Record Budget Foreseen For High Point City
High Point city officials anticipate a record 1959 60 budget surpassing last year’s six million plus amid annexation cost hikes and wage talks. The plan calls for a council committee session with City Manager T E Hinson to outline proposals before a standard adoption process, with funding for a new jointly built municipal county center and expanded services through the present tax rate of 1.20 per 100.
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High Point
T. E. Hinson
Hinson
Council
General Assembly
Temperature Cool POLICE ACTION As Skies Clearing
The weatherman reports a clearing afternoon with winds and cooler temperatures. Daytime highs near 60 drop to a low around 26 tonight, with tomorrow's high in the mid 40s and last night’s low near 45. Frigid conditions expected Friday morning, slight precipitation possible Sunday into Monday under 0.2 inch.
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Carolinas
Smudge Pot Ignites Barricade Fire at Ward and Cassell
A street barricade on Ward and Cassell Streets caught fire when a motorist knocked over a smudge pot yesterday. Fire crews responded to multiple calls including a roast smoking in a oven at 1001 Lindsay Street and a trash fire at 840 Willow Street with no damage reported.
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Ward
Cassell Streets
Lindsay St
Rockford Rd
Hit Run Charge Filed Against Man Involved in Pool Hall Incident
Riggs jailed on drunk driving and hit run charges with a $500 bond. A Briggs Street vehicle belonged to Joy Patterson and about 750 damage was reported to her car. Other arrests include Wiley Safrell with license revocation and drunken driving charges, Sarfeit found guilty on all counts with 16 months on the roads, James Arthur Guinn Jr. held on probation resistance, bond set for a Feb 20 hearing, Paul Coble and Franklin P. Welborne booked on affray. A separate hit run, a melee at Cavalier Pool 43 on Tate Street, led to Riggs’ identification and admission his car was the other involved vehicle.
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Riggs
Joy Patterson
Briggs Street
Wiley Safrell
Eagle Springs
Sarfeit
Byron Haworth
James Arthur Guinn Jr
Paul Coble
Tabor Street
Franklin P. Welborne
Thomasville
Clyde A. Riggs
Tate Street
E. Commerce Street
Lindsay Street
Manhattan Upends West In High Point Girl Crazy Show
The 45 member High Point College Tower Players prepare for two performances of Girl Crazy in Memorial Auditorium with a western desert Arizona setting mixed with New York flair. Jacquelyn Smith leads as the singing star with Don Drapeau Sandra Parnell and Glenn Lloyd in principal roles. The production features the High Point Symphony Orchestra with choreographer John Smith and designer Raiford Porter. Television appearances on WFMY-TV are planned including Second Breakfast and TV Matinee.
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High Point College
New York
Arizona Desert
Manhattan
San Francisco
George and
Ira Gershwin
Sam and Delilah
Ethel Merman
Tower Player
Jacquelyn Smith
Morganton
Don Drapeau
Dilletante
Sandra Parnell
Glenn Lloyd
Drapeau
Times Square
Arizona
Herman Coble
Wini Stuart
Libby Graham
Doris Talley
John Smith
Arlene Lanzieri
J. Fryhover
Raiford Porter
Lew J. Lewis
High Point Symphony Orchestra
Carroll Stoker
Wfmy-Tv
Greensboro
Fun Wagon For Hospital Is Planned
Mrs. Harry Rothrock Jr. reports Junior Red Cross plans a fun wagon for pediatric patients at the real hospital with teenage volunteers under nurse supervision. The group aims to provide toys and playmates, while new board members join the Red Cross drive and a March bloodmobile at the Armory seeks 400 pints.
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Harry Rothrock Jr
Junior Red Cross
Red Cross
Chicago
A. M. Rankin Jr
Home Service
James Ellington
Elizabeth Ennis
First Aid
John Jarrett
John Roberts
Roberts
Mississippi
Keesler Air Force Base
Armory
Fred Swartzberg
Boy Scouts Propose 22 Million Gallon Camp Lake
Scout executive Buan Hackney unveils plans for a 10 acre Camp Uwharrie lake north of Jamestown adding to City Lake storage. A 600 foot dam would create a 20 foot deep lake. contracts set March 3 and drawings due tomorrow.
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Boy Scouts
Buan Hackney
Camp Uwharrie
Jamestown
Hackney
Soil Conservation
Bill Williams
Williams
City Lake
Four Defendants Draw Active Jail Terms in City Court
Judge Byron Ha worth presided as four defendants faced criminal charges at Municipal Court. Safreit, a dragon farmer from Eagle Springs, received 16 months on three counts including drunk driving and license issues. Tommy C. Davis was sentenced to six months for motor scooter theft components. Charles Swaim drew 30 days on two drunkenness counts with a third consolidated. Ed Montgomery got one month on two counts of drunkenness with two others consolidated. Tommy Kerr faced continued proceedings on trespass after failing to pay costs.
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Byron Haworth
Safreit
Route 1
Eagle Springs
High Point
Safrell
Tommy C. Davis
Landsdown Avenue
John Bartley
Charles Swaim
Lexington Avenue
Ed Montgomery
Taylor Street
Tommy Kerr
Montlieu Avenue
Optimist Club hears talk on heart disease advances
Dr. Eugene Terrell spoke to the High Point Optimist Club about improvements in the detection and treatment of heart disease. Visitors included Bailey Gray and Roy Johnson.
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Eugene Terrell
High Point Optimist Club
Terrell
Baily Gray
Roy Johnson
High Point Considers Annexation Bill Expansion Plan
City officials prep a bill to add 26.4 square miles to High Point lifting borders into Davidson Randolph and Jamestown Townships. About 16090 residents would join a 47000 base. Rep Ed Kemp to present in Raleigh amid expected hearings and possible trimming before House action.
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High Point
General Assembly
City Hall
Knox Walker
Walker
Davidson
Randolph
Jamestown Township
Ed Kemp
Guilford Assembly
House of Representatives
City Planning Department
Raleigh
House
Kemp
Police flag phony 1959 license plate in Thomasville
Police spot a bogus plate on a car driven by 252 year old Ralph Marion of Thomasville. Investigators say correct orange shade could have masked it as a 1958 plate. Marion faces a charge of fictitious license plates with $50 bond posted at Municipal Court.
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Ralph Marion
Thomasville
Marion
Local Workers Honored At Club Event With Dr Bowman
Dr Neal Bowman NA M staff speaker addressed Old Tim club on Changes and Challenges. He defined three freedoms and outlined six facets of free enterprise including capital, machines, manpower, market, management and motivation. Counts include Millis Comp 29 years Bascome Loftin 29 Adams Millis Corp 28 Black Trian gle Hosiege Mills 28. J Wesley Scott chaired the project committee announcing next Bloodmobile visit March 22. Mr Hicks of the Church of Christ gave the invocation.
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Neal Bowman
National Association of Manufacturers
Tim
Bowman
America
Millis Comp
C. Bascome Loftin
Adams-Millis Corp
Newell G. Black
Triangle Hosiege Mills
J. Wesley Scott
Etery
Hicks
Christ
High Pointer Among Three Escapees
A Rocky Mount escape from Eastern Carolina Training School left three boys at large among a group of eight aged 14 and 15. Sheriff Marion Mills said the running group split earlier Tuesday with five captured after a hunter found a abandoned car. the others fled into woods near Wrightsville Beach.
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Tigh Point
Caroling Training School
Rocky Mow
Wrightsville
Marion W. Mills
Heart Sunday Volunteers to Launch Final Drive
The 1959 Heart Fund drive in High Point and Jamestown will climax this Sunday with more than 800 volunteers forming a Heart Sunday Volunteer Army. The goal for the area is 12 202.11 dollars as the council expands research education and community services through the American Heart Association.
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High Point
Jamestown
High Point Heart Council
American Heart Association
Earl Phillips
Heart Sunday
Philips
Heart Association
Heart Fund
Ministerial Association
Peggy Hawkins
W. W. Robbins
American History Month Proclaimed in High Point City
February is proclaimed American History month by Mayor Jesse H Washburn in cooperation with the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The notice urges all organizations and schools to emphasize American history to foster appreciation for self government and personal freedom.
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High Point
Jesse H. Wash
Washburn
National Society of the Daughters of the American
Brotherhood Meet Slated for National Brotherhood Week
The Lions Club and Junior Chamber of Commerce plan a joint meeting at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church tomorrow at 6 30 p m. Local humorist Jake Harris will speak, presenting Americana as part of the observance.
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Lions Club
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
Jake Harris
Prayer for TOYDAY Our Father in Agnes Scott note
A devotional prayer fragment asks for divine presence to be felt more fully. James Ross McCain of Decatur Georgia, president emeritus of Agnes Scott College, seeks removal of selfishness indifference sin or secret shame to feel Christ closer than breath.
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Jesus
James Ross McCain
Decatur, Ga
Agnes Scott College
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