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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1940
Page
20
An address of welcome was given by Arthur Kirkman. Music was provided by Lu Benfield and Dorothy Hoskins from Lenoir and High Point. Bargion T Hill of Wadesboro delivered the response.
Proceedings show High Point officials pushing for multiple county road board appointments with a split vote. Walter Crissman proposed starting two more names and voting separately while tensions rose over misstatements. Judgins was then nominated, and delegates urged all candidates to join before any ballot.
In a heated Greensboro High Point contest for state House support, the anti Fisher bloc fails to push Hudgins. After a tie vote and recess, a floor motion wins to back Fisher and Hudgins, sparking claims of a split High Point Greensboro dynamic and a bid to curb rural influence.
The High Point Real Estate Board and Henry V. Koonts join in backing better housing for High Point. The group pledges support for a sound housing plan as the public hearing on a United States Housing Authority proposal is called.
The High Point Real Estate Board conducted trips to Wilmington and Raleigh to study housing projects. It finds the USHA plan impractical due to tax exemptions high costs and lack of slum clearance. The board proposes private capital guided by a new High Point Housing Authority ordinance with minimum standards for decent housing and to keep USHA funds in abeyance. The board supports private solutions and urges city action. no reply yet. The note closes with a historical fact that Holland first granted religious toleration to its people.
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