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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1959
Page
9
City budget estimates indicate the 1959-60 plan may exceed this year’s $6.196 million, but City Manager T. E. Hinson hopes to keep the tax rate at $1.20 per $100 value. Extensions for annexed areas, personnel limits, and efficiency drives shape the proposal as council weighs pay raises and new fire facilities.
High Point Attorney Edward K. Washington will accept nomination as Guilford County Superior Court assistant solicitor through the current year. He has served since April after Horace Kornegay’s illness and Claude Josey’s resignation May 31, with Kornegay praising Washington’s capability and noting he will remain on the staff through 1957 as salaries are county funded.
Arlie Dean Daniels thirty six, held in Thom asville city jail on an attempted reported incident of a minor child. Police say the 11 year old girl was lured into woods off Polk Street after riding a bicycle with him. Daniels denies mistreating the girl and says he did not see her on the day in question. The suspect, also known as Daniel Daniels, was held without bond following the warrant sworn by the girl’s mother.
Three defendants received active jail terms of 10 months, 7 months and 1 month yesterday in a municipal court session led by Judge Byron Haworth. A fourth man must serve 30 days as a city jail trusty. The cases involve resisting an officer, assault, public drunkenness, trespassing, larceny, reckless driving, and other violations.
Flames swept a wrecking yard threatening liquefied gas tanks and four gasoline trucks before East St. Louis firemen and four neighboring departments stopped the blaze within two hours. The MacArthur Bridge was damaged and closed after flames licked its supports, but disaster was averted.
Clouds move in this evening ending several days of clear weather. Overcast skies stay tomorrow with scattered showers likely and a possible cool-down. Temperatures hold firm with highs near 89 today and around 82 tomorrow. tonight's low near 67.
Twelve area students earned degrees at Duke University Monday as part of about 1,100 total degrees awarded to graduates from 36 states 12 foreign countries and the District of Columbia. Notable local honorees include High Point residents Albertson Armfield Peters Strasser Kaney McCulloch and Murr, among others.
A patrol car rolled backward after its emergency brakes failed on W Green Street Extension around 8 p.m. No charges filed. Officer Sterling Mattocks exited the vehicle as a private car driven by Robert Beeson, 33, Carrick Avenue, struck the open door. Total damage listed at 95 dollars.
High Point officials seek legislative redraw of annexation line near an unnamed creek east of Scientific Street after a subdivision was created outside city review. Bill Williams cites planning concerns and utility, tax, and protection service impacts. Rep. Ed Kemp expects a smooth change.
Thomas asserts a 50 acre park in Lexington is a major step to attract new industries and support existing ones. Westwood Development Inc of High Point will exercise its option to purchase, with Julian White and Wallace Brown leading plans to grade streets install curbing and guttering and extend water and sewer lines. The site near the Southern Railway lines and Highways 29 70 will be zoned for industry and sought to be brought into the city limits.
Resolutions from the Alaska Council of Churches annual meeting urge stronger divorce laws a ban on all gambling and tighter safeguards protecting natural parents in adoption cases in Anchorage.
High Point to switch 37 downtown signals to blinking red and yellow overnight. Each intersection uses red for one street and yellow for the other, with through streets on yellow. Blinking lines run from 12:30 a.m. to 5:30 a.m. weekday hours.
City hall sells copies of the revised Code of Ordinances for 35 dollars per copy. Yearly supplements cost 10 dollars. Lois Smith city clerk said the loose leaf volumes reflect changes since the last revision over five years ago. Copies available in the clerk’s office.
June graduates from the High Point area include William Thomas Peters of 828 Quaker Lane earning a Duke University degree, Lese Conrad Jr. son of Dr. and Mrs. F. L. Conrad with a Temple University sacred theology degree, Fred W. Moore Route 2 with a bachelor of theology from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, James C. Bollinger of Thomasville a graduate of Admiral Farragut Academy in Florida, Henry A. Foscue Jr. of 1026 Rockford Rd., Beverly Wilkinson of 1033 Rockford Rd., and others from McCallie School in Chattanooga.
A Greensboro man, 26, facing auto larceny charges after a car he was driving was reported stolen from Hillcrest Drive and found about ten minutes later in the 1000 block of North Main Street. The arrest also covers alleged damage to city property from a missed stop sign. The suspect faces a preliminary hearing June 19.
Thomasville reports W. R. Owen secured a zoning board approval to enable a Standard Oil Co. gas station on land at Randolph and Sunset. The site fails the minimum 120 foot depth rule at 109 feet, but the board granted the go ahead after years of negotiations and neighborhood opposition.
Descendants of the late E. E. and Addie Coltrane Spencer will hold an annual reunion at Marietta Club House on Sunday. A picnic luncheon is scheduled for 1 o'clock.
Prayer for Today asks eternal God to enter the heart and mind and bring light strength faith peace and order. The invocation ends in Christ's name Amen from Wilmette minister Charles M Crowe of Wilmette Parish Methodist Church.
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