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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1960
Page
29
Mass police facing mass resignations after failing to win AFL affiliation and pay raises. Boston riots followed by National Guard intervention marked by bloodshed, with about five veteran officers quitting in 60 days and scores more likely to follow.
The Enterprise will publish personal local interest items from the North Carolina delegation at the Los Angeles convention. Ed Rankin will file two or three reports as an alternate delegate at large with official duties limiting full time reporting. Rankin has broad access through roles with Senator Umstead Governor Hodges and the NC delegation.
The Friendship weatherman forecasts hot and humid conditions with a slight chance of afternoon and evening thundershowers today. Tomorrow repeats with a cooler feel. Scattered thunderstorms are possible on the Fourth, followed by clearing skies and cooler temperatures later. Highs around 92, lows near 69, yesterday’s high 93 and low 68.
A compact summary noting accident counts for the year to date. Mentions total persons killed and injured, with property loss figures. Focuses on the cumulative annual totals and overall trend versus prior periods.
High Point readers recount two misadventures in domestic life. A husband misreads an electrical service need for a GAS stove and trips to city hall end with comic error. Another husband survives a hospital absence by washing clothes and wringing dry his pants while wearing a fibbing alibi. A third tale follows a flying salesman who skirts rules at Cape Canaveral only to meet Air Force jets and no sale.
City planning report warns blight endangers High Point’s future. Mayor Jess Washburn endorses Urban Renewal High Point, detailing substandard housing from 1950 census, and noting industrial and commercial blight alongside housing problems. It outlines conservation, rehabilitation, clearance and redevelopment steps and urges action for 1960 onward.
A High Point leader Wayren Lackey and George Dixon will co chair the Red Cross blood donor recruitment for the year starting July 1. They will select 25 division colonels ahead of the first bloodmobile visit July 25 26. The bloodmobile will visit 22 days this year to meet an expected need of over 2000 pints. Lackey president of Tex Elastic Corp and Elastic Yarns Inc and Dixon longtime High Point Memorial Hospital administrator. They are joined by YMCA leader and civic workers. The couple live at 618 Spruce Street and 212 Pine Valley Road.
A day long program at City Lake Park begins 10:30 a.m. with a balloon blowing contest and includes bubblegum and cracker eating contests, races, and a greasy pig catch at 3 p.m. Prizes will be awarded. City offices and many businesses will be closed for the holiday. police and fire crews remain on duty.
Two automobile accidents marked the Fourth of July weekend with no injuries but two citations. Lem Pegues of Leonard Street was charged with reckless driving after crashing into a telephone pole on Kivett Drive at 7:25 a.m. The vehicle, owned by Marvin Matthews of Windley Street, sustained $300 damage. Pegues faces Municipal Court on July 22. In a second crash on English Street, John Blevin Crenshaw of Spencer Ave., 21, was driving a truck when struck by a car from College Street. Lois Nelson Seism of E Homestead Avenue, driver of the other car, was charged with failing to yield right of way and will appear in Municipal Court July 22.
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