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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1961
Page
13
Local draft boards and recruiting offices move to expand manpower after Washington orders more physicals for high pointers rising from three to twenty. No stated quota change for August but indications point to faster inductions for months ahead. Recruiters report heavy applicant traffic and expect quotas to rise to fill preferred service roles.
Two Thomasville residents were treated for injuries in separate crashes in High Point. Ulysses Marion Hiatt, 32, and Milton Avant, 24, were later released in good condition. Hiatt was cited for excessive speed after a collision on English Street that damaged a parked car and a utility pole. Avant struck a bread truck on English Street while its driver intended to turn. A third accident near S Main Street involved a 15 year old student driver. damage was minor and no charges were filed.
Police records show James E. Wilson and Victor S. Couch charged with issuing bad checks. Wilson allegedly passed 25 dollars to Sani tary Sea Food Market on July 22. Couch issued 24 dollars to Win-Dixie Stores. Separate charges include drunken driving for Kirby Don Moore, carrying a concealed weapon for Edward Lee Gibson, and reckless driving for Howard Killingsworth. Trials set in August with bonds posted.
The board of directors of the Day Center for Handicapped Children will convene at 4 p.m. Thursday in the director's room at High Point Savings and Trust Co.
The Lee's Rides, sponsored by Thomasville firemen, will run at Kern Street School playground through Saturday night starting at 7 p.m. Each evening features a ferris wheel, merry-go-round, scrambler, octopus, coaster, and child rides with proceeds benefiting the Firemen's Fund.
Guilford County Manager Harry Weatherly was named outstanding county official at the North Carolina association convention in Asheville. The honor, kept secret until last night, praised his 32 years of service and leadership, with remarks from James Townsend and Joseph Hunt. Weatherly, a UNC graduate, began as a truck driver for the county roads department.
Sixty nine citizen soldiers from Guilford Caswell Randolph Wake Rockingham and Orange Counties depart this weekend for two weeks of on the job training at Fort Gordon Augusta Georgia. They belong to Greensboro’s 422d Civil Affairs Company Army Reserve led by Lt. Colonel John F. Kelly. The unit will leave Sunday at 7 am and reach Fort Gordon about 3 pm. The 422d Civil Affairs is among more than 300 Army Reserve units of XII US Army Corps taking part in annual summer training.
Rev. C. Wesley Lovin of High Point was re elected president of the North Carolina Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Church at the annual meeting on the Shady Grove Camp Grounds. More than 500 attendees heard the event as Lovin begins a third term alongside officers Miller Gentry and Kiser with the conference ending Thursday or Friday. The gathering notes a $35 000 camp improvement and includes sermons by Rev. Paul Allred and Dr. B H Phaup of Marion Ind. There are six Wesleyan Methodist churches in High Point and others in nearby cities.
A brief prayer text urging turning to Christ amid confusion and the need to build a life rather than merely make a living. It closes with the witness of Jesus as the way to the Father. Read by Herschel 3. Dean of Weller Avenue Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
High Point citizens donated 388 pints of blood over Monday and Tuesday to lift the Red Cross blood program. The Bloodmobile at Wesley Memorial Church operated overtime to meet regional hospital orders. Dr Inez W Elrod thanked donors and volunteers, noting AB negative and AB positive supplies would enable two heart surgeries this week. Co chairmen credited 19 recruitment colonels and a generous community spirit for the turnout, including 80 first time donors. New Three Gallon Club member William C Cole of Thomasville. Joining Two Gallon Club members: Byron C Farlow James P Venable James P Greenway. New One Gallon Club members: Jack W Hunt Bobby J Fletcher Joe B Patterson Albert V Neal James RIchardson Barney J King Harold L Oldam Herbert E Ferguson James W Willard.
Billy Kelly Claude Blackmon and Bobby McDaniel, all 16, were brought to court on multiple counts of automobile larceny. Blackmon received two 30 day sentences for reckless driving and driving without a license and was bound over to Superior Court on three auto larceny charges. Kelly was bound over to Superior Court on two counts of auto larceny with a $1,500 bond. McDaniel faces one auto larceny count and related charges with a $750 bond. A juvenile suspect was also turned over to authorities. The trio reportedly targeted cars for thrill seeking since June 5, including stealing from English Motor Co and abandoned vehicles in Emerywood Estates.
Rep Ed Kemp told the Sedgefield Lions Club that a tobacco tax could fund an accelerated public education program, arguing a five cent cigarette tax and one cent on cigars and tobacco would raise about 25 million annually, matching grocery tax revenue. He praised 1961 legislature for broad reforms while criticizing redistricting and sectionalism. He noted his roles on the Congressional Districts and Finance committees.
The airport weather forecaster expects little change in the area wide pattern. Temperatures to reach about 91 today with overnight lows in the upper 60s. Through Friday expect similar warm conditions with a wide scattering of late day and evening thunderstorms cooling the Piedmont region.
North Carolina issued 17 427 310 in building permits in June across 36 cities of 10 000 or more population a 7 decline from June 1960 City totals include Charlotte 6 035 120 Raleigh 1 248 471 Greensboro 2 098 832 Durham 757 174 and Winston Salem 928 753 indicating sustained high construction activity despite the dip.
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