Carrick Absta ins New Republican Council
After taking the oath for mayor pro tem High Point’s mayoral pick sparked a clash over committee assignments. Council members debated rotating chairmen and two year terms while factions split along official and opposition lines. A substitute to set two year terms and replace Eshelman as mayor pro tem failed.
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New Republican Council
Forrest Cates
Enterprise City
High Point
Paul Clapp
Mehan
Eshelman
Lawrence Hancock
Official Party
Clapp
Janes Shelton
Virgil Carrick
Arnold Koonce Jr
Bill Bencini
Mass Meeting on High Point Cafeteria Sparks Debate
A Citizens Committee meeting in the Municipal Courtroom discusses the local school lunch program. No speakers represented the High Point concession cafeteria, while NC officials explained federal guidelines and local control.
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The
Citizens Committee For the
Bank Loans In District Decrease
Richmond report shows total business loans from 19 large Fifth District banks fell by 16.5 million to 1.052 billion for the week ended May 8. Real estate and domestic bank loans rose while securities buying and certain consumer loans declined. Demand deposits dropped and time deposits rose as investments edged up.
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Richmond
Federal Reserve Bank of
Fifth District
Beer permit revocations hit two High Point Legion posts
The North Carolina ABC board revoked the beer permits for I. T. Mann Post 87 on W High Street and Roger Kirchofer Post 206 on the superhighway effective May 27. Convictions of post employees and managers in High Point Municipal Court April 19 on prohibition charges prompted the action. The board announced the revocations at a Raleigh meeting.
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American Legion
High Point
State
ABC Board
I. T. Mann
W. High Street
Roger Kirchofer
George Grissett
Ray Wheatley
van B. Mowery
Kirchofer
Johnnie Hill
Sanford Scots
Raleigh
Cloudy Skies and Rain Forecast for Next Two Days
Weather outlook calls for considerable cloudiness and scattered showers over the next two days. Forecaster at Friendship Airport notes a warming trend tonight and tomorrow with highs around 72 today and 78 tomorrow, and lows near 60 and 55 respectively.
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Friendship
Machinery Show Opens Tomorrow in Greensboro
Rep Horace Kornegay will speak and cut the ribbon at the opening of the American Wood working Machinery and Equipment Show in the Greensboro Tobacco Warehouse. The event runs 10 a.m. to May 21 with delegations from Japan and Europe and an expected 15 000 attendees. The WMMA sponsors the show every five years.
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Greensboro
Horace Kornegay
North Carolina
Greensboro Tobacco Warehouse
Old Highway 70 East
Assn
Kornegay
W. M. York
Baxter D. Whitney
WMMA
Winston - Salem
Ex-High Pointer Wins City Council Seat
J. T. Moran, formerly of High Point, won a City Council seat in last Tuesday's election. He finished second with 64 votes and, with his wife, owned Moran's Motel at 709 Forrest Avenue in High Point.
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Kure Beach
J. T. Moran
High Point
Forrest Avenue
Thew
Moran
Moitel
City planning board gives tentative thumbs up to 100 acre industrial park
The planning board approved a 100 acre tract near Greensboro Road east of Enterprise Street for a Planned Industrial Park and deferred a second Williard property tract south of Cedrow until study and buffer plans are completed. Residents protested rezoning, arguing potential devaluation of homes and uncertain demand.
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City Planning Board
Singer Fidelity Co
Municipal Court
Williard
Nan W. Garland
Greensboro Road
Enterprise Street
Cedrow Avenue
Cedrow
Southern Railway
Arch Schoch
Schoch
Planning Board
Fred J. Harb
N. Main Street
Westover Drive
Harb
Odell W. Brown
Hickory Chapel
Triangle Lake Road
Brown
Charles E. Smith
Smith
E. Fairfield Road
Brentwood Street
Judge Orders Woman To Move From House
A Grant Street woman convicted of operating a disorderly house was ordered to vacate by 6 p.m. Judge Byron Haworth warned she must move or face an active sentence. Several defendants faced assault and drunkenness charges, with varying penalties including suspended sentences and cost payments.
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Grant Street
Jackie Laurine Carroll
Jamison
Ackwith
Woman's
Frances D. Ford
Ferndale Drive
David Dunlap
Tryon Street
Beauford Odell Ball
Rt. 1
Kernersville
Ball
H. L. Fields
Hamilton Street
Unknown Phrase Origin Through Peacock Display
A strange line explains the origin of a boastful expression by noting the peacock’s display of a colorful tail to emphasize status and importance. The description links the habit to human vanity and social signaling.
High Pointers Re-Elected To YMCA Interstate Committee
Holt McPherson and Richard D. Meisky of High Point were re elected to a three year term on the Interstate Committee of the YMCAs of the Carolinas at the North and South Carolina convention in Montreal. McPherson enters his fifth year of YMCA service in guidance and fitness programs for youth and adults. The committee coordinates new YMCAs Industrial Management Clubs Y-Indian Guides and all youth activities across 52 associations in major Carolinas cities and communities plus twenty one areas without local YMCAs.
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Holt McPherson
Richard D. Meisky
High Point
Ymcas of the
Carolinas
Ymcas of
North and South Carolina
Montreal
McPherson
Young Men's Christian Assn
YMCA
North
South Carolina
Twelve Divorces Granted at Local Municipal Court
Twelve persons were granted divorces as the Municipal Jury Court term opened. Grounds included two year separations for Thaynie Shannon from James Shannon and Frances Cagle from Larry Cagle among others, with additional adutery grounds cited for Frances M. Cagle.
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Thaynie C. Shannon
James O. Shannon
Fred Junior ‘Cagle
Esther Maness Cagle
Maxine H. Bain
Donald A. Bain
Kenneth L. Thomas
Oneta Smith Thomas
Hazel Slader Phillips
James Butler Phillips
Lucille C. Brogden
Marvin Richard Brogden
Morris C. Adams
Yvonne Adams
Lorene P. Mills
Johnson Millis
Brenda Jo Wilson Wilson
James Efrid Wilson
Bertha B. Swaim
Darrell Burley ‘Swaim
Linda Lou Sprye Phillips
Charles Ellis Phillips
Frances M. Cagle
Larry W. Cagle
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Carrick
Hancock
Virgil
John Eshelman
Vance Kester
J. R. Shelton
Knox Walker
Art Richardson
Floyd Mehan
Ady
Harold Cheek
Lois Smith
MASS
Frank Warren
Bill Dreyer
Dreyer
Anne Maley
Jay Davis
National Honor Society
High Point Central High School
Bill Cott
Jane Snotherly
Dickie Dickens
Trip Sizemore
Dick Swaim
Benjamin Ackwith
Fairview Street
Lela Hope
Jamiison and
Johnny Alonzo Small
Thomasville
High Pointers
Interstate Committee
Jntegral
National Council of the Ymcas of the
United States
World’s Alliance of Ymcas
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