High Point Faces Dilemma Over Civil Service Repeal
High Point City Council pursues repeal of the Civil Service Act 1937 to replace it with a personnel ordinance. Rep. Jim Morgan hesitates awaiting a fair ordinance and possible revisions before backing any repeal, amid council split and public polling efforts.
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Forrest Cates
Enterprise City
High Point
Jim Morgan
House of Representatives
Morgan
Guilford County
Civil Service Act
High Point City
Civil Service Commission
Roy Culler
Senate
Rachel Gray
N.C. Institute of Governments
Citizens Group
Tax Exemption Request Denied By Commission
Guilford County commissioners split 2-2 on granting a $5,000 tax exemption to Mrs. Susie Schlosser who missed the Nov 1 deadline. The board also backed bills to lift income limits for the exemption and end annual application requirements. Ebenezer Lutheran Church sought removal of a church-house from tax rolls claiming low income occupant volunteers there. Trevorrow cautioned law prevents removal unless used for religious work. no action taken. The panel also approved a plan for Guilford County inpatient care services and mental health bed need assessment due by July 1.
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Jim Hawkins
Greensboro
Guilford County
Ogden Deal
Robert Landreth
Susie Schlosser
Norman
Ey William Trevorrow
Bert Hall
Gaston Faison
Hall
Schlosser
Ebenezer Lutheran Church
Trevorrow
Faison
Becky Smothers
Guilford County Area
Open Wide And Say Ah Vacuum Habit Leads to Car Trunk Bite
A man so devoted to cleaning his car trunk with vacuuming that he risks danger and fails to heed a sci fi tale about cars that eat people. He ends up putting his head toward danger, symbolically slipping into the lion’s mouth.
Swine Flu Shots Resumed at County Clinics
Lexington and Thomasville general clinics restart swine flu vaccinations after lift of federal moratorium. CDC urges immunization for elderly and chronically ill, with consent forms required. doctor’s note needed for chronically ill children. Clinic hours vary by location.
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Lexington
Center For Disease Control
Atlanta
Thomasville
Deal Defends Maverick Role On Guilford Commission
Guilford County Commissioner Ogden Deal defends asking questions and talking with county employees. He says questioning is constructive and part of a commissioner’s obligation while aiming to maintain courtesy, a friendly courthouse, and access to staff insight at the Guilford County Mental Health Dept.
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Deal
Jim Hawkins
Greensboro
Guilford County
Ogden Deal
Exac Se Ee Ie Auctien
Millikan Receives Jamestown Service Award
Jamestown Jaycees honor Larry Millikan with the 11th annual DSA award at Bosses Night Banquet. Millikan, a polio survivor, serves on football and basketball commissions, coaches, referees girls games, and says he likes helping kids despite his disability.
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Jim Hawkins
Jamestown
Larry Millikan
Jamestown Jaycee Dsa
Millikan
Jaycees
DSA
Greensboro High Point Airport Plans Major Terminal Expansion
Greensboro High Point Airport Authority advances terminal complex plans with three Reynolds Smith and Hills sub contracts and a Landrum and Brown study for state review. It approves soil and typographic work contracts, purchases 12.15 acres for expansion at 40 000, and votes 90 percent federal funding for a visual approach slope indicator at Friendly Road runway.
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Reynolds, Smith and Hills
Mt Airy
Friendly Road
Authority
AIR On
Problems Of The Young Being Recognized By FCY In High Point
Enterprise staff writer reports a Friends of Children and Youth progress meeting noting FCY's four task forces target parent education child abuse and neglect youth concerns and youth agency professionals. progress includes COPE AGAPE parent programs a library resource file a potential federally funded pilot course and a speakers bureau with eight volunteers. a youth survey will be distributed to identify unmet needs.
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Carol Wilson Utley
Enterprise
High Point
Friends of Children and Youth
FCY
Audrey Duncan
Parent Education
Council On Parent Education
COPE
June Stackhouse
Edwin West
Bill Anderson
Janice Davis
Parents Anonymous
Davis
Alcoholics Anonymous
Speakers’ Bureau
Bill Harris
Youth Concerns Task Force
Kathy Decker
Youth Agency Professionals Task Force
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Morgan and
Gray
Police
Fire Departments
Robert Clodfelter
Winston-Salem
Wachovia Bank and Trust Co
Benny Farmer
Jaycee
Farmer
Larry
Greensboro High Point Airport Authority
Landrum and Brown
Heard Authority
Stanley Frank
Stackhouse
Cope Research Committee
Dot Kearns
Mrs. Kearns
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