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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1966
Page
9
Enterprise report on a 16 year old boy who loses juvenile status, earns a motorcycle, violates license and insurance rules, and is brought before a youth jury. The panel weighs pride against discipline, urging supervision over suppression as the judge contemplates sentencing.
City public utilities urged residents to follow electrical safety for decorations. Director Bill Williams advised keeping nonfireproof decorations away from bulbs, avoiding overloaded circuits, using qualified electricians for new wiring, keeping trains away from trees, using lights not candles, and turning lights off when away.
A Friendship area forecast shows clouds and warmth persisting. Rain chances rise to 20 percent tonight and 40 percent for Wednesday, with highs near 60 Wednesday and lower 50s today. Thursday brings partly cloudy skies and a chance of showers. Last night’s low was 34.
The High Point College Choir will present its annual Christmas Concert on December 7 at 10 20 a m in Memorial Auditorium directed by Mrs Frances Redding. The program includes sections The Christmas Story Eternal Praise and Carols from Other Countries with soloists and student and staff collaborators. The choir also performs December 11 at 5 p m at First Methodist Church in Asheboro.
Guilford and Forsyth counties back a proposed 2000 to 4000 acre regional park along I 40 near county borders. The plan envisions camping boating fishing a zoo botanical gardens golf ice rink motel and cultural center with a future financing and land acquisition effort led by a Triad committee.
High Point aims to fund prizes for a city flag design contest. Councilman Harold Craven, leading the special and planning committee, plans to start after Christmas with color, reasonably artistic entries. Judges will submit three to five designs to the Council, and a revised city seal may be considered.
Olin Watson of Hobson Street died yesterday after noon from injuries suffered in an automobile crash at the East Commerce and Evans Street intersection. William M. Timberlake of Franklin Street, the other driver, was hospitalized along with Watson. Robert McMasters of Hoskins Street drove the Watson car and faced a charge of failure to yield right of way. The Timberlake vehicle headed east on East Commerce and struck the southbound McMasters Watson car on its right side, with about $200 in damage to both vehicles.
The arrival of trees sparks busy shopping at downtown stores and sales lots, with crowds lingering until 9 each night as the holiday spirit grows in the city.
The company reports an average 16 percent reduction in freight rates since 1958 while consumer goods rise about 18 percent. It cites nearly half a billion dollars invested since 1958 in better rail service, aiming to lower costs and pass savings to customers across the South.
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