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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1970
Page
11
Archdale asks High Point if it would consider selling water to the newborn sister city. Mayor Robert Davis says High Point would study the cost and feasibility, weighing long term water needs and potential annexation or new systems, with Archdale census at about 5,209 residents.
The City Council plans to approve an interest supplement so the Redevelopment Commission can borrow 48000 from the federal government to finish survey and planning work on the Harrison Center project. HUD agreed to accept municipal pledges to cover interest above the NC 6 percent ceiling.
Postmaster Walter York holds out slight hope for a thaw after July 1 as Washington hints at lifting the federal construction freeze. The planned High Point main post office on E Green Drive has been in limbo since Nixon’s September 1969 freeze, with a March partial lift applying only to branches not main offices. Meanwhile a local air mail box atop a Henry Dowdy farm pole generates curiosity about future delivery.
Davidson County Commissioners approved a 125000 addition to the courthouse to prepare for state court reform this year. Plans by Allred and Mercer Architects were approved and bids will be sought next. The new facility will connect to the existing building at the rear.
Guilford County Commissioners set August 1 and September 1 tax payment dates with 1 percent discounts for August and September payments. They also declared July 6 a county holiday, scheduled a July 7 meeting, approved $160,000 for a Friendly Avenue water line loop toward Friendship Airport, and debated sewer and Long Branch water line projects.
David Andrew Dalton son of Mr and Mrs P Hunter Dalton Jr graduated May 31 from McCallie School Chattanooga Tennessee. He earned a cum laude diploma from the National Scholastic Society and received the Roy Jackson Jr Physics Medal plus a citation for independent study in biochemistry.
Guilford County Board of Commissioners rescinded six actions approved earlier and set them for reconsideration at the next regular meeting. The vote was 2 to 1 with Maxwell and Shaw in favor of rescission and Montgomery opposing. The move affects a 2 percent county pay raise, airport authority appointments, a new county health plan, tax job reclassifications, a Guilford Technical Institute land transfer, and a retirement appreciation resolution.
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