Council Approves Transit and Downtown Tax District Plan
High Point council approved a compromise transit deficit plan targeting about 324000 dollars annual shortfall, with fare rise to 35 cents and 5 cent transfers, plus elimination of routes. They also created a five cent per hundred dollars tax district for downtown property to fund central business district improvements and hire staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Mortimer
Enterprise Sunday
High Point City
Dispatch Today
Kimley-Horn
Raleigh
Roy Culler
ATE
Bob Martin
Lexington
Russell, Westwood
Hamilton
Elm Streets
Central Business District
Council
Man Dies By Hanging In Guilford County Jail
John Richard Meredith 45 of Tomlinson Street was found dead by hanging in Guilford County Jail in High Point Wednesday night. He had been arrested by High Point police for public drunkenness and used a belt as a noose secured to a vent. He was moved to a single cell at 9:15 pm and found dead about 30 minutes later, the second jail suicide in three months after Ralph Cockman 40 died on March 8. Belts were not removed from incarcerated inmates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Richard Meredith
Tomlinson Street
Guilford County
High Point
Meredith
Guilford County Sheriff's Dept
Ralph Lawrence Cockman
Palmer Street
School Board Tax Increase Requests Debated Tonight
Guilford County officials prepare to hear the High Point Guilford County and Greensboro school systems requests for local tax rate increases to fund 1977 78 expenses and capital needs. High Point seeks 25 cents extra per 100 dollars value with 37 million local funds needed and 1 million from per capita aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Hawkins
Guilford County
Ogden Deal
High Point Board of Education
High Point
Board of Commissioners
Bert Hall
Greensboro
Hall
Commission
Gaston Faison
High Point City Adopts Fair Housing Resolution
High Point officials approve a nonbinding fair housing resolution to satisfy HUD requirements and oppose racial discrimination in renting and selling property while noting state law limitations on civil rights ordinances. The measure aims to encourage compliance without full legal enforcement. Concurrently the council discusses raising street paving payments by property owners, with a committee studying the impact before any change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forrest Cates
Enterprise
High Point
Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
Cy Brooks
HUD
Brooks
Arnold Koonce
Knox Walker
Bill Brewer
Mental Health Budget Tight as Guilford County Cuts Hit Services
Guilford County faces deep mental health budget cuts as Director Don Fontana reports 790000 in reductions across requests. The 5.1 million proposed budget adds 496500 from last year and funds a 300000 alcoholism detox program, with services such as emergency care, day programs, and sheltered workshop staffing reduced or eliminated. Public input urged preservation of services for special children while officials study adjustments before June 16 adoption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Hawkins
Greensboro
Guilford County
Aial Health Dept
Don Fontana
Board of Commissioners
Forrest Campbell
Mental Health Dept
Fontana
Are
High Point
Harold White
Faison
John Witherspoon
Kendall Center
Rambling Dogs Upset Gardener Sparks City Action
Ernest Bogle told the City Council that dogs overran his Motsinger Street garden ripping tomato plants and squash. He warned he may use a magnum pistol unless the leash law is strengthened with a steep fine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forrest Cates
Enterprise
Ernest Bogle
Bogle
Motsinger Street
Healing plants on display at High Point Museum exhibit
High Point Museum displays a collection of over 120 plants used by American Indians and colonists for daily ailments. Curator John Bauckman notes the material was gathered locally and dried with silica gel, with displays rotating every 60 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carol Wilson Utley
Lexington Avenue
Bauckman
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City Lake Park
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High Point Bank and Trust Co
S. Main Street
Bank Snokesman
University of Chicago
Louisiana
Appalachia
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