Wills Defends Response To Icy Highway 311 Bridge
High Point public works chief Carl Wills defends his department for not sending a salt truck after an icy bridge on I-85 over Highway 311. He cites a state responsibility but says any danger to life would override the agreement. Police noted two crashes and six injuries as salt and sand actions were coordinated.
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High Point Public Works
Highway 185
Carl Wills
I-85
Highway 311
S. Main Street
High Point
Public Works Department
State Highway Dept
Wills
Haley Sharp
Public Works
Green Drive
Sharp
Jamestown Center Rising With Winn-Dixie Man Drug and Fortney Offices
Steel supports and masonry rise for a $435 000 one story Jamestown shopping center on U S 29 A east of Main Street. The 29 700 square foot facility will house Winn Dixie Mann Drug and the offices of Dr A P Fortney. E E Younts Inc builds for Dow Fort Corp in a late summer opening.
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U.S. 29A
Jamestown
Winn-Dixie
Mann Drug Co
Dr. A. P. Fortney
Main Street
Scientific Road
E. E. Younts, Inc
Dow- Fort Corp
Voters Show Primary Interest as Registrations Rise in High Point
In Guilford County North Carolina registrations surge for the May 6 primary with 18 to 20 year olds joining the rolls. Officials note over 1 000 new young voters and 500 registered through the Guilford County Campaign for Young Voters.
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High Point
Guilford County
Elva Smail
County Elections Board
Guilford
Weekend Traffic Wrecks Hospitalize Three in High Point
Three of sixteen weekend injuries remained in satisfactory condition at High Point Memorial Hospital. The report details two Saturday wrecks near 185 and S Main, a separate English Road crash, and multiple Sunday incidents on Montheau Avenue Westchester Drive and Hickory Chapel Road with several drivers charged for violations.
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High Point Memorial Hospital
Westchester Drive
Chestnut Street
Kenneth James Johnson
Mayview Street
Wayne Franklin Weaver
Rt. 8
Lexington
Johnson
Fire in chair damages Nancy McCarney home
Fire and smoke damaged a single living room at 221 Gordy St where a chair ignited in the weekend blaze. Fire crews said careless smoking was the probable cause.
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Nancy McCarney
Gordy St
Wreck Victim Identified In High Point Crash
Minnie White 32 of Park Street was killed in a 4 p m Saturday wreck on Highway 62 west of Kersey Road. Blanche Woodlief Cox 51 of Route 3 survived with injuries and was in satisfactory condition in High Point Memorial ICU. The collision involved Colossie Epps Jr. 24 of Davis Avenue driving west when a slick spot caused his car to veer into Cox’s eastbound vehicle. An earlier report misidentified the Cox vehicle.
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S. Main Street
Thomasville
Michael Stanley Morris
Danville
Hugh Weldon Cobb Jr
Reidsville
Morris
Cobb
Laura Sutorius
Greensboro
English Road
Barker Avenue
Charles Thomas Terrell
Bradley Street
Timothy James Terrell
Waverly Court
Charles Samuel Holley
Academy Street
Daniel Boone Hulon
Taylor Street
Carolyn Elizabeth Shell
Rt. 5
Hulon
Whittier Street
David von Hampton
Meadowbrook Street
Montheu Avenue
Oakwood Cemetery
Flora W. Thomas
Guyer Street
Dewey Worth Thomas
Guyer
Joseph Clyde Burnette
Rt. 1
Woodlawn
E. Green
Mangum Avenue
Burnette
Bernice Ezekiel
Asheboro
Anderson Place
Edward Parker Buck Jr
Burns Junior Hughes
Jamestown
Eastchester Drive
Countryside Drive
Hughes
Rodney Darrell Peguese
Kroll Lane
Billy Gray Cox
Avondale Drive
Hickory Chapel Road
Triangle Lake Road
High Point
Minnie White
Park Street
Blanche Woodlief Cox
Route 3
High Point Memorial Hospital
Colossie Epps Jr
Davis Avenue
Epps
Cox
Highway 62
Kersey Road
Archdale to View Answer on Water Supply Plan
Archdale City Council will hear High Point’s response to Archdale’s second plea for a stable water supply. The plan relies on deep wells with a High Point backup, contingent on HUD and Piedmont council approval. High Point stance remains unchanged from December 1970, with ownership safeguards for future exit. Council to recognize William Farlow for the city seal and discuss street paving policy and ET boundary survey costs.
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Archdale
High Point
U. S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
Piedmont Council of Government
William Farlow
Letter Reunites Man With His Three Children
A long lost reunion unfolds after a letter to The Enterprise from Helen M. Andrews of Moscow Idaho locates her father William Ruffin Andrews a Chapel Hill manufacturer s representative. He learns his former wife and three children in Idaho Virginia now plan to stay in touch with him and resume contact after 15 years apart.
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High Pointer
High Point
N. C
Enterprise
Helen M. Andrews
Moscow
Idaho
Andrews
Chapel Hill
Virginia
Chapel
Maryfield Director Honored in Golden Jubilee Ceremony
Sister Mary Patrice marked fifty years as Superior of Maryfield Nursing Home in High Point with a two day observance that drew religious leaders state officials and hundreds of well wishers. Mass featured a papal blessing from Archbishop Raimondo and messages from Pope Paul VI and Gov. Bob Scott.
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Roehampton
London
England
Mary Patrice
Maryfield Nursing Home
High Point
Penny Home
Old
Greensboro Road
Maryfield
Pope Paul VI
Vincent S. Water
Raleigh
North Carolina
Bob Scott
Patrice
Southern Furniture Club
Michael J. Begley
Charlotte
Waters
Luigi Raimonde
Washington, D.C
Mary Assumption
Ed Mendenhall
Attitude Key For Handicapped Citizen Of Year Urie
Robert M Urie, longtime St Andrews College rehabilitation director, overcame polio to win North Carolina Outstanding Handicapped Citizen of the Year. He emphasizes attitude and access as crucial, urges ramps and accessible facilities, and notes his family supporting his rise from dairy farmer to doctoral work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan Haislip
Arie
Bob Scott
Urie
Mason- Dixon Line
St. Andrews
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