Sunday beer ban in High Point may be invalid under new law
City counsel studied a state measure that restricts local beer prohibitions to Sundays only and voids bans on sales by establishments with brown bagging licenses. Debate touched pool rooms and blue laws as councilors sent issues to the law and public safety committee for review amid bond votes for city projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Knox Walker
Jim Pearce
Arthur Kirkman
Pearce
Kirkman
Frank Wyatt
Wyatt
Law and Public Safety Committee
Guilford County
County Board
Greensboro
Paul Clapp
Clapp
Apartment Fire Damages Duplex on Ames Street
A duplex at 811 Ames St. occupied by Robert Gardner sustained fire damage in the bathroom with smoke and heat damage throughout. Firemen have not determined the blaze origin. Another fire at City Transit Co. on S Elm Street caused minor damage from gasoline fumes ignited by a small heater.
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Ames St
Robert Gardner
Fremen
City Transit Co
S. Elm Street
Palsy Drive Launch Set After Local Organizational Meeting
An organizational session for the 1972 United Cerebral Palsy Fund drive was held at the Top of the Mart. Mrs. Joe Mizell announced the Sunday start, with several hundred volunteers. Donald Van Loan received a plaque for his third year as general chairman and named committee heads including Mrs. A. W. Mitchell and Harold Boone. The drive aims to fund services aiding cerebral palsy victims in the community. The meeting drew 23 local and state officers.
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United Cerebral Palsy Fund
Joe Mizell
United Cerebral Palsy
Mizell
Donald van Loan
van Loan
A. W. Mitchell
Harold Boone
Lenora Hogue
H. W. Hoke
Jay Wood
Eddie Elliot
Mitch Russell
David Beatty
James Roberts
Wayne Lackey
The
High Point Hopes for HUD Funds in Southside Renewal
City requests Model Cities grant of 10 000 to 18 000 for a planning consultant to shape urban renewal for the Southside. Officials anticipate HUD preliminary funding under the Neighborhood Development Plan with initial aid around 5 million, part of a total 12 to 15 million needed.
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High Point
Model Cities
Jim Pennington
U. S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
Southside
Pennington
NDP
HUD
Redevelopment Commission
Model Cities Commission
Isration
Consumer Education Laboratory
Consumer Credit Counseling Agency
High Point Business Development Corp
Guilford County
Guilford Technical Institute
University of North Carolina At
Chair Cillan Charged In Gun Death
Thomasville police charged Clyde Junior Hairston with murder after a Thursday shooting killed Manning Ballard, 44, of Hunter Street. Hairston, 34, was treated for gunshot wounds at Community General Hospital and held on $5,000 bond ahead of a January 21 preliminary hearing in Davidson County District Court. Ballard died from wounds to his left back at Community General Hospital.
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Thomasville
Manning G. Ballard
Hunter Street
Clyde Junior Hairston
Culbreth Avenue
Community General Hospital
Hairston
Davidson County
Ballard
Joel Leonard
51 Persons Arrested in Widespread ABC Raid
Law enforcement officials announced 51 arrests on liquor violation charges in a large coordinated operation involving ABC agents and federal officers. The roundup, the area’s largest to date, followed an undercover probe from July to November 1971 with warrants issued against 95 defendants.
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ABC
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division
U. S. Treasury Dept
High Point Police
Guilford County
W. T. Highfill
Greensboro - Jamestown
T. B. Hammitt
Highfill
Hammitt
Lt. R
Dorothy Elliott Named High Point Realtors President
Mrs Dorothy P Elliott has been installed as the first woman president of the High Point Board of Realtors She is secretary treasurer of James Conrad Inc and has been with the Conrad Realtors office since 1946 The 48th president was installed by A P Carlton Other officers include Harold Craven Ben Stafford Henry Shavitz and B C Fowler
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Dorothy P. Elliott
High Point Board of Realtors
Elliott
James Conrad, Inc
High Point Realtors Board
A. P. Carlton
North Carolina Assn
Realtors
Harold Craven
Ben Stafford
Henry Shavitz
B. C. Fowler
Taylor Has No Simple Answers Campaign Launch in Guilford
Lt. Gov. Pat Taylor began his Democrat gubernatorial bid in Guilford County naming Guilford co managers Richmond G. Bernhardt Jr. and Henry Dowdy of High Point. He said he has no simple answers for state education and budget issues and discussed campaign costs busing and political support from Morgan backers.
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Enterprise
Greensboro
Pat Taylor
Guilford County
High Point
Taylor
Richmond G. Bernhardt Jr
Henry Dowdy
Bernhardt
Dowdy
Mann Drug Stores
Hargrove
Bowles
Atty
Robert Morgan
Morgan
Kemp
Hugh Morton
Wilmington
Bob Scott
North Carolina
General Assembly
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High Point Enterprise
Cerebral Palsy Fund Drive
W. Mitchell
Herman W. Hoke
Joseph A. Mizell
Nny Hedgecock
High Point City
Commission
Drug Action Council
High Point Memorial Hospital
Parks and Recreation Dept
Youth Unlimited, Inc
Cillan
V. Weston
Jamestown Abc
Mary Ann McNeil
Kent Street
Dorothy Elliott
Mrs. Elliott
Jake Froelich
Ed Kemp
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