Crackdown Planned on Downtown Meter-Feeders in High Point
City council members plan a crackdown on meter-feeding in downtown High Point. The effort targets hour meters near the furniture market and S Main Street as a police action and possible chalk marking to enforce the one hour limit. The Merchants Assn backs enforcement to speed turnover, with crews slated to begin after the upcoming week.
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Harold Cheek
S. Main Street
Angie
Aj Police Department
Sion
Merchants Assn
Cheek
Council
Law and Public’ Safety Committee
High Point ‘Merchants’ Asst
Durnover
Guilford County Board slashes capital outlay budget
Guilford County Board of Education cut its capital outlay plan to meet a lower county appropriation. The move delays a western Guilford high school and jamestown site projects, urges early audience with County Commissioners for possible funding, and notes crowding at Guilford and Millis Road schools.
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County Board of Education
Counter
James-ty
Carl Johnson
Guil County
Hugh Rossford
Jamestown
Budg
E. P.pearce
Guilford
Pearce
Guilford School
Jamiesa
Jamiestown
Greensboro
Carr
Millis Road School
Warm Showers Likely Thursday in High Point Area
The High Point forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with warm humid conditions. Showers are likely Thursday with over 60 percent chance after noon, and Friday expects partly cloudy skies and continued warmth. Today's high near 90 with a low around 70, Thursday’s high near 90 and low about 70. The night low was 67.
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High Point Area
Busy weekend with town events and open house
Ramseur hosts the official opening of its modern fire station Sunday with hundreds expected, as area firemen join in the ceremony. Cedar Falls and Cedar Grove celebrate community projects with building openings, tours, and a new walkway. Other notes report Asheboro dog control gun tests for mail carriers, a county school meeting at Liberty, and a joint county commissioner school board session planned for Randolph County at 7:30 p.m.
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Ramseur
Cedar Falls
Cedar Grove
Liberty
Isitoo
Board of Commissioners
County School Board
Randolph County
City Council to Fill Posts With Demps Back in City Hall
City Democrats plan patronage as they resume city boards and commissions. Brooks Reitzel likely to return to the Parks and Recreation Commission, replacing Mrs Forward after a two year layoff. Sam Chess may be replaced by S. E. Buford, a Negro school principal, while Clifton A. Koontz stays on. Terms of five Civil Service Commission members expire, with reappointments likely to maintain current party balance of four Republicans and three Democrats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forrest Cates
Brooks Reitzel
Reitzel
Samuel Chess
Clifton A. Koontz
Forward
Koontz
Chess
S. E. Buford
Civil Service Commission
Council
James Lovelace
N. M. Harrison
Blake Thompson
Dean B. Pruette
Housing Authority
J. W. Southerland
Parks Commission
Youth Faces Trial For Break-Ins
Billy Morris, 15, of Vernon Street, arrested and charged Monday with nine house break ins, was given a preliminary hearing yesterday in Domestic Relations Court and bound over to Superior Court for trial. Morris dodged police for hours after first reported attempting to break into a house on Farriss Avenue. Detectives Leak s and Amaker spotted Morris on Farris, and he fled. About 2 p.m., police apprehended Morris in a wooded area near Barbee Street after a search that began at 10:30 a.m. He was placed in a detention cell from custody Monday night. The escape failed. Morris reportedly showed police which houses he had broken into, four of which had not reported break-ins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Morris
Vernon Street
Superior Court
Morris
Farriss Avenue
O. H. Leaks
W. T. Amaker
Barbee
Polio Hospital Facility Becomes Nursing Center
Greensboro article details Evergreens Inc converting a former polio hospital into a 38 bed nursing center and a 156 capacity boarding home. Completion Aug 2 with open house Aug 1 and earlier June 1 start for the boarding home. County invested about 300000 plus 100000 federal equipment, with half beds private patients and half welfare beds.
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Polio Hospital
Jim Hawkins
Greensboro
Guilford County
Evergreens, Inc
Lloyd Amos
Evergreens Executive Board
Covington
Clyde James Blanchard Jr
Blanchard
Amos
Nursing
Bloodmobile Seeks More Blood Donors This Summer
The Red Cross Bloodmobile opened with a goal of 300 pints but collected 62 pints yesterday and needs 238 more. Mrs. Tommy Ward donated seven pints at 713 Elder Drive, tracing her involvement to her daughter's heart surgery. Co ordinator Mrs. Phillip R. Dixon thanked Ted Cross youth volunteers and noted continued summer help from youth and added adult volunteers at special stations.
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Red Cross Bloodmobile
Tommy Ward
Elder Drive
Shery Ann
Ward
Powers Wire Products Company
Red Cross
Phillip R. Dixon
Ted Cross
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Oakview Estates
Imperial Drive
ERS
Elmer Horton
High Point Enterprise
London
SHU Wiese
Wrenn
Hoke County
Smithfield
Asheboro
Don Wrenn
N Enterprise
John Haskin
National Guard Bureau
David A. Hodgin
English Street Armory
Baskin, Horton
High Point National Guardsmen
Ft. Bragg
Ary Richardson
Old County
Evergreens Board of Directors
George Covington
High Point, Chamber of Commerce
The
Evergreens
ABCLU
Ken Wyatt
Burlington
American Business Club
Purcell Kimsey
Clarence Siderton
High Point
Sheraton Hotel
Alson Gray
Jack Cecil
Diamond Carter
Elmec Hoefony
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