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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1962
Page
9
Carson's Inc announces a new 33,000 square foot facility on Sherman Road for chair production and government work. Completion is set for July with plans for increased production and employment. A $12,000 residential permit was issued to W. J. Seward at 2523 Wesley PI.
January debits in High Point surged 22 percent from 1961, hitting 90.164 million after 74.085 million a year earlier. Winston-Salem posted a 42 percent gain, with the district’s overall 11-city state total up 19 percent from January 1961.
In Thomasville on FE Main Street a three car collision caused heavy damage to two vehicles. Larry Van Wray of Rt. 2 faced charges for following too close after his car struck a stopped vehicle near Memorial Park Drive, with about 300 dollars in damage. Kenneth James Crotts, address unknown, had about 150 dollars in damage and his vehicle pushed into Ronald Foy Walker of Rt. 2 Trinity, whose car sustained 12 dollars in damage.
Jane Beast, an eighth grader at Ferndale Junior High, won the local Hallmark Gold Key after her opaque watercolor earned a top regional slot. Four Ferndale students plus 87 certificate recipients across the district were recognized in the Scholastic Art Awards judged by a panel in Greensboro.
Donald Walton 31 of Tryon Street faced assault charges after threatening John Todd of Springfield Road over a $15 debt. Judge Byron Haworth dismissed the case for lack of overt assault and Todd testified Walton demanded payment by force. The docket also noted suspended terms and other minor convictions in the same session.
Two men from Jamestown were injured in a 4:15 a.m. Sunday crash on Triangle Lake Road. Browning, driving east at high speed, lost control, crashed into a ditch and four trees, and the car was totaled at $800. DeHart suffered minor lacerations. both treated at High Point Memorial Hospital. Browning charged with failing to reduce speed. Another driver, Jane Ripley, 19, of A W Farriss Avenue, was charged with reckless driving after a Saturday collision on Edgedale Drive. Ripley had minor injuries and was treated at the same hospital. A Thomasville pair collided on English Street late Saturday. Stoots incurred $250 damage, Baker $350, with Baker charged for not reducing speed.
Mrs. Herman Winfree of Summerfield is named Rural Heart Sunday committee chair for the 1962 Heart Fund drive. The campaign, led by Griswold Smith, targets rural Guilford County residents on Heart Sunday February 25. Mrs. Winfree serves as vice president of the Summerfield Fire Auxiliary and PTA officer, and sits on the Summerfield Community Center board.
Gov Terry Sanford appoints Henry A Foscue president of Globe Furniture Co of High Point to a 14 member advisory committee on forestry. Richard A Wood of Asheville chairs the panel which serves to advise the State Board of Conservation and Development on forestry use education and research with indefinite tenure.
Thieves stole small change from two vending machines last night. A machine at the bus station ladies room and one at a laundromat in the 1500 block of E Washington Street were opened. Police reported no damage estimate yet and said the investigation continues.
Mayor Carson Stout proposes to urge the High Point Housing Authority to apply to the federal government for a 600 unit public housing project aimed at housing low income families and those displaced by urban renewal. The plan includes 200 elderly units with low rents and accessible features, though local real estate groups are expected to oppose it.
Last month mirrored January 1961 for the High Point Fire Department with 123 alarms, $27,475 in direct loss on $154,800 building contents, and 90 calls for fires. Seven month totals show $177,965 in loss, averaging $2.87 per capita, with most fires in buildings and numerous causes including defective heaters and electrical appliances.
County Coroner R B Davis confirmed that Mrs. Lois Goodwin died of suffocation from carbon monoxide before she was burned in a Delaware Street house fire on Thursday. Blood tests showed high carbon monoxide levels. Fire officials still seek the cause with a floor furnace named as a prime suspect but no proof of ignition.
Greensboro awaits the Guilford County Democratic Party executive committee with 70 precinct chairs to fill the vacant county board of education seat left by John R. Peacock and to nominate three candidates for two county board of elections posts. The meeting is at the county courthouse at 7 30 p m.
The planning commission will review a group development proposing 600 dwelling units and 480 apartments on 90 acres in a Negro residential area between Meredith and Wade streets. Eastgate Inc plans one block with six to seven eight unit apartments. A separate 156-lot subdivision near Cedrow Avenue and Forestview Drive seeks 57 homes initially priced at 14 000 to 16 000 dollars. The Oak View Estates preliminary subdivision covers 100+ residential lots south of Old Mill Road. Other actions include a retail site on S Main Street, expansion of a business zone for a kindergarten, a proposed dry cleaning operation, and rezoning near Willis Avenue and Green Drive plus review of multi-story apartment rules.
A low pressure area brought .4 inch of snow to High Point and Guilford County overnight, mostly melted by 7 am. Temperatures rose to 41 yesterday and fell to 16 by 7 am, with a forecast of warmer days ahead and little precipitation for the rest of the week.
A Michigan minister from Ann Arbor offers a devotional prayer asking God for a new birth of freedom in America and urges love and unity among all people to realize liberty and justice for all.
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