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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1970
Page
15
Showers since Sunday afternoon dumped 3.75 inches on High Point by 10 this morning. Storm gates overflowed and city streets flooded while police logged many weekend accidents. North State Telephone reported about 80 lines out of service as six cables remained wet and crosstalk affected calls.
Heavy rainfall continues through Tuesday in High Point and surrounding counties. Flooding forces road closures on NC 18 in Caldwell and NC 268 in Wilkes and Surry, with as much as 10 inches in 48 hours.
The High Point City School Board forms the High Point United Schools Committee chaired by James R. Spence of High Point Bank & Trust Co. with three vice chairs and a growing list of members to 25 or 26, including four students, to focus on education amid court-ordered school integration. The group aims to explain logistics rather than judge the integration plan.
City council moves to strengthen the abandoned car ordinance and to press owners of vacant lots to curb overgrowth. Judges plan to require a list of offending lots and may levy liens for cleanup costs. Public complaints have fueled the southern district crackdown and a statewide alignment of statutes.
A single car crash killed 17 year old Thurman Michael Thornsbury and injured others, while several other weekend accidents in High Point involved drivers charged with speeding without proper licenses or failing to yield. Names include Roger Blankenship 17, Caroline Dancy 19, Cleo Berry 41, and Darrell Sugg 31, with victims treated at High Point Memorial Hospital and various charges filed by local police.
The Ervin Co plans a 330 unit apartment complex on a 33 acre tract north of Woodruff Avenue west of Deep River Road near Five Points. Preliminary plans are filed with the High Point Planning and Zoning Commission for tonight to consider feasibility. Grading has begun on the Johnson Street site for 156 townhouse style units. The Deep River Road site is zoned MA for apartments and other housing items are on the agenda including public housing plans on Leonard Avenue and Juanita Street. Rezoning requests from Nancy H. Paul and George Clement are also slated for action with past protests noted.
Thomasville planning board and zoning commission will hold a special meeting at City Hall at 7 30 p m today to hear two rezoning requests. Thomasville Furniture Industries Inc seeks to rezone land along E Main Street and Fifth Avenue from residential to manufacturing to remodel a former city school admin house into office space. Dorothy H Myers and Mae Livingood seek to rezone property south of W Guilford Street east of Kinney Avenue and north of W Main Street from commercial and residential to manufacturing.
North Carolina highway deaths rose to 942 for 1970, with 12 more fatalities from weekend crashes. Victims include Danville Virginia couple Robert Burlingame and Helen Burlingame, and Rufus Collins with his wife Lo in Lake Summit crash. Charlotte and Greenville residents among the deceased. Ongoing year-to-date comparison with 1,023 deaths last year.
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