Kidnapped Woman Recalls Mountain Isolation Ordeals
Lois Gilliland 13 of High Point recounts being kidnapped after boarding a Tryon train with two boys and drinking Coca Cola. She awoke in a mountain house above Asheville with a blond man and an older woman. after days of captivity, she was released and driven home by a man to Forest City where her father retrieved her. Spartanburg detectives investigate the two boys’ whereabouts.
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Lois Gilliland
Johnson Street
High Point
H. L. Swann
Parture
Asheville
Forest City
Spartanburg
D. C
Delegation Seeks Quick Start For Local Post Office Project
Postmaster O R York travels to Washington with Mayor C R York and City Manager E M Knox to press Treasury and Postal officials for rapid post office construction. David H Blair may assist to speed the project, easing cramped facilities and unemployment. York notes site is secured and savings possible. local support aims to cut red tape.
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O. R. York
C. R. York
Knox
Washington
E. M. Knox
Treasury
Postal Department
David H. Blair
Revenue
Perry G. Heath
the Treasury
J. A. Wetmore
The
York
Nation& Capital
Uncle Sam
High Point
Additional One Per Cent Tax Penalty Increases County Collections
T. R. Short, deputy sheriff in charge of the county tax office, says the 1 percent penalty after March 1 boosts collection. Totals show collections $830,000 ahead of last year with $300,000 paid of $327,000 collectible.
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T. R. Short
Man from Thomasville Arrested on Murder Charge
Burch Durham, 22, of Thomasville route two, was arrested by Plainclothes Officers Nance and Batley on murder charges linked to the hit and run death of Woodrow Medlin, 16, paper carrier for The High Point Enterprise, on Springfield Road two weeks ago. He is jailed in a 5,500 bond and is set for a High Point municipal court preliminary hearing next Monday. A prior bond and questioning had followed the fatal accident.
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Burch Durham
Thomasville
Route Two
Nance and
Batley
Woodrow Medlin
High Point Enterprise
Springfield
S. M. Medlin
Durham
High Point Municipal Court
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Japan
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DIAL
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Seidman
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Treasury Department
High Point Perpetual Building and Loan Association
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Sec’y
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