Summer Furniture Market Opens With Broad Optimism
The 1964 Summer Furniture Market in High Point opens with optimistic readings amid steady manufacturing and sales growth. About 4,000 buyers from 2,060 stores within 250 miles visit, with markets shifting toward the High Point area and preoccupations with new facades and building upgrades.
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Zim Hawkins
Tve
Natonal Eaux-miture Mart
MzezGee Street
Mare
High Point
Long ‘Furniture Highway
North Carolina
Southern Buying Syndicate
Southern Retail Furniture Assa
Southern Furniture Exposition
Furniture Plaza
SRFA
Southern Furniture Manufacturers Assn
Exposition Building
Leo Heer
Heer
South
Virginia
South Carolina
John Tobin
Kindergarten For Retarded Children Planned In High Point
Plans for a kindergarten for mentally retarded children are being developed by the High Point Association for Retarded Children and the Cerebral Palsy Association. Mrs. Robert Hauser heads planning with state representatives in Charlotte. The program hopes to enroll about 10 children, run five days weekly from 9 a.m. to noon, staffed by a paid teacher and an aide with volunteer help, and fees by ability to pay. Location to be announced, likely in a local church.
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Robert E. User
Asope
s=taate
Charlotte
E Cerebral Palsy Association
Noor
Zacher
House Indica
Sunny Mild Weather At Greens tem Airport
Weathermen forecast a sunny mild day with a high near 82 and a low around 62. Tonight remains cool and tomorrow Monday bring an upward temperatures trend into the upper 80s.
Celebrations Go On Despite Rain At City Parks
Rain did not dampen Fourth of July fun at City Lake and Washington Terrace Parks as 5000 attendees sheltered briefly then joined the continuing events. The Elk's Club and parks department sponsored activities from a greased pole climb to a greased pig chase with winners in egg throw watermelon eating and rolling pin contests.
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City Lake Park
Washington Terrace Park
City Lake
Washington Terrace
High Point Elk’s Club
Parks and Recreation Department
City Observes Holiday Quietly Amid Traffic Crashes
On a holiday weekend, police reported several injuries from weather related crashes in the city. A Brentwood Avenue rollover near noon injured the driver Reds McClellan Farlow and 15 year old Steve Foster Farlow from Sophia. A Kivett Drive two car crash at 1 20 pm injured a second driver and passenger Burt Cashatt and John Arnold Beck with Beck charged for failing to reduce speed. An additional Westchester Drive collision led to Rodney Orpheus Kearns charged for failure to reduce speed. Milton Cass Ligthner of Lyndhurst Drive sustained $800 in damages.
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Brentwood Avenue
Reds McClellan Farlow
Sophia
Steve Foster Farlow
Kivett Drive
Burt Cashatt
Kiv
Ett Drive
John Arnold Beck
Max Ray Williams
Paramount Street
Westchester Drive
Rodney Orpheus Kearns
Milton Cass Ligthner
Lyndusrht Drive
Guilford County to Back Retarded Citizens Network Plan
A county wide effort announces a complex of services for all mentally retarded residents from infancy to old age in Guilford County. The plan, led by the High Point and Greensboro Associations for Retarded Children, aims to create residential facilities and step by step expansion across rural areas. Local civic groups and recreation entities support the effort as a regional first in the Southeast.
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Guil County
High Point
Greensboro
Proege
Scal
Soeatime
Tyler
zeegeEoyers
Guilford County
Burmese Tribesmen Flee to India Amid Inter-tribal Conflict
About 200 tribesmen from Burma fled into India’s Tirap division in the northeast after two weeks of inter-tribal fighting, confirmed by an Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman.
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New Delhi
Burma
India
Tirap
Indian Foreign Ministry
Rights suit targets High Point Memorial Hospital
A civil rights suit against High Point Memorial Hospital is expected to be filed in U S Middle District Court Greensboro. Plaintiffs Donald Lindsay and Mrs Bessie L Haltom claim hospital practices are discriminatory including segregated delivery rooms newborn nursery facilities rooms and eat ing areas for Negro staff. The hospital says facilities are integrated with obstetrical care moved to the third floor last week.
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High Point Memorial Hospital
United States Middle District Court
Greensboro
Conrad 0. Pearson
Durham
Legal Defense Fund of
The
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
Satclerk
Pearson
Donald Lindsay
Bessie L. Haltom
Lindsay
Hostal
Altom
Atherton Cox
Thomas Fuller
Peters
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Don Cohen
Bill Southerland
Jerry Norman
Elmer Horton
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