City Council backs land purchase for High Point museum plan
The High Point Historical Society won council support to buy land on E Lexington Ave adjacent to the Haley Inn to build a museum and restore the inn. A $175,000 fund drive is planned with about $135,000 in sight including gifts from a prominent family and furniture manufacturers. The option on the land expires Feb 22.
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Robert Marks
Winter City
Haley Inn
Village Square
High Point
Morgan
The
Historical Society
Council
High Point Civic Club
Fred Joyce
Furniture groups ask FTC for clearer advertising rules
The Southern and National associations of furniture manufacturers urged the Federal Trade Commission to simplify and clarify its 1964 advertising rules. They argue current guidelines are confusing, limit truthful claims, and need explicit directives on finishes veneers and geographical terms.
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Federal Trade Commission
Robert A. Spelman
Southern Furniture Manufacturers Association
SFMA
FTC
Spelman
Chicago
National Association of Furniture Manufacturers
NAFM
Southern Association
Snow
Washington
Snow and Spelman
Spain
Police Industry Plan to Guard Plants in Civil Disorder
Police Chief Laurie Pritchett reports a cooperative program with local industry to defend manufacturing plants against civil disorder. Trained plant employees, equipped by the plants, would respond in emergencies under police supervision. The plan includes five man mobile strike teams and a citywide survey of vulnerabilities.
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Laurie Pritchett
Patrol
George Leverett
Police Academy
Leverett
Oakview residents block plan for Ervin apartment project
Nearly 60 Oakview homeowners opposed Ervin Industries plan to rezoned a 22 acre Johnson Road site for 176 luxury garden apartments. Commissioners delayed action citing Johnson Street completion timing and potential school crowding, while noting MA zoned land already exists.
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Oakview
Planning and Zoning Commission
Ervin Industries, Inc
North Carolina
Johnson Road
Oakview Road
Johnson
Eastchester
Oak View School
Ed Post
Ervin Industries
Woodcrest Park
New City
Post
Missing mother and two children spark Davidson County inquiry
John Brown Hill, 25, reports his wife Anna Marie 22 and daughters Mary Jane 5 and Geri Robin 3 missing since last Thursday. Sheriff investigates house and barn fire found after disappearance as Hill requests their return and notes belongings missing.
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Thomasville
John Brown Hill
Noahtown Road
Here
Davidson County Sheriff's Department
Anna Marie
Mary Jane
Geri Robin
Hill
Sheriff’s Department
Amazon
Fair Cold Weather Outlook For High Point Area
The forecast for the High Point area calls for fair skies and cold weather through Wednesday with near zero precipitation. Thursday should continue fair and cold with highs from 40 to 45 degrees and tonight’s low in the mid teens. Last night’s low was 21 degrees.
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High Point
High Pointer Killed In Vietnam War
Army S. Sgt. Tembert Crawford Jr. of High Point listed among DoD casualties in Vietnam. He was the husband of Mrs. Sadie L. Crawford of 1109 W. Green Dr. The Monday list adds 139 names including eight from North Carolina, marked as killed in action.
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Army
Tembert Crawford Jr
High Point
Department of Defense
Vietnam
Crawford
Sadie L. Crawford
W. Green Dr
North Carolina
City Council Faces Post Office Decision on Law Building Block
Regional Postal Director C B Gladden negotiates for a downtown post office site urging action at Thursday’s meeting. A prior urban renewal vote blocks the Law Building site making a reconsideration possible only if Craven or Hunsucker change positions, with a two thirds vote required for any reversal. Gladden cites no alternate Central Business District sites and notes no other suitable buildings were found in surveys. See CHANCES on page 5B.
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Forrest Cates
Harold Craven
Frank Hunsucker
Arnold Koonce Jr
James Shelton
Frank Smith
Craven
Hunsucker
Gladden
Post Office Department
J. N. Wright
N. Main Street
Westwood
Grimes
Postal Department
GTI Implements Budget Cut for Health Science Building
Guilford Technical Institute trustees approve a reduced design for a Health Science Building delaying two unfinished floors until HEFA funds arrive. The plan cuts base cost from about 620,800 to 479,000 with a completed first floor for the dental program and other interior work to follow. They also trim costs on the Jamestown campus expansion by dropping an elevator and changing window facings.
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Greensboro
Guilford Technical Institute Board of Trustees
J. Hyatt Hammond
Asheboro
GTI
Luther Medlin
HEFA
George Rottman
Medlin
Jamestown
Furniture Hall
School of Cosmetology
James O. Williams
Army base leader named as new colonel
A Time To Be Proud identifies the commander of the Army base and notes the new colonel's wife. Gray, an 18 year Army veteran and graduate of A T University, previously served in Vietnam before his Ft. Ritchie assignment.
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Gray
Army
A & T University
Ft. Ritchie
Vietnam
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Dean
Ferndale Junior High
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English Rd
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Oakview Area
Oakview Home Owners
Gerri Robin
Jim Hawkins
Charles L. Gray
Lincoln I. Gray
Robbins Ave
Ft. Ritchie, Md
Otto R. Koch Jr
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