Money Bills Pending Legislation Viewed By Murrow
State Senator Coolidge Murrow outlined a plan to let cities keep one cent of motor fuel tax, boosting High Point funds for streets to about 666 thousand dollars from 939 thousand. The study also predicts increases for Greensboro and Jamestown while funding shifts from the Highway Fund.
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Jim Hawkins
High Point
State Highway Commission
Chamber of Commerce
Coolidge Murrow
Planning and Research Department
Murrow
Jamestown
Greensboro
Volunteer Painters Hale and Terry Dorsett
From left in the rear are Doobér Newby, Don Hanson and Fred Bass. Bass is an official of the Redevelopment Commission which, with the Neighborhood House Council, coordinated the paint project as one of many continuing community initiatives.
Denton Boy Is Winner In Contest
Jimmy Diehl age 15 of Denton Rt 2 shows reptiles interest by catching and selling snakes. He recently contributed a question to the Enterprise ody column about why snakes cannot blink. The tale traces snakes evolved from burrowing lizards 60 million years ago and their eye evolution.
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Denton
Jimmy Diehl
Rt. 2
Jimmy
Mildred Diehl
Ody
Nine Now Seek Council Seats In High Point Race
Two new filings today, boosting candidates for High Point city council to six Democrats and three Republicans. Democrat E C Lane filed in first ward. Republican John H Russell also filed in first ward. Whitener of the American Independent party remains the only mayoral candidate. incumbents largely silent.
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Av. G. Whitener
Américan Independent Party
John H. Russell
E. C. Lane
Russell
Lane
Putman
Fred Swartzberg
McPherson
the Enterprise
Paul Clapp
Bill Bencini
John ‘Thomas
Swartzberg
Richard
D. Cullom
Lee
J. Young
J. B. Gibson
Plans to Convert Old School Abandoned After Talks
Ray Hubbard reports that plans to convert the old William Penn High School into a multipurpose service center have been abandoned. City officials had explored using the Penn building and nearby Leonard Street site for a Model Cities multipurpose center to save funds versus building anew, but Model Cities staff and education leaders halted pursuit. The Penn building currently houses auto mechanics and bricklaying classes and hosts Guilford Technical Institute adult education.
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Ray Hubbard
Enterprise
William Penn High School
Cowincii
High Point Board of Education
Leédward Street
Eenna Chiles
Ithe Conversion Cama
John Toman
Bill Benalnl
Tha
Soho
al Hinson
Model Cities
Board “of Education
Wiliam Penn
Guilford Technical Institute
Plana
Leonard Street
Perpetual Sav ings and Loan cuts mortgage rate to 7 percent
Perpetual Savings and Loan Association directors approved a new variable mortgage rate starting at 7 percent. A. Scott Parker Jr. announced the change, saying it aims to boost new home and commercial construction in the High Point area and accelerate money flow into construction trades and the furnishings industry.
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Perpetual Savings and Loan Association
A. Scott Parker Jr
Association
Parker
Perpetual
High Point
Coolidge Takes Presidential Oath at Family Homestead
Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office as president at the family homestead in Plymouth, Vermont. The ceremony was administered by his father, John Coolidge, a notary public and justice of the peace.
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Calvin Coolidge
Plymouth
John Coolidge
Thieves Open Safe at Big Bear Shoplift Cash
Police report thieves opened the Big Bear East Gate Shopping Center safe Friday night and took several hundred dollars. The robbers entered through a roof vent and used a key and combination to access the safe. They left by cutting a stock room door lock. A separate break in at Dotg's Cafe on English Road involved a trap door under the building and a hole in the kitchen floor. about $17.80 from a cash register and $150 from a juke box were taken. Cigarettes were found nearby. A 16 year old girl was taken into custody after allegedly concealing merchandise at Mann Drag. Weekend complaints include a $50 watch from Clara Cox Apartments, a car clutch from Franklin Street, canned foods theft on Grimes Street, a bicycle from Whiteoak Street, and a coin laundry break in with $3 taken. Several arrests were reported for forgery, carrying a concealed weapon, DUI, obstructing an officer, disturbing the peace, reckless driving, and possession of non tax paid whiskey.
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Eastgate
Dotg
English Road
Mann Drag
E. Green Drive
Virginia ‘Johnson
Clara Cox
Prentice Southern
Franklin Street
Jessie James
Grimes Street
Martha Baxley
Whiteoak Street
E. Washington Drive
Henry Sellars
E. Fairfield Road
Franklin Eugene
Brown
Coletrane Avenue
Raymond I. Barnett
Archdale
Johnny Henry Warr
Thomasville
Johnny A. Harrington
Kivett Drive
B. €. Johnson
Ennis Street
Shirley Janice Broady
Hodgin Street
Charles James Leach
E. Commerce
William Joseph Carr Jr
Guyer Street
Dewitt Carpenter
Murrow to Introduce Local Bingo Bill in Guilford County
State Senator Coolidge Murrow says a bill to legalize bingo in Guilford County will be introduced in Raleigh. The measure would permit bingo operated by six types of organizations and remove county limitations, expanding past exemptions in Mecklenburg and other counties.
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General Assembly
Raleigh
Coolidge Murrow
Murrow
Elvic
Mecklenburg
Guilford
Edgecombe
Pitt
Nash
Graham
Guilford If. S
Navy Union
American Legion
I. T. Mann
Ralph Walker
Clam King Dies at 93 in Mathews Virginia
J Edwin Treakle known as the clam king for world’s largest shellfish trade died Sunday at 93 in Mathews County native who ran two stands at New York Fulton Market and profited from a New Bedford River clam bed. He retired to Samarankang in Mathews and founded the J Edwin Treakle Foundation in 1983 after a long career. He had been homebound after an eight year- old injury.
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Hera
J. Edwin Treakle
Mathews County
New York
Fulton
New Bedford River
Massachusetts
Treakle
Samarkang
Mathews County I
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