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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1960
Page
35
Sunshine and warmer weather sparked a surge in Downtown High Point shopping as Greater High Point Days drew crowds after three weeks of snow disruptions. Merchants reported a pickup in traffic and spring merchandise interest, with Easter ahead and car dealers hopeful for a spring sales boost. Food stores held steady, while expectations for a stronger period as weather improves remained high.
The first day of spring will be cloudy and cold with a 9:43 a.m. high of 48 degrees, lower than the normal 61 for March 20. Tonight and Monday bring partial to fair skies but continued cold with highs in the low 50s, while lingering snow may still be visible. Weather officials attribute the chill to a Nevada high pressure system and a nearby low, with slow eastward movement delaying any warm-up.
One Way Streets switches take effect at midnight in High Point as downtown Hamilton and Wrenn Streets convert to one way. Hamilton northbound and Wrenn southbound between Howell and Grimes Avenue. Main Street stays two way. Mallory becomes Grimes Avenue one way east.
North Carolina will host the states first summer graduate level health education workshop at High Point College. Dr. Gilman Hertz says the program runs June 13 to July 8 with daily sessions. Four hours of undergraduate credit offered.
High Point resident Fred W. Simmons 46 began serving a three to five year active sentence for manslaughter in Stokes County Superior Court last month. He turned himself in March 12 to address a $2,500 estate settlement and had been under a suspended sentence with conditions including no driving and no alcohol. The incident involved a fatal crash near Pilot Mountain on Sept 19 with Edna Huffman and Northcutt. Prosecutors dropped murder and larceny charges as part of a guilty plea to manslaughter under a compromise handled by local counsel.
Rusty Taylor of Greensboro introduced guests as George W. Randall, appointed Director of North Carolina Prisons, spoke as substitute district treasurer. Randall urged members to read history and pursue civic life, while the Kiwanis club honored life and political service awards at the Senior High cafeteria. The Rev. A C Waggoner gave the invocation as the group, part of the Carolinas District Key Club, held its last session before upcoming voting.
The Roger Kirchofer Post 206 of the American Legion will award a $400 scholarship to the best essay on what a father has taught about citizenship. Eligible are students in grades eight through 12 in High Point city schools and Trinity Allen Jay and Jamestown. Essays due last day in April, judged by school officials, then a final panel. The winner receives the prize at a Father's Day week banquet. the father gets a plaque. If the winner is in eighth grade, funds are saved for college. The post commander is Gary Mabry. post home on the highway by-pass.
At a two day Key Club convention, C William Nelson of Melbourne Florida urged members to resist temptations and engage in politics and crime prevention especially juvenile crime. He cited 46 percent of major crime being by 18 year olds and recounted his Europe border trip. New officers for the year were elected Edward Boston Persons Killed? and others, as Swink Saunders delivered the farewell address.
Forrest Cates calls The Tingler a vivid jolt that revived his dull TV diet. Vincent Price plays a scientist who fears a fear monster inside the body, with a morbid plot involving a deaf mute wife and a series of grisly experiments culminating in a suspenseful climax.
Virginia M. White of Route 2 High Point found her brand new car missing from a Washington Street lot after work. The vehicle was repossessed by a finance company for a non paying customer and later returned, explained as a mistaken identity by those involved.
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