By-Pass Route Proposed for High Point North South by-pass
Highway officials present a plan to create a traffic loop in the eastern section of High Point linking the superhighway with the Greensboro Road and possibly extending to Highway 311. Bert Winterbottom supports the plan but notes zoning and right of way challenges. planners consider widening Springfield and linking Deep River Road to form a fuller North South by-pass to save time.
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High Point
Greensboro
Springfield Avenue
Springfield
E. Green Street
Wade Road
Kivett Drive
Wade
Southern Railway
Greensboro Road
Five Points
Bert Winterbottom
Deep River Road
State Highway Patrol
Sink Thefts Charged To Two Men
David VanHoy and J D VanHoy both of Randolph Street are charged with stealing kitchen sinks and held on 200 bond to appear March 16 in Municipal Court for larceny and receiving. Floyd Barbee of Jamestown faces 100 bond for stealing a shoe valued at 20 to a Joe Barbee with a March 7 court date. John Richard Smith of Crestwood Park is charged with simple assault on Virginia Johnson and held on 100 bond for a March 11 court date. Earl Forrest of Oakwood Court Apartments is charged with issuing a worthless 10 check to J Curtis Joyce and held on 50 bond for a March 4 court date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David VanHoy
J. D. VanHoy
Randolph Street
R. L. Welborn
VanHoys
Floyd Barbee
Jamestown
Joseph Barbee
John Richard Smith
Crestwood Park
Virginia Johnson
Greensboro
Smith
Earl Forrest
Oakwood Court Apartments
J. Curtis Joyce
Forrest
Jamestown Students Take National Merit Exams
Jamestown’s Ragsdale High School junior class will take the National Merit Scholarship examinations on Tuesday. About 50 eleventh graders planning to test will spend most of Tuesday morning on the exams. Results are expected to be released during the 1960 61 school year.
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Jamestown
Ragsdale High School
Kenneth T. Miller
Five Inch Snowstorm Causes High Point Travel Havoc
A winter storm dumps about five inches of snow on High Point with freezing rain possible. Weather officials warn heavy driving hazards this afternoon and into tonight. Police urge avoiding travel and report numerous wrecks as schools close and city crews mobilize to clear streets.
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High Point
J. W. P. Mooney
Enterprise
Weather Bureau
Manufacturing Plant Gutted By Early Morning Fire
A three alarm fire gutted the Wilson Knob Co. plant on Kendall Street, with backfire from a furnace cited as the cause. Fire crews worked ten minutes to control the blaze, damaging the mid section and roof while wood stock in an adjacent building escaped. The firm makes drawer pulls and hardware for furniture. Earlier, a separate fire damaged the Alfred Edwards home on Scientific Road.
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Wilson Knob Co
Kendall Street
Scientific Road
Alfred Edwards
Low turnout for census tester drill at local armory
About 30 high pointers attended the enumerator test at the Armory. Census supervisor Walter H. Caulk said he expected 75 to 100 per session and noted a second test would be offered this afternoon with about 30 more residents planned. Weather blamed for light turnout. Caulk said 65 enumerators will cover 1,100 to 1,500 people each in High Point. tests begin with advance questionnaires and final census data due by December 1 with preliminary figures by July 1.
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Walter H. Caulk
Caulk
High Point
Lexington Youth Wins Morehead Scholarship
Thomas J. Koontz of Lexington and Edward J. Silber of Charlotte College are named junior college recipients of the John Motley Morehead scholarship program in Chapel Hill. Morehead announced 49 NC scholars with over a quarter million dollars added to the fund. Each scholarship covers four years at $1,250 per year for an all expense paid UNC education.
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Chapel Hill
Thomas J. Koontz
Lexington
Morehead
Koontz
Wingate Junior College
Edward J. Silber
Charlotte College
John Motley Morehead
North Carolina
University of North Carolina
Prayer for Today from Hoover Rupert in Ann Arbor
A devotional prayer asks for renewal of life and sincere humility as the spiritual path toward Easter. The speaker is Hoover Rupert, a minister at the First Methodist Church in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Christ
Amen
Hoover Rupert
Ann Arbor
Mich
First Methodist Church
Four Census Crew Leaders Named for High Point Area
Walter H. Caulk announced four High Point residents named as census crew leaders for the 1960 population and housing count. Iris McKelvey Richard Knapp Jr Estelle Arrington Leta Anderson will supervise about 20 enumerators each as the census begins April 1.
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Walter H. Caulk
High Point
Iris McKelvey
Hendrix St
Northwestern
Richard S. Knapp Jr
Louise Ave
Southwestern
Estelle J. Arrington
Oak View Rd
Northeastern
Leta N. Anderson
Jay Ave
Caulk
Realty Transfers in Jamestown Township and Nearby Areas
A stream of property transfers is recorded across Jamestown Township and adjacent developments. Transfers include multiple parcels in Ridgecrest Development Forestdale Development and East Green Street Extension among others, with various individuals and couples exchanging interests and property lots.
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Jamestown Township
Jamestown Development Co. Inc
Sandra J. Muse
Ridgecrest
Mary Lewis Millis
Henry A. Millis Jr
Pilot, Life Insurance Co
Earle Armfield
J. Ralph Sechrest
John J. Clark Jr
Forestdale
Delbert F. Everhart
Cates Brothers Inc
High Point Township
Ottis J. Steele
W. I. Brown
Davis Street
Melvin D. Robinson
Clayton V. Smith
East View
James Ruffin
David Watts Petree
Woodland Subdivision
Diversified Service Inc
T. W. Martin
Rotary Drive
C. L. Michael
Lessie R. Frienschner
J. C. Reynolds Jr
Valley Hill Park
Charles Eugene Staley
W. M. McLamb
East Green Street
Charlie M. Richardson
Grady O. Dinkins
J. Elwood Cox
Maurice C. Slack
Welborn
R. Malpass
Willowbar Terrace
Union Is Rejected In Kay Vote At Kay Manufacturing
Kay Manufacturing Co on Taylor Street faced a National Labor Relations Board election after a strike ended with pickets removed. Unofficial tallies show 14 for the union and 77 against, with numerous challenged ballots. Plant operations resume with a mainly full first shift and a partial second shift.
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Kay Manufacturing Co
Taylor Street
United Furniture Workers of America
National Labor Relations Board
Martin Tuska
Kay
Tuska
Permit Issued For New Home in Thomasville
Henry Easley received a permit yesterday to construct an eight room frame house on Afton Street. The 1,224 square foot home carries an estimated cost of 5000 dollars as listed on the building permit issued by city inspector Jim Miller.
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Thomasville
Henry Easley
Afton Street
Jim Miller
Worker Hurt In Bottoms-Fiske Accident
Fred Arnette of 212 Oakwood Ave. was struck by a forklift at the Bottoms-Fiske warehouse about 8 a.m. Saturday and was taken to High Point Memorial Hospital in good but uncomfortable condition. Union Local 391 offered financial aid to Arnette’s wife and five children amid the ongoing four month strike against the trucking company in two states.
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Bottoms-Fiske
High Point Memorial Hospital
Fred Arnette
Oakwood Ave
Arnette
Teamsters Union
Bottoms- Fiske
Ipay
Lloyd Huggins
Youth Fellowship hosts chicken pie and ham supper
The Youth Fellowship sponsors a chicken pie and ham supper at Pleasant Hill Methodist Church on Saturday night starting at 6 o'clock.
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Pleasant Hill Methodist Church
Camp Cheerio Work Plans For Civilians At Roaring Gap
Max Cooke of the YMCA spoke at the Civitan Club about Camp Cheerio, noting it will start with boys only this summer, with three sessions from June 19 to July 30. Final capacity reaches 120 campers, and girls join in 1961. A Good Citizenship Award plaque and director meeting followed.
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Max Cooke
YMCA
Roaring Gap
Civitan Club
Cook
Camp Cheerie
Cooke
Bill Ervin
Woodrow W. Robbins
Jim ,Crawford
Health Department
Jim Monroe
Twilight Civitan Club
Horace McKinney
Bruce Weavil
J. R. Crater
Headache Powder Theft Sentence Suspended
Elizabeth Warner, a 50 year old woman, had her active sentence suspended for two years after pleading guilty to stealing a 25 cent package of headache powders from a chain grocery. The judge cited her responsibility to her near invalid husband and ordered costs paid and good behavior.
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Elizabeth Warner
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By Forrest Cates
Enterprise City Editor
Dal Bayles
Police Traffic Bureau
E. P. Pearce Jr
Guilford County
City Public Works Department
High Point Enterprise
Frank Warren
Fiske
Camp Cheerio
Charles W. McAnally
Byron Haworth
Robert Bencini
Joe Lee
Bership Drive
Howard Coble
Dal Baylies
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