks a variance to place a mobile home on single family zoned land on Hayworth Springs Road Montgomery Drive James town Township. Opal Harlan seeks a variance for a mobile home on property at U S 421 and State Road 2007 in Deep River Township for residential and business use.
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Greensboro
Guilford County Board of Adustments
Guilford County Administration
Board of Adjustments
Floyd Hollifield
Hayworth Springs Road
Montgomery Drive
Jamestown Township
Opal Harlan
U. S. 421
Deep River Township
Cloudy Warm Weather Forecast for High Point Area
The High Point region sees variable cloudiness and warm temperatures through Sunday with occasional thundershowers likely in the afternoon and evening and becoming widely scattered by late Sunday. Monday looks partly cloudy and warm with a chance of rain. Highs near the upper 80s, lows around 70. Rain chances 60 percent today, 40 tonight, 30 Sunday.
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High Point
Two Injured In Separate Wrecks But Neither Is Critically Hurt
Two people were injured in separate accidents with no serious injuries. Rhoda Everhart, a passenger in Robert Everhart’s car, was hurt in a 3 pm crash at English and Albertson Roads. Creel, 22, was charged with failure to reduce speed. Damages about 600 dollars. A rear end collision on W Green Drive injured Darrell Holden, 28, who was charged with failure to reduce speed. Damages unspecified. Other crashes on New Road and Denny Street involved multiple drivers with varying damages and several speeding or yielding charges. One driver slid into a pole on wet streets. No fatalities reported.
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Rhoda Lavon Everhart
Robert Ray Everhart
Thomasville
English Road
Albertson Road
Richard Paul Creel
Dorothy Street
Creel
W. Green
Darrell Anderson Holden
Young Street
Holden
Virginia Mendenhall Thomas
Rt. 5
Carl Hudson Jr
Oakwood Street
New Road
Willie James Williams
Trinity
Roy Lee Simmons
Mangum Avenue
Murder Case Bound Over In Davidson County
In Thomasville a preliminary hearing found probable cause in a murder charge against Arthur Mack Wardlaw 16 of Pine Street. Wardlaw was bound over to the Davidson County Superior Court August term for trial on the June 14 death of Randy Jarrett 17, after posting $2000 bond. Jarrett was killed with a .25 pistol. James Wilson 47 of Doak Street was sentenced to nine months in prison after a conviction for assault with a deadly weapon on Susie Wilson. Judgment was suspended in another case for simple assault.
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Thomasville
Arthur Mack Wardlaw
Pine Street
Recorder's Court
Wardlaw
Randy Jarrett
Davidson County Superior Court
Jarrett
James Wilson
Doak Street
Susie Wilson
Wilson
Man Held for Trial in Armed Robbery Case
Aaron Johnson of Bennettsville D C was ordered held for trial at the next term of Superior Court on a charge of armed robbery. He was bound over after probable cause found by Judge Elreta Alexander in District Court. Johnson, tied to a theft of about $200 at John T Ellis Inc on S Main Street, faces $4,000 bond. Paul Dunlap of Elm Street pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor as an accessory after the fact, receiving nine months suspended and a $25 fine.
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Aaron Johnson
Bennettsville
D. C
Superior Court
Elreta Alexander
Johnson
John T. Ellis, Inc
S. Main Street
Paul Dunlap
Elm Street
Dunlap
Stolen Tapes and Vending Machine Break-ins Reported
Multiple thefts reported Friday include stereo tapes stolen from an unlocked car of Mary Lawson on Route 4 in High Point, vending machines at F and M Sunoco Service with $41 in change taken, and wheels and tires worth $140 removed from two cars at Southern Motors. A home on Pine Street was ransacked by burglars.
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Mary Lawson
Route 4
High Point Fabricators
F and M Sunoco
Main Street
Southern Motors
Lonie Beck
Pine Street
Tobbers
Low income housing listed as priority in Guilford survey
Greensboro High Point leaders stress need for adequate low income housing as Guilford County’s top priority in a Guilford County Planning Department survey. The poll of 27 organizations drew 82 responses, noting other top concerns including minority outreach, education access, water, sewer, and traffic planning across urban and rural areas.
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Greensboro
High Point
Guilford County
Chamber
of Commerce
Commerce
Perttu H. Virtanen
Thority
Mission
Commission
Guilford
Virtanen
New Inspector Begins Duties
A High Point resident, Clarence J. Jump, started work Friday as an electrical inspector for the Guilford Department, per inspections director Curtis Kennedy. Jump joins the department to oversee electrical safety and code compliance in the region.
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Greensboro
High Point
Guilford
Curtis Kennedy
Clarence J. Jump
North Carolina Governor Scott Opens with New Highway Commissioners
In Raleigh Gov. Bob Scott held his swearing-in for his newly named state highway commissioners before a packed State Highway Building. He directed the group with brisk, orderly control as they prepared to take their posts.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Bob Scott
State Highway
Scott
Jessie Rae
Bids Planned For The Evergreens Expansion In Greensboro
Guilford County officials will open bids Monday afternoon for a project at The Evergreens east of Greensboro adding 40 nursing home beds in renovated nurses quarters and a 96 bed main building, plus 25 more boarding beds in a former county home. Bids for ambulances and an information booklet will also be opened, with county officials updating operations reports to streamline meetings.
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Greensboro
Guilford County Commissioners
Evergreens, Inc
Commissioners Room
Guilford County Administration
Evergreens
Polio Hospital
Chair City Man Faces Two Assault Charges
Thomasville police booked Jerry Don Payne 3 of Rosedale Drive on two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill after alleged pistol strikes on Lexington residents Gene Gordon and George Smith on the Big Bear parking lot Main Street. Bond set at 500 dollars. trial in Recorder’s Court scheduled August 22. Gordon and Smith not admitted to City Memorial Hospital.
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Thomasville
Asault
Jerry Don Payne
Rosedale Drive
Payne
Lexington
Gene Gordon
George Smith
Big Bear
Main Street
Recorder’s Court
City Memorial Hospital
Gordon
Smith
Bobby George Gordon
Jasper Street
Larry Ferrell
Chairtown Finance Co
National Highway
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High Point Enterprise
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Elizabeth Sink Jackson
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Worth Street
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Longview Drive
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