Seven Murder Cases In High Point In Past Year
Crime report from High Point details seven homicides over 366 days with three awaiting trial. It notes notable cases at 602 Leonard St and a Cedar Street shooting, plus multiple indictments, convictions, and a mix of assault and burglary sentences. Auto thefts numbered 103 with 32 arrests and 100 recovered vehicles. Police cite equipment shortages and aging fleet as factors in near-collapse of key divisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Follmer
High Point
Benjamin Willis Brown
Leonard St
Severn
Brown
Boyd Haywood Brevard
Penny Fone
Superior Court
Russell Street
Reitzel Johnson
Alton Tilley
James Moore
Tommy Baxley
Joe B. Barefoot
James Edward Bryant
Barefoot
Marvin Junior Westmoreland
Sapien
Milton Kenneth Eldes
Number Eight
Bird
Eldridge
Martin
Sosa E
Cedar Street
Solana
Elijah
Arthur Little
The
Lit
Tle
Waverly
Murrow Transfer Co
Charles Field
N.C. Inc
Pis
Point
Thomasville Year Of Firsts In 1964 Recap
A look back at 1964 in Thomasville highlights Sharon Finch winning Miss North Carolina, a $1.7 million bond issue approved for city needs, major fires at SNR Binding and Slitting and M&C Co. buildings, plans for Southgate Shopping Center, and civic-club activity. The year featured floods of weather effects from hurricanes Cleo, Hilda, and Isabel, new traffic lights, a new Post Office, and ongoing city development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvin Barts
Ville
Thomasville
Sharon Finch
North Carolina
Thomasville Senior High
City Council
Southern Railway
Sharon
Atlantic City
Citians
Wilfred Kindley
Lines Street
Bulldog
Thomas Die Wasallocs Baleseies
New York
Fourteen Killed in High Point Traffic in 1964
The city recorded fourteen traffic fatalities in 1964 with seven hundred sixty seven injuries. Key crashes included a December Westchester English Road wreck killing S. Williamson and wife, and a Brentwood Avenue I-85 collision involving Winifred Luck. Police cite speeding and drinking as common factors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Follmer
High Point
N Though S
Westchester
English Road
Eee
S. G Williamson
Wilee Cee Liamson
Gene Aikens
Lee Wilson Davis
Aikens
Davis
Brentwood Avenue
Winifred Luck
Terri
Luck
Jeffrey Sherrill Taylor
Fairfield Road
Joseph R. Link
Rodney O. Kearns
Kearns
Westchester Drive
A Mixed-Up Year of Weather in 1964
1964 brought near hurricane near misses for the Piedmont, with heavy rains on Oct 4 from Hurricane Hilda and 3 inches from Isabel mid month. Snow appeared sporadically, a rare Nov start, plus unusually warm December days. January and February ran below normal temps, April froze early with a killing frost, and overall rainfall varied with several months notably dry or above normal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleo
Hilda
Isabel
Friendship
Piedmont
W.W. Brown
Alleratec
Brown
Incuraioe Anteaters
Nomena
Also Mentioned on This Page
M&c Co
Southgate Shopping Center
John Strickland
Raleigh
Brown Finch Physical Education
Erwin Lambeth
Sharon Finch OF
Michael Dion Patterson
Point Memorial Hospital
Patterson
Thomas Earl Hodges
S. Main Street
Nathan Hant
Linda Fayecutt
Blain Court
Heath
Robert Lee Jackson
Jimmy Couch
Couch
Burton Street
James Ralph Parker
Joe Bullins
Parker
Bullins
S. Main
Springdale Avenue
Main
Sidney Edgar Edwards
Edwards
Hubert Morgan
James W. Pegram
Green Drive
W. Underwood
Elvie Perdue
Lincoln Drive
Jimmie Ran
W. H. McSwain
Braxton Younts Enterprise
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