Session On Budget Scheduled
A proposed 1 220 310 budget for the High Point public works department is set for council scrutiny. A 7 p m committee meeting will review the budget request ahead of fuller council discussion including salary and personnel items later. The first session lists 1 611 000 in expenditures up 105 000 from last year as street improvements loom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point City Public Works Department
Public Works Committee
Law and Public Safes
T. E. Hinson
Siderton
Hinson
Ilderton
Talent Show Auditions Set for City Lake Park Event
City playground participants vie for a place in a city wide talent show to be held at City Lake Park on Aug 9. Miss Ann Harvell announces auditions Friday between 4 and 4 30 p.m. at Brent aul. eligibility includes both registered and unregistered youths. Last week 410 children joined music and dramatics classes. activities span songs folk dances skits and puppet theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Lake Park
Ann Harvell
Brentaul
Davidson Holstein Show Friday at Davidson County Fairgrounds
The North Carolina Black and White Holstein Show will be hosted by the Davidson County Holstein Association at the Davidson County Fairgrounds on Friday. Animals must be checked in by 9 am with the show starting at 10 am, featuring 75 to 100 animals and participation from 4H and FFA youths from Davidson and nearby counties. Attendees are urged to bring a basket lunch for a picnic area and social activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
North Carolina
Davidson County Fairgrounds
Davidson County Holstein Association
Davidson County Agricultural Agent's
FFA
Davidson
Alleyway Too Much For Driver
A Southmont man John Marvin Holmes, 55, was arrested after crashing into two vehicles and a store wall. He faced $300 bond for drunk driving and $500 bond for no operator license. Three others were injured and treated at High Point Memorial Hospital.
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Southmont
John Marvin Holmes
Holmes
Mallory Street
Wesley B. Stanley
South Main Street
Stanley
John B. Andrews
Burlington
Piedmont Development Group to Tour Northwest NC area
Northern Piedmont Area Development Association maps a two day sightseeing tour for its directors and Chamber officers. The July 29 30 trip aims to view efforts in community development agriculture industry travel and recreation by the Northwest North Carolina Development Association with plans for chartered buses a Boone overnight and a visit to Horn in The West.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northern Piedmont Area Development Association
Association
Chamber of Commerce
Northwest North Carolina Development Association
Bland W. Worley
Greensboro
West
Boone
Pleasant Day Promised with Pleasant Piedmont Weather
The weatherman forecasts a pleasant day for Piedmont with low humidity and comfortable temperatures. High around 88 with a 60 degree low tonight. muggy Thursday as warmer air moves in and temperatures top the 90s.
County Tax Payments Set Record High
Guilford County taxpayers posted a record tax payment rate at 98.23 percent of the 1958-59 levy, totaling 6,819,421.22 with 6,698,605.18 collected. Tax Supervisor Herb Wood received a new two year term. The board set July 23 to receive bids for 10 sheriff department autos and approved poultry damage claims from wild dogs in the northwest area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guilford County
Board of County Commissioners
Herb Wood
Wood
Sheriff's Department
Stolen Cash From Barbershop and adjoining shop scene
Thieves entered the Oak Hill Barber Shop on English Street by a locked door and stole a cash register and $14 in change after locking the door behind them. At Friendly Smoke Shop, a bank bag with $40 cash was taken. a pistol lay nearby untouched. No merchandise missing. Other arrests reported include Hyder embezzlement case, Siler linked to a $72.50Polaroid theft, Edwards assault on a pregnant woman, Good liquor possession, and Hester reckless driving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hill
English Street
H. R. Wood
Wood
Friendly Smoke
J. F. Fagan
Fagan
Tar-Hill Upholstering Co
Springdale Avenue
Wilbur Hyder
Thissell Street
Hyder
Connors
Frank Z. Siler
Brooks Street
Siler
Nash Jewelry & Loan Co
Main Street
Wilford C. Edwards
East Over
Apts
Edwards
Sylvie June Cole
John Leslie Good
Good
Leroy Hester
Greensboro
Bus Driver Bound Over In Fatal May Day Accident
James Tillero Bolton a 51 year old bus driver for Route 5 was bound over for Superior Court trial on manslaughter after probable cause found in Municipal Court for the May 1 death of nine year old Carolyn Patricia Andrews struck beside Gordon Street by a City Transit bus. Bolton posted a $1000 bond for the Superior Court appearance Judge Byron Hayworth presided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Tillero Bolton
Bolton
Carolyn ‘Patricia Andrews
Gordon Street
Byron Hayworth
Inez Gaddy
Price Street
Welch
High Point Council Approves Traffic and Sewer Changes
High Point City Council approved parking removals on Mallory Street and Grimes Street and authorized two hour parking on E Washington Street and S Main Street. The panel also allowed sewer connections for areas to be annexed in January and approved an internal external origin and destination survey with a 15000 dollar cap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Mallory Street
S. Main
S. Wrenn
Grimes Street
Willowbrook
E. Washington Street
Centennial Avenue
Perry Streets
Gaylord Street
S. Main Street
Russell
Lake Streets
Kearns
Chestnut Street
Club Drive
State Highway Department
Gaither-Dixon
N. Hamilton Street
J. W. Samet
Quaker Lane
Gurley and
Union Streets
Jess Washburn
Hubert Bryant
Lynwood Smith
High Point Fire Insurance Rates See Major Reductions
Insurance rates in High Point drop for many properties as of June 10 with further cuts planned January 1, 1960 after city limits expansion. Rates depend on heat systems water access and hydrant proximity. Properties within 1000 feet of a hydrant or 5 miles of a station qualify. tighter areas receive the same reductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Allen B. Welborn
Welborn
North Carolina Fire Insurance Rating Bureau
Recreation Program Is Commended
Director Jesse Taylor reported for the Parks and Recreation Commission that over 73 000 people used city facilities this summer at City Lake Park Washington Terrace and city playgrounds. $3 255 82 was earned at two swimming pools and a committee was formed to name the Vall Street Recreation Center and other properties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse Taylor
Parks and Recreation Commission
City Lake Park
Washington Terrace
Taylor
Recreation Commission
Brooks Reitzel
Reitzel
Dale Montgomery
Jack Southerland
Dick White
Golf Committee
Parks Committee
Vall Street
Kirkman- McCain
Hedgecock
Roper
Bay
Council Street
Montgomery
Southerland
Commission
W. S. McLeod
Rice Rites Mary Lee Rice 39 dead at High Point hospital
Mrs. Mary Lee Rice 39 of 1403 Wendell Street died Sunday morning after a short admission to High Point Memorial Hospital. She was born in Clinton South Carolina to Mrs. Bell Gray and Broda Hudgens. Survived by husband Rev Willie L Rice two daughters Mary Emma Jones and Francis Rice two sons Charles Edward and Willie Lee Rice Jr all at home three grandchildren mother and father and foster mother. Funeral Wednesday at 3 pm at Kings Chapel Holiness Church Bishop A E Miller officiating. Burial Greenhill Cemetery Moore Funeral Home Chapel will hold body until 1 pm Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell Gray
High Point
Broda Hudgens
Asheville
Iola Spencer
King’s Chapel Holiness Church
A. E. Miller
Greenhill
Moore Funeral Home
Prayer for T Day Reflects God's Glory in Summer Life
In a Cheverly Maryland note Roy H Stetler Jr a minister of Cheverly Community Evangelical United Brethren Church offers a brief prayer praising Gods creation. The piece asks believers to reflect divine glory throughout the day with thanks for roses shade trees corn stalks cows and streams.
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Jesus
Roy H. Stetler Jr
Cheverly, Md
Cheverly Community
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