Stadium Flap Grows Over Bellvue Street Costs
High Point residents on Bellvue Drive challenge city plans to widen their street to serve a new stadium access. Attorney Nick Fisher argues it is unfair for 22 property owners to pay for public benefits, while council weighs whether to use public funds or seek a different route. Council defers final approval while negotiating with the school board on related construction and cost cuts.
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High Point
Bellvue Drive
Bellvue
N. Main Street
Shadybrook School
Nick Fisher
Stadi
Jim Pearce
Pearce
Arthur Kirkman
Kirkman
Group Promises Petition To Fight School Closing
Albert Campbell announced a petition drive to reconsider or seek a court injunction against the Board of Education decision to close Leonard Street School and reorganize city elementary schools. A sparsely attended meeting discussed desegregation orders, attendance shifts, and potential uses for Leonard Street if shuttered.
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Board of Education
Leonard Street
Albert Campbell
Campbell
Model Cities
Human Relations Commission
Northeast
PTA
A. Laurin Welborn
Welborn
Dean B. Pruette
Pruette
Leonard School
Perry Little
John Bridgers
Valuation Notices To Be Mailed In Guilford County
Guilford County property owners will receive the 1972 real estate valuation notices by mid March after corrections to map and account numbers. The Cole Layer Trumble Co. will handle preliminary hearings, with appeals possible to the Board of Equalization and Review, the State Board of Assessments, or the courts. High Point hearings may be held in the Tax Department office there to avoid travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
Guilford County
C. R. Brooks
Tax Department
Board of County Commissioners
Brooks
Cole- Layer-Trumble Co
Board of Equalization
State Board of Assessments
High Point Area
High Point
Cole-Layer-Trumble
Board of Commissioners
Feeding The Elderly Expands School Lunch Program
The Council of Jewish Women United Church women and CEO sponsor a program to feed elderly residents unable to cook. Seventeen recipients aged 57 to 95 receive lunches prepared in city schools. Volunteers deliver meals with plans to aid 50 people and still seek applicants and volunteers. Mrs Jean Wright serves Mrs Marion Bernard at Tomlinson School lunch room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council of Jewish Women, United Church Women and
CEO
Jean Wright
Tomlinson School
Marion Bernard
Schoch Becomes Partner at Schoch Schoch and Schoch
Robert Schoch has joined his family firm as partner in Schoch Schoch and Schoch. A High Point native, he graduated cum laude from Lawrenceville School in 1960 and earned an A B at UNC Chapel Hill before law school. He married Marilyn L. Smith in 1965 and lives at 701 Arbordale Drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Schoch
University of Alabama
Schoch, Schoch
Marilyn L. Smith
High Point
Arbordale Dr
Masonite plant workers vote to join union in Thomasville
Masonite workers at the Thomasville fabricator division elected by a 14 vote margin to be represented by United Paper Makers and Paperworkers AFL-CIO, with 68 voting for and 54 against. NLRB Winston-Salem reported the results and noted a separate union petition at Drexel Enterprises Inc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Masonite
United Papermakers and Paperworkers
Afl-Cio
Labor
Fabricator
Masonite Corp
National Labor Relations Board
Winston-Salem
NLRB
United Brotherhood of Carpenters
Southern Council of Industrial Workers
Drexel Enterprises Inc
Drexel
North Carolina
Bald Head Island Development Deliberations in Raleigh
A North Carolina official confirms bulldozers are reshaping Bald Head Island and the State Department of Natural and Economic Resources will study the island’s future development. Recommendations to Gov. Scott could come within a week. Elder Elsie Gains will preach at Bible Way Holiness Church in High Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bald Head Island
State Department of Natural and Economic Resources
Art Cooper
Department
Bob Scott
Bald Head
Cooper
James Wallace
The
Conservation Council of
North Carolina
Wallace
Elsie Gains
High Point
Bible Way Holiness Church
S. Centennial St
French Realtor Details Global Housing Challenge and Varying Costs
Alex Nolde of FIABCI says housing for low income families is a worldwide problem with partial government or subsidized solutions. He notes growing international real estate needs, industry relocation, and tax differences such as Belgium's 15 percent closing tax versus U.S. costs under 6 percent.
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United States
High Point
Alex Nolde
International Federation of Professional Realtors
Nolde
Paris
France
Ed Mendenhall
Mendenhall
U.S
International Organization
Noble
Belgium
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Forrest Cates
Enterprise
High Point Enterprise
Mark Austin
Schoch
Raleigh
Ray Hubbard
Coun
Tries
Profes
Alexis Nolde
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