Training at Fort Bragg honors veteran McBride's guardsman story
Major Hodgin highlights PFC Austin McBride, once understrength combat veteran, as an esprit de corps example. McBride earned the Combat Infantryman Badge and Bronze Star after leading seven German prisoners six miles to safety, turning down a Silver Star despite his war actions.
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FT. Bragg
Mac
David Hodgin
McBride
2Nd Artillery
Guard
Audie Murphy
Federal Marshal Crenshaw Arrested At Union Bus Station
Jesse Gwynn Crenshaw, 46, arrested at Union Bus Station on impersonating a law officer and loitering. Released on a $25 bond. Crenshaw, a familiar figure at the City-County Building, claims federal marshal status with a badge bought in a dime store. Police say he flashed it at a woman and children before officers intervened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse Gwynn Crenshaw
Union
Crenshaw
English Road
Jesse
High Point
Weekend Heat Persists With Humid Skies and Showers
The forecast calls for continued heat and humidity with partly cloudy skies. An evening of thundershowers is possible as a high near 90 today and a low around 70. Saturday’s high should again reach 90 with a overnight low near 72.
Zoning Plea Highlights High Point Planning Meet
Fairfield Plaza owners petition to reclassify from planned shopping center district to neighborhood retail as Monday planning meeting weighs fairness versus restrictive rules. Other items include industrial expansions Lincoln Drive Van Buren Street, rezone requests for Perkins Glue Washburn Oil Co, and KMart Plaza sign plans. Additional subdivisions and a draft ordinance on large-vehicle restrictions in East Central areas are on agenda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Fairfield Plaza
Planning and Zoning Commission
Tion
the Commission
Smith
Planning Commission
L. R. McMahan
Z. M. Ee
Lincoln Drive
van Buren Street
Perkins
Hickory Lane
Spencer
Westland
Wildwood
McGuinn Avenue
Delk-Lynwood
K-Mart Plaza
N. Main
J. Robert Blair
Oakview Estates
Langdale Drive
Briarwood Avenue
East Central Area
Jail Breakes Free Man In Greensboro
In Greensboro a prisoner named Eugene Gamble aged 20 escaped from county jail by prying bars and climbing a sheets ladder. He fled into a swamp off Interstate 40 as bloodhounds and deputies pursue him after a stolen car was spotted nearby.
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Greensboro
Eugene Gamble
Interstate 40
Gamble
Zoning Bill Defeated In North Carolina Senate
North Carolina Senate defeats zoning bill pushed by Senator William Z Wood of Forsyth. The measure would have protected preexisting structures from new restrictions after destruction by fire or other calamities and overruled local zoning ordinances on rebuilding nonconforming buildings.
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N.C
William Z. Wood
Forsyth
N. C. League of Municipalities
Whiskey History at Bardstown Shows 170 Years of Industry
Bardstown chronicles trace whiskey making from the Petes Rebellion era to the rise of famous American figures in the whiskey trade, detailing key roles and industrial evolution across generations.
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Bardstown
States
They Are Fighting A Civilized War
A Ft Bragg unit of guardsmen under Major Hodgin endures two weeks of simulated combat in southern France like duties. At camp, laundry trucks appear as workhorses and soldiers endure 5 a.m. starts, while movies play nightly and tents draw comfort with carpeted floors.
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John Baskin
Bragg
David A. Hodgin
France
Hs Point
Ft. Braggian Reservation
Hodgin
High Point
Theattalion
Jerry Stutts
New Shelter Prepared By Civil Defense
Civil Defense opened a new fallout shelter at the Perpetual Savings and Loan building with space for 100 persons. The city now has 21 shelters totaling 5 961 spaces, a deficit of 47 018 spaces. A lease on another shelter for 129 persons is pending as part of a 25 building program.
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High Point Civil Defense
Perpetual Savings and Loan Company
Spinnett
Randoph County Officials Seek Salary Increases
A bill sought from Senator Robert B. Morgan would raise Randolph County commissioners salaries to 325 dollars per month for regular meetings with 100 dollars for other members and set board of education pay at 250 dollars for the chair and 100 dollars for other members. The increases would apply July 1 1966 and include mileage for special meetings.
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Asheboro
Robert B. Morgan
Board of Commissioners
Randolph County
Board of Education
Jes
Driver Facing Third Manslaughter Charge in NC Crash
James Wayland Williams of Sea Grove is charged with his third manslaughter count after the deaths of Arley Campbell Richard Caviness and Raymond Brown in a Highway 42 collision near Fort Bragg. The crash involved Caviness's car and Williams's car, with two others injured.
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Ashebord
Rt. 1
Seagrove
James Wayland Williams
Arley Clyde Campbell
Rt. 4
Siler City
Campbell
Jim Fagher
Williams
Delk
Highway 42
Richard J. Caviness
Rt. 2
Bennett
Raymond Lee Brown
Brown
Caviness
Fort Bragg
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Young McBride
Johnson
Major Hodgin
National Guardsman
Austin McBride
Pokey
Don Follmer
Enterprise
High Point Enterprise
Washburn Oil Co
W. Lexington and
Westchester
Hazel B. Buchanan
James Road
Rolling Road
Samuel Shavitz
Elm and
Ward
James A. Mathews
High Playgrounds
Parks and Recreation Dept
Merchants Assoc
Pons Art
Thomasville
Curry Regan
Edward Hicks
Maj
Civil Defense
Randolph
Bill
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