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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1961
Page
27
Official ballot for the Town of Jamestown North Carolina dated August 8, 1961. Ballot concerns liquor control station issues and related voting options for residents. Campaign wording or candidate names are not provided in the readable fragment.
Voters are instructed to place a cross mark in the square to support For Town Liquor Control Stores or in the left square beside Against Town Liquor Control stores for opposition. The notice outlines how to mark the ballot in the Jamestown town election.
Jamestown polls open 6 30 a m and close 6 30 p m for a referendum on legal liquor stores. If approved the Town Council may appoint an ABC Board to locate operate and supervise the store with profits split 70 30 between the town and Guilford County funds and law enforcement and education programs.
Forecast calls for highs near 88 today and mid 80s tomorrow under heavy overcast. Intermittent showers continue this afternoon and tonight with little chance of clearing. Lows last night around 66, expected to slide to about 68 tonight.
The High Point Furniture Club held its monthly meeting at Schrafft's Restaurant. President C. G. Mackintosh led about 21 members while George Covington of the Chamber of Commerce spoke on improving hospitality for buyers during furniture markets.
Little Rock businessman and Auburn All American Jimmy Karam shares his conversion story and Christian message in High Point. He emphasizes peace through Christ and urges Christian love to heal racial divides while on a two week tour through North and South Carolina and into Virginia.
Promoters report strong interest in a new 45 000 square foot Cardinal House Inc department store to be built on S Wrenn Street in High Point opening projected for August 1 1962. J W Morgan of Culler Morgan Associates says stock subscriptions nearing 500 000 prompt construction by a four bank led syndicate with building leased to Cardinal House Inc and managed locally. Brochures and subscription blanks are available at banks and local chambers of commerce and merchants association offices.
A large barn on the Joe B. Motsinger homeplace near Wallburg burned yesterday afternoon along with about 20 pigs owned by Lee Kennedy who rents the farm from Miss Lula Motsinger. Firemen arrived after the roof had collapsed. no value estimate was available.
Russell Brantley Wake Forest College director of communications will speak to the High Point Exchange Club tomorrow night at 6 30 at the Rainbow Supper Club Brantley a Wake Forest graduate has worked at Concord and Durham newspapers and was AP night editor in Charlotte for a year and managing editor of the Durham Morning Herald for three years before joining Wake Forest
A six year old girl was hospitalized with first and second degree burns after a natural gas basin manhole ignited from a leaking line in Thomasville. Judy Cox daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert G Cox of Worrell Street was burned about the face hands and arms. Firemen extinguished the blaze and the gas company was notified.
The Guilford County School Board approved a five percent contingency bonus for county staff similar to state teachers, set Aug 28 as teacher return and Aug 30 as first class day, and extended school year to 185 days. It authorized bids for a four room Reno Bullock addition, set $70,000 for construction, named two new principals Irie Leonard at Gibsonville High and Robert Hunter at Oak Ridge Elementary, renewed pupil insurance and out of county tuition plans, revised cross county pupil assignments, approved sale of half an acre of unused MacLeanesville land, and approved land purchase for New North West Consolidated High School at $2,000 per acre.
George Ernest Mooney aged 60 of Hamilton Street jailed after his car turned into the path of a second vehicle driven by Rebecca Barnett Hooks on Montlieu at 8 p.m. No serious injuries but Hooks' passengers, several children, were bumped. Bond set at 300 dollars. Mooney to stand trial Sept. 13 in Municipal Court.
A dashing High Pointer suffers a cut foot and a crowded women’s ward reveals all are expectant. He hides behind a medical manual while the nurse calls him into the doctor’s office. The incident becomes comic miseducation about anatomy and babies. The tale notes his plan to study to remove the stitches himself.
The speaker jokes about a fever named car trading fever and a plan to chain himself to a bed post until it passed. He borrows a buddy for help but substitutes a damp bank book to cure the fever. A relapse leads to a new affliction labeled second caritis.
In Charlotte the North Carolina National Bank transfers over 400 employees and extensive equipment to a $7 million, 16 story building during Aug 26 to Sept 4. The tabulating and electronic departments move Aug 19. Afterward the old Commercial National building and two adjacent structures on West 4th Street are demolished for new construction.
James H. Millis named three colonels for the United Appeal drive this fall. Harold Amos and Wayne Lackey lead the textile division while David Dowdy heads food and miscellaneous manufacturing. A captain briefing is set for Aug. 17 to assign firms and outline duties. The appeal runs from late September to early October.
The Tar Heel Talent Search hosted by the Woman's Club of High Point will hold auditions Saturday in Memorial Auditorium at High Point College. Entries close Tuesday. Open to amateurs aged 15 to 25, auditions start at 9 am with results at 1 pm. Finalists perform Sept 8 and 9 with a savings bond prize in four divisions.
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