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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1961
Page
11
Rain cooled the area last night with overcast skies today but the weatherman predicts a warming trend by tomorrow and Friday. Highs around 82 today and near 90 tomorrow with a 70 degree low tonight. Wide but scattered showers expected late on both days.
Guilford County Health Department board focused on education and prevention to curb mental health cases. Dr. Joseph Warner proposed half time UNC study while continuing work, with a committee to decide feasibility amid backlogs and budget. Plans include expanded Greensboro center facilities and potential state funds for partial facility use.
Jack Horton 23 of Pulaski Va returned to High Point to face a grand larceny charge dating from Nov 7 1960. He allegedly stole a $135 chain saw from Dale Hodge. Horton remained jailed pending investigation with trial date not set.
The city sets 2500 hot dogs for a summer park program finale at City Lake and Washington Terrace Parks. Children compete in field events such as races softball throws broad jumps and base sprints then enjoy a noon wiener roast and swimming. Playground leaders prepared all summer and will handle cleanup Monday and Tuesday.
The Street Renaming Committee will hold a public hearing at 7 30 p m in the county building courtroom to hear objections or support for renaming about 40 streets in High Point The meeting is open to all interested residents and affected areas
Police report a Park Street man Laurence Prosser 27 drove north on S Main Street and slowed to turn when his wife following in his car crashed into the rear of the truck causing about 175 in damage to the Prosser car. The wife was charged with driving without a license and claimed brake failure. Another wreck at Westchester Drive and W Burton Street caused 350 in damage to two autos. Patsy Rush and Mary Bowers involved with Bowers cited for failing to yield. A Bristol Street incident saw John Ritch 16 skid into a parked car owned by Orville Frazier. Ritch charged with excessive speed as Frazier’s car sustained 75 damage and Ritch’s about 150.
The B F Goodrich Store moves from N Main to 201 English St for a week long grand opening. The event features ribbon cutting by Mayor Carson Stout Miss High Point and George Covington, first 100 ladies receive perfume, various prizes drawn Saturday, and a new air conditioned 6700 square foot building with 35 parking spaces and upgraded tire inventory plus front end alignment and brake service. Don Gibbardt serves as assistant manager with seven employees.
Local recruiting offices report July quotas met as applicants swelled awaiting further enlistees. Twenty area residents joined the Air Force, eleven the Navy, and three the Army, with multiple names listed from High Point Lexington Asheboro Trinity and Thomasville. Aptitude tests remain available and Navy recruits select training centers in San Diego or Great Lakes.
The July 23 High Point Enterprise corrected a previous report. Beverly Gillespie of E Green Street was charged with assault on Mrs. King by pushing her. Gillespie and brother Wayne Gillespie were also arrested on assault charges against King.
Aspiring young performers from North Carolina will compete in the Tar Heel Talent Search of 1961 with registrations from Salisbury to Winston-Salem. Auditions begin at 9 a.m. Saturday in Memorial Auditorium at High Point College with final judging by a point system. Winners perform in the Tar Heel Variety Show in October.
Jamestown voters approved an Alcoholic Beverage Control system 223 yes to 190 with 415 ballots cast, two spoiled. The Council will appoint a three member ABC board to set location, hire staff, and operate the store, with terms of three two and one year respectively.
Judge Byron Haworth of High Point Municipal Court was elected presiding clerk of the North Carolina Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. About 500 Quakers gathered at Guilford College to name Haworth and other officers for the coming year.
Guilford County commissioners meet to rescind Monday action to lease 38 Shoup voting machines and advertise bids as required by state law. The plan would rent 38 units for one year totaling 57 874 40 dollars, with six new and 32 reconditioned machines if approved.
A devotional prayer invoking divine protection against evil and temptation. The reader asks for constant help to stay on the upward path and be delivered from all evil in Jesus name. Shackford, a retired Methodist minister from Waynesville North Carolina, signs the piece.
North State Telephone Co. announces 29 000 new telephone directories for High Point with delivery by Sunday Aug 13. Grange members and local chambers coordinate for old and new numbers and note a 1700 increase in directories this year. Thomasville JC expects 7400 directories, a 300 percent rise from 1960.
A High Point man was acquitted in a Greensboro magistrate court while a Greensboro supper club operator was convicted of assault. Don Lowder of High Point was dismissed for lack of evidence. Thomas W. Thomas Jr. of the Tom Tom Supper Club was fined ten dollars plus costs after appealing the conviction. The case stemmed from an altercation at the Reidsville Road establishment on July 2.
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