Housing Forum Slated By Mayor Stout For Friday
Mayor Carson Stout will present a federal public housing plan at a Friday 7 30 meeting in the City County Building. The proposal seeks 600 units with 200 set aside for elderly couples and would be built as needed to meet demand, with opposition from local real estate interests anticipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forrest Cates
Enterprise City
Carson Stout
Citizens Planning Committee
Stout
High Point
Housing Authority
Early Morning Fire Calls Reach Oak View and Melrose Hosiery
The fire department answered two early morning calls. At 1:47 Sunday firefighters responded to Oak View Grocery at 700 Oak View Rd where the awning caught fire. No damage occurred. A 3:05 AM call was a mechanical false alarm at Melrose Hosiery on English St.
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Oak View
Oak View Rd
Melrose Hosiery
English St
Draft Board To Send Five In March Inductions
Local draft board announces five men will be sent for induction on March 8. No orders were issued to send men to physical examination centers during the month.
Warming Trend Expected Here
Temperatures will rise slightly above normal through the week with minor daily changes. Fair cool weather is forecast tonight and tomorrow with a high near 48 and a low around 28 each day. Last night’s low was 39 and yesterday’s high 50. Rainfall in the Piedmont totaled 0.74 inch on Sunday. More rain is expected Wednesday night and again Saturday with partly cloudy skies and somewhat warmer temperatures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friendship
Piedmont
County Board Meets Here Tomorrow
Guilford County Commissioners meet at 10 30 a m in room 200 using High Point city county building facilities. Next week they canvass rural election results to decide joining High Point and Greensboro school systems. High Point council holds first session in new building on Thursday March 1.
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S. Main Street
Bob Allred
Guilford County
High Point
New City County
Greensboro
City Hall
Prayer for To Day From The Church of The Ascension
A brief religious prayer asks God to remove idleness and idle talk and to spur action. It seeks constructiveness in work and restraint in speech and asks that both work and leisure glorify God and bear witness through Christ. Signed by James W. Kennedy, rector, New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ
James W. Kennedy
N.Y.C
Church of the Ascension
City Study Nearing Finish on Community Facilities Needs
A city planning survey evaluating High Point facilities and needs through 1980 is near release. The report counts schools parks streets utilities and institutions and estimates future additions based on population and economic trends. Publication is expected in about two months.
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High Point
City Planning Department
Bill Colonna
Greensboro
Winston - Salem
Sixth of year finance firm safe cracked by pros
High Point police traced a skylight entry at Piedmont Auto Finance on S Main St where thieves stole about $2000. It was the sixth safecracking of the year in the city with multiple prior incidents at Lindale Dairy Richardson's Dept Store English Motor Co Big Bear Supermarket and National Spring Co. Losses varied but insurance covered Piedmont’s, with about $50 interior damage noted. Police continue the probe with no solid leads.
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Frank Warren
Piedmont Auto Finance
S. Main Street
High Point
National Spring Co
Centennial
E. Green Street
Lindale Dairy
Richardson's Department Store
English Motor Co
Big Bear
English Street
Lindale
Richardson
Dept
Litton
Police Attacker Given Probation After Wild Centennial Ave Chase
A Centennial Avenue man, Edward Godfrey, 39, was sentenced to 19 months on several counts after swinging at police and injuring Detective Joel Dawson during a chase. Judge Byron Haworth suspended part of the term if he enters psychiatric treatment. Other cases included Terry Robinson 17 and William Hancock 25 with various sentences and conditions.
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Centennial Avenue
Withfrey
Godfrey
Byron Haworth
Anat
Pickens
Edward Godfrey
Joel Dawson
Dawson
Haworth
Terry Robinson
Willowbrook Street
P. L. Alford
Tate Street
Robinson
William Edward Hancock
Rt. 5
High Point
Hancock
Sandy Ridge
J. A. Trailer
Superior Court
Three Guilford youths named Aubrey Lee Brooks finalists
Shela Camille Turpin a High Point Senior High senior joins Hobart Kellam Jr. and John Adam Mitchell III as Guilford County finalists for the Aubrey Lee Brooks Scholarship worth 600 dollars per year for four years at UNC State College or Women’s College. Alternate contenders are Ronald Wesley Younts and Nora Ellen Wilson.
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Shela Camille Turpin
Millie Boyles Turpin
William and Mary Apts
High Point
Guilford County
Aubrey Lee Brooks
University of North Carolina
State College
Woman's College
Hobart Kellam Jr
Greensboro Senior High School
John Adam Mitchell III
Guilford High School
Ronald Wesley Younts
Garrell St
Nora Ellen Wilson
Greensboro Senior High
E. P.pearce Jr
County Schoolssystem
W. W. Parks
Walter W. King
Britt Armfield
Greensboro
Miss Turpin
The
Pointer
Quill and Scroll
National Honor Society
Red Cross
High High Points
Enterprise
Chapel Hill
Baptists Launch Week of Mission Schools in 22 Churches
Cooperative mission schools began with a rally at First Baptist Church as 22 Central Baptist Association churches host visiting missionaries. Dr. Rogers M. Smith spoke, with events tonight through Friday featuring mission studies and addresses.
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Central Baptist Association
First Baptist Church
Rogers M. Smith
Southern Baptist Convention
Foreign Mission Board
Richmond
Green Street Baptist Church
Ed Kissiah
Green Street
Schools of Missions
Division of Missions
Baptist State Convention of
Raleigh
Home Mission Board of
Atlanta
Foreign Mission Board of
William P. Andrews
Chile
S. Herbert Cockburn
International Baptist Seminary
Buenos Aires
Argentina
NEPH Group Meets February Luncheon at YWCA
The February meeting of the Committee for Employing the Handicapped is set for Wednesday at 12 15 at the YWCA. Guest speaker is Frank W Mulcahy executive director of Goodwill Industries at the Winston Salem rehabilitation center. Officers for 1962 will be elected and plans made for the annual outstanding employer and worker award to be given at the March meeting.
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Committee For
YWCA
Frank W. Mulcahy
Goodwill Industries
Winston-Salem
Baptists Raise 100500 in 1962 Pledges
First Baptist Church members in Thomasville voted to proceed with building a new sanctuary and education wing after reports showed pledges of 100500 toward a 105000 goal for the 1962 church budget. The new facilities will cost about 40000 of the pledged total.
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Thomasville
First Baptist Church
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Joe Rawiey
Housing Forum Slated
Real Estate Board
Fire Dept
Safe
Piedmont Finance
J. K. Litton
Shela Turpin
Baptists
Charles P. Cowherd
Southern Baptist
Hong Kong
R. Edward Gordon
Philippines
Clearfield
Utah
Home Mission Board
Pioneer
J. Pat
Dren
Jerry Potter
Silent People
W. C. Adkinson
First Baptist Church of
Garner
Lewis Ludlum
Pilot Mountain Association
T. L. Sasser
Baptist Homes For
Robert Lawson
Reidsville
Dan Valley Association
W. Moffitt
Robert G. Canipe
Emerywood Church
Conrad i Memorial
John S. McGee
NEPH
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