Gun Kills Child from Toy Style Pistol
A two year old girl Janice Thomas died from a gunshot after a 22 caliber pistol supposedly a toy was fired while a 14 year old girl Brenda Carter held and cocked it. The weapon had a sawed off barrel and came from Curtis Whitfield who discarded it about a month ago. Police investigate two break ins and a worker theft case at Fairfield Plaza Ti Station.
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Janice Thomas
Art Richardson
Don Follmer
Enterprise
William Thomas
Mangum Ave
Curtis Whitfield
Lake Street
Janice
Carter
Brenda Carter
Brenda
Drought tightens grip on North Carolina crops and cattle
North Carolina farmers face a worsening drought with minimal rain across Guilford, Davidson, and Forsyth counties. Soybeans show relative resilience, but corn and tobacco suffer severe losses as hay and pasture dwindle. A rain forecast offers hope but remains uncertain.
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Forsyth County
High Rock Lake
Guilford
Davidson County
Tim Rey
Rey
C. E. Earnhardt
Davidson Corn
Nurse Keeps 14 Story Furniture Market Safe During Ailments
Doris Spencer serves as on site nurse at the Southern Furniture Exposition Building during market seasons. She handles headaches upset stomachs sore feet and occasional heart attacks arranging first aid from a station on the first floor. Her duties include treating lacerations from a chair maker's showroom and coordinating with High Point Memorial Hospital for serious cases. Spencer, a Memorial Hospital trained RN, lives in Archdale with her husband Robert Spencer Jr and four children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Marks
Doris Spencer
Spencer
High Point Memorial Hospital
Exposition
Walter J. Brooks
Brooks
High Point
Memorial Hospital
E. L. Allman
Medical Arts Center
Robert Spencer Jr
Archdale
Weather update notes heat wave easing
Clouds shorten heat wave with near 90 degree highs today and Thursday. Friday looks fair with tonight’s low near 70 and last night dropping to 74. Ten am temperature at Friendship reached 79 as yesterday’s mid morning high was cooler.
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Friendship Weather Bureau
Piedmont
North Carolina
City Lake
Friendship
Bond Set At $1,000 For Woman
THOMASVILLE A bond of 1000 dollars was posted by an Amazon Street resident after arrest on drunk driving driving after license revocation resisting arrest and assault with a deadly weapon her car Edna Sowers 42 slated to face trial Friday on charges Elbert Carter 30 Brown Street arrested yesterday on assault on a female Carter posted 200 bond pending hearing Jeanette Willoughby Highland Avenue prefixed the charge
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Thomasville
Amazon Street
Edna Sowers
Amazon Road
Norman Bailey
Elbert Carter
Brown Street
Carter
Jeanette Willoughby
Highland Avenue
Three Minor Fires Reported by Local Firemen
Firemen answered three alarms Tuesday all minor in nature. A trash fire in a Dempster Dumpster behind the Medical Center on Quaker Lane, a car fire on S Main Street, and a malicious false alarm on Arlington Street were checked.
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Dempster
Medical Center
Quaker Lane
S. Main Street
Arlington Street
Realtor pitches high end duplex plan for gravel pit site
Richard Wright urged the High Point Planning and Zoning Commission to consider rezoning the abandoned N Main gravel pit for a high styled three bedroom duplex and multi family complex with five acre tracts. Commissioners deferred a decision to study apartment location city wide.
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Richard Wright
High Point Planning and Zoning Commission
Wright
Planning Commission
Commission
Warren Godwin
Greenwood
Man’s Land
Parks Department Seeks 16 and 17 Year Old Laborers
The Parks and Recreation Department seeks about 10 full time laborers aged 16 and 17. Ray Kisiah says the job pays 75 cents an hour and involves cutting grass and cleaning park areas. Interested youths should call the department or visit the Nathan Hunt Drive office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parks and Recreation Department
Ray Kisiah
Parks and Recreation
Nathan Hunt Drive
Surratt Family Reunion at Pleasant Grove Methodist Church
The Surratt reunion is Sunday at Pleasant Grove Methodist Church seven miles south of Denton. Rev. Ralph Surratt of North Wilkesboro will speak at the 11 a.m. service followed by a picnic at noon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Surratt
Pleasant Grove Methodist Church
Denton
Ralph Surratt
North Wilkesboro
Winchester elected Guilford Welfare Board chairman
Henry P. Winchester of Summerfield was elected chairman of the Guilford County Welfare Board, succeeding Dr. Walter Tice. Winchester, a farmer, chairs the Agriculture Stabilization Committee and the Greensboro Selective Service Board. The board also discussed rent payments under the general assistance program and considered policy changes amid budget constraints and Medicare deductions for Old Age Assistance beneficiaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Hawkins
Greensboro
Henry P. Winchester
Route 2
Summerfield
Guilford County Welfare Board
Winchester
Walter Tice
High Point
Guilford County Agriculture Stabilization Committee
Greensboro Selective Service Board
Welfare Department
Welfare Board
Ralph Sheppard
L. M. Thompson
Thompson
Carl Johnson
North Carolina
Private Ambulance Operator Not Interested in Randolph
Wesley Proctor of Durham Ambulance Service said he cannot offer Randolph County ambulance service without a subsidy. He noted city and county officials cannot grant the subsidy without legislative action. County funeral directors will stop providing ambulance service after September 30.
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Randolph
Asheboro
Durham
Randolph County
Wesley Proctor
County
Ira McDowell
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Eugene Terrell
Furniture City
E. Washington
Lincolnshire
Kivett Dive
Ray Mitchell
E. Russell Street
Mitchell
Fairfield Plaza
Roy G. Murph
Lexington, Avenue
Fonlee Saunders
Kernersville
James Mullins
E. Green
Edith G. Thompson
Wilmer Avenue
Davidson
High Point Enterprise
Lynne
Prince
Sizemore
Spain
Riviera
Lynne Sizemore
Pompei
Vitti Brothers
Mt. Vesuvius
Cay
Mediterranean Sea
Rome
Colosseum
St. Peter’s
St. Peter
Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo
Florence
David
Bacchus
Medici Garden
Bond
Zoner
N. Main Street
Greenwood Drive
West Peachtree
Pine Grove Drives
P&r Department
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