Bus Rams Building Injures Eight In City Crash
A Consolidated Bus rammed an automobile on Main Street at Westwood Drive injuring eight people including the driver Victor B. Cox and seven passengers. They were taken to High Point Memorial Hospital as police charged Cox with unsafe move.
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Main Street
Westwood Drive
Consolidated
Victor B. Cox
North Drive
Margaret Beamer Kearns
E. Lexington Avenue
Bill Hylton
Kearns
Cox
Leeamer Jones
John Saulter
Sherrod Street
Jesse Erlene Washington
Cedrow Avenue
Patricia Ann Hall
Louisa Austin
Camden Street
Louella Floyd
Barbee Street
Rosemarie Henderson
Beaumont Street
High Point Memorial Hospital
Brentwood
Drew Streets
Edgar Lee Little
Drew Street
Richard Michael Loflin
Cable Street
Sarah Francis Green
Rt. 2
High Point
Hillcrest Street
Rotary Drive
Virginia Ragsdale Cox
W. Farris Avenue
Area Radar Unit To Be Inactivated
The 810th Radar Squadron at Winston-Salem Air Force Station near Union Cross will close by October under Pentagon economy moves. The Union Cross facility will be inactivated, with 130 military and 20 civilian jobs cut and excess parts of the station set for disposal.
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Winston-Salem Air Force Station
Union Cross
Pentagon
Winston-Salem
Daniel Henkin
Congress
City Building Permits Top $1 Million in February
Free Ian Hill reports High Point city permits reached 1 007 344 during February with 107 permits issued. Housing led activity at 28 units valued 487 900 followed by 30 business projects worth 382 520 and 19 840 square feet of manufacturing space plus 16 723 square feet of business space.
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High Point
Ian Hill
Hill
Norman A. Wiggins Named Task Force Chairman
Governor Bob Scott announced Norman A. Wiggins president of Campbell College as chairman of the State Task Force. The appointment places Wiggins at the helm of the new investigations and policy efforts.
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Raleigh
Bob Scott
Norman A. Wiggins
Campbell College
Training Course On Flight Instrument Techniques Offered
Guilford Technical Institute will run a flight instrument training course starting Wednesday. Classes meet Wednesdays and Thursdays 6 30 to 9 30 p m covering Instrument and Systems IFR Regulations and Procedures IFR Planning and VOR Flight ILS and ADF Approaches and IFR Clearance Shorthand. A 13 member committee will study sentencing and court delays in North Carolina with members including Jim Bullock and Arch K Schoch Jr among others.
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Adult Education Department
Guilford Technical Institute
High Point
North Carolina
Scott
General Assembly
Jim Bullock
Raleigh
Giles R. Clark
Elizabethtown
Leon Corbett
Wake Forest Law School
Winston-Salem
Court of Appeals
R. A. Hedrick
Superior Court
Henry A. McKinnon, Jr
Lumberton
Marcellus Buchanan Ill
Sylva
Arch K. Schoch Jr
Stewart R. Warren
Clinton
Dock G. Smith Jr
Robbins
Harold Waters
Jacksonville
Jack Gulley
Duke University
William van Alstyne
Durham
Fair And Cool Weekend Forecast For The Area
Weather watchers at the Friendship station expect a fair and cool weekend with clear skies today turning partly cloudy Sunday. Temperatures should reach the mid 50s both days, with overnight lows in the low to mid 30s and a 0 percent rain chance today and tonight, 10 percent on Sunday.
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The
Friend
High Point Science Fair Winners Named
The High Point City Science Fair announced winners across junior and senior divisions for physical and biological categories. First place honors went to Sherry Livengood, Dean Keith, David Joyce, and Chuck Ward with multiple runners up andHonorable mentions listed, and the winning exhibits will be displayed at the Wake Forest district fair on March 21.
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High Point
High Point City
Sherry Livengood
Dean Keith
David Joyce
Chuck Ward
Ronald Phillips
Cherree Maners
Kenneth Parker
Sandy Gilchrist
Debbie Jenkins
Tom Terrell
Kenneth Nelson
Terry Culler
Chris Exline
Hal Safrit
Mary Barber
John Lindsay
Chiquita Tillman
Mendee Ellis
Ann Butterworth
Mark Braunstein
Deborah Scott
Davis Talley
Wake Forest
Carter Seeks Davidson County Commission Seat
L. F. Chuck Carter filed to run for a Davidson County Board of Commissioners seat. A Lexington resident and Thomasville Furniture employee, Carter is a first time candidate, with three children including a son in Vietnam, and faces Whitey Smith and Wade Yarbrough in the Democratic field.
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Lexington
Davidson County Board of Commissioners
County Elections Board
L. F
Chuck) Carter
Rt. 9
Thomasville Furniture Industries
Thomasville
Davidson
Pink Hill
Davidson County
Mary Blevins
Vietnam
Central Davidson High School
C. A. (Whitey) Smith
Hasty School
Wade Yarbrough
Classes Added At DCCC This Spring In Davidson County
Davidson County Community College will offer over 80 adult education courses next quarter expanding options in creative arts family life trades and vocations personal interests and business training. New offerings include mechanical drafting furniture drafting construction drafting and a dry cleaning and pressing course taught by Ken Neil at One Hour Martinizing in Thomasville. Judo self defense will be taught at the Lexington YMCA by Phillip M Seubering with local contact Vernon Lamoureaux. A receptionist course and a six hour mouth to mouth resuscitation class will also be available with details and scheduling through Ballard.
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Thomasville
Davidson County Community College
L. H. Ballard
Ballard
Ken Neil
Neil
Randolph St
Lexington Ymca
Phillip M. Seuberling
Vernon Lamoureaux
Helen M. Batts
City Tax Collection Reported for High Point and Guilford County
The Guilford County Tax Department reported 92.96 percent of the 1969 High Point city levy collected totaling $4,099,570.07 from a $4,409,969.76 levy leaving $310,399.69 uncollected. Through February, county taxes reached 93.99 percent with $19,639,572.17 collected of $20,896,114.59. Discounts for early payments totaled $13,336.59 for High Point and $74,363.91 for Guilford County.
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Guilford County
City of
High Point
C. R. Brooks
Brooks
City of High Point
Thieves Hit Burton Upholstery And Local Homes
Thieves entered all vending machines at Burton Upholstery Inc causing unspecified cash loss. A tape player and 30 tapes worth 220 dollars were stolen from a car in the Adams-Millis lot discovered by John Davis. A Richland Street break in and a burglary at Bertha Jacobs home were reported late Friday.
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Burton Upholstery, Inc
Adams-Millis
John Davis
Richardson Street
Richland Street
Bertha Jacobs
Man Bound Over On Assault Charge In Davidson Court
In Thomasville a High Point man Larry Barnes 23 bound over to Davidson County Superior Court for trial on assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill after Wiley was struck with a rifle. Judge Barbara Queen signed the warrant. solicitor Michael Lea reopened the case. Other items include a $50 fine for Vann W. Gordon for indecent exposure and several drunken driving and motor vehicle charges with various outcomes.
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Thomasville
Recorder’s Court
Davidson County Superior Court
Larry Barnes
Wiley
Barbara Queen Barnes
Michael Lea
Vann W. Gordon
Cedar Lodge Road
Frank A. Beard
Gorpf
Della Rose Beard
Bower Leon Curry
Rt. 1
Charles B. Floyd
Randleman
Jack Nance
Cedar Lane
Clayton Nance
Joe H. Bryant
A Avenue
Henry Clay Hale
William Morris
Bryant
Morris
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High Point Enterprise
Art Richardson
Jim Stratford
Carter
DCCC
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