Budget cuts hit United Appeal agencies in High Point
Budget shortfalls across High Point reduce United Community Services funding to 370000. Agencies including YMCA Red Shield Club and Family Service Bureau plan service cuts, staff reductions, and delayed purchases to cope. YMCA aims to raise 60000 in 1967. Red Shield faces reduced staffing and limited pool hours. Family Service Bureau trims travel and printing while continuing city work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Braxton Younts
United Uam
High Point
United Appeal
Max Cooke
YMCA
United Community Services
Cooke
United Fund
Upholstery Firm Fire Damages Buildings on Ashford Circle
Firefighters responded to a 12 56 p m alarm at B and B Upholstery Co on Ashford Circle. The ceiling fire spread through the building causing heavy damage and smoke damage at a nearby Swinson Food Products Co storage building. The blaze was attributed to an overheated chimney. The Owning W C Welch, operators Bill White and William Porter Smith. Two employees were inside and smelled smoke before escaping. A separate fire damaged the Wade Kennedy home on Chambers Street, with a family of four displaced. Fire later confined to a dining room wall due to an overheated chimney and a coal stove. A woman named Lula Bailey was treated and released. An interior kitchen wall at Delsie Rush home burned from burning rags used to thaw a frozen pipe. No damages reported at other sites including Fli-Back No 2 and High Point Fixture Co. and James Lowe home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Burchette
B and B
Ashford Circle
Swinson Food Products Co
Wade Kennedy
Chambers Street
High Point Memorial Hospital
E. Green Street
Lula Bailey
Mary Burrows
Z. V. Mabe
Marie
Delsie Rush
Phillips Street
Fli - Back Co
Broad Street
James Lowe
Park Street
High Point Fixture Co
E. Linden
Fixture Place
Four-County Area Considered as Single Metropolitan Unit
Federal officials study merging Guilford Forsyth Randolph and Yadkin into a four county Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area. If approved the unit would rank 59th by population and include two large cities and North Carolina's major manufacturing and retail activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guilford
Randolph
Forsyth
Yadkin
High Point Chamber of Commerce
United States
Bureau of the Budget
Piedmont Triad Committee
Charlotte
Chamber of Commerce
Richmond
North Carolina
U. S. Department of Commerce
Water Pipe Bursts At Evergreens Boarding Home
A frozen pipe burst in the Evergreens boarding home ceiling flooding the west wing of the old county home building in Greensboro. About 40 residents were displaced but relocated within the facility. The water flow has been stopped and residents are safe.
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Greensboro
Evergreens
Old County Home
George Covington
High Point
Covington
Heart Fund Canvass Set This Afternoon
About 1 025 volunteers will fan out over High Point this afternoon to seek gifts for the Heart Fund with a $14 500 goal set by executive secretary Mrs. Paul Collins. Last year’s drive raised just over $13 000 with 1 to 3 pm hours allowed for canvassing and block assignments for callers. Co chairmen announced were Mrs. Robert T. Amos Jr. and Mrs. Victor Blackburn.
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High Point
Heart Fund
Paul Collins
Collins
Cochairmen
Robert T. Amos Jr
Edgedale
Victor Blackburn
Crawford
Service Bureau To Hear Bishop at 26th Anniversary Dinner
The Family Service Bureau in High Point will mark 26 years of service at a Monday dinner 6:30 p.m. at Adams Memorial YWCA. President Mrs. Arthur Utley Jr. will present the annual activities report and introduce keynote speaker Methodist Bishop Paul Hardin of Columbia. New trustees will be installed and officers elected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Family Service Bureau
Bureau
High Point
Arthur Utley Jr
Service Organization
Adams Memorial Ywca
Paul Hardin
Columbia
S. C
Hardin
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
Junior Service League
Community Chest
The
United Fund
Thomasville
Hal C. Ingram
W. J. Kiser
E. Paul Justice
Robert M. Silver
P. A. Thomas
Student Proposes New Tower For High Point College
High Point College senior David Dorsey of Rutherfordton urges a dignified bell tower to house the college bell. He notes current repairs are temporary and estimates a suitable tower could cost around 1200 to 5000 dollars, with pledges sought from students and campus groups.
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High Point College
Bell
High Point College Purple Panthers
David Dorsey
Rutherfordton
High Point Purple Panther
Dorsey
Panther
Oes
Earle Dalsey
High Point
First United Church
Tess
Nak
Nominees Sought For Handicapped Worker Award In High Point Area
The Mayor's Committee for Employment of the Handicapped seeks nominations of outstanding handicapped workers and workers in the community for a spring luncheon award. Nominations due March 1, with March 10 as an extended date for the overall award.
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High Point
Handica
Jane Austin
P. O. Box
Spring Festival of Art Opens in High Point
Mann Drug Stores and the High Point Arts Council present a Spring Festival of Art in the Mom Council Building from March through March. Students from High Point Burlington Asheboro Thomasville San ford and Reidsville exhibit works judged by Dr. Perry Little with prizes including savings bonds cash awards and certificates of merit. First three places in grammar junior and senior high receive prizes. two entries per student.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mann Drug Stores
High Point Arts Council
Mom Council
High Point
Burlington
Asheboro
Thomasville
Sanford
Reidsville
Mann’s
Perry Little
Th Department of Public Instruction
Raleigh
Arts Council
William Penn High Class of 1954 to Meet for Reunion Planning
The Class of 1954 at William Penn High School will meet at the Carl Chavis YMCA at 4 p.m. Sunday to organize plans for an upcoming class reunion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Penn High School
Carl Chavis Ymca
Church Service by Evangelist Hood at Mount Olive
Evangelist Inez Hood of Salisbury and the prayer band will lead a Mount Olive Baptist Church service at 7 30 p m on Sunday night.
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Inez Hood
Salisbury
Mount Olive Bap Church
Suny
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Women’s Health Club
Oyeon
Red Shield Ub
Bud Davis
Davis
Red Shield
Lester Hamilton
Hamilton
Science
Jim Tripp
David Marsh
Robert Lasine
Central High School
Bob Nicholson
Bob Bodle
David Dalton
Beth Stewart
Wake Forest College
Chip Faircloth
W. C. Welch
Bill White
William Porter Smith
For
the Family Service Board of Trustees
Bishop Hardin
Church Service
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