State Prisoners Slow In Return To Roadwork
Raleigh July passes as North Carolina mulls using inmates for highway litter cleaning, ditching, and grass cutting. Officials estimate 1,000 prisoners could work at $1 a day, risking funding gaps and transport costs while departments negotiate a plan amid cautious bureau row.
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High Point
Raleigh
North Carolina
Grants Dept. of Transportation
Jacob F. Alexander
General Assembly
Dept. of Corrections
David L. Jones
Jones
Graham Bell
Gaston County
Alexander
Transportation Department
Sul
Assembly
Rites Planned for Nance at Welch Memorial Church
Roy Nance 82 of 2325 E Green Drive died after being struck on N Main Street. Born April 26 1893 in Randolph County he was WWI veteran and Globe Furniture retiree. Surviving wife and siblings. funeral Wednesday at Welch Memorial United Methodist Church burial Guilford Memorial Park.
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Roy Nance
E. Green Drive
High Point Memorial Hospital
N. Main Street
Soe
Randolph County
Alfred P
Marietta Pierce Nance
High Point
Ella Veigh Thomas
Globe Furniture Co
Welch Memorial United Methodist Church
Ella Veigh Nance
Nell Kirkman
Baltimore
Howard
Mae) Sawyer
Amos
Thelma) Rush
Asheboro
Carl M
Nance
Syringes Stolen And Shots Fired Reported In Local Incidents
A 7 year old Hines Street boy was treated for a gunshot wound to the hand after a group of children watched an older brother discharge a .22 rifle. In other incidents, about 50 used syringes were stolen from Dr Otis Tillman’s Gordon Street office over the weekend, with medicines taken. entry was through a window after a door attempt. Police reported multiple burglaries and arrests for drunken driving and marijuana possession plus tampering with a motor vehicle.
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Hines Street
High Point Memorial Hospital
Leon Thomas Pridgen
Dale
Gordon Street
Otis
Tillman
Globe Furniture Co
Central High School
Richard Ingraham
Stoneybrook Drive
James Dailey Brown
Friendly Street
Ernest Patrick McDaniel
Lake Drowning Ruled Likely Death by Own Action
SOUTHMONT The Davidson County Sheriff's Office said the drowning of 76 year old Jennie Edna Herren of Lewisville at High Rock Lake appears to be death by own action. Autopsy from Memorial Hospital Chapel Hill pending before a final ruling. Herren was found in about three feet of water off Holloway Church Road after driving to the lake and walking into the water. An earlier near-side death by own action near the parked car nearby was described. Herren had cared for children of a Lewisville family frequenting the lake area.
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Southmont
High Rock Lake
Davidson County
Jennie Edna Herren
Lewisville
Holloway Church Road
Paul McCrary
McCrary
Sedgefield Man Assaulted and Robbery Reported
Ellis A. Fredell of a Sedgefield area resident was cut on back and head by three or four males after stopping to use a telephone on High Point Road. Deputies report the incident occurred Monday at 10:25 p.m. and a knife was used. Jack Ray Jones of High Point reported a stolen Citizen's Band radio and other items from his truck during boat races at Oak Hollow Lake, valued at $291.
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Sedgefield-area
Ellis A. Fredell
High Point Road
Sedgefield
Fredell
Jack Ray Jones
Rt. 1
High Point
Oak Hollow Lake
None Hurt Seriously In Wrecks
Several persons were treated and released at High Treat Point Memorial Hospital for injuries after traffic accidents Monday. Susan Cruthis Walters of Ray Avenue faced charges for failure to yield at a stop sign after a two car collision at Ward Avenue and Cassell Street at 1 30 p m. Di Ann Williams of Rt 1 Sophia was involved and a second collision with a utility pole occurred. Di Ann Williams and Avis Williams of Rt 1 Sophia were hospitalized. Joseph Johnson 39 of N Centennial Street was charged with drunken driving stop sign violation and public drunkenness after a collision at Hoskins Street and Kivett Drive at 6 15 p m. Annie Martin Ellerbee of Brentwood Street who drove the other car was treated and released.
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Hightreat Point Memorial Hospital
Susan Cruthis Walters
Ray Avenue
Ward Avenue-Cassell Street
Di-Ann Williams
Rt. 1
Sophia
Avis Williams
Joseph Johnson
N. Centennial Street
Hoskins Street
Kivett Drive
Annie Martin Ellerbee
Brentwood Street
Phony Prophet Offers Calm Compound For Troubles
A terse saying assures that when life grows hard, a person nearby can reveal the reason behind the trouble and point toward solace or solution. The message frames distress as solvable through guidance from another.
ASK ANDY Explains Easter Bunny Origin and Babylon Time Math
The column traces the mythic Easter bunny origins from German famine tales to global adoption and explains time measurement history. It notes how farming festivals used eggs and rabbits, and describes Babylonian six and sixty based time system leading to 60 minutes per hour and 360 degrees.
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Canada
Germany
Andy
Babylon
Milk contract awarded to United Dairies
Lexington and United Dairies of Asheboro win the milk contract. United Dairies bids 10.31 cents per carton for white milk and low fat chocolate, 10.45 for regular chocolate. The 20 county schools buy between 350000 and 400000 dollars worth of milk annually.
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Lexington
United Dairies
Asheboro
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