Focus Urban Redevelopment Panel on Channel 8
Three leaders in High Point urban renewal discuss financing and family relocations on Focus: Urban Redevelopment. Mayor Floyd Mehan URC head Hunter Dalton and URC director Henry Price share views from WGHP-TV studios. Moderator Fred Barber opens the program at 6 p.m. Sunday.
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High Point
Channel 8
Wghp-Tv
Floyd Mehan
Hunter Dalton
Urban Redevelopment Commission
Henry Price
URC
Fred Barber
Cars Suffer Damages In Collisions
Police report two separate vehicular collisions yesterday at distinct locations. The first, at W Ward and Martin, involved Daniel Chatman and Linda Irene Boyd with sideswipe damage totaling 275 dollars and a charge of following too closely against Boyd. The second, on Whiteoak Street, involved Ethel Jenkins and Richard Chilton with $75 damage. no injuries or arrests.
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W. Ward Street
Martin Street
Daniel Chatman
Langford Street
Linda Irene Boyd
Greer Street
Whiteoak Street
Ethel Jenkins
Woodbury Street
Richard Allen Chilton
E. Commerce Street
Parallel Parking Favored by High Point Merchants
The High Point Merchants Assn endorses retaining the current parallel parking in downtown High Point. In a Feb 14 letter to Mayor Floyd Mehan signed by president Zeke Ellis, the group cites a Jan 2 survey showing majority support, says parallel parking increases moving traffic and reduces congestion, and warns that returning to angle parking would be a backward step ahead of the Feb 21 meeting.
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High Point
Floyd Mehan
High Point Merchants Assn
Zeke Ellis
Ellis
Taro Injured In Wreck In Davidson County
S Taro of Jamestown in satisfactory condition at Baptist Hospital Winston-Salem after a 1:40 pm Thursday collision on Lexington Street with road work machinery. The 79 year old president of Southeastern Marble and Tile Co. suffered face chest and leg injuries. he said he may have fallen asleep before the crash. His 1959 car was severely damaged.
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Jamestown
Sali Taro
Baptist Hospital
Winston - Salem
Lexington
Taro
Southeastern Marble and Tile Co
High Point
Main Street
Davidson County
Weekend Weather Outlook Cloudy and Cold Ahead
The outlook for the weekend calls for heavy cloud cover and colder temperatures. Rain ends today with a high near 48 and tonight’s low in the upper 20s. Monday should bring gradual clearing and cooler conditions with highs in the lower 50s.
Polio Clinic Blitz To Reach 10 Piedmont Counties
A 260 clinic, seven hour March 1 blitz will deliver the new oral total protection polio vaccine across 10 Piedmont counties. About 800000 residents are targeted with at least 70 percent participation to achieve community protection. Clinics will operate in schools and public spaces, with a nominal 40 cent voluntary contribution and no one refused.
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Piedmont
Alamance
Paul Williams
Alleghancy
Ashe
5. S. Kurtz
Davidson
Dermont Lohr
Forsyth
Stokes
Robert P. Lacey
Guilford
Donald Douglass
High Point
S. B. Joyner
Greensboro
Randolph
J. Wayne Thompson
Surry
Yadkin
L. B. Bolin
Arboretums as centers of plant information and guides
Arboretums offer lectures conducted tours and have reference libraries. They identify plants sent in by amateurs answer questions and publish bulletins per the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Scot Church Leader Will Visit Guilford College
Very Rev George F MacLeod of Scotland will visit Guilford College February 20 delivering two public lectures in Dana Auditorium sponsored by the Danforth Visiting Lecturers program He will speak at 10 30 a m and 8 p m on the Iona Community and Church Prospect The Danforth project travels with him to discuss campus religious groups and classes in religion
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Scotland
MacLeod
St. Paul's Cathedral
London
Danforth
Danforth Foundation
The
Assn. of American Colleges
Guilford
Brotherhood Award Banquet scheduled in High Point
High Point observes National Brotherhood Week with a banquet at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church on Thursday at 7 p m. May or Floyd Mehan proclaims the observance through Feb 23. Banquet co sponsored by the local Junior Chamber of Commerce and civic clubs. Dr Charles P Bowles will speak. Benny Braha Jr last year’s winner. A worship service at First Presbyterian Church Next Sunday at 8 p m closes Brotherhood Week with Dr Mark Depp of Winston Salem speaking and First Presbyterian choir providing music.
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High Point
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
Floyd Mehan
Junior Chamber of Commerce
National Conference of Christians and Jews
Benny Braha ‘Jr
Charles P. Bowles
West Market Street Methodist Church
Greensboro
Charlotte
Methodist Church
High Point Ministers Alliance
First Presbyterian Church
Mark Depp
Centenary Methodist Church
Winston-Salem
Manslaughter Charges In Local Case Report
Donald Ray Heath of Plain Street faces manslaughter and failure to yield right of way charges over a fatal crash that killed Linda Faye Honeycutt last Sunday. Bond set at 600 dollars. Sherrie Thomas McColloum of Harrison Street charged with assault with a deadly weapon for knife wound requiring 56 stitches on Charlie Parks. Bond set at 550. Arthur Kirk of Woodbury Street charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence. bond 200. Trial slated for March 18. David Rider, age 45, charged with driving with revoked license. trial also set for March 18. Bond listed as incomplete.
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Donald Ray Heath
Plain Street
Heath
Linda Faye Honeycutt
Sherrie Thomas McColloum
Harrison Street
Charlie Parks
Arthur Kirk
Woodbury Street
Young David Rider
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Asth
City Fuel CO
Leonard
S. Taro
High Point Enterprise
Alleghany Ashe
Arnold Toynbee
President’s Council On Physical Fitness
Washington
D. C
Guilford College
Carrol Feagins
George F. MacLeod
Brotherhood
Charles Bowles
Ee Service
Marion E. Wade
Warrenville Road
Dept
Downer’s Grove
Tlinois
Cadillac
Tts
Highland Motors, Inc
North Main Street
High Point, N. C
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