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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1960
Page
11
Showers and possible thunder showers are in the forecast for the local area tonight and tomorrow per the weatherman at Friendship. Tonight the low should fall to 64 with considerable cloudiness.
Stanley R. Elion, partner at Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co., speaks on Streamlining a Management Report Structure at the Piedmont Chapter NAAC meeting in Greensboro. Elion heads the management controls department in Philadelphia and joins Kion in detailing consulting on organization data processing and procedural analysis. Gordon Barrett of Dan River Mills is chapter president and Robert Lloyd of Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co. is meeting chairman.
Dr Dennis H Cooke head of the Department of Teacher Training at High Point College will address the Yadkin College alumni Saturday on the old site near Mocksville. He will also address Lincolnton High School graduates Friday June 3 at the Lincolnton commencement exercises.
Guilford County Commissioners reviewed a tentative 1960 61 secondary roads schedule with 459 310 dollars allocated to pave 17.56 miles of priority roads and upgrade others. Progress includes Harvey Road Jamestown Dorchester Road Idol Mill Road and Cambridge Road with costs cited. Some roads left county jurisdiction for Powell Bill funding and maintenance. County Chairman Lloyd Amos praised the state system for equitable funding and predicted continued equalization across counties.
Mrs. D. D. Bruton, 85, mother of State Attorney General Wade Bruton, died from a stroke at Haven Convalescent Home near Lexington. She had lived in Biscoe before August 1959 and is survived by four sons including Wade Bruton and two daughters, plus siblings in Texas. Funeral plans to be set in Candor after transfer from Piedmont Funeral Home.
Thirty-one boys and four girls all graduating seniors representing three counties have been processed for enlistment in the Air Force during June and July, according to local Air Force recruiting sergeants Jack Jordan and Al Martin.
Dr. W B Donald Jr cites glaucoma as a leading blindness cause with many undiagnosed cases. Lions clubs arrange two day free tests from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Masonic Temple with 1:30 p.m. arrival guidance. If demand rises, a second clinic may occur within three months.
The city approved the first assessments under a new water sewer policy amid protests by Larkin Street residents who argue the plan favors a housing development. The council overrode objections and authorized the assessment rolls and related projects including a large six inch line.
A weekend of crashes caused over 2000 dollars in damage. A van owned by Alma Desk Co. backed into Duke Power poles on N Wrenn Street, toppling transformers and causing 300 dollars in power damage. Mrs Retha Gray and Otis Kennedy were injured in separate wrecks, with Kennedy treated and released and Gray admitted after a rear end collision on N Main Street. Turner was charged with operating with improper brakes.
W H Kimrey Guilford County Agricultural Agent invites county farmers to a field day at the Experiment Station Salisbury. Farmers should assemble at Furniture City Motel parking lot tomorrow at 8 30 am and return shortly after 12 noon.
A 21 year old Raleigh woman Nina F Jackson was found guilty on six worthless check charges and given 30 day sentences suspended for 12 months if she pays the checks plus costs. A $132 payment cleared the account but two more warrants were issued for issuing worthless checks. Other defendants faced penalties from court costs to suspended sentences and fines including reckless driving drunk driving and violations of prohibition laws.
Thomasville Township Republicans meet at City Hall Recorder's Courtroom 7 30 p m Thursday to elect a new executive committee chair and select precinct chairs for Thomasville precincts. Walter Crawford announces the event and current precinct chairs include Albert Raines Wiley Taylor Joe Morris Robert Rapp Kermit Hall Doyle Deaton and Cletus Beck.
The High Point College Concert Band directed by Dr. Lew Lewis performs Thursday at 8:15 in Memorial Auditorium. Featured are Richard Walker, Gala Lambeth, Paul Jones, and Richard Miller with a program including Wagner and Chabrier pieces and three original Lewis compositions. The concert opens graduation activities for 150 seniors in the class of 1960.
The 325th Chemical Company of the United States Army Reserve plans a summer training period at Pine Bluff Arsenal Ark. 1st Lt. J. Van Boyles the company commander returned from a pre camp conference at Pine Bluff Arsenal. On July 16 officers and men will fly to Pine Bluff for 15 days of active duty training before returning to High Point.
Firefighters answered four calls yesterday. At 3 11 p.m. they tackled a trash fire at Ridgeway and Clinton Streets started by a man with a burning permit left unattended. At 4 54 p.m. grass along North Main and Broad Streets burned from a discarded cigarette. At 5 38 p.m. a blaze at 625 Ward Street in Carolina Farnsworth Co. started by sparks from a picking machine damaged only a machine thanks to the sprinkler system. A gas line leak prompted a visit to 1401 English Street at 9 30 p.m.
The Asheboro High School Band directed by Joseph B. Fields will give a spring concert in the high school auditorium at 8 o clock. Junior High and elementary bands will join in the same program.
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