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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1962
Page
9
PETE GIBSON outlines High Point substandard housing criteria in a proposed ordinance. The article explains inspector duties, minimum room sizes, and required facilities, plus occupant duties and the likelihood of gradual changes rather than immediate widespread violations.
About 250 business leaders heard Joseph W. Lund of the R. M. Bradley Co. lecture on downtown development and urban renewal. M. Z. Perkinson was named Merchant of the Year, while Zeke Ellis became president with a slate of new officers.
Surgeon testifies about graft attempt after the Haas neighbor's dog ripped part of Charles Schubert’s right ear last June 6. The Schubert family seeks 50 000 dollars in damages and 7 500 dollars in medical expenses from Robert and Betty Haas.
W Lyman Dillon and 87 other students are named to the Dean's List for the spring semester at Davidson College. The list honors high academic achievement among enrollees, including Dillon, son of Mr and Mrs E C Dillon, of 513 Mont heu Ave.
A High Point resident faces flood risk after buying a home likely to flood during heavy rain. City policy limits city help to street runoff. private yard drainage and storm drains fall to property owners. Inspectors can restrain unsafe foundations but cannot stop inundation from cloud bursts. City crews only clear private ditches in emergencies after public pressure and lawsuits.
The High Point board of education meets tomorrow at 2 p.m. in the administration building with two hearings on Ferndale Senior High School renaming at 2 p.m. and reassignment at 3 p.m. The panel also considers appeals from parents over 1962-63 school assignments.
A Winston-Salem man, Thurman Cox, was sentenced to five months on the roads for fighting sheriff's deputies and a drunkenness charge from June 23 at the VFW hall near High Point. Judge Haworth imposed 30 days for drunkenness and four months for fighting. Other cases included Robert James Bishop bound for Superior Court on forgery and worthless checks totaling 90 days on the roads, Ronald Baldwin bound over for breaking and entering and larceny with a $500 bond, and Ralph Floyd convicted of trespassing on Emerywood Country Club property. See Page 5-B.
A 15 mile north High Point sewer outfall section was finished this week ending a 1.5 million project. The line covers annexed areas from E Lexington Ave to Kivett Drive and Oak View, with plans for a lift station and smaller outfall. New contracts for service lines and a $9 million bond program support broad utility expansion.
David W Kestler of High Point teaches at the six week advanced school for IRS agents in Greensboro. The course is at Guilford College Greensboro division with about 125 students enrolled.
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