State money shift could double High Point street funds
A state study from the Highway Commission suggests one cent per gallon from the motor fuel tax would boost High Point streets funding to about 666 thousand dollars, up from 339 thousand this year, with Jamestown and Greensboro also gaining significant increases. Murrow noted broad legislative activity on redistricting, budget study, and liberalized abortion measures as the session moves forward.
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High Point
State Highway Commission
Chamber of Commerce
Coolidge Murrow
Planning and Research Department
Murrow
Community paint project led by Redevelopment Commission
Volunteers Hale and Terry Dorsett participate with Doober Newby Don Hanson and Fred Bass in a neighborhood repair effort. Bass, a Redevelopment Commission official, coordinates the work with the Neighborhood House Council on this ongoing community project.
Denton Boy Wins Contest With Snake Question
Jimmy Diehl, 15, of Denton Route 2, a Denton High ninth grader, raises snakes for profit and won a World Book Encyclopedia by having his question printed in the Enterprise Ask Andy column. His item discusses why snakes cannot blink and traces snakes’ evolution from lizards, noting early burrowing origins and later reliance on light.
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Denton
Jimmy Diehl
Rt. 2
Denton High
Jimmy
Mildred Diehl
Ask Andy
Enterprise
Miss Puss
Earth
Nine Now On Council Tickets In High Point Race
Two new filings bring High Point city council contenders to six Democrats and three Republicans for eight seats in the May 4 election. Republican John H. Russell and Democrat E O Lane filed for first ward seats while incumbents pursue re election avenues. A. G. Whitener leads for mayor from the American Independent party. Russell, Lane, and other announced candidates are named with brief bios and party affiliations.
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High Point
A. G. Whitener
American Independent Party
John H. Russell
E. O. Lane
Russell
Buckaroo Steak Ranch
Lane
Coy Putman
Fred Swartzberg
Holt McPherson
the Enterprise
Paul Clapp
Bill Bencini
J. Ivan Jester
Larry L. Underwood
Whitener
Georgia
High Point Central High School
First United Methodist Church
Plans to Convert Old School Abandoned by City Officials
Plans to convert the old William Penn High School into a multipurpose center have been dropped after negotiations between the City Council and the High Point Board of Education. Costs and leases were weighed against building a new center near Leonard Street, with the project now unlikely to proceed.
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Ray Hubbard
Enterprise
William Penn High School
High Point Board of Education
Leonard Street
Model Cities
John Thomas
Bill Bencini
Southside
Fairview Street
William Penn
al Hinson
Board of Education
Guilford Technical Institute
Perpetual Savings approves new variable mortgage rates
Perpetual Savings and Loan Association directors approved a mortgage rate cut and a new variable rate system starting at 7 percent. A. Scott Parker Jr. announced the change, saying it targets more home and commercial construction in the High Point area to boost money flow into construction trades and the furnishings sector.
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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 swore in as president at the family home in Plymouth VI. 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
Robbery at Big Bear and other weekend incidents
Thieves opened the safe at Big Bear in East gate Shopping Center Friday night and took several hundred dollars. The intruders entered via a roof vent and used a key and combination before leaving through a cut stock room door. Police linked other weekend thefts including a $17.80 cash loss from Doug's Cafe and a $150 plus change missing from a juke box. A 15 year old girl was detained for concealing merchandise at Mann Drug. Additional arrests covered forgery, weapons, and drunken driving.
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Big Bear
Eastgate
Doug
English Road
Mann
E. Green Drive
Virginia Johnson
Clara Cox
Prentice Southern
Franklin Street
Jessie James
Grimes Street
Martha Baxley
Whiteoak Street
E. Washington Drive
Guilford County Bingo Bill Could Legalize Local Games
State Senator Coolidge Murrow said a bill to legalize bingo in Guilford County would be introduced in Raleigh. It would allow bingo run by religious civic veterans charitable fraternal or trade groups with no county limits beyond sponsorship details.
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Guilford County
General Assembly
Raleigh
Coolidge Murrow
Murrow
Mecklenburg
Guilford
Edgecombe
Pitt
Nash and Graham
Rac’n’cue
Army- Navy Union
American Legion
I. T. Mann
Ralph Walker
Clam King J Edwin Treakle Dies at 93 in Virginia
J Edwin Treakle of Mathews County once operated two stands at Fulton Fish Market and sold thousands of clams daily from New Bedford beds in Massachusetts. He retired to Samar kand in Mathews and founded the Treakle Foundation in 1963 after a long career in shellfish trade. He had been homebound after a fall injury.
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Mathews, Va
J. Edwin Treakle
Mathews County
New York
Fulton
New Bedford River
Massachusetts
Treakle
Samarkand
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High Point Human Relations Commission
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Henry Sellars
E. Fairfield Road
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Coletrane Avenue
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Archdale
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Rt. 6
Thomasville
Johnny A. Harrington
Kivett Drive
B. C. Johnson
Ennis Street
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Hodgin Street
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Guyer Street
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