New Downtown Parking Lots Add 157 Spaces In High Point
Three new parking lots open this week in High Point with a total capacity of 157 vehicles. Two merchant operated lots on English Street and Willowbrook Street behind the Biltmore Hotel start immediately with 41 and 58 spaces respectively. A third lot, on Commerce and Willowbrook, owned by Dr. Lee Wireless, opens tomorrow with 58 spaces for monthly rental and daily use. Additional Wrenn Street lots already operate, with more possible in coming months.
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High Point
The
Merchants Association
Willowbrook Street
Biltmore
English Street
Dr. Lee Wireless
Commerce
Willowbrook Streets
Dr. Wireless
Wrenn Street
Weather Update Warns of Cooler Showers and Above Normal Temps
The weatherman says conditions will bring cool showers and warm spells with temperatures four to eight degrees above normal over the next five days. Today’s high is forecast near 81 or 91 with a low around 67, and overall there will be limited day to day changes.
Blood drive in High Point falls short of 454 pint goal
Red Cross officials warn that 454 pints are needed this year while local collection sits at 2 064 pints from a 2 207 pint usage total through May. Co chairs Fred Swartzberg and Jim Green urge advance donor registration as Marsh Furniture Co surpasses prior records by signing 50 donors for the Armory bloodmobile. Junior Red Cross students wash windshields at local plants to encourage donations between Thursday and Friday with hours set at 11 am to 5 pm and 10 am to 4 pm respectively.
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Red Cross
Fred Swartzberg
Jim Greenway
Marsh Furniture Co
Earl Wagner
Marsh Foreman
Armory
English Street
High Point
Adams Millis Vacation Pay For 1 831 Employees
Vacation payments totaling 48138 59 will be issued to 1831 AdamsMillis employees at High Point plants. Employees with five or more years receive four percent of six month earnings from Oct 1 1958 to Apr 1 1959. those with one to five years receive two percent. 1190 workers get four percent and 651 get two percent. Winter checks are issued before Christmas.
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High Point
Adams‘Millis
Building Inspectors Pick High Point for 1960 Meet
The North Carolina Building Inspectors Association chose High Point as its 1960 meeting site and named A. R. Strange, High Point building inspector, as one of two new directors.
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North Carolina Building Inspectors Association
High Point
A. R. Strange
Prayer for T Day and Seek Thy Way
A religious note urges awakenment to see God’s glory and hear His call. The fragment pleads for guidance and a place in fulfilling divine purpose, mentioning a minister and the First Christian Church.
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First Christian Church
Plant States Vacation Period
Hillcrest Plant of Burlington Throwing Co will be closed for employee vacations from next Wednesday July 1 to July 8. Employees will receive vacation pay based on length of service.
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Hillcrest
Burlington Throwing Co
Study of Violence Booklet Attacked by Talmadge
Sen. Herman Talmadge denounced a 30 page booklet on racial violence in the South as slanderous. The American Friends Service Committee southeastern office declined comment. The booklet, produced with Christ and the Southern Regional Council, cites crimes in the South from Jan. 1 to a reported 530 killings, beatings, and mob actions.
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American Friends Service Committee
Southeastern
Herman Talmadge
Georgia
Talmadge
Senate
South
American Friends Service Christ
New York City
Service Committee
B. Tartt Bell
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Campbell
Biltmore Hotel
Wheless
Commerce and
Willowbrook
Junior
Wiley
Jean Craven
Lynne
Carolyn Lawing
Uire
Jane
Tearue
High Point Enterprise
Southern Regional Council
Atlanta
Council
Ene
Plymouth
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