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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1965
Page
9
The High Point Chamber warns against rushing to relocate I 85 south of its present path. City leaders discuss moving about three miles, with a Raleigh hearing outlining that no new four lane route has been surveyed yet and that federal 90 percent funding remains in play.
The High Point Parks and Recreation Department took deed to a site for a new city park from Kavanagh Smith Co. The report includes concessions committee findings and council recommendations. A citizen proposal to adopt daylight saving time is considered. Blair Park Golf Course score cards and supplies are discussed pending sufficient funding.
The High Point Youth Ministry announces a second annual Time Out Lenten series for students from 7:30 to 8:00 a.m. in Wesley Memorial Church chapel near Central High School. Representatives from participating churches choose the Easter theme for daily life in school and home.
Republicans call a 7:30 p.m. meeting at the County Building to map plans for the May 4 city elections. Hutchens notes the committee will review objectives for retaining control of city offices including the mayor and eight council seats. The April 20 primary will pick nominees. four wards elect ward representatives and four are at large. Some Democrats favor abolishing wards for population balance.
The swearing in will be part of the first meeting of the new High Point Civil Defense and will open a twice weekly training program for several weeks. The session starts at 7 30 p.m. Civil Defense Director George Spinnett said yesterday about 42 women have volunteered for the Women's Light Rescue Squad.
Elder Mathew Green of Ocala Florida conducts a series of Seventh Day Adventist services at Baldwin's Chapel on Olga Street. The meetings began March 2 and run through this week. Each gathering starts at 7 30 p.m.
K Mart Family Discount De Store to open this fall on N Main Street in High Point. 12 acre site just north of Kiddie Tot Hosiery Mills, east side of Main. Druid De Kalb Corp. of Atlanta to plan develop. Store will have 40 departments, supermarket and auto set. George McVinnie of Atlanta cites Kresge study and universal money back guarantee as key to success.
Parks and Recreation and W. T. Grants invite youngsters to a kite contest at Washington Park stadium this Saturday at 10 a.m. Five prize categories will be awarded. if weather cancels, the event shifts to the same time and location on the following day.
A cool air mass brings a low of 38 tonight with a high near 50 on Wednesday. Last night’s low was 44 as light rain remains possible in the region.
Fire crews investigated three incidents blamed on furnaces. At Jo Anna Ferguson’s Alfred Street residence a flooded oil furnace was found. George Kepp’s Verndale Drive home reported a fired furnace issue. N C Weisbecker’s Hillcrest Drive dwelling faced a defective exhaust problem.
Deputy Ernest Rahten told Parliament that Venetare will not import coal this year due to a miner shortage and a lack of satisfactory pay for Slav mines, with one thousand mines reportedly idle.
A girl sustained a leg fracture after a car driven by Richard P. Crell hit another vehicle. The incident occurred as cars traveling on Hamilton and nearby streets stopped for a light. Damages totaled $110 for the Anderson car and $75 for the Crell car, with additional damage to a Pinegrove Drive vehicle and a city truck backing into a car.
Edward N. Post, partner at Morgan Byerly Post and Keziah, was named chairman of the American Cancer Society 1965 April Crusade in High Point. Mrs. Edward Silver, president of the local board, said his strong cancer control interest will boost education and fundraising. The campaign will stress the Tell Your Neighbor approach with volunteers delivering leaflets about cancer and the society’s programs. Last year the High Point chapter raised 15000 dollars and distributed educational leaflets. Post also noted as one of five outstanding local Jaycee presidents in the United States and was named Young Man of the Year in 1962.
Gilbert Yates of High Point was awarded 15000 dollars in damages from Bobby Price formerly of this city now at a Rockingham County prison farm. The May 1963 hit and run at Hayden Place and Broad Street left Yates injured and hospitalized for 11 weeks. The suit filed by Yates against Price was unanswered.
Dr J W Wilson biologist at the University of North Carolina Greensboro will speak in the High Point College Biology Department seminar on March 8 at 10 20 am.
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