High Point Civil Defense to test sirens Tuesday
High Point Civil Defense Director George announced a Tuesday test of 16 sirens with two 7 p m and 7 30 p m signals lasting three minutes each The test assesses sound reach across the city and into Jamestown with 32 Radio Club members surveying four locations per siren.
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High Point
Civil Defense
Sccretmai Civil Defense
George
Civil Defense Mobile Support Unit
Spinnett
Jamestown
Norman A
J. R. Blackburn
High Point Citizens Band Radio Club
Knox Bridge
Main Street
Virginia-Carolinas Wholesale Furniture Award Winners
The Virginia-Carolinas Wholesale Furniture Salesmen's Assn honors its 1964 top unit and leaders. V-C honored winner is the Sales Unit, with Lang 300h EE and Al Moneyhan of Charlotte as president-elect, noted at the annual Dinner Dance in High Point. Occurs amid other awards for service and market projects.
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Virginia-Carolinas Wholesale Furniture Salesmen’s Assn
Na Wholesale Furniture Salesmen’s Assn
Awd
Ftight Point
al Moneyhan
Charlotte
A. Paul Ruth
Richmond
Virginia - Carolinas Furniture Salesmen
Etoe
Disanty Lang
North Carolina Council of Churches Convening in Asheville
The two day pastors conference opens the North Carolina Council of Churches meeting at Central Methodist Church in Asheville. The United Church Women of North Carolina begin their three day council with a board of managers meeting at First Christian Church.
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Asheville
N.C
North Carolina Council of Churches
Central Methodist Church
United Church Women of North Carolina
First Christian Church
Civil Term of Court Begins With Judge Gambill
Civil term opens with Judge Robert Gambill in North Wilkesboro. Six cases are ready for trial this week, mostly personal injury. Cases set for trial include Stateway Commission v Hartley, Horace G Ilderton Inc breach of warranty, and Beulah Vinson v Clapp. Some cases consolidated for trial. Earlier criminal term had three murder cases continued to Feb 8.
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Robert Gambill
North Wilkesboro
David
Fred Joyce
the Meyers Co
Dorothy Stafford
Jack C. Dillard
Mary S. Dillard
Great American Insurance Co
New York
A and
Essick Construction
Barbara Marie Parker Eee
Elijah T. Little
Eesear
Marvin Westmore
High Point Superior Court
Williard Honored By N C Dairymen At Banquet
Williard received the North Carolina Dairymen’s Distinguished Service Award at a three day meeting and banquet. Retiring President Ercell S. Webb presided praising Williard as a dairy pioneer and long-time leader in several associations. He helped found the NC Independent Milk Dealers and was a charter member and former president of the NC Dairy Products Assn. and held roles with national ice cream groups. Williard, a Guilford County native, led the NC Dairy Foundation formed in 1954 and participates in High Point civic life, including the Rotary Club and Merchants Association board service.
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Carolina
Williard
Ercell S. Webb
Greenville
N. C. State
Foundation
Guilford County
High Point
Rotary Club
High Point Merchants Assn
Phillips-Foscue Opens New Branch in Cleveland Tenn
Phillips-Foscue Corp of High Point opens a 20000 square foot plant in Cleveland Tennessee to fabricate urethane foams for the furniture and bedding industry. Lou Kranske named plant manager, a Beech Bottom West Virginia native with Army service in Korea and studies at Alabama and Tennessee. He and his wife Carolyn Cook live in Chattanooga with their four children.
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Phillips-Foscue Corp
High Point
Cleveland
Tenn
Phillips-Foscue
Lou Kranske
Kranske
Beech Bottom
W. Va
Army of Occupation
Korea
University of Alabama
University of Chattanooga
Southern Wood Preserving Co. of
Chattanooga, Tenn
Atlas Powder Co
Tyner, Tenn
Chattanooga Royal Co
Quaker Oats Co
Chattanooga
E. R. Carpenter Co
Hickory Springs
Fort Smith, Ark
Cleveland, Tenn
Carolyn Cook
Finding Of Baby's Body Probed
A white male infant's body was found last week in Boone City. No identification has been made yet and authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding the baby's death.
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Cheek Mse
Boone City
Open Guilford County caucuses to press in Raleigh session
Six member Guilford County delegation to the 1965 General Assembly will hold open caucus meetings for public and press access. Senator-Elect Ed Kemp, caucus chairman, said sessions will discuss local legislative proposals and be held Tuesday at 8 am at the Sir Walter Hotel in Raleigh.
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Guilford County
Ed Kemp
Kemp
Raleigh
Sir Walter
Guilford
Prayer for TRSDAY O Light divine
A devotional verse asks divinity to illuminate lives and banish darkness. It seeks protection from evil and a life patterned after a righteous exemplar, proclaiming that shadows vanish with the divine presence.
Weather Brings Early Spring Warmth and Clouds
The spring-like weather continues with fair skies tonight. Tuesday forecasts show rising temperatures to 60 degrees with more clouds and scattered showers Tuesday night. High today reached 55 degrees, while last night’s low was 34 degrees.
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Friendship Weatherman
Pruette Reappointed to Four Year Housing Authority Term
Mayor Floyd Mehan announced the appointment of Dr. Dean B. Pruette to another four year term on the High Point Housing Authority. Pruette will continue in his dual roles as superintendent of city schools and as a member of the authority. The decision follows requests from other authority members and Pruette’s acceptance.
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Dean B. Pruette
High Point Housing Authority
Floyd Mehan
Pruette
Move to Rearrange High Point Liquor Bill
A group pushes amending the 1955 High Point liquor referendum to allow profits to fund the general city budget. The plan, reportedly anonymous, aims to align High Point with other cities and revive a liquor store vote after a 1955 defeat.
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Free Point
Ber
Temele
High Point
Jamestown
ABC
Jaycees
Jaycee Organization
Old Fire Station To Be Replaced On Kearns Street
City bids open February 17 for a new fire station replacing No 6 on Kearns Street with Wednesday openings to ease contractor burdens. The 100 block of E Springfield Avenue site mirrors recent stations at Five Points and Ward streets. Separately Piedmont Electric Repair Co won a $26,789 contract to convert the raw water pumping station to remote control, with Deep River pumping station to be controlled from the Kivett Drive filtering plant.
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E. Springfield Avenue
Five Points
Ward
Rotary
Fire Department
City
Piedmont Electric Repair Co
Deep River
City Lake Dam
Kivett Drive
Bidding Set On Airport Fire Station
County officials move toward improved fire protection at Friendship Airport. Bids to construct the fire station will be opened at 4 p.m. Thursday at the airport. High Point Greensboro and the county approve funding shares for the department for the rest of the fiscal year. Two large fire trucks and a 1,200 gallon tanker are ordered with delivery expected in June.
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Friendship
Carl Johnson
High Point
Greensboro
Johnson
Denton Crash Injures Two Involving Pickup Overturn
Two people were injured, one seriously, when their 1956 pickup ran off Bomby Road struck a culvert and overturned end over end two miles east of Denton. Bennis B Crawford of Thomasville was treated at Griffis Clinic and then at City Memorial Hospital in Thomasville for multiple lacerations and abrasions. The driver Amos and Crawford were cited to appear later in Denton Recorder’s court. authorities noted both had been drinking.
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Denton
Here
Griffis Clinic
City Memorial Hospital
Thomasville
Bennis B Crawford
Amazon Road
Highway Patrol
C. Ray Kirkman
Chair City
Carpenter
Lloyd ‘Franklin Lanier
Ridgecrest Drive
Kirkman
Crawford
Amos
Leaf Program Scheduled At Sandy Ridge
Guilford County farmers receive a 7 30 p m talk by Bert Taylor on the current tobacco situation at Sandy Ridge Community Center. The session features slides and latest crop production data as part of a county series for 1965.
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Guilford County
Bert Taylor
Sandy Ridge
Taylor
Arroll
4H Club Council
Greensboro
North Carolina Jersey Cattle Club
Vance Motor Inn
Statesville
M.H. Montgomery
American Dairy Assn
Town Hall
Carroll
Suburban roundup ends with saddle horse captured
In Jacksonville Florida a saddle horse leaped a fence into rush hour traffic. A Cuvaty patrol pursued with three patrol cars and a motorcycle. Patrolman J B Edwards chased the animal through driveways and yards for about an hour before Patrolman Fred Dozier roped it. The horse nuzzled him on the jaw as the capture completed.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Cuvaty
J. B. Edwards
Fred Dozier
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