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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1961
Page
20
By PETE GIBSON Enterprise Staff Writer. As 1961 ends High Point schools remain crowded, driving new construction and fueling racial integration efforts. A Bay Street School fire last year worsened the timetable for new facilities as administrators chase land for future buildings.
Six are killed den on an already taxed school system so far as space was con cerned. Children from that school, some 500 of them, had to be ab sorbed for the final week of the year in surrounding facilities. Some made the long trip to Northwood, some to Johnson Street and some to Montlieu. Many were to continue that temporary status this fall, but had the benefit of over 20 addi tional classrooms, constructed during the intervening summer months.
High Point saw a fall in traffic deaths in 1961 with six fatalities in four crashes by mid December, down from 11 in six crashes the previous year. Capt. J Roy Teague credits increased enforcement and more cars as factors while noting total collisions near 1,083 this year, with injuries around 332.
A High Point youth James Joseph Franklin 16 sparked three deliberate fires in May causing the year’s largest losses. He struck Snider Printing Co Bay Street School and Star Finance Co ransacking rooms stealing coins and starting blazes. Damages climbed to about 750000 and investigators traced him to his home by 11 15 pm ending the spree.
Five men gathered last April to plan High Point redevelopment. City officials, with federal aid, target 607 acres in East Central for a $2.8 million local share and a $5.5 million federal grant, shaping a multiyear revitalization effort.
High Point crime figures for 1961 show five homicides with four murder charges, two trials, and one prison sentence. Safecrackers netted about $13,000 from ten burglaries. two suspects were jailed. Other offenses included rape, armed robbery, burglary, larceny, and numerous assaults.
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