Youths Arrested For Thefts In Local Stores
Three youths aged 15 and 13 were turned over to High Point Juvenile authorities after allegedly taking items from five city stores totaling 36 dollars and 54 cents. Stolen goods included knives books and sporting gear with about a hundred pieces missing. Stores named include Sears Grant's Bookstore Koontz McGhee Drug Co Kress 5 & 10 and Woolworth's. Police also recovered Rabbi Herbert Silberman's late model sedan and seek two teens seen leaving the vehicle.
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High Point
Sears
Grant's
Koontz - McGhee Drug Co
Kress 5
Brantley
Prayer for TOYDAY Faith and courage in times of fear
A prayer by Roy H. Stetler of Harrisburg Pennsylvania asks divine strength to keep faith steady in fear filled times. It seeks a seed like growth bearing courage to serve others and to live dangerously for the Kingdom with not my will but thine be done.
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Jesus
Roy H. Stetler
Harrisburg
Evangelical United Brethren Church
Grads Told They Face Vital Choice
High Point High School graduates hear a warning from Dr. Wendell M. Patton about facing a defining moment as the 366 seniors begin life after school. Principal D. P. Whitley retires next month amid tributes while Dr. Dean B. Pruette lauds his work and urges reliance on local college standards for teachers.
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John Savas
High Point High School
High Point College
Wendell M. Patton
D. P. Whitey
Dean B. Pruette
Whitley
Pruette
D. P. Whitley
W. A. Tomlinson
Evelyn Thompson
Florence Womack
W. H. Marlette
Harry D. Hawthorne
Sylvia Freeman
Ann van Hook
Two Veterans to Leave High Point Civil Service Board
Two veteran members of the High Point Civil Service Commission will depart July 1 under a rotation rule. Gene Horney and Morris Jones will exit after seven-year terms, leaving a vacancy created by Bob Davis’s resignation for a City Council seat.
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High Point Civil Service Commission
Gene Horney
Fire Department
Morris Jones
Bob Davis
Jim Lovelace
Davis
Carson Stout
City Hall
Commission
Two Youths Sentenced Over High Point Road Race
Two teenagers Clifton A Hughes Jr and Randolph H Hutchens were sentenced to eight months with suspended terms for a Sunday morning road race on Highway 68. Each paid 250 dollars fine plus costs and surrendered cars to owners. Cars were linked to other than the defendants, with Hughes’s turned to Southern Motor Co and Hutchens’s to George W Hutchens Jr.
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Jon Haworth
Clifton Alexander Hughes, Jr
Westchester Drive
Randolph Harris Hutchens
Hillcrest Drive
Haworth
Hutchens
George W. Hutchens Jr
Hughes
Southern Motor Co
Highway 68
Highway Patrol
Holmes’ Store
High Point
C. D. Fox
Young Hughes
E. Homestead Avenue
Shower Activity Continues Despite Thunder Showers
A Weather Bureau forecast warns of widely scattered thundershowers today and tomorrow in the Friendship area. Temperatures will range from the mid 60s to 90 with partly cloudy skies. Rain yesterday totaled .17 inches, plus .05 inches today as the area remained unsettled.
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Friendship
U. S
High Point May Break Into Randolph County Annexation Moves
High Point eyes Randolph County land for annexation as two property groups file petitions. A 6.1 acre tract near S Main and E Fairfield Road could become a shopping center under Greensboro businessmen if approved. A four acre site at Prospect Street and Bethel Drive is planned for S and G Building Co. If zoning and construction align, both annexations may be approved. county taxes would continue while city taxes apply.
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Forrest Cates
Enterprise
High Point
Randolph County
Randolph
North Carolina
S. Main Street
E. Fairfield Road
Greensboro
City Planning and Zoning Commission
Prospect Street
Bethel Drive
S, and G, Building Co
Fairfield Road
Main Street
City Considers Special Zone for Shopping Centers
City planners weigh a new shopping center zone as Four major centers are planned including a Westchester Drive regional center. Proposals include enlarging a Southgate site on S Main at Branch and rezoning to neighborhood retail. Utilities to extend Sewer and Water pending. Landmark actions mirror Charlotte zoning provisions.
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City Planning and Zoning Commission
S. Main
Branch Street
Westchester Drive
Southgate
Charlotte
High Point
Westchester
Utility Pole Plea: Auto Ram Into Pole Damages Pole
A car, rolling down a hill with no brakes, struck a utility pole near a driveway injuring no one and causing $25 pole damage and $450 car damage. On Sunday a separate two car crash damaged a carport. John Furman Jones was cited for improper parking.
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Pearl Fox
Woodbury Street
Memorial Hospital
John Furman Jones
Wendover Drive
Local youths enter July Soap Box Derby in High Point
Thurston Ray Rice Jr. age 11, from Rt. 1 Jamestown, a fourth grader at Jamestown School, will race in the July derby. Gayland S Powers 13, of 812 Winslow St, Union Hill School seventh grader, hobbies include photography and 4H. Clark W Allred 13 of 1409 Wise St, Ferndale Junior High seventh grader, enjoys model planes cars sports and racing.
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Thurston Ray Rice Jr
Ray
Rt. 1
Jamestown
Thurston
Gayland Powers
Gayland S. Powers
Winfred O. Powers
Winslow St
High Point Jaycee Club
Gayland
Union Hill School
Clark W. Allred
Wise St
High Point
Young Allred
Charles W. Allred
Ferndale Junior
Clark
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Tory
Dal Bayles
Steele Street
Grads
Civil Service Board
Guilford County General Assembly
Lovelace
Te Ing
Kroger
Patsy Estella Johnson
Estella Clark
Brooks Street
Woman's Prison
Raleigh
Wake Forest College
C. B. Deane
Rocking
Civitans
Civitan
Larry Mallard
Twilight Civitan Club
David Tillson
Joe Leonard
Lex
Ington
Charles Spencer
Ivan Crissman
Darrell Pierce
John G. Hutchens Jr
Big Bear Food Store
Corporation
Branch
Linden Street
Wachovia Bank
Duke Power Co
Soapbox Derby
Thurston Ray Rice
Clark Allred
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