Landfill Nearing Capacity Prompts New Site Search
High Point plans for a new landfill as the current site will last only a few years under a tri government agreement with Greensboro and Guilford County. Public Works Director Carl Wills cites a 100 acre undeveloped site and requests budget funds for 1977 78. The city relies on a pulverizer to extend landfill life and reports curbside Mobil toter service starting citywide with eight of eleven routes in operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forrest Cates
Enterprise
High Point
Public Works
Carl Wills
Greensboro
Guilford County
Wills
High Point Riverdale
Rivett Drive
Riverdale
Davidson Farmers Face Spring Drought Hit Incomes
Davidson County farmers face lower incomes this year as a drought-driven drop in yields affects barley oats and tobacco. Extension agent Bill Holtzmann warns of replanting costs and uneven stands impacting insecticide and harvests while hoping for slow soaking rains to replenish soils.
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Phil Speaks
Lexington
Davidson County
Davidson County Agricultural Extension
Bill Holtzmann
Holtzmann
Immaculate Heart of Mary Sevenths Stage Canterville Ghost
Frank Luedtke Ron Saunders and Betsy McClellan practice lines for The Canterville Ghost to air Thursday at 7 p m over WMFR. The seventh grade class directs under Mrs Peter Robinson and Sister Patricia Cocchi as National Radio Month festivity. Students create sound effects with tin cans chains pillows and macaroni.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Luedtke
Ron Saunders
Betsy McClellan
Canterville
WMFR
Immaculate Heart of Mary School
Peter Robinson
Patricia Cocchi
Infant Killed In Collision On NC 109
A four month old infant, Steven Paul Stainback, was killed when a car on Cid Road failed to yield to a northbound vehicle at the NC 109 intersection. Four other passengers, Billy R. Hopkins Bonnie Glover and Dianne Stainback, were hospitalized in serious or fair condition.
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Silver Valley
N.C. 109
Cid Ro
Highway Patrol
Steven Paul Stainback
Meadowlark Rd
Billy R. Hopkins
Lexington
Bonnie Glover
Rt. 2
Denton
Dianne Stainback
Guilford County Seeks Triple A Bond Rating Boost
County officials led by John Witherspoon return from meetings with Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s seeking a Triple-A rating to lower interest on $14.3 million of bonds to be sold in June. Officials highlighted major taxpayers and employers and noted the agencies asked deeper questions about the economy and management.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Hawkins
Greensboro
John Witherspoon
Guilford County
Agen
Moody’s
Standard and Poor
Witherspoon
Woman Reports Rape To Police
A 20 year old E Grimes Avenue resident told police two Black males entered her bedroom Sunday morning. The taller bound and dragged her to a back room where one took a butcher knife. She said she was raped before the men fled and she was taken to a hospital but declined examination. Investigation continues.
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E. Grimes Avenue
Cora
Meredith Court
Trinity Man Killed Sunday In Accident
A 72 year old Trinity man Henry Wesley Kindley died Sunday night about 7 30 on US 64 eleven point seven miles west of Asheboro when he turned onto the highway from a side road and was struck in the rear by an oncoming westbound car driven by Robert Lee Young 29 of Maxton who was injured along with three passengers Janice Hedrick 23 Joseph Lowery 30 and Jamie Gaither 4 all of Maxton Lowery was the most seriously injured and admitted to Randolph hospital. The driver and the other two passengers were treated and released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheboro
Janice Hedrick
Joseph Lowery
Jamie E. Gaither
Maxton
Lowery
Randolph
Teachers oppose plan for Management by Objectives in High Point
Dr. Joseph Bryson condemned the Management by Objectives method at the NCAE banquet, calling it a control system that shifts power to bureaucracy. He praised retained aims like clear purposes but urged larger teacher involvement and smaller admin staffs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Mortimer
High Point
N.C. Assn
Joseph Bryson
MBO
Bryson
Andrews High
UNCG
Edwin West
West
NCAE
Gayle Brookbank
Lebanon Methodist Church
Helen Miller
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Burlington
Davidson
Sonn
New York City
Southern Bell Telephones Co
Cone Mills, Inc
Cone
Burlington Mills, Inc
J. P. Stevens Co., Inc
Mills
Board of Commissioners
Gaston Faison
William Trevorrow
Thomas Cashwell
Brenda Jones
Trinity
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