Nightmarish Weather Triggers Snow and Crash Wave Across Guilford Areas
Late morning rain melted ice on roads in High Point Thomasville and Davidson County but wrecks mounted. Schools delayed or closed as police reported dozens of accidents with some injuries while crews assisted in exchanges of insurance and clearing streets.
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High Point
Thomasville
Davidson County
Guilford
Davidson
Guilford County
Fair Grove
NC 109
Davidson County Sheriff's Deputies
Employee Survey Question Returns To City Council
The Human Relations Commission delays action on a city employee poll after civil service abolition. Plans for a February forum on the death penalty at the High Point Theatre were outlined, with students and inmates invited. The commission backed ERA ratification and noted King Day events with Dr. Randolph Taylor as speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Mortimer
Civil Service Commission
HRC
Price
Commission
Elaine Carter
High Point Theatre
Carter
Human Relations Commission
Randolph Taylor
Myers Park Presbyterian Church
Charlotte
Atlanta Community Relations Council
King’s Civil Rights Organization
Lewd Money Circulating in High Point Area
Counterfeit ten dollar bills dubbed lewd have circulated for about nine months in High Point. The fakes show a nude woman on the front and a scene with two men and two women on the back. Police urge businesses to train cashiers to inspect ten dollar bills carefully as they are handed out folded during busy times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Hamilton
U.S. Treasury
Broad Street Pedestrian Walkway Moves From Paper to Ground
Downtown Development Board unveils Broad Street Pedestrian Walkway as first downtown revitalization project. Bid date set for Jan 27 with contract award Feb 3 and about six months to finish. Brick paving and plantings will replace old pavement. Elm Street end adds a bus terminal and shelter. World War I monument to become centerpiece. Hayden Street segment included. area closed to traffic except service vehicles. Funds from federal Community Development program cover costs after $100,000 remains post sale and removal of a structure.
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Forrest Cates
Enterprise City
Downtown Development Board
High Point
Broad Street
Main
Elm Streets
Elm Street
Broad
Hayden
North State Telephone Co
Carl Wills
City Public Works
Wills
White Manhole Covers Signal Downtown Revitalization Plan
The Downtown Development Board explains white painted manhole covers aid aerial photos Sunday weather permitting. An aircraft will fly over High Point at 600 to 1000 feet to capture curb lines building features and elevations for a core area revitalization master plan by William F. Freeman Associates.
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Downtown Development Board
High Point
Owntown
William F. Freeman Associates
Oil Dealers Say Stocks Sufficient In Cold Weather
Local oil distributors report no clear shortage despite gas cutoffs and higher demand. Gulf Oil reduced state allocations for January, while Shaver-Hedrick saw a 10 percent increase. High Point schools face a 20 percent cut, prompting thermostat changes and bundled clothing for students.
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Carol Wilson Utley
High Point
Lawrence Gulf Service
Shaver-Hedrick Oil Co
Exxon
High Point City
Gulf Oil Co
Edwin West
Shaver-Hedrick
Lawrence
Ilderton Oil
Guilford County Faces Bed Shortage in Mental Health Care
Guilford County studies long range mental health bed needs for psychiatric care and alcohol and mental disability programs. A consultant notes a regional bed surplus but urges in county in patient services within Guilford County to satisfy NIMH requirements.
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Jim Hawkins
Greensboro
Guilford County
Guilford
Alamance
Forsyth
Noel Mazade
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
National Institute of Mental Health
NIMH
L. Richardson Memorial Hospital
Mazade
John Umstead State Hospital
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Lexington
Council
William Price
High Point College
Sandy Ridge
Charles Carter
U.S
North Carolina
Harvey Tilles
Martin Luther King Jr
The
Ministerial Alliance
YWCA
First Presbyterian Church
Proect
Robert Gruenberg
Becky Smothers
Advisory Board
Smothers
Wayside Haven
Fellowship Hall
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