City Council Plans Special Session On Bond Sale And Post Office Issue
City councilmen schedule a special session next week to certify a long term bond sale and to consider urban renewal for the Law Building Block to house a new post office. Legal opinions may require new hearings and Redevelopment Commission review. The meeting also involves voting machine updates costing 7398 and county election adjustments under a 5 percent fee.
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Redevelopment Commission
Likley
Student couple found dead in Wingate area in apparent murder suicide
Coroner Roy Funderburk rules the deaths of Stephen Richardson 19 and Brenda Lee 19 as murder by self-inflicted gunshot, noting they were married 19 days. Richardson, a High Point College sophomore, shot his wife then himself in a small foreign car near Wingate. No inquest planned.
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Wingate
Roy Funderburk
Stephen Richardson
Rt. 7
Winston-Salem
Brenda Lee
Richardson
High Point College
Wingate College
S. E. Richardson
Cloudy Skies Bring Warmer Temperatures for High Point
The forecast for the High Point area calls for variable cloudiness and a little warmer tonight with a low near 30 degrees. Wednesday will stay cloudy and turn cooler in the afternoon, with about 10 percent precipitation. Today's high was expected in the low 50s and Wednesday’s high in the mid to upper 40s.
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High Point
City mayor backs paying share for voting machine upgrades
High Point Mayor Robert Davis said he will propose that the city fund its part of attachments for voting machines so the May 4 primary can use machines instead of paper ballots. County plans to buy added equipment for all Guilford machines, with Greensboro and High Point sharing costs to support a bond election and school board vote.
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Robert Davis
County Board of Commissioners
High Point
Guilford County
Greensboro
Davis
Harold Cheek
Cheek
Board of Elections
Perry Keziah
Keziah
Hampton Howerton, Jr
Elections Board
Auto Supply Blaze Damages N Main Street Building
A fire at the Herb Payne Auto Supply Co on North Main Street caused extensive damage, especially to the rear and upper floors after gasoline ignited by a spark from a grinding machine. Payne said he discarded the container outside, and officials noted possible gasoline spill on the shop floor. Three engines and a ladder unit fought the blaze, which was under control by mid afternoon.
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Herb Payne
Payne
Nugget House
North Main Street
Edna Moose
Route 1
Thomasville
Vinnie Cureton
Eccles Street
High Point Enterprise Brief: Tuesday Afternoon February 20 1968
A compact 1968 item notes events from High Point with a Tuesday afternoon timestamp on February 20. Details remain sparse in the OCR, but the note places activity within the local newspaper’s Tuesday edition.
High Point City Police and Enterprise Faced in Unfair Labor Complaints
The city of High Point its city council and police department are named as respondents in unfair labor practice charges filed by the High Point Typographical Union No. 878 with the National Labor Relations Board on Feb 16. Striking printers since Dec 5 1967 have picketed the Enterprise plant and offset shop alleging ordinance backed picketing limits and police intimidation.
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High Point
High Point Enterprise
High Point Typographical Union
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
N. Main Street
Church Street
Laurie Pritchett
Two Suspects Sought In Grocery Store Robbery
City police seek two men pictured in composite photos after an armed robbery at Jack Spencer's Store on Nathan Hunt Drive. About 10:30 a.m. $667.62 was stolen from Mrs. M. J. Bowen who was pistol threatened and forced to fill a bag. A red and white vehicle is tied to the escape. A second man waited outside in a car. Melvin Dowdy faces separate firearms robbery charges for a $170 theft from L. G. Camp.
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Jack Spencer
Nathan Hunt Drive
Pistol Point
M. J. Bowen
Melvin Dowdy
Cliffside Street
L. G. Camp
Cut Spending Or Face Low Mood
Rep. James Gardner told the High Point Exchange Club that the United States faces a financial low mood unless federal spending is curbed. He warned of a 30 billion dollar deficit and urged a system of priorities to avoid annual tax increases. Gardner pressed citizen involvement in elections and cautioned about spending in all federal programs.
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Robert Marks
United States
James Gardner
Gardner
High Point Exchange Club
Congress
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P. O
Forrest Cates
Enterprise
Harold Ritch
Coolidge Murrow
Exchange Club
Dick Swaim
By Jim Hawkins
Fireman Battles Auto Supply CO
Blaze Through Window
Auto Supply Company
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