Parents Need Education Too Evaluation Committee Reports
A High Point committee finds many parents lack understanding of public school teaching methods, equipment, and programs. Board member Jay Thomas urges schools to educate parents about school activities and new methods, with elementary principal Emerson Heatherly reporting success from parent orientation at Fairview Street School.
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High Point Board of Education
Jay Thomas
Emerson Heatherly
Fairview Street School
Civitan program nods to parent orientation effort
Heatherly describes a Thursday visiting schedule at the school where about 30 parents are invited, 10 to 12 attend, with talks tours and demonstrations. He notes many benefitless parents fail to participate while principals plan similar efforts next fall. A review committee, formed December by Dr. John Bridgers, aims to evaluate programs though a formal system was scrapped. Heatherly’s parent orientation is the committee’s first product with more innovations expected.
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Heatherly
John Bridgers
U S Soviet pollution treaty brag not rivaled by 1972 reports
In a 1972 briefing, officials assert US pollution lead over the Soviet Union and claim superior auto production, energy use, and waste disposal programs. They dismiss Soviet parity goals, tout multiple pollution weapons, and argue satellite imagery showed the US environmental edge over Los Angeles as proof of decisive advantage.
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United States
Soviet Union
Los Angeles
11 County COG Set to Discuss Long Range Development
The Piedmont Triad Council of Governments会 meets at Friendship Airport for a June session to review a 20 to 30 year regional development concept. Executive director Lindsay Cox says tentative approval would let the plan be shared with local government units for feedback. The group may add a $63,000 federal grant to the 1972 73 budget effective July 1 to support a regional water sewer study.
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Greensboro
Piedmont Triad Council of Governments
COG
Lindsay Cox
Friendship Airport
Council of Governments
Cox
Choice Tentative Armory Site is Selected
The High Point armory site was tentatively chosen as city officials aim to negotiate a land deal worth about 250000 in exchange for an expenditure under 120000. City Manager Harold Cheek and Lt. Col. Hubert M. Leonard discussed the proposed eight to ten acre site and the national guard construction plan approved in 1971.
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National Guard
Harold Cheek
The
National
National Guard Division
Leonard
County Delays Zoning Change in Guilford County
Greensboro area builders press for higher density under planned unit developments proposing up to six units per acre in some areas while maintaining 20 000 square foot lot sizes in watershed zones. County commissioners postpone action until a public hearing at 7 30 p m and reconvene Friday to decide.
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Greensboro
Guilford County
Robert Shaw
Public Hearing Decision Looms On Guilford High Point Zoning
Guilford County commissioners weigh whether a public hearing is needed before extending zoning power to High Point. Assistant County Attorney to determine necessity as maps show proposed extra territorial area from Forsyth County through Skeet Club Road and Penny Road toward High Point City Lake. If approved July 1, High Point would control new land. hearings may be required to set districts including planned unit developments and water sewer needs.
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Guilford County
High Point
Ralph Walker
Milford County Planning Department
Percy Sears
Richard Maxwell
Virtanen
Forsyth County
N.C. 68
Penny Road
Walker
Jamestown
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