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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1961
Page
9
Merchants fail to restore fulltime parking in the 100 block of E Green Street but win a compromise. Parking remains restricted 4 to 6 p m with added metered spaces nearby to aid customer access. Council vote 8 to 1, with H G Ilderton dissenting.
Aptitude tests will be given at the Guilford Industrial Education Center in Jamestown on August 24 and 25 for high school students planning to take courses there in the 1961-62 year. Tests are required for participants in the vocational industrial program.
Middletown Ohio police officer reports a domestic tragedy after an oven blast. One wine bottle hidden in a gas stove oven exploded when lit, with the officer noting the incident and its eerie implication.
The text presents a Tuesday prayer invoking God as the source of love forgiveness and patience. It includes a closing signature by Dennis H. Cooke director of Teacher Education at High Point College High Point North Carolina.
High Point city council divided over a 500000 plan to extend water and sewer services. Councilman Floyd Mehan urged sending personal hearing notices to property owners, but his motion failed. A Froelich substitute to place notice in committee passed, with Mehan dissenting.
Herman Dennis a 32 year old Chicago steeplejack was bound over to Superior Court after probable cause in four charges including three forgery cases from 1956 1958 and one embezzlement case. Dennis allegedly sold furniture valued at 1207.35 while employed by High Point Upholstery Co. and kept the profits. He is also wanted by Chicago authorities on a conspiracy to engage in a confidence game. Dennis appeared before Acting Judge Charles W. McAnally who set bond at 3000 and remanded him to jail.
Henry E. Price, previously administrative director of neighborhood rehabilitation in Cleveland, was named High Point Urban Renewal director to begin Sept 1. The Cleveland veteran and federal urban renewal veteran will lead temporary HQ at the Planning Commission and oversee projects with city, state, and federal cooperation. Price, a lawyer and South Carolina native, is married with five children.
The outlook calls for a high near 83 today with a chilly 58 this evening and partly cloudy skies. Tomorrow rises to about 85 as a warming trend continues with more partly cloudy skies expected.
Ragweed pollen spotted over the weekend signals the start of National Allergy Month. Hay fever sufferers endure sneezing itching and congestion as ragweed thrives. Peak season runs mid August to mid September with pollen most thick from dawn to noon.
City planners tentatively approve a 28 unit apartment project at Oxford Place and Greenwood Drive near the Air Force Reserve Center and an 85 home subdivision on a 28 acre tract between Centennial Avenue and Guyer Street. Developers Ed and Charles Mendenhall and Hunter Dalton Jr. also rejected a mobile home park near Brentwood Street.
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