No Approval Yet Elwood Action Stymied In High Point
Enterprise report details a Monday meeting of the High Point Redevelopment Commission over the Elwood Hotel site at E High and S Main streets. Developer L Ray McMahan aims to build a four story complex with banking and retail space on the ground floor, a cafeteria on the second floor, and offices on the third and fourth floors. McMahan says he cannot secure a department store tenant and expects costs around 2.5 million dollars. Downtown merchants and the Merchants Assn oppose the prior bank only plan, preferring more retail space, while the commission debates the best use of the corner. The session adjourned to 3:30 p m Wednesday for further consideration.
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Ray Hubbard
High Point Redevelopment Commission
Elwood Hotel
E. High
S. Main Streets
L. Ray McMahan
Redevelopment Commission
Commission
P. Hunter Dalton
McMahan
Controls Are Needed for Triad Park in High Point Watershed
L C Williams, High Point utilities director, warns that Triad Park within the city watershed could threaten water quality and quantity. He notes ongoing consultant work and urges safeguards and water release agreements as Guilford and Forsyth voters consider bonds for park financing on June 3.
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Triad Park
High Point
L. C. Williams
Williams
Guilford
Forsyth
City Lake
Shields Honored as Citizen of the Year by Civitan Clubs
Shields, longtime High Point educator and former police lieutenant, receives 1989 Citizen of the Year honors from the High Point and Twilight Civitan clubs at a YWCA ceremony. James E. Hall presented the plaque citing 40 years in teaching and police work, including starting driver education in 1945 with 6,500 pupils taught since then. A public meeting will discuss plans for Piedmont Regional Park ahead of a June 3 bond referendum for park funding and water sewer lines.
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J. Frank Shields
High Point
Twilight Civitan
YWCA
James E. Hall
North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction
Shields
Hall
High Point Chamber of Commerce
Piedmont Regional Park
Dan Odom
High Point Civitan Club
Odom
Butch Lipe
A. J. Simeon
Weather Outlook From Friendship Forecasts Warm Week
The weatherman at Friendship reports continued warm, mostly fair weather for the next few days. Rain chances are near zero tonight and about 10 percent for Wednesday, with Thursday turning partly cloudy and warm and possible afternoon thundershowers. Today's high and Wednesday’s are expected in the mid 60s, with tonight’s low in the upper 50s. Last night’s low was 56.
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Friendship
Zaro
Dorn Favors Nixon Proposal
Rep. Bryan Dorn of South Carolina says he supports Nixon’s plan to make it a crime to mail obscene literature to minors. He condemns the flood of pornographic material as a threat to morals and public health and links it to crime, drug use, and social decay.
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Clemson
Bryan Dorn
Nixon
Dorn
South Carolina
Postmasters Convention
City Elections See Light Turnout at Polls
Forrest Cates reports a quiet election with about 2,700 primaries from 20,000 eligible voters and a projected turnout near 5,500 for mayor and eight council seats. Republicans back Mayor Davis seeking a four-seat council edge while Democrats lack a mayoral candidate, making turnout key to party control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forrest Cates
Robert Davis
A. G. Whitener
Davis
Two Men Questioned in Death of Asheboro Woman
Randolph County Sheriff Libya Brown questioned two men in connection with the death of 52 year old Pearlie May Farr Marks of Asheboro found in a farm pond near the Asheboro Municipal airport. The men were found beside a car linked to the victim on N. C. 22 near Utah. the car held the men’s belongings. The billfold was recovered. Page 5-B reference.
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Asheboro
Randolph County
Libya Brown
Pearlie May Farr Marks
Mt. Gilead
Brown
N. C. 22
Utah
Davidson County Endsorse Anti Annexation Bill in Raleigh
Davidson County Commissioners officially endorsed a Raleigh bill to limit city annexations across county lines. The measure, proposed by Joe H Hege Jr and Eugene Snyder, would require approval from the annexing county before a city crosses into another county. The board also discussed unpaid Baptist Hospital bills, water line needs for Thomasville Furniture Industries, and school system construction funding.
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Lexington
Davidson County
Raleigh
High Point
House of Representatives
Joe H. Hege Jr
Eugene Snyder
Hege
J. C. Glosson
Jim Warner
Baptist Hospital
Winston-Salem
Davidson
Huss
Seven Year Old Killed In I-85 Crash
Leslie English Brooks seven year old daughter of Ann Kearns Brooks died in a Monday I-85 wreck en route to Alamance County Hospital. Her mother was injured and hospitalized. The child, born August 13 1961 in Greensboro, was a second grader. survivors include brothers Howard and Thurman Brooks and various grandparents. Funeral arrangements set for Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church Chapel.
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Burlington
High Point
Leslie English Brooks
Alamance County Hospital
Ann Kearns Brooks
Charles Kearns
Rockford Rd
Brooks
High Point Memorial Hospital
Greensboro
Palms Apartments
Howard
Thurman Brooks
Kearns
Earl S. Brooks
Wilson
Gurney H. Kearns
Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church
James G. Huggin
Sechrest Funeral Home
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Elwood
Orige
The
Merchants Assn
Downtown Development Corp
Bank
High Point Enterprise
Frank Shields
Dick Swain
L.C. Williams
Park Lakes
Civitans
Burchette Enterprise
Hiram Ward
Denton
Warner
Bill Everhart
Shott Hartman
Hartman
Robert Huss
Thomasville
Fair Grove
North Davidson Junior High School
Welcome
Davidson County Community College
Davidson County Library
Moore-Gardner Associates
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