County Board To Receive Mobile Home Ordinance
Greensboro AP report says Guilford County Planning Board approved a revised mobile home park ordinance. The measure would add space between units concrete pads improved parking and roadways landscaping and maintenance permit with annual inspections. A public hearing will precede a Commission vote. date pending.
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Greensboro
Board of County Commissioners
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Guilford County Planning Board
Uits
Planning Board
Planning Department
Stanley and Mead to Merge in 1969 Deal
Stanley Furniture Co Inc and The Mead Corp approve in principle a merger. Stanley president Thomas B. Stanley Jr and Mead president James W. McSwiney announce the plan under which Stanley will join Mead. Stanley sales exceed 45 million in 1968. Mead sales were 897.3 million last year. Stanley operates plants in Virginia and North Carolina with about 2800 employees and headquarters in Stanleytown. The deal contemplates a 100 percent Mead distribution on June 1 with Stanley owners receiving two and one eighth Mead shares per Stanley share, subject to contract and shareholder approval.
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Mead Corp
Stanley
Mead
Thomas B. Stanley Jr
Stanley Furniture
James W. McSwiney
Stanleytown
Forsum
West End
Hickory
Maxton
Conover
Lincolnton
Gibson
S. C
Four Autos Damaged In Elm Street Intersection Crash
At 2:30 p.m. Friday at Church and Elm streets two moving vehicles and two parked cars were damaged. Drivers Robert Bencini 45 Hayworth Circle and Lessie Thompson 45 Taylor Street were involved. Thompson was charged with running a red light. Thompson’s car struck a utility pole then crashed into two parked cars causing about 1275 dollars in damage. Both drivers escaped injury.
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Church and
Elm Streets
Robert Bencini
Hayworth Circle
Lessie Thompson
Taylor Street
Thompson
Bencini
Elm Street
Elm
Game Called Because Of Graduation In Western Carolinas
The Gastonia at Statesville Western Carolinas game was postponed Friday night to avoid disturbing a high school graduation. Greenwood led by Earl Williams 11-5 over Greenville, while Spartanburg beat Shelby 4-0 via a seven-run eighth. Standings: Greenwood 27-17, Greenville 24-20, Gastonia 24-20, Statesville 23-23, Shelby 20-25, Spartanburg 16-29.
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Associated Press
Gastonia
Statesville
Carolinas
Greenville
Greenwood
Earl Williams
Spartanburg
Shelby
Phillies
Senators
Three Men Rob Taxi Driver In Thomasville
A City taxi driver, Teel Lowe, was assaulted by three young men at 2 Young Street after a ride from Polk Street. They beat him, stole about $40, and pulled the radio microphone from the cab before fleeing. Lowe was treated and released from City Memorial Hospital. A separate bicycle accident on Randolph Street left a rider treated and released. Officials noted no charges yet. an Ushers reunion is announced for Sunday at First Baptist Church.
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City Memorial Hs
Lowe
Polk St
Randolph Street
Jack Joseph Jarrett Jr
Longview Drive
Thomasville
First Baptist Church
Church Street
Nobra Eaddy
E. Male Street
Randolph
First Woman MP Nancy Astor Born in Greenwood Virginia
Nancy Langhorne Astor, born in Greenwood, Virginia, moved to England in 1903 and became the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons, marking a landmark in parliamentary history.
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Nancy Langhorne Astor
Greenwood
England
House of Commons
Area Students On Graduate List
Nearly 2,000 graduates are slated for East Carolina University’s 60th annual commencement in Greenville. From High Point come Walter Isidoro Batista Edith Gail Bentley Beverly Jane Bowden James Lindsay Brooks Randall Sanford Brooks Elizabeth Anne Hedgecock Forrest Lothiar Hodgin Carol Rita Melnikev Ollie Delmar Reagan Jr Mary Lucy Sherman Charles Darrell Stout Robert Theodore Thacker Jr David Charles Traynham Rebecca Starr Mangum Witcher and Eulis Dale Witcher. Jamestown residents Bonnie Leigh Foust Sandra Rose Rabhan and Nancy Jo Wisenburg also earn degrees.
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Jamiestown
East Carolina University
Greenville
High Point
Walter Isidoro Batista
Edith Gail Bentley
Beverly Jane Bowden
James Lindsay Brooks
Randall Sanford Brooks
Elizabeth Anne Hedgecock
Forrest Lothiar Hodgin
Carol Rita‘ Melnikev
Ollie Delmar Reagan Jr
Mary Lucy Sherman
Charles Darrell Stout
Robert Theodore Thacker Jr
David Charles Traynham
Rebecca Starr Mangum Witcher
Eulis Dale Witcher
Jamestown
Bonnie Leigh Foust
Sandra Rose Rabhan
Nancy Jo Wisenburg
Townsend Fetal Died After Heart Attack at Home
Thomasville report states Frank J Townsend 67 of 16 Fifth Ave died at 4 am in City Memorial Hospital after a heart attack at his home Friday evening near Methodist Church He survived by wife Marine Hall Townsend daughter Gayle Townsend and sister Nora Stein of Green Cove Springs Fla The body at J C Green and Sons Funeral Home pending arrangements Also Clarence Miller 63 Route 4 died after prolonged illness Funeral at 2:50 pm Sunday Collins Grove Methodist Church with burial at Holly Hills Cemetery Survivors include wife four sons a stepdaughter and several relatives The body at Brown's Funeral Home Graveside services held today The Democratic party noted a humorous historical remark about the term Republican and Britennica reference.
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Thomasville
Frank J. Townsend
Fifth Ave
City Memorial Hospital
Marine Hall Townsend
Gayle Townsend
Joe
Nora). Stein
Green Cove Springs
Fila
Mamie Transon
Susie Miller
Guilford College
Maerxar
Rs. C W. Clubb
Rt. 1
Chandler
Arthur Hurst
Franklin
Holly Hills
Arthur S. Moorefield
J. C. Green & Sons Funeral Home
Wilford B Rhodes Dies in New Jersey
Wilford B. Rhodes formerly of High Point died today in Old Bridge New Jersey arriving at 3 a.m. The circumstances are not immediately known and the body is being sent to Sechrest Funeral Home for arrangements.
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Wilford B. Rhodes
High Point
New Jersey
Old Bridge
N. J
Sechrest Funeral Home
Founding Continentals debated language banishment
At the nation’s founding debates in the Continental Congress surfaced proposals to ban English as the official language and replace it with Hebrew or Greek amid strong anti British sentiment.
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Continental Congress
United States
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