Guilford County Approves 75 Cent Tax Rate for Fiscal Year
Guilford County commissioners approve a 75 cent per 100 valuation tax rate for the coming fiscal year. The budget totals 1,640,242.25 with 56,994 for current school operations and 121,432.98 for school capital. Estimated county value tops 157 million, about 1 million more than last year, predicting high-valued standings in the state.
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Greensboro
Guilford County
Dget
Higo Mt
Old High Point
North A
General Fund
Greens
High Point
Breakings In City Over Week-end Reported
Weekend breakings reported with Wilson Feed Store at 122-24 Wrennt feet noting attempted entry and a rear door forced but break-in thwarted. Joiner Drugstore at 708 English was entered last night with a small money take and cigarette cartons stolen. No arrests announced in today’s breakings. Beet ranks first and pork seen in American preference.
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Wilson Feed Store
Joiner Drugstore
Tragedies Mar Observance Of Holiday In High Point
Two people died and others were injured during Fourth of July celebrations in High Point as a hit and run incident at South Main and Russell streets claimed Miss Belly Humphries and left Miss Lizzie Moss injured. A taxi holdup involving Roy Andrews was also reported as police investigated arrests of Armstead Kersey and Olden Calvert. Local stores closed for the holiday and residents returned from out of town.
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High Point
Belly Mumpppaties
South Wrenn Street
Lizzie Moss
Pinnacle
South Main
Russell Streets
Stead Kersey
Olden Calvert
Winston-Salem
Enterprise
J. C. Cole
West State Street
Guilford General Hospital
George Swain
Route 5
Farm Sought for More Children by Lansing Minister
The Rev and Mrs Francis Payson Cook of Lansing North Carolina seek a gifted farm to adopt more children as their seven member family continues to grow. After a New York trip they remain hopeful a donor will provide land to sustain a larger foster brood with legal adoptions and spiritual kinship. The Cooks emphasize they do not run an orphanage and detail the five already adopted children with ages and brief backgrounds.
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Lansing
N. C
Francis Payson Cook
New York
Mr. Cook
Methodist
Mountain
Hale Cooke
New Hampshire
Margaret Ann Cook
Charles Lincoln Cook
Mary Frances Cook
Kentucky
Mary Frances
Mrs. Cook
Ruth Louise
Tennessee
John Wesley Cook
Cook
Fire units quell car blaze on Leonard Street
Firefighters from stations one and two and the aerial extinguished a vehicle fire at 2 20 this morning at J Will Blacks home on Leonard Street. The blaze, likely from faulty wiring, caused no damage. Mrs. Joe Tomlinson displayed today at The Enterprise an unusual grasslike bug nearly as long as a green bean found on her porch.
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J. Will Black
Leonard Street
Joe Tomlinson
Montheu Avenue
the Enterprise
Knife attack leaves man badly hurt in Asheboro hospital
Hannah, identified by police only by that name, was slashed multiple times in a Sunday morning brawl at 111 West Farriss avenue. Doctor Robert DeBerry is jailed without bond as Hannah fights for life in a North Carolina hospital after two and a half hours of surgery and transfer to Asheboro.
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Hannah
Asheboro
Robert DeBerry
Lexington Avenue
High Point
DeBerry
West Farriss Avenue
Burrus Memorial Hospital
de Berry
Surrender of Nut House owner in Audry Vallette slaying
Edward Freed part owner of the Nut House surrendered at Hudson avenue Station for questioning in Chicago on July 6. Police plan to hold him as a material witness and seek a statement before handing to the state's attorney. Authorities pursue Ruth Freed as a person of interest.
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Chicago
Edward Freed
North Side
Audry Vallette
Freed
Hudson Avenue
Abraham Marovitz
Ruth
Miss Vallette
Andrew Barry
Barry
Eddie
Captain Barry
Inquirers
High Point Youth Attend Young People Conference
A group of High Point young people left yesterday for Lake Junaluska to attend the Young People's Conference in session July 6 to 10. Among them are Misses Annabelle Sowers Danese Manley Dolores Spencer and Evelyn Atkins of this city and Page Kernodle of Greensboro.
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High Point
Lake Junaluska
Annabelle Sowers
Danese Manley
Dolores Spencer
Evelyn Atkins
Page Kernodle
Greensboro
Guilford to Meet Harriss Covington in Abba Toir Tilt
Guilford and Harriss Covington face off in an Amateur league game at the Abba toir on Tuesday afternoon. Both clubs compete in the city league circuit.
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Guilford
Harriss-Covington
Abbatoir
Alum 18 Purchases Alum for Water Purification
High Point buys 60 000 pounds of alum from American Cyanide and Chemical Corp of Charlotte at 1.40 dollars per hundred pounds about 20 cents under Greensboro price. The chemical will purify the city water supply.
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High Point
American Cyanide and Chemical Corporation
Charlotte
Greensboro
Train Wreck injures three near Cleveland
Three people were hurt in a rear end collision of Big Four train No. 40 the Missourian near North Eaton southwest of Cleveland. Officials report no fatalities and the injured were taken to a local hospital in not serious condition. The Missourian main section had 11 cars and the second section four. The second section struck the rear of the first. cause is not immediately known.
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Big Four
Missourian
St. Lounis Toew York
North Eaton
The
Alleged Attacker of Child Is Held in Mississippi Jail
Archie Speaks 35, a Rankin county farmer, is held in Hinds county jail for safe keeping on a warrant charging assault on an 11-year-old girl from Florence. Sheriff Tom Spann moved Speaks from Brandon jail after a mob storm warning. The assault reportedly occurred about three days earlier. Speaks is married with no children.
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Miss
Archie Speaks
Rankin County
Hinds County
Florence
Tom Spann
Sherif Spann
Speaks
Brandon
Spann
Leaders In Theft Ring Are Sought
Federal agents pursue an international bond theft syndicate tied to two phantom snatches totaling 2,046,000 dollars. The hunt targeted two unnamed men as part of an operation that already has 16 in custody, including a material witness in the William Hamm Jr. kidnapping case.
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New York
Federal Bureau of Investigation
William Hamm, Jr
St. Paul
Shaky Tone Seen On Stock Market
New York on July 6 reports a cautious stock market with buying in a few specialties but overall shakiness as grains and drought lift commodities away from equities. Major cereals hit daily price limits while trading slowed near midafternoon and minor gains appeared in parts of the list. Chrysler and others reached six year highs before easing Macy and Gimbel rose amid favorable retail sales and bonds edged higher while currencies remained tight against the dollar.
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New York
Chrysler
Macy
Gimbel
Picking Up Broken Glass Safely After Breakage
The guide advises using a handful of moist absorbent cotton to pick up broken glass. Cotton collects tiny slivers and reduces injury risk during cleanup.
Treasury notes found in bag at Grand Central terminal
Rhea Whitley of the federal bureau reports two $100,000 treasury notes were retrieved from a bag checked at Grand Central. The bag was found in possession of Morris Rosner, linked to the Hamm kidnapping witness.
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Treasury
Grand Central Terminal
Rhea Whitley
New York
Federal Bureau
Morris Rossner
Hamm
Extortionist sought in Mallory love theft case
In Miami on June 6 detectives hunted an anonymous extortionist linked to the $300000 love theft trial of Lewis E. Mallory III. Mrs Kathryn Crawford Edgar reported a threatening call about keeping family incidents out of newspapers as Mallory prepared to testify about alleged seduction.
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Miami
Fla
Lewis E. Mallory
Kathryn Crawford Edgar
Arthur Glickstein
New York
Edgar
Mallory
Bradford, Pa
Mrs. Edgar
Mer
James Edgar, Jr
Flint
Mich
Michigan
Boy Shot In Side as Father Counters Brother Shot
MEMPHIS July 6 Ten year old John Alfred McDaniel is in a hospital recovering from a bullet wound in the side. He says he is glad his father did not whip his 14 year old brother Jimmy who shot him during a hunting trip with a rifle their policeman father had.
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Memphis
Jenn
John Alfred McDaniel
John
Jimmy
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