First Degree Burglaries Reported In Park Street Area
Two first degree burglary cases occurred between 2 and 5 am in the Park Street area. A resident awoke to an attempted sexual assault as a burglar fled when her scream alarmed a son who chased the suspect. A second resident reported a break in and described the same man. Police have a lead but no arrests. Bailey charged with breaking and entering at Brentwood Atlantic Service Station after a Junior Police Club tipster led officers to the scene. He is held on $1000 bond. Clinton Watson was assaulted and robbed by three men near the Southern Chanée Store. he required knife wound treatment and identified the suspects, though he was incoherent. Investigation continues.
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Park Street
Martha Rock
Pauline Danford
Clara Cox
James Roy Bailey
Brentwood Atlantic
Bailey
Clinton Watson
Bencini Street
Blacke
S. Main Street
Cloverdale School
Watson
Furniture Plant Orders Rise Sharply in March 1969
Southern furniture plants report March shipments 12.8 percent above March 1968, with unfilled orders up 347 percent. First quarter 1969 sales show 9.8 percent gain from 1968, while production and payrolls rise 15.7 and 15.9 percent respectively. February and March figures indicate softening in March sales versus February.
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SFMA
Ion “Ts
Cloudy Warm Weather Predicted For Weekend
Forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies and warm temperatures with highs in the 80s. Rain chances are about 20 percent today and tonight, dropping to 9 percent Sunday as conditions shift.
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Mercury
Zoo
Ambulance Service Plans To Relocate Headquarters
Guilford County Guilford High Point office to move to Guilford County Building on South Main Street by July 1. New setup will include three rooms and a bath for communications gear and crews on 21 hour shifts. Total staff planned around 20 with dispatchers. East Lindsay Street unit one man short.
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High Point
Guilford County Armbulance Service
Guilford County
South Main Street
John Witherspoon
Gatewood Avenue
Witherspoon
Welfare Dept
James Finison
Ambulance Service
Finison
Ambulance Service of
Guilford, Inc
Alsman
Greensboro
East Lindsay Street
Finigan
Art Show And Sale Slated For Sunday
Jamestown Guilfo reports the first annual art show and sale by Technical Institute commercial art students Sunday from 1 30 to 4 30 pm on the GTI campus lawn beside President Luther R Medlin s home. If rain, move to art department quarters. Exhibits range from realism to contemporary abstraction with Linda Orr in charge. All but one of the 1968 graduating class have art job offers. the lone graduate joined the military.
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Jamestown
Guilfo
Linda Orr
GTI
Gale
It Happened In North Carolina Memories In Old Chambers
Raleigh editor William A. Shires recalls the 1969 General Assembly reunion in Raleighs Capitol old chambers. Veterans highlight cramped quarters before 1963 move to the new Legislative Building and reflect on closer former relations and early pay and logistics.
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William A. Shires
Raleigh
North Carolina
General Assembly
Capitol
Department of Archives and History
Ami
House
David M. Britt
N. C. Court of Appeals
Britt
Byrd Satterfield
Person County
Two Tar Heels Killed In War
The Defense Department releases names of two North Carolinians killed in action in Vietnam. Army Sgt. Wavery Moore of Fayetteville and Marine Lance Cpl. David E. Cherry Jr. of Rt. 1, Woodlawn in Gaston County are identified.
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Washington (Ap
Defense Department
Army
Wavery Moore
Fayetteville
Marine
Lance Cpl
David E. Cherry Jr
Rt. 1
Woodlawn
Gaston County
Greensboro Guilford hearing set on 16 inch water line
Guilford County commissioners will hold a public hearing Monday on a proposal to build a 16 inch water main 5800 feet from near Pilot Life Insurance in Sedgefield to a new Burlington Industries plant site. The session starts at 2 p.m. at the County Administration building.
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Greensboro
Guilford
Will County
Burlington Industries
Pilot Life Insurance Co
Sedgefield
Commissioners Plan Hearing On Rezoning
Three rezoning requests be heard by the Guilford County Board of Commissioners at 9 a.m. Monday at the Administrative Building in Greensboro. The Deep River Township land near N C 68 and U S 421 seeks heavy industrial zoning, with the planning board recommending planned industrial for portions and adjacent parcels. A J B Myers property on Bunker Hill Road near U S 421 seeks industrial zoning from residential, Teep River Township. A Summit Avenue site north of Greensboro moves from planned business to industrial zoning.
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John ‘Witherspoon
N.D. McNairy
Greensboro
Board of County Commissioners
N.C. 68
U.S. 421
Deep River Township
Friendship Airport
John W. Gray
Guilford County Planning Board
Planning Board
J. B. Myers
Bunker Hill Road
Teep River Township
Summit Avenue
Guilford County Administrative
GTI Students Win High Honors at National Forensic Tourney
Guilford Technical Institute forensic students earned top national honors for the third time in a year at the National Forensic Tournament for Junior Colleges in Phoenix. A four member GTI team plus Dean David Senkpiel competed against 600 students from 72 colleges. John Davis of High Point placed third in Speech Analysis with excellent ratings. Julia Heggie of Greensboro excelled in three events. Wayne Brann of Greensboro and Ronald Mock of Greensboro also earned excellent ratings in various events. Senkpiel served as a judge in multiple events.
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Jamestown
Guilford Technical Institute
GTI
David Senkpiel
Phoenix
Ariz
John Davis
High Point
Julia Heggie
Greensboro
Vending Group Elects President at Asheville Meeting
John Harris of Wilmington was elected president of the North Carolina Vending Association at the opening session of the 15th annual meeting in Asheville. The selection occurred Friday during the proceedings.
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Asheville
John Harris
Wilmington
North Carolina Vending Association
Children To Finish Head Start Graduation Sunday
Forty five Head Start children in High Point will graduate Sunday at Fairview Street Elementary School starting at 4 p.m. They are slated to enter first grade next fall. A total of 95 children have attended the Head Start program housed at Clara Cox Apts Daniel Brooks Homes Neighborhood House Council and Temple Memorial Baptist Church. Summer recruitment is under way for an eight week program to serve 96 children with sessions at Clara Cox Apts Temple Memorial Church and Christ the King Catholic Church.
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High Point
Fairview Street
Clara Cox Apts
Daniel Brooks Homes
Neighborhood House Council
Temple Memorial Baptist Church
Temple Memorial Church
Christ the King Catholic Church
Zoning Changes Sought by Guilford County Board
Guilford County Board of Adjustments meets Tuesday at 8 p.m. to hear requests for variances. F G Tippett seeks to use an existing agricultural building on Kivett Drive Sumner Township for furniture framing manufacturing. Charles R Tedder and L E Lish seek to convert an existing building on N C 150 Oak Ridge Township into a fishing lure plant. Robert W Conner requests approval to add to a building at State Road 1113 Kivett Drive and State Road 1128 Sumner Township.
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F .G. Tippett
Kivett Drive
Sumner Township
Corr
Charles R. Tedder
L. E. Lish
N. C. 150
Oak Ridge Township
Robert W. Conner
Concord Friends Meeting
Lambeth Promoted To Assistant Chief Building Inspector
Julius E. Lambeth of Woodland Place was named Friday as assistant chief building inspector for the High Point Inspections Division. A city employee since 1963, he succeeds Hill upon Hill’s retirement and has served as a building inspector in sub standard housing and new building. Lambeth is a High Point native, a 1948 High Point Central graduate, two years U S Army veteran, and holds a UNC Chapel Hill course in building inspection. He is a father of four and a member of Hopewell United Methodist Church and local Masonic groups.
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Julius E. Lambeth
Woodland Place
High Point
Lambeth
L. Freeman Bil
Hill
Bulding
A.R. Strange
Jersey Dairy Cow Importation to United States in 8
A historical note records the United States importing the Jersey breed of dairy cattle from the Isle of Jersey in eight.
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United States
Jersey
Island of
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