Non-School Building Use Cancelled and Thermostat Cuts
High Point city schools adopt cooler temperatures with fuel oil sites at 66 degrees and gas heated at 62 degrees until spring. The board bans after school non school activities to conserve fuel amid reduced supplies and announces bids for a Johnson Street School addition along with federal grant applications for preschool handicap programs and math and teacher training. A sale of Emma Blair school to the Housing Authority for 33 250 is approved and 87 000 in revenue sharing funds are designated for renovations of three junior high schools.
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High Point City
Jack Cox
Kirkman Park
Parkview
Central High
Edwin West
Johnson Street School
Haywood
Institutions of Higher Learning
Tion
Emma Blair
High Point Housing Authority
Housing Authority
West
Fine
Clinard
Oakview Recreation Center
Southside Recreation Center
Education Board Holds Pupil Reassignment Plan
High Point Board of Education took no action on a pupil redistricting plan under study. Parents attended seeking action, while Chairman Welborn said a public hearing would explain any plan within months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Mortimer
High Point Board of Education
Laurin Welborn
Edwin West
Welborn
Man Asked Companion to Kill Him in Bar Shooting
In Spencer, Willie Edgar Everhart Jr. 29 of Lexington asked a drinking companion Jerry Wooten to shoot him. Wooten, 29, shot Everhart in the mouth and was taken into custody after the incident at the Plaza Inn. An autopsy is planned and Wooten faces first degree murder charges with a Feb. 3 probable cause hearing set in Rowan County.
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Spencer
Willie Edgar
Bill’’ Everhart Jr
Lexington
Wooten
Rowan Memorial Hospital
Everhart
Rowan County
Salisbury
Davidson County
Ruby Elizabeth Everhart
Shirley Poole Everhart
Recommendation near for reinstating alleged ticket fixer trooper
An employment relations committee may rule within a week on whether Trooper G B McAllister of Asheboro should be permanently reinstated to the Highway Patrol after an internal probe tied him to assisting Rose's Stores drivers in reducing speeding charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Highway Patrol
G.B. McAllister
Asheboro
Department of Transportation
McAllister
Rose's Stores, Inc
Gas allotment cut 35 percent for 4545 Piedmont customers
About 4 545 small commercial users in High Point Jamestown and Thomasville face a 35 percent natural gas reduction starting 8 am next Wednesday and lasting indefinitely Piedmont Natural Gas says the cut affects R 2 rated customers from beauty shops to banks The measure aims to curb usage amid extremely cold weather and reduced supply conditions with officials advising thermostat reductions and schedule changes as possible conservation steps
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High Point
Jamestown
Thomasville
Tion
Pickard
Piedmont
Transcontinental Pipeline Co
Texas Railroad Commission
Carolina
Alcoholic Homes Seek Bigger Cut in ABC Profits
High Point officials heard a plan to lift the five percent cap on ABC store profits directed to alcoholic rehabilitation and law enforcement. Bill Clinard urged merging High Point efforts with Jamestown to boost funds for rehab, enforcement, and related programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
ABC
Bill Clinard
Wayside Haven
Clinard
Jamestown
Jamestown’s
One Monkey Needed for Inherit the Wind at High Point College
Lynn Lockrow director of theater at High Point College seeks a real live long tailed monkey for the play Inherit the Wind in rehearsal. He has not held auditions and is desperate to fill the part. The drama opens February 5 and needs time to train the animal for stage behavior.
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Roy Culler
Scott Parker
High Point Historical Society
High Point Museum
Betty Jo Kellam
High Point Beautification Assn
Guilford Technical Institute
GTI
Jamestown
Bob Shaw
Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Division
Lynn Lockrow
High Point College
Inherit the Wind
Lockrow
Dayton
Tenn
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Enterprise Sunday
Hodgin Constructtion Co
Greensboro
Plumb-Mechs Inc
Charles Haywood
Enterprise
Education Board
Charles Neill
Cris Petree
William L. Allen
Henderson
Poe
Billy Creel
Business and Financial Crime Unit
McAlister
Rose
G.F. Gardner
Hillsborough
Piedmont Natural Gas
J. David Pickard
L.J. Rich
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