Unemployment Up 2205 in Four-County Piedmont Area
The Employment Security Commission reports 2205 more unemployed in Guilford Forsyth Randolph and Yadkin counties from May 1969 to May 1970 totaling 2.9 percent of the civilian labor force. Manufacturing and textiles fall while non-manufacturing gains. job openings rise but openings filled drop.
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Jim Hawkins
Piedmont Triad Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area
Employment Security Commission
Area Labor Force
Guilford
Forsyth
Randolph
Yadkin
ESC
High Point-Jamestown
SMSA
High Point
Yadkin County
Randolph County
Guilford County
Flags to fly again on Fourth of July in High Point
W D Lee urges downtown merchants to revive flag flying at stores on patriotic occasions. Fire Chief Tal Ellingon notes 75 poles stored and says flags were last used years ago. Lee plans to present the idea to the association board to revive the practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. D. Lee
Lee
Tal Ellingon
Association Board of Directors
Monroe Receives $500 Lutheran Brotherhood Scholarship
To Get Award MarcialL Monroe, daughter of the Rev and Mrs P E Monroe of 704 Rock Spring Rd, has won a $500 scholarship from Lutheran Brotherhood, the Minneapolis based fraternal insurance society.
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Marciall. Monroe
P.E. Monroe
Rock Spring Rd
Lutheran Brotherhood
Fraternal Insurance Society
Airport Authority appointments on tap in Guilford plan
Guilford County Commissioners may again consider three Greensboro High Point Airport Authority posts if all five members attend Tuesday. The board reversed actions from a June session amid questions of a secret meeting, and will place the appointment on the agenda when full membership is present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
Guilford County Board of Commissioners
Greensboro High Point
Paul Ingle
High Point
Marion Follin
Stanley Frank
Board of Equalization
Robert Shaw
Shaw
Dale Montgomery
Authority
Board of Commissioners
Montgomery
Burlington Girl Convicted With Possessing Marijuana
In Thomasville a Burlington girl Mary Katherine White was placed on probation after a marijuana possession conviction by Recorder's Court. State Bureau of Investigation agents brought the charge. A separate assault with a deadly weapon case against Albert Boyet was reduced to a lesser charge with probation and medical bills ordered for the victim.
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Thomasville
Burlington
Recorder’s Court
Mary Katherine White
State Bureau of Investigation
Albert Boyet
Mount Zion Church Road
Boyet
Darlene Boyer
Kermit Lee Goforth
Amazon Road
Davidson County Superior Court
L. Roy Hughes
Goforth
Gale Goforth
Bid Loser Assairs Council on City Insurance
High Point officials awarded the city employee health coverage to Blue Cross Blue Shield on an extended benefits plan despite a bid for major medical. Joseph Honeycutt, representing Bankers Life, criticized the decision as not above board and claimed savings if a Louisiana Southern plan had been chosen. City officials defended the choice noting lower employee costs and differences in plan features.
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Joseph Honeycutt
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
Honeycutt
Bankers Life
Council
Louisiana Southern
City Hall Fire Quenched. Two Cars Damaged Friday
City Hall basement blaze extinguished by City Hall firefighters after 9 15 p m. Investigation continues with no damage reported. Earlier, two cars burst into flames within five minutes on city streets. one on E Grimes Street caused by carburetor air filter, about 4 30 p m, $50 damage. The second car on E Green Drive had minor damage from gasoline vapors ignited by a spark.
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High. Point
City Hall
Commerce and
Wrenn
Richard Ward
Thomasville
E. Grimes Street
Nancy Williams
E. Green
Barber recalls 1931 poster as 40 years pass
Bill Foster, once the Anvil poster model in 1931 for bib overalls, recalls the July 4 1931 ad campaign that ran through 1936. He posed again in a barber jacket 40 years later and says he kept the jacket and overalls until about 20 years ago before discarding them.
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Bill Foster
Anvil Overall
Lavonia
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Art Richardson
Airport Authority
N. D. McNairy
Ing’, Follin
Frank
Sae Eaid Ther
Percy Sears
Social Services Department
County Forester’s Unit
James Burton Nealey
Rt. 6
William E. Fonville
Asheboro
Roy Lee Tate
Rt. 1
Floyd Herbert Payne
Lexington
Hughes
Payne
High Point Enterprise
Barber
Bob Poole
Enterprise
Foster
Anvil
High Point Barber Shop
New South Barber Shop
Holiday Inn
Anata
Dee
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