County to Get First Funds for New Court Building
Guilford County advances its $10 million program with a $1 million bond anticipation note sale set for November 19 in Raleigh. The funds finance a new courthouse and underground parking in Greensboro, plus school bonds and other project costs. Debt at June 30 stood at about $24.96 million, with prior borrowings for schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Hawking
Greensboro
Guilford County
Hugh Ross
Raleigh
Local Government Commission
Ross
Grensboro
Millon
Guilford Technical Institute
Guilford
Death notices for Rogers Herr Russell and Newton
Obituaries report Miss Clara O. Rogers age 68 of 1132 Monthew Ave died. R. E. Herr Sr. of Front Royal Va. died after lengthy illness. Katherine Ruddick Russell 8 Route 4 Kernersville died in Marble Grove Nursing Home. Lyda McLaurin Newton 79 Berkley Mo formerly High Point died in St. Louis Hospital. Graveside rites for Newton set for 4 p.m. Tuesday Floral Garden Park Cemetery.
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Clara O. Rogers
Monthew Ave
Sechrest Funeral Home
Davis Elected By Aero Club
Mrs Bebe Ragaz of Marion is the first woman president in the NC Aero Club history. She succeeds Bob Farrington of Raleigh as officers named include Dr Al Hedgepeth, J Frank Davis, and J A Holloman. Plans discussed for the Wright brothers flight ceremony at Kitty Hawk on Dec 17 and the First Flight Shrine roster will include four fliers: Charles E Yeager Jacqueline Cochran Adm Richard Byrd and Amelia Earhart.
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Raleigh
Bebe Ragaz
Marion
North Carolina Aero Club
Ragaz
Bob Farrington
al Hedgepeth
Pinetops
J. Frank Davis
High Point
J. A. Holloman
Wright Brothers
Kitty Hawk
Ralph Whitener
Washington
First Flight Society
Charles E
Chuck” Yeager
Jacqueline Cochran
Richard Byrd
North Pole
South Pole
Amelia Earhart
Atlantic
Americas
Miner Outwits Johannesburg Police Brake Test
A young miner in Johannesburg delays a motorist stop by a police officer examining an old car. When the cop demands a brake test and cannot produce a license, the miner refuses to let him drive. The driver then proceeds, with the officer in the front seat, to test the brakes, prompting a sharp command to stop.
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Johannesburg
Mrs Johnston Dies at 66 in High Point
Mrs Della Blomer Johnston 66 of 303 Osborne St died Sunday at 7 40 pm in High Point Memorial Hospital after a two year decline and 20 days as a patient She was born August 5 1902 in Kentucky daughter of John and Eden Bloomer She married Velie Johnston in September 1927 He survives along with three sons Russell Roy and Jimmy Ray one daughter Lula Shuskey and Dorothy McDowell 16 grandchildren one brother Bruce Blomer and one sister Lou House Funeral is Tuesday at 3 30 pm at Cumby Chapel with Rev Donald Fritts Burial in Floral Garden Park Cemetery Body to be taken to daughter Shuskys home at 1616 Eastchester Dr today and stay until service time.
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Betty Mier
Berkley
Robert Schananer
Jackson
Miss
Archie Newton
Hickory
Curtis Newton
Greensboro
al Newton
Huntington Dr
John McLaurin
Jacksonville
Fla
St. Louis
Sechrest Funeral
Della Blomer Johnston
Osborne St
High Point Memorial Hospital
Kentucky
John
Eden Bloomer
Russell Johnston
Rt. 1
Roy Johnston
Rt. 5
High Point
Jimmy Ray Johnston
James Olin
Lula) Shuskey
Eastchester Dr
Cornelius
Dorothy Pearl) McDowell
Westwood Ave
Bruce Blomer
Davis
Lou House
Paducah
Cumby Chapel
Donald Fritts
Floral Garden Park
Shuskey
Funeral for Mrs Herman Leach Held in Denton
Mrs Herman Leach of Denton, 45, died after a Friday night car crash in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. A funeral service was at Central Methodist Church on Tuesday at 3 p.m. Rev Kenneth Crouse officiated. Burial followed at Mountainview Memorial Gardens. The body lay in Hoover Funeral Home until service time and family will meet at the funeral home tonight from 7 to 9 p.m.
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Denton
Herman Laach
Central Methodist Church
Kenneth Crouse
Mountainview Memorial Gardens
Hoover Funeral Home
Leach
Myrtle Beach
8. C
Woman Named to City Council in Salisbury
Mrs Warren Young a Salisbury housewife will be sworn in as a city councilman on November 18 to succeed U S Rep-Elect Earl Ruth Mayor Paul Bernhardt said he appointed her with unanimous council approval She will be the first woman to serve on the Salisbury City Council Her husband Dr Warren Young is a clinical psychologist with the Rowan Mental Health Clinic
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Salisbury
N. C
Warren Young
U.S
Earl Ruth
Paul Bernhardt
Young
Zoning Board of Adjustments
Zoning Board of Adjustments. Her Husband, Dr
Rowan Mental Health Clinic
Addition To Staff Is Named
GREENSBORO Miss dane Warren of Rt. 1 Clinton has been named to the Guilford County Farm Extension staff to direct 4H Club girls activities. She is a 1968 cum laude UNC Greensboro graduate and spent seven months in 1966 as an International Foreign Youth Exchange student in the Philippines. She will fill a position opened by Kathryn Reece moving to associate home economics extension agent. Reece fills a post opened when Carolyn Johnson resigned to become home economics extension agent in Ashe County.
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Greensboro
Dane Warren
Rt. 1
Clinton
Guilford County Farm
Maude Middleton
University of North Carolina At Greensboro
Miss Warren
Philippines
Kathryn Reece
Reece
Carolyn Johnson
Ashe County
All-Day Chamber Session Slated for High Point Leaders
High Point will attend an all-day Chamber of Commerce leadership conference at the Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst. Representing High Point are Frank Wood president Leo Heer incoming president Phil Dixon treasurer and George Covington executive vice president with several other members expected. Sessions include Design for Success by Frank Melton and Organizing the Chamber for Action in a Changing Environment by Arthur Fletcher.
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Chamber of Commerce
Carolina Hotel
Pinehurst
High Point Chamber of Commerce
Frank Wood
Leo Heer
Phil Dixon
George Covington
Covington Sai
Frank Melton
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Arthur Fletcher
Book Fair Opens At Jamestown Junior High
Jamestown Junior High hosts a book fair sponsored by the school library. Announcement from Mrs. Anna Lee Sprye says the fair runs until November 22 from 8 30 a m to 4 30 p m in the school library. Students may view and purchase books with 20 percent of sales benefiting library material purchases.
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Jamestown
Jamestown Junior High School
Anna Lee Sprye
Spyre
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Miss Rogers
R. E. Merr SR
R. E. Herr Sr
Front Royal
Front Royal Hospital
Lucile Johnson
Herr
High Point College
Frott Royal
Katherine Russell
Kernersville
Katherine Ruddick Russell
Route 4
Marple Grove
Harold ‘Russell
Ruth Sursavhee
Andrews
Kernersville ‘Wesleyan Church
Cc Newton
Lyda McLaurin New‘ton
Berkely
St.Louis
Newton
Marlboro County
S.C
C. C. Newton
Presbyterian Church
Aero Club
Mrs
Herman Leach
Lewis
Ivin
Sas
Ellington
Florist
Main ST. Day
Wight
A - Willau
Wordware
Werp
Elie
South Main St
Kleen
Tee
Lenny Gardents
Bankamericard
Penn
3HOUR
South Main
North Main
Master Kleen’s of America, Inc
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