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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1977
Page
9
City Manager Cy Brooks acknowledged an error at a City Council meeting for placing banners on Main Street reading N C Shakespeare Festival July 15 to Aug 11 without authority. The banners will be removed and the festival will proceed without their promotion.
City Council will hold a public hearing on Scott Garten s bid to rezone Eastchester Drive property to Conditional Use Business C 7 for an auto dealership The measure marks the first such rezoning under new conditional use rules and limits the site to auto dealership use The council also debated trash carts annexation plans and sewer work as part of a broader agenda with remarks from Councilman Arnold Koonce and City Manager Cy Brooks
L C Williams of the city Utilities Dept explains 1977 General Assembly penalties for tampering with gas electric or water meters. Fines up to 500 dollars or two years imprisonment, plus potential 500 dollars damages to suppliers. City aims to inform customers and deter tampering while offering help to those unable to pay. Police and city departments will enforce the law.
Randolph County Board of Education approved a five cent hike in student lunch prices for grades one through twelve to 55 cents for the 1977-78 school year. Other age groups and adults face no change. The board also revised the Archdale-Trinity Middle School opening schedule due to delays, outlining new grade distributions across Archdale and Trinity campuses for fall.
High Point grounded educator and author Dr Vera Idol died at 2 45 p m Sunday at the Presbyterian Home at age 91. Born May 6 1886 she taught English at High Point College from 1924 to 1958 and later taught evening classes 1961 1967. Funeral Tuesday at 3 30 p m Sechrest Funeral Home chapel with burial in Oakwood Cemetery. Memorials directed to the Presbyterian Home.
City Manager Kyle Williams says Thomasville has 210 municipal employees and has frozen hiring. He notes the last staff increase was five years ago when a platoon was added to the Fire and Police Departments. National data show a 2.5 percent city payroll decline in October 1976.
State Sen. McNeill Smith plans a campaign swing in Thomasville and Davidson County. He was to meet residents at noon at Western Sizzlin on Randolph Street and may visit Davidson County Community College. Campaign headquarters in Greensboro offered no further itinerary details.
Police report two white males robbed three store employees in the Roses Department Store parking lot on 8S Main Street. The pair, wearing hats masks and gloves, produced pistols and seized seven money bags valued at an undetermined amount. They fled in a stolen 1975 green Ford station wagon later found at Southgate Apts. Two blocks from the scene.
A seed embedded in a wall of the Wright Building on S Main Street has grown into a sapling despite harsh conditions. The image, credited to Sonny Hedgecock, captures nature’s persistence against urban obstacles.
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