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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1960
Page
9
Two women from Randleman observe material washed from a local plant during last night's flash flood. Cleanup crews collect debris along the creek banks as floodwaters recede.
L C Parrish of Randolph County recounts nearly drowning when his 1952 pickup was swept down Carraway Creek near Flint Hill after heavy rain. He swam ashore with water to his knees, losing his truck, clothing, and crops worth 200 acres of soybeans. Neighbors watched unable to reach him due to the high flood.
Northeast residents oppose altering the school zone. More than 300 signatures oppose annexation to the High Point special school district. Sam Clarke of 2618 Woodruff St. notes 421 names already collected with more to come.
A GOP meeting at 215 N Main St formed a permanent Republican women’s club in High Point with 31 attendees. Irene Cleveland chairs. precinct chairmen named. An Aug 30 rally with gubernatorial candidate Robert L. Gavin announced. headquarters to operate 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days weekly.
Dr Sam Gibson 27 native of High Point will open a dental office at 140 Church St during the first week in September He is married to Jahala Brown and has two children Susan and Laura A UNC graduate with BS and DDS degrees he served as an Army captain in Hawaii before returning to High Point to practice.
Paris dispatch reports Gen Lauris Norstad supreme Allied commander in Europe denies resigning amid rumors in British papers. He stated he remains in command and will continue duties.
A 13 year old boy, Douglas Cochran, suffered a head injury after slipping from a tricycle and being struck by a car driven by Donald Ray Teer. He was treated at Baptist Hospital and described as satisfactory. In a separate crash at 616 West Green Street, David Clarson Brown and Stewart Davis Shoaf were involved. Brown sustained minor injuries and was released from High Point Memorial Hospital. Shoaf faced a charge for making a right hand turn violation. Damage estimates totaled 75 dollars to Brown’s car and 100 dollars to Shoaf’s vehicle.
AP reports that Communist China acknowledged its much vaunted big leap forward in industrial and agricultural production lagged during the first half of 1960.
Flooding from a nameless creek near Highway 311 in Randleman damaged A. J. Schneierson and Sons shipping and storage rooms, washing away parking lots and a bridge, with water reaching five feet inside a 50 by 190 feet area and extending to nearby Commonwealth Hosiery Mills.
Rainfall across High Point and Randolph County caused flooding and two auto accidents with no injuries. Nearly 6 inches fell in Randleman and 2.17 inches at Greensboro airport as showers eased today with warmhumid conditions expected to continue. Public works crews cleared affected streets and unpaved surfaces sustained heavy damage.
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