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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1962
Page
9
The high point forecast calls for a 90 degree peak today with mostly sunny skies. Tonight should fall to about 60 degrees and tomorrow’s highs near the upper 80s with a few clouds. Thursday remains warm with no rain expected.
The Chamber of Commerce launches the annual Clean-up Fix-up Paint-up drive starting May 14 east of Main Street and May 21 west. Volunteers will collect winter rubble, spruce up plants and businesses, plant gardens, and gauge vacant lots for improvement with contests and community involvement.
Police arrested Jimmy Ray Key and Jay L. Spencer on charges of malicious damage after suspects tore up a laundromat on English Street. Key also faces a concealed weapon charge after police found a .22 pistol in a car glove compartment. Both men set to stand trial May 16 with bonds posted.
Guilford County Commissioners delayed a civil defense proposal to use basements of Greens boro courthouse county home and the city county building as fallout shelters with capacities of 1200 150 and 900 respectively citing safety doubts and cost. Commissioner Carson Bain urged more study arguing basements with windows are unsafe and questioned spending 386000 for a below basement shelter at the Greensboro library.
A devotional prayer asks for close walk with God through Holy Week and into heaven. The text echoes Cleopas, asks Christ to be known in breaking bread, and ends with an Amen attributed to Scott Brenner of Philadelphia, editor of Today at Westminster Press.
Guilford County observes National Be Kind to Animals Week with an open house at the Guilford County Animal Shelter on Red Road. Hours are 1 to 3 and 5 to 7 p m daily through Friday and 10 a m to noon Saturday. Visitors receive animals toys and care booklets from the North Carolina State Veterinary Medical Association, tour with Humane Society members or shelter superintendent L L Nash, and learn about shelter operations under Sheriff John E Walters. Mayors Schenk of Greensboro and Stout of High Point join Walters and Lloyd Amos in inspecting the shelter with Guilford County Humane Society president George Black.
Senior students from Thomasville High School attend the annual Rotary Club Senior Banquet in the Balinese Room at the Robert E. Lee Hotel Winston-Salem. Principal speaker is Dr. I. G. Greer of Chapel Hill, former Baptist Children's Homes superintendent. Entertainment by the Dixie Colonels of High Point and Thomasville.
Preliminary plans for a 235 unit shopping center with nearly 150000 square feet of store space were submitted for a 15 acre tract at Westchester Drive and W Lexington Avenue High Point. George E Hutchens develops with Big Bear Supermarket and a drug store.
High Point Township Democrats meet at 7 30 p m in Court room 3 City-County Building to elect officers and qualify delegates for the Guilford county convention. Joseph M Hunt Jr of Greensboro will give the keynote at the Greensboro county gathering en route to the state convention May 17 in Raleigh Municipal Auditorium.
Mayor Carson Stout asks council and renewal authorities to reconvene for a second briefing on a 600 acre east central High Point urban renewal project. He wants Henry Price and associates to present a detailed breakdown of expenditures and noncash grants as questions from council members grow. A public hearing date remains to be set.
In city court the Brooks Street chicken coop case nears May 21 as Judge Haworth weighs odor and sanitation claims amid Lt. Richardson's findings of bad smells and possible rats. Co-defendants Dewey McCoy and Sam Rudd deny fault while nearby sewers are blamed.
Rev. Woodrow W. Robbins of Lexington Avenue Baptist Church led the second revival service on the topic How Sin Finds You Out. He warned that a guilty conscience exposes sin and cited King Saul and Judas, urging repentance at the cross and faith in Jesus. Evening services resume daily at 7:30 p.m.
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