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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1960
Page
9
Officials report jammed classrooms amid a record enrollment. Mrs. Alice Dorsett leads first graders through morning routines as Dianne Brown and Cyndia Hamilton focus on a bulletin board during the day.
Tonight the United Appeal and its member agencies meet at the YMCA at 6 30 p m with about 125 attendees to discuss the UA campaign. Howard Pan coast will preside and speak on working together with speakers Vince Spracklin and George Lyles Jr. The campaign opens Oct 3 with a goal of 276112 dollars, the highest in High Point history, ending by 7 30 to avoid the gubernatorial rally at Senior High School.
Harold Crump, a Jamestown School teacher, received his master of education degree from the University of North Carolina. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Crump of Route 1, Norwood, and is married to the former Miss Dean Morgan of High Point.
Lively bidding is expected tomorrow as High Point invites bids for street maintenance contracts and the purchase of 10 voting machines to add to 20. Other items include fire hose alarm boxes concrete pipe a leaf loader and a garbage truck. Utilities extensions and pole recommendations also come before the council.
The forecast for Piedmont North Carolina calls for mostly sunny and hot weather with a high near 93 tomorrow and widely scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms. Tonight stays fair with a low around 71, while Guilford County reports windstorms and severe thundershowers yesterday amid temperatures peaking at 92.
A religious brief notes a prayer by Conrad Bergendorf, president of Augustana College in Rock Island Illinois, asking for a clean heart and pure mind, renewal of spirit through Jesus Christ.
Voters have one week to register for the September 27 special school bond referendum. Up to 11 million dollars may be issued for a three year program with High Point receiving about two million. Officials remain confident despite lagging registration and teachers’ election-day meeting.
Edwin Franklin Lawson of High Point has been accepted for admission to Campbell College for the fall term beginning September 12. After two years at Campbell he plans to enter the School of Engineering at State College. He is the son of Mrs. Elsie Lawson of High Point.
Gavin plans a North Carolina gubernatorial campaign kickoff with a statewide tour and 72 county appearances. He backs a 50 percent teachers pay raise to align with industry levels and urges a true two party system, citing Nixon's NC outlook.
Guilford County election officials will not intervene in a dispute over whether Justice of the Peace T. W. Hollingsworth’s residence lies in Jamestown Township or High Point city limits. The board cites lack of jurisdiction and says Hollingsworth and city planners must resolve the boundary issue, with Hollingsworth keeping his candidacy intact pending a solution before the November election.
Public hearing Thursday night on J A Jones plan to convert a junk yard at 3014 English Street into a go cart track. City planning commission rejected the proposal as out of character for a residential area. Jones appeals to City Council with petitions from some property owners in the vicinity. Meeting at city hall council chamber at 7 30 pm.
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