Handicapped Summer Party Draws 150 in YWCA Event
More than 150 handicapped persons attended the annual Summer Handicapped Party at the YWCA. The program featured talks, music, and a play by the Teen Age Prayer Band of Pentecostal Holiness Church. Mayor Jess Washburn welcomed attendees from Central Piedmont as Mrs. Alvis Kellen, dubbed mother of handicapped people, spoke briefly.
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YWCA
Pentecostal Holiness Church
Jess Washburn
Pidemont
Alvis Kellen
Charles Monk
Brentwood Baptist Church
J. Smith
Snow Camp
Brentwood Baptist Quarter
Travelers Quarter
G. K. Oxenford
S. Main St
Bernice Fine
Lexington
Raymond Carlyle Jr
Thomasville
Dora Grubb
Route 2
Raymond Carlyle
Harvey Lee Lowe
Asheboro
Council
Burlington Names New Exec Here
John G. Graviee Jr. is named executive in charge of Burlington Throwing Company operations, succeeding Joseph H. Hamilton who resigned to buy an interest in a Georgia textile firm. Graviee, previously vice president since 1959, will be based at the Hillcrest Plant and is a DeLand Florida native with degrees from Clemson and Harvard Business School. He is married to Anne Haley and has three sons. He served in the Army during the Korean War.
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John G. Graviee Jr
Joseph H.hamilton
Georgia
Graviee
Burlington Throwing
Hillcrest
DeLand, Fla
Burlington Industries
General Electric Co
Schenectady
N. Y
Gravice
Winter Park, Fla
Clemson College
Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration
Anne Haley
Stony Brook
Army
High Point Man Killed In Wreck
Donald Ray Jones 21 of High Point died in a late Saturday night auto crash on NC 150 northeast of Kernersville. Passenger Gerald R. Seymour 19 was injured as the car clipped a highway sign and pole and overturned. Burial at Mount Gur Cemetery. Jones survived by his parents and sister Betty Vaughn. Seymour admitted driving. no charges filed.
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Kernersville
First Methodist
Donald Ray Jones
Friddle St
High Point
Here
Jones
Gerald R. Seymour
Broad St
N.C. Highway 150
Seymour
Walter Burton
Ollie Seymour Jones
Electronics Corp
Betty Vaughn
Greensboro
Weather Outlook for Piedmont: Hotest Day Yet
The weatherman predicts more heat and afternoon showers for the Piedmont area. Today high reaches 94 with a low around 70 tonight. Tomorrow's high about 92 with showers likely in the afternoon and evening.
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Piedmont
Theft and Vandalism Probed by Local Police
Police investigate an auto accessory theft from Richard Rogers’s car on Pershing Street after two mirrors worth 11 dollars disappeared from the YMCA parking area. A separate vandalism report by Howard Setzer notes a large hole punched in the right rear fender of his 1960 car at a North Main Street bowling alley.
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Richard Rogers
Pershing Street
Rogers
YMCA
Howard Setzer
Kentucky Avenue
Setzer
N. Main Street
Crestwood Plant Addition and Local Permits Approved
Crestwood Furniture Co receives a 75000 building permit for a one story 252 by 70 foot addition at Ogden Street with a 160 by 70 basement expanding to 29000 square feet and creating 40 to 50 jobs by late October. A second permit for a 19000 garage at 1107 E Green St accompanies dwelling permits for 1220 Ragan St and 1023 Richland St, plus 6713 in repairs, pushing weekly totals to 213213.
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Crestwood Furniture Co
Ogden Street
Bill Potts
T. A. McFather
E. Green St
Ragan St
H. M. Malpass
Richland St
Daniel L. Lanier
Marriage License Misrepresentation Hearing Set
Mrs Bea trice Phillips Carter of High Point faces a Davidson County Court trial on August 19 for obtaining a marriage license by false representation. Lt Clarence Cook says she came with a 17 year old girl and others while a woman posing as the girl's mother helped secure the license and the subsequent marriage in Lexington.
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Lexington
Beatrice Phillips Carter
Manor Drive
High Point
Office of the Register of Deeds
Cook
Justice of the Peace
T. Y. Giles
Carter
Nellie Sams
Girl Hit by Car On N Main Street Injures Minor
A six year old girl Linda Lamb was struck by a car driven by Joshua Eli Surmons Jr. at 4:45 p.m. on N Main Street near her home. She suffered minor injuries and was treated and released at Memorial Hospital. No charges were filed.
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N. Main Street
Linda Lamb
Joshua Eli Surmons Jr
Trinity Avenue
Lamb
Surmons
Memorial Hospital
Violence Flares During Weekend in High Point
The High Point police blotter over the weekend records a surge of violence from assault to drunkenness. Vernon Cartrette Jr. faces multiple counts including assault with a deadly weapon after repeated incidents. Several others, such as Baxter Wiley and Ashley Mullins, also face charges ranging from assault to reckless driving and drunkenness.
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High Point
Vernon Cartrette Jr
Westchester Drive
Cartrette
Major Duncan
Gertrude Slate
Grace Street
Mare Cartrette
Bond
Baxter C. Wiley
Oakwood Court
Wiley
Greer Street
Ashley Eugene Mullins
Fraley Field Road
Mullins
J. R. Byrd
Redding Street
David Rider
Asheboro Street
Lennie Malone
Roger
Civil Rights Legislation Urged for Bipartisan Action
The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights urges presidential candidates from both parties to press for a bipartisan civil rights package during the special congressional session. Representing 30 groups, the conference calls for an August down payment on civil rights planks as a sign of commitment to full enactment in the next administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Congress
Leadership Conference On Civil Rights
Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Film Extras Win Pay Hike in Four Year Pact
Hollywood AP reports a four year contract between the Screen Extras Guild and producers raises general extras pay from 22.05 to 24.25 dollars per day and dress and riding extras from 29.04 to 31.94 while silent bit extras rise from 61.33 to 67.46. A health and welfare fund will be created by the producers.
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Hollywood
Screen Extras Guild
Alliance of Television Film Producers
Assn. of Motion Picture Producers
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Piedmont Area
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High Point Enterprise
Calvary Methodist Church
Thissell Street
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Enterprise
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Elizabeth Street
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McKenzie
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Grant Street
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Ragan Street
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Scott
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Ridgeway Avenue
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W. Willis Street
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Vail Street
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Quick
John Gibson
Highland Avenue
Gibson
Russell Woolum
Coal Mountain
W. Va
W. H. McSwain
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