Ambulance Service Cut In A T Area Sparks Coverage Fight
Archdale Trinity residents lose continuous ambulance service when Ambulance Service of Guilford withdraws after Randolph County licenses Ridge McDowell Funeral Home to provide county wide service. Ridge McDowell will respond to emergencies in Archdale Trinity while county officials decide long term coverage. Davidson County EMS offered limited aid but WV remains unsettled.
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Guilford
Ridge
Archdale - Trinity
Randolph County Sheriff's Office
Asheboro
Randolph
Davidson County
Archdale-Trinity
Perry Whitman
Randolph County
Jim Warner
Thomasville
Trinity-Archdale
Planning panel okays 35 apartment zones despite homeowner protests
High Point Planning and Zoning Commission overridden homeowner opposition and approved 35 areas for MA and MB apartment zoning to be sent to City Council for final ordinance. Six sites drew petitions from residents of Emerywood Forest Cherokee Hills Brantley Circle and other areas citing traffic hazards and property devaluation.
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High Point Planning and Zoning Commission
Hillcrest
Westchester Drives
Emerywood Forest
Westchester and
Chestnut Streets
Cherokee Hills
Brantley Circle
Hillcrest Drive
Totera
Old Winston Road
Shadybrook
W. Lexington
Davidson County Line
E. Lexington
Guyer Street
Thieves Loot Eckerd Drug Store In Southgate Raid
Police found a pried rear door and a ripped safe after a 4 a.m. break in at Eckerd Drug Store in the Southgate Shopping Center. Thieves took cash from the safe along with watches cameras a movie projector two electric shavers and 350 cigarette cartons and an unspecified amount of drugs. No suspects yet. Also reported were two car damage incidents at Triangle Hosiery Mill lot with hubcaps missing.
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Eckerd
Southgate
Triangle
More Flexible Synchronized Lights on S Main Street
High Point traffic engineer R. V. Moss announces a new adaptive traffic light system on S Main Street five intersections from Kearns Ave to Nathan Hunt Drive. The system uses 60 70 or 80 second cycles, prioritizes directions with higher volume, and anticipates future expansion to N Main Street.
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R. V. Moss
High Point
S. Main Street
Kearns Avenue
Nathan Hunt Drive
Moss
S. Main
Warm Weather Continues With Rising Rain Chances
Forecast stays warm with a 20 percent chance of rain tonight and 30 percent for Wednesday. Tonight should be mostly fair with lows in the mid 60s, and Wednesday looks partly cloudy with highs in the upper 80s. Thursday mirrors little change. today's high tops in the upper 80s and last night’s low was 66.
Council Considers Delays in N Main Street Widening
City council members express alarm over delays in widening N Main Street from Bay Street to near the city limits. Merchants fear lost business while Mayor Davis urges contracting officials to push contractors and maintain progress toward the October completion.
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Council
N. Main Street
Bay Street
Robert Davis
Harold Cheek
Harold Craven
Cox Calls Off Jail Protests After Supreme Court Ruling
Rev. B Elton Cox announced that demonstrations against jail segregation in Greensboro and High Point are ended as the problem appears solved. He discussed the Supreme Court decision striking Virginia’s interracial marriage ban and urged continued nonviolent civil rights action. He noted expected desegregation steps in county jails and churches, and his plan to officiate a white man and Black woman marriage in North Carolina to test the 1875 provision.
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Greensboro
B. Elton Cox
U. S. Supreme Court
Virginia
Cox
High Point
General Assembly
First Baptist Church
High Point Human Relations Commission
Supreme Court
Eure
North Carolina
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Ray Hubbard
Archdale—Trinity
30Th Infantry
Ft. Bragg
113Th Artillery
Jerry Parrish
Forrest Cates
Enterprise
Parker
Bill Hylton
Sam Bridgers
Central Business District
Cbd
Main Street
Earl Warren
North Carolinas
Thad Eure
High Court
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