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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1967
Page
11
Outlook calls for mostly cloudy skies and cool conditions with occasional rain across the area. Tonight and Tuesday highs and lows near 40 degrees. Last night's low was 31. Wednesday's outlook: mostly cloudy and rather cold with a chance of rain or snow.
The February 1934 ice storm crippled High Point power and communications. Poles toppled along Johnson Street and across yards, Western Union lines sagged, and two weeks passed before full restoration. Ben Saunders recalls the event from late February 1934 with dates from Weather Bureau records.
Duke Power Co restored service to all customers in the High Point district by 8 p m yesterday after an ice storm damaged lines. The Thomasville and Mount Airy contract crews plus local workers logged 46 hours of emergency work to restore power and customers aided by reporting line clearances and walking lines to spot limbs.
Forrest Cates reports Power was restored to about 21 000 customers in High Point after an ice storm damaged lines Friday night. Duke Power Co reported service back for area customers and North State Telephone noted roughly 200 telephones still out with expected restoration by tomorrow. Utilities director L C Williams said up to 25 percent of the system was affected at one point and total repairs may cost up to 50 dollars. The storm, the worst since 1934, felled trees and limbs, crews worked through Friday and Saturday without rest.
Stevie Hedrick and Jimmy Thompson leapt from a car when brakes failed on Rock Crusher Road near Lexington, sending the vehicle over a 50 foot embankment into a water filled quarry. Skin divers and wreckers retrieved the car as crews from Concord Fayetteville and Lexington aided in a power restoration effort after a storm damaged lines and poles across multiple neighborhoods.
The weekend ice storm caused minimal damage in lower Randolph County with about 300 phones out briefly. T. J. Robinson of Carolina Power and Light said a few tree limbs knocked wires down in rural areas, but power was quickly restored.
Weekend burglaries totaled several breakins with two major hits at Allen Welborn Insurance and Sheppard Hardware. Police report safes punched and opened with losses topping 385 dollars, 100 dollars in silver, and several pistols, plus minor thefts at various local businesses. A three year old boy was hospitalized after a car incident on S Main and Model Farm Road.
Guilford County Commissioners spent part of a mid month session weighing rezoning requests. They rejected a plan to change Whitsett land for a new post office, citing spot zoning concerns, and accepted a 350 foot buffer rule in Friendship Township affecting Jamestown Guilford College Road. Gerald Pell sought industrial zoning on U S 421 near Jamestown Road to shield homes while allowing growth. Later talks planned on secondary roads with state highway officials and a meeting with Greensboro City Council on the proposed governmental center following a county city study.
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