Two Key 1955 Controversies Shape High Point Council
Enterprise staff writer Forrest Cates details High Point's 1955 political clash over a local liquor option referendum and a racial use dispute at the Municipal Golf Course. The council faced pressure from factions, while the administration pursued budget balance, revenue gains, and planned water sewers upgrades amid traffic fixes and stricter zoning powers.
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Forrest Cates
Supreme Court
City Recreation Commission
Year In Review Six Memorable Enterprise Photos In Fifty Five
The piece reviews six notable photographs captured by Enterprise staffers in 1955 highlighting city life. It notes topics such as station and water systems, a bond issue to subsidize expenses, and city hall adjacent property purchases for future governmental facilities. Continued traffic and parking issues are also mentioned.
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Enterprise
Thomasville’s City Manager Firing Dominates Year’s News
In Thomasville the big year’s story was the dismissal of City Manager Everett W. Schadt amid a split council. May election brought incumbent Mayor Carl C. Wilson to power, with three new council members elected. The second half saw an $850,000 water sewer bond approved and dam reservoir work began on Abbott’s Creek, plus a 30,000 crowd Christmas parade and a police year with no local traffic fatalities.
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High Point
E. Green St
Yadkin River
River Basin
Piedmont
George L. Hundley
Thomasville
Hundley
Seven Cities Water Committee
Ihelp
Thomas
Cain
Everett W. Schadt
Lexington
Abbott's Creek
Carl C. Wilson
Walter W. Rapp
Wilson
Rapp
J. Curry Regan
Thomas F. Johnson
Curtis Fields
C. T. Kennedy
Buren Ven
Marky Ton
Citizens For
Bieren
Somalt
Ona
Scher Fee Snyer Wilson
Ce Johnson
Ager
S. B. Laws
Jewel Cotton Mills
Schadt
Alt Homes
Fields
Kennedy
W. T. Green Jr
E. Sunrise Ave
Davidson County Superior Court
American liquor salesman aims Moscow vodka sales
WEISBADEN Germany Dec 31 An American salesman William Crawford 40 says he will travel to Moscow next month to sell American vodka claiming it is friendlier than Russian brands He argues American vodka is grain based while Russian vodka is often rye or barley and hopes the trip will boost goodwill and publicity for his firm
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Weisbaden
Germany
Moscow
William Crawford
John Adams among first U S ministers to Britain
John Adams served as a key commissioner in negotiating the Treaty of Peace with Great Britain and became the first U S minister to that country.
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John Adams
Great Britain
High Point 1955 Construction Tops City Record
High Point in 1955 saw industrial and other construction total reach 7 763 000 with 24 expanding industries and 16 new locations. Ward Street area dubbed Furniture Row grew as Heritage Furniture Inc. led a major plant project. Residential building slowed with fewer homes but higher costs including a 73 000 project for a James H Millison home.
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Tom Alston
Enterprise
High Point
Chamber of Commerce
Phil Clarke
Furniture Row
Ward St
Co Mggee
Heritage Furniture Inc
Crown Hosiery Mill
William Penn High School
Johnson St. School
Oak Hill School
High Point Monthly Meeting of Friends
Central Friends
N. Main St. Baptist Church
Oak Hill Friends Meeting
English St. Baptist Church
High Point Medical Center
Onaker Lane
High Point Savings and Trust Co
James H. Millison Club
Chestnut St. Apts
J. Saunders Dallas Trust
Security Housing Inc
Meredith St
Neill
Clarke
High Point Industrial Corp
Prospect St
Southern Furniture Exposition Bldg
Emerywood Branch
High Point Paper Box Co
Carolina Farnsworth
Schoonbeck Co
Hareriss
Bernell Co
Carsons Inc
Reliance Varnish Co
National Food Stores
High Point Fabrications Inc
General Paper Co
Alamo Mission History and Spanish Meaning
A brief note on the Texas shrine in San Antonio once named Alamo Mission and the Spanish meaning of alamo meaning cottonwood trees, tied to local geography and origin of the name.
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Texas Shrine
San Antonio
Alamo Mission
Alamo
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Main St
Minnesota
Wake Forest
Jackie Murdock
Raleigh
Guilford
Jamestown
Blair Park
Knox Bridge
Sankek Walatan
E. W. Schadt
Gaynell Wright
Arlington
Je Association
Sharon Kay Ritchie
Buster
Sin .2
Kenneth J. Hoyle
Macon Miller Jr
Kermit Cloniger
Chamber
Coreng
U.S
U. S
Texas Mission
LTS
Commerce St
Erry
Consolidated Buses
Consolidated Bus Line
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