Mailing Survey Signals Preference for UPS Over Parcel Post
A Chamber of Commerce survey of 80 southwest High Point area businesses shows over 60 percent use private mailers for small packages, 30.5 percent use parcel post, and 7.1 percent rely on buses. About 46 replies indicate 43 percent would favor parcel post if a local postal facility existed. 87 percent would rent a box there. The firms send roughly 9,760 pieces daily, with many calling for closer branches, more parking, and extended window service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point Area
Chamber of Commerce
Postal Service Committee
Frank H. Wood Jr
United Parcel Service
U.S. Postal Department
U.P.S
Post Office Dept
Defendants Bound Over Trial In Robbery Case
Benjamin Hopkins Stephen Hopkins and Hubert Teal Jr all 17 of Thomasville waived preliminary hearings and were bound over for trial in Superior Court on robbery with a dangerous weapon charges. Charlie Lee Canton 16 also of Thomasville faced the same fate with others in a related taxi robbery case. O'Neil said the four men robbed him at knife point after driving to High Point. Frederick Sheppard 25 of Vail Street waived hearing and bound over on receiving stolen property. Leroy Ray 19 of Blair Street charged with larceny by breaking and entering and forgery. Naomi Fulton of Windley Street charged with forgery. James E. Shelton of W. Green Drive got six months suspended and fined 100 dollars on possession of non-taxed whisky. Michael Chambers 16 of Greensboro pled guilty to attempting to forge a check with six months suspended and restitution. Probable cause found in a District Court preliminary hearing Friday. Mickey LaPradd 16 bound over on possession of drugs. Leander Lowery had nol pros with leave on uttering a forged check. Curtis Evans 32 of Greensboro and Roy Kestler 20 of Montleu Avenue each earned six dollars and costs on drunken driving. Dewey Harris 21 acquitted of carrying a concealed weapon. Carl Davidson 33 taxed costs on combined charges of carrying a concealed weapon and public drunkenness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin Hopkins
Stephen Hopkins
Hubert Teal Jr
Thomasville
Charlie Lee Canton
Patrick
Wayne O'Neil
Hegler's Taxi Co
O'Neil
High Point
Frederick L. Sheppard
Vail Street
Thomas Variety Store
W. Green Drive
Leroy Ray
Blair Street
Naomi Fulton
Windley Street
James E. Shelton
Michael Chambers
Greensboro
Leander E Lowery
Curtis D. Evans
Roy D. Kestler
Montleu Avenue
Dewey L.harris
Daniel Brooks Apartments
Carl W. Davidson
Liveoak Drive
Design Industry Outlook Good for Nonresidential Sector
Stuart John Gilbert of New York, national president of the Institute of Business Designers, says the nonresidential design industry will grow. He cites contract furnishings expansion, rising costs with inflation, and continued demand from hotels, offices, restaurants, and schools, with American design gaining value as foreign goods grow harder to obtain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stuart John Gilbert
New York
Institute of Business Designers
IBD
Gilbert
Carolinas
Institute
High Point
Department of Commerce
Randolph Honors Top Dairymen
Twelve Randolph dairymen received graduation certificates at the Randolph County Dairymen's Assn annual banquet at the Marlboro Friends Church. Dr. I D Porterfield urged better management over miracle drugs, predicting a shift to marketing focus, more on farm grain storage, younger dairymen, and greater self dependency as federal controls increase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sophia
Randolph
Randolph County Dairymen’s Assn
Marlboro Friends Church
I. D. Porterfield
Dept. of Animals Science
North Carolina State University
Randolph Dairymen
Asheboro
Beaman
Terry McCain
Max Farlow
Dale Hollingsworth
W. H
Barry Robbins
David Meredith
Liberty
Glenn Frankie
Greensboro
Claude
Porterfield
Deaths and Funerals feature several local obituaries
Carrie White Roddy 62 of 221 Gridar Street died at High Point Memorial Hospital after a three day stay. Born August 23 1911 in Hillsville Virginia she was married to Ansel B. Roddy and had long High Point residency. Survived by husband and one brother George N. White. Funeral at Oak Hill Friends Meeting with burial in Floral Garden Park Cemetery. The body remains at Sechrest Funeral Home with visitation Sunday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrie White Roddy
Gridar Street
High Point Memorial Hospital
Roddy
Hillsville
George White
High Point
Ansel B. Roddy
Hillsville Presbyterian Church
Oak Hill
Sechrest Funeral Home
John Boyd Riley
Plummer Dr
Archdale
Mr. Riley
Bennettsville
S.C
Joseph William
Louisa Harris Riley
Bennettesville
Ruth Miller
Church of Christ Faith
Ruth, Miller Riley
Roger
Audrey) Collins
Inglewood
Calif
Red) Riley Sr
Oberlin Drive
Sechrest Chapel
Hoyt L. Johnson
Floral Garden Park Cemetery
Funeral
Alexander Named Scout Executive for Uwharrie Council
F Stephen Alexander was named the new executive for the High Point and Thomasville districts of the Uwharrie Council Boy Scouts of America. He is the son of Fred W. and Mrs. Alexander of High Point and a Hampden Sydney College graduate who recently returned from Cheyenne Wyoming where he counseled at Laramie County Community College. He and his wife Paula Bullin and their four year old daughter reside at 301 E Farriss Ave High Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Stephen Alexander
High Point
Thomasville
Uwharrie Council
Boy Scouts of America
Fred W. Alexander
Parkwood Cir
Alexander
Hampden Sydney College
Cheyenne, Wy
Laramie County
Four Hurt In Traffic Accident On Locke Street and Fern Street
Four people were injured in a two car crash on Locke Street at Quaker Lane around 2 p.m. Friday. Passengers Maggie Baker Elerby Nancy Elerby Vera Elerby 12 and Gary Brooks 5 were treated. Driver Robert Ellis Davis 17 of Ashley Avenue was involved. Elerby faced a safe movement violation and no driver’s license charges. A separate three car crash on Fern Street near Kent Avenue around 9 a.m. Friday injured Gale Denise Archie Delores Grant Ford and Gloria J Manning. Archie and Manning were charged with following too closely. A third incident on W Green Drive near Foust Avenue about 6:56 a.m. Friday injured Mary Gordon Hopkins and involved Nancy Kinney Hatton. Hopkins faced citations for failure to yield and vehicle inspection law violations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Locke Street
Quaker Lane
Maggie
Baker Elerby
Nancy Elerby
Vera Elerby
Gary Brooks
Gordon Street
Robert Ellis Davis
Ashley Avenue
Ms. Elerby
Fern Street
Kent Avenue
Gale Denise Archie
Drew Street
Delores Grant Ford
Gloria J. Manning
Alyce ‘Deloris Manning
Fern
Archie
Ms. Manning
Mary Gordon Hopkins
Rt. 5
Thomasville
Nancy Kinney Hatton
W. Green
Foust Avenue
Ms. Hopkins
City School Menus Preview Week
The week’s menu outlines daily lunch options for City School. Monday features vegetable soup with peanut butter sandwich, Tuesday offers fish portions with confetti slow potato casserole and pudding, Wednesday includes barbecued franks with collard greens and cobbler, Thursday serves turkey with mashed potatoes and red velvet cake, and Friday presents a manager's choice including meat loaf, lasagna, fish sandwich, and assorted sides and desserts.
Greensboro Planning Board weighs zoning requests
The Guilford County Planning Board will study two conditional use requests on Lake Jeanette Road to reclassify land from watershed residential to conditional use single family residential allowing 12,000 square foot lots. In addition, two agricultural to watershed residential rezoning requests for 40,000 square foot lots will be considered near New Garden Road and N C 160 near Church Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
Guilford County Planning Board
W.S. Griswold
Charter Carolina Company
Harrell Pope
North Carolina National Bank
Lake Jeanette Road
New Garden Road
William €. Patton
John T. Higgins Jr
N.C. 160
Church Street
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Mickey LaPradd
Rt. 1
Kernersville
the Geullees
Thay
Henry Marr
Rhe Ws & Albuquerg Nlm
Tasmania
Lillie Cox
Ramsbear
Lillie Jones Cox
Rt. 6
Coleridge
Randolph Hospital
Randolph County
Deep River Baptist Church
Swanson Cox
Ramseur
Harold Cox
Loflin Funeral Home
Albert Taylor
Hal B. Ingram
Hal Burkhead Ingram
First United Methodist Church
Hamlet
Richmond County Memorial Park
Ingram
Sarah Starr Ingram
Halt. Ingram Dr
Atlanta
L. M. Ingram
High Paint
J. H. Hart
P. A. Warner
John H. Hines
Elborne St
Winston-Salem
Forsyth Memorial Hospital
Clifton Grove Baptist Church
Wadlburg
Hairlip
O.P. Hines
Radford Street
Young Country
People’s Republic of China
China Journal
Rand McNally
United States
Transport
Johannesburg
South Africa
South African Railways
John B. Riley
Emma Lambeth Denton
Emma Gordon Lambeth
Rt. 2, Denton
Davidson County
Farmer Baptist Church
Earl Lambeth
Rt. 2
Denton
Lanier-Briggs Funeral Home
Claudie Harrion
Clarksburg United Methodist Church
Cumby
Chestnut Dr
Malcolm Alderman
Tumby Chapel
E. Lexingson
NSH
Monbay
Oakhill Friends Meeting House
THE
Vacuum Center Sales & SI Service
W. Broad ST
Areen Fellowship
Walla
P.O. Box
Greensbero
N.C
Williams
Englsh RD
E Edel Dsi CO
America
N. Main ST
Main ST
E. Green ST
Main ST. Thomasville
Office OF Energy Conservation
Federal Energy Office
the Advertising Co
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