Culler Seeks Timely Reports On City Projects
Mayor Roy Culler has ordered monthly progress updates on all municipal projects to curb delays. The compiled reports show $1,966,000 spent on downtown wiring with $170,000 more planned, with completion aimed for August. Fire Station No.9 is on schedule for July, a new library addition is ahead of schedule, and other HUD funded CD projects await bids. Traffic work on Westchester Drive begins January 5 with Harrison Street at 25 percent complete and due by November.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forrest Cates
Enterprise City
High Point
Roy Culler
Culler
Electric
Dept
City Hall
Fire Dept
Main Street
Parks and Recreation
Brooks Reitzel
Oak Hollow Park
Rounds
Washington Terrace Park
W. Broad Avenue
Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Mondsy
Westchester Drive
Harrison (College) Street
Trai
High Point Area Briefs for Friday Afternoon, Jan 2, 1976
Local notices from High Point include community happenings in the City and surrounding area. Brief items reference public meetings, school events, and service notices scheduled for the early 1976 week. Names and precise times are not fully shown in the fragment.
Davidson Police Unionization Sparks Regional Debate in 1975
Thomasville and Davidson County saw major headlines with police union formations in Thomasville and Lexington. The dismissal of organizer Herman Lee Honeycutt sparked council hearings and a 245 day suspension, drawing national union attention. Embezzlement charges against North Davidson junior high principal C Douglas Elmore and a September ABC liquor referendum tied to mayoral defeat in November marked a year of local upheaval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Herman Lee Honeycutt
Police Force Association
Honeycutt
Triad
International Conference of Police Assas
North Davidson
C. Douglas Elmore
Butch Zimmerman
ABC
Westchester Drive detours outlined for two end closures
Westchester Drive will be narrowed to five lanes during a two year construction. Detours will reroute traffic from Main to Lexington and from Burton to the English Westchester intersection using Lexington Avenue Chestnut Drive and Ward Avenue. Traffic will remain on open sections, with merchants notifying customers of best alternate routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westchester
Main
Lexington
English
Burton
Westchester Drive
Zayre
Westchester Mall
City Traffic Engineering Dept
Lexington Avenue
N. Main
Chestnut Drive
Ward Avenue
Rivett Drive
Councilmen To Discuss Park Grill In Jamestown
Jamestown Town Council schedules a special meeting at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall to discuss installing a grill at the Park Administration Building and to continue examining appointments to the Jamestown Planning and Zoning Commission. Town Manager Charles Turner will lead the session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamestown
Jamestown Park Administration
Charles Turner
Jamestown Planning and Zoning Commission
Retirement Granted for Lt Shaw Cook by Funds Board
The High Post Police Retirement and Benefit Fund board approved full disability retirement for Lt. Shaw Cook effective February 1 after he failed to regain health following heart surgery. A five doctor panel reviewed his disability claim, the first completed of two pending applications, with former police chief Laure Pritchett awaiting review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Post Police Retirement and Beneht Fund
Shaw Cook
Cook
Laure Pritchett
Board of Medical Examiners
Pritchett
Gov Holshouser to Initiate I 85 Roadwork
Governor James E. Holshouser will lead groundbreaking in Lexington for the 1-85 project. The ceremony at the N C 8 and 1-88 intersection includes DOT officials and local leaders. The $13 million-plus construction aims to connect I-85 south of Lexington with U S 64 east of the city, to be finished in 1978.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
James E. Holshouser
Lexington
N.C. 8
Cotton Grove
Secretary of Transporta
Tion Jacob F. Alexander
Secondary Roads Council
DOT
U.S. 64
City
Guilford County Sees Over 1 Million From Investments
Guilford County expects a strong 1975-76 by investments with $1,000,902 already earned or tied to maturities by December and more funds maturing in March April May and June. Finance director Thomas Cashwell noted 23.7 million invested and anticipated a further 2 million boost as tax collections near year end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenshorg
Guilford County
Thomas Cashwell
Cashwell
Types Of License Plates In North Carolina
The semi permanent plate in the upper left corner will be validated this year with a blue sticker for private automobiles. Other plates include the annual plate for trucks buses and other special vehicles the free disabled veterans plate from the Raleigh office and the free prisoner of war plate also available from the Raleigh office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
License Tag Stickers Go On Sale At Agency
Lines formed at College Village Shopping Center as motorists buy the new blue stickers to legally operate cars for another year. Those with renewal cards should apply properly and buy locally. deadline is February 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Village
Dept. of Motor Vehicles
Raleigh
John Stilwell
Stilwell
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Bobby Blanton
Jeffrey
Jeffrey Lee Blanton
High Point Memorial Orices
Blantons
Graylyn Drive
Sonny Heaue
High Point Enterprise
Davidson Police
Phil Speaks
Enterprise
Davidson County
Lexangton
Elmore
Jim Johnson
Citizens For Christian Action Cca
Christian Action League
Coy Privett
Citizens For Christian Action
Johnson
Dalton Myers
High Point Traffic Engineering Dept
Park Grill
William E. King
Mill
Turner
Gov. Holshouser
Freedom
North Carolina
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