Rural garbage firms seek rate hike amid rising costs
Guilford County commissioners hear a proposed minimum increase of at least $1 by five rural garbage firms citing higher labor travel and equipment costs. Attorney John Hughes says a county landfill would help but not eliminate rate needs. hearing extended to April 20.
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Greensboro
Guilford County Board of Commissioners
John Hughes
Modern
Garbage Service, Inc
Randolph County
Guilford County
Hughes
Forsyth County
Mecklenburg County
Alamance County
Rain Forecast for High Point Area Tonight Through Wednesday
The High Point region likely sees rain tonight with a 70 percent chance and 50 percent on Wednesday. Temperatures will be cooler with a low tonight in the upper 30s and Wednesday’s high near 50. Last night’s low reached 23 degrees.
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High Point
12 Year Old Wins Globe From Andy
Julia Miller of High Point won a large world globe after submitting a question to the Enterprise feature Ask Andy. Her summer hailstone question prompted Andy to explain hail formation, noting warm surface heat and cold aloft create thunderheads with updrafts that freeze raindrops into hail.
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Julia Miller
High Point
Julia
E. Dayton Ave
Enterprise
Andy
Davidson County Man Charged With Drunken Driving
THOMASVILLE A Davidson County man was charged with drunken driving after his car was stopped near here Monday night. John Wesley Rhodes 48 of Rt. 2 Lexington was charged by highway patrol officers.
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Thomasville
Highway Patrol
Davidson County
John Wesley Rhodes
Rt. 2
Lexington
Russian-Born Woman Praises American Freedoms at Dinner
Nila Magidoff, now a U.S. citizen and wife of wartime NBC correspondent Robert Magidoff, spoke to the High Point Executives Club at the Thomasville Woman's Club. In her talk “My Discovery of America” she recounted her Russian imprisonment and exile, her return after World War II, and her view that America represents a better system. Mark Ethridge introduced her. Ethridge’s wife authored a biography titled Nila.
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Thomasville
America
High Point Executives Club
Nila Magidoff
Executives Club
Woman's Club
Magidoff
Russia
United States
Soviet Union
Americans
Mrs. Magidoff
Congregation Votes to Oust Its Pastor at Calvary Baptist
The Calvary Baptist Church at 808 Hilltop St voted 102 to 90 to dismiss Rev. Benjamin C. McCaskill as pastor in a meeting held under a March 12 Superior Court order by Judge Robert A. Collier Jr. McCaskill contested the action, while observers and both sides’ attorneys attended the session supervised by City Attorney Knox Walker.
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Calvary Baptist Church
Benjamin C. McCaskill
Hilltop St
Superior Court
Robert A. Collier Jr
Mr. McCaskill
Knox Walker
Collier
Guilford County Democrats Far From Full Slate for County Race
Guilford County Democrats hold two of three county commission seats with Bob T. Andrews filing for the third seat. Republicans trail with two candidates and optimistic ahead of the May 2 primary. The filing deadline looms as party leaders weigh further entries and potential House and Senate contenders.
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Guilford
Guilford County
Bob T. Andrews
County Board of Commissioners
Andrews
High Point
Allen Jay
Dale Montgomery
High Point Township
House of Representatives
GOP
Coolidge Murrow
Ralph Slate
Senate
Elton Edwards
L. P. McLendon
Hargrove Bowles
Thomas B. Sawyer
Sawyer
McLendon
House
Enterprise
Richard Pugh
Asheboro
Odell Payne
Payne
General Assembly
McLeansville
Unc-Ch
State House
Charles Phillips
Charles Webb
Henry Frye
Marcus Short
W. H. Barnett
McNeill Smith
Roger C. Gibson
E. N. Estrem
Andy Troxler
Bob Andrews
Thomas E. Wright
Paul Gibson
W. C. Bean
Joseph Kore
Superior Court
UNCCH
Davidson County Mobile Home Regulation Takes Effect May 1
Davidson County’s health department will enforce a new health ordinance regulating mobile homes starting May 1. The measure, approved by the County Board of Health after protest from Hasty residents and others, requires permits, set lot sizes, and sanitary standards for parks and individual homes with a 90 day compliance window for existing parks.
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Lexington
Davidson County
Dermont Lohr
Lohr
County Health Department
Davidson County Board of Health
Health Department
Commission
Shott Hartman
Hasty
Thomasville
Saphire
Jim Varner
Varner
Ex-Ambassador Bohlen to Speak on Eastern Europe Policy
Former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union Charles E. Bohlen will address American foreign policy in Eastern Europe at Wake Forest University during the spring convocation on March 24. The talk is part of a two day symposium on Eastern Europe.
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Winston-Salem
Charles E. Bohlen
United States
Soviet Union
Eastern Europe
Wake Forest University
Bohlen
Guilford County approves pay hike to hire more deputies
Sheriff Paul Gibson welcomed a unanimous plan by the Guilford County Commission to add 23 deputies and raise salaries by 10 percent. The changes, effective April 1, aim to attract qualified officers, expand the criminal division, and improve patrols, with total program cost about 200000 dollars.
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Greensboro
Paul Gibson
Guilford County
Sheriff's Department
Tain
Gibson
Charles Forbis
Forbis
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