End of Ray Street School after Bay Street fire
Parents urged the school board to save Bay Street School as fire damage ends its use. A plan shifts 500 students among Northwood Johnson Street Tomlinson Montlieu avenues, with a new 10 room addition to Northwood and concerns over crowding and land space.
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Bay Street
Northwood School
Dean Pruette
Main Street
Johnson Street
Northwood
Ray Streeters
Tomlinson School
Bay
Montlieu Avenue
Pruette
Jerry Shaver
Ray Street
City Hall
Fire Hydrant Check Begun After Bay Street School Fire
City officials say a broken hydrant played a minor role in the Bay Street School blaze Sunday. Firefighters fought the interior inferno using multiple hydrants as an automatic shutoff halted one water source. Investigators found the hydrant broke three feet underground after being struck by a hit run driver prompting a full probe.
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Bay Street
Harold Cheek
Youth Firebug Charged With Twin Blazes
A 16 year old described as mild and well groomed was charged as the arsonist behind two fires on Bay Street and at Star Finance Co. He had prior theft links from 1959 and 1960 and was sent to Jackson Training School before being released. He admitted setting the fires and remains in city jail on $20,000 bonds as authorities connect the incidents to a revenge motive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Joseph Franklin
Proctor Street
Franklin
Culler’s Men's
Star Finance Co
High Point High School
Prisoner Leaps 20 Feet To Flee County Building
A convicted prisoner escaped from the County Building after ripping grill work from a second floor window and leaping about 20 feet to the ground. Billy Jay Smith, 23, of High Point, remains at large after this dramatic exit tied to a $2,000 Carolina Tire Co. robbery. Police followed a bloodhound trail to a barn and sawmill, but no capture. Witnesses included a Municipal Court judge, with the escape believed to involve a car owned by former city solicitor Bob Bencini.
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Billy Jay Smith
Smith
del Bayles
High Point
Central Prison
Carolina Tire Co
Thomasville
Municipal Court
Byron Haworth
Witneses
Bob Bencini
Bencini
Mt. Pleasant Road
Randolph County
J. C. Kivett
Highway 62
Wheatmore Farm
Kivett
Ray Underwood
D. S. Lee
Guilford County
City Council Eases Civil Service Limitations in Plan
Enterprise City Council approved a watered-down set of civil service changes. The package cuts term lengths for commissioners from six to four years, expands department head hiring options, creates a future half-time secretary role, and adds a personnel director under the city manager.
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Forrest Cates
Enterprise City
City Civil Service Commission
City Hall
Council
Carson Stout
Commission
Bet
Ter
Guilford County
General Assembly
Civil Service Act
N. Hamilton Street
Area To Have Fair Skies
The local weatherman says a mostly fair evening with lingering clouds. Temperatures rise from a cool night to a high near 75 by Wednesday afternoon, with 55 this morning and 72 today. Thursday brings partly cloudy and warmer conditions in High Point.
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High Point
Permit Issued For Motel And School Cafeteria
The building inspector issued nine permits totaling $251,039 last week. A $110,000 Travelodge motel at 425 S Main St near the library and a $89,619 Allen Jay High School cafeteria addition led the list. Also approved were several residential permits and two Lilly Co additions.
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TraveLodge Motor Corp
S. Main St
Public Library
High Point Savings and Trust Co
Main
Wrenn
High Point Trave Lodge
Guilford County School Board
Allen Jay High School
Fairfield Road
The
Lilly Co
English St
Florists Re-Elect Concord Man Area Representative
Harold Mills of Concord was reelected to another term as district representative of the North Carolina Unit of Florists Telegraph Delivery Assn. Other officers Frank Joyce Irma Wise Burgess Fred Carpenter reelected. Ralph Hunter remains regional director pending mail ballot election. About 100 florists attended the meeting at the Sheraton Hotel with Joseph Hynes of Chicago as principal banquet speaker.
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Harold Mills
Concord
North Carolina
Florists Telegraph Delivery Assn
Sheraton Hotel
Frank Joyce
Sanford
Irma Wise Burgess
Mooresville
Fred Carpenter
Winston- Salem
Ralph Hunter
Charlotte
Joel Williams
Rickett Ellington
Francis Nelson
Joseph Hynes
Chicago
FTDA
Southern Furniture Exposition
Miss Sun Fun Banquet in High Point Tonight
Miss Sun Fun 1961 Darlene Lucht of Milwaukee will attend a banquet at Al Boling's Steakhouse in High Point at 6 30 PM sponsored by the American Business Club. Also arriving is North Carolina's last year's entrant Miss Betty Dunn Russell of Charlotte. They travel by train to Myrtle Beach for the three day June 8 9 10 judging session where Lucht will relinquish her crown. Local club officials will escort the guests.
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Sun Fun
High Point
al Boling
Myrtle Beach
American Business Club
Darlene Lucht
Milwaukee
Wis
North Carolina
Betty Dunn Russell
Charlotte
Lucht
Prayer for TH YDAY Belief and guidance in troubling times
A short invocation asking for divine guidance for the world and country during tense days. It asks to lift people from smallness, enlarge vision, set feet on lofty places, and honor God in daily life. Signed by Charles M. Crowe, minister at Wilmette Parish Methodist Church.
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Jesus
Charles M. Crowe
Wilmette, Lr
Wilmette Parish Methodist Church
City Council Studying Parking Rules for Market Visitors
New City Council examines changes to parking enforcement for visiting furniture men during markets. Mayor Carson Stout calls for a courtesy approach with decals mailed to buyers, instructing checkers not to tag cars bearing them. No action taken. proposal referred to the law and public safety committee.
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Carson Stout
The
Council Law and Publiic Safety Committee
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Delmer D. Perrish
Lawndale
Cedron Ext
Martin C. McMahan
Florists’ Telegraph Delivery Assn
Association
Snow Studio
Florists
Concord Man Area
Miss Sun Fun
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