Guilford County Won't Seek Bond Referendum Jan 1971
County Manager John Witherspoon says Guilford will not attempt a bond election alongside High Point's Jan 12 1971 date. No decision on projects or amounts. a minimum 60 day procedure is required. Major items under consideration include new schools and a Greensboro county jail with about 300 to 350 beds and costs up to 3 million dollars.
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Jim Hawkins
Greensboro
Guilford County
High Point
John Witherspoon
Witherspoon
Board of Commissioners
Commission
Dale Montgomery
Robert Earnhart
Eugene Street
Guilford Technical Institute
Social Services Department
Restocking of Yadkin River Begins After Summer Fish Kill
J D Moore of Davidson County helps unload a truck of fingerling fish as the North Carolina Wildlife Commission starts restocking the Yadkin River from Winston-Salem to High Rock Lake. Several thousand game fish were released near the I 85 bridge. previous kills followed rains that caused sewage inflow.
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J. D. Moore
Davidson County
Yadkin
North Carolina Wildlife Commission
Winston-Salem
High Rock Lake
$100 000 Suit Filed In Death
Mrs. Helen K. Wright executrix of John Darrell Wrights estate filed a $100,000 suit against American Home Assurance Co alleging nonpayment after Wrights death in a Nov 19 1968 crash near Damascus Virginia. Pilot James Lathan and passenger Gerald W Bell injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen K. Wright
John
Jack) Darrell Wright
American Home Assurance Co
Dixie Container Co
Wright
Damascus
James Lathan
Gastonia
Gerald W. Bell
High Point
Zoning Change Requests For Deep River Area On Agenda
Four zoning change requests from Deep River Township are set for hearing by Guilford County Planning Dept on Wednesday. One additional proposal covers land in High Point Township just beyond the city's one mile limit.
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Greensboro
Guilford County Planning Dept
Deep River Township
High Point Township
Guilford County Administration
John R. Borum
C. M. Borum
N. C
Clifford Frazier Jr
Roy L. Hendrix
U. S. 421
County Planning Department
Valley Dale
Fairway Estates
Planning Board
Colfax
Three Men Charged With Drunken Driving in Thomasville Area
Leon Fletcher s MS of Thomasville Bobby Ray Dowless 26 of Charlotte and Willis Stallings 57 of Lake Drive face drunken driving charges. Dowless remains in custody Stallings free on bond and set for trial December 13. a hearing for Dowless and Stallings was scheduled after a December 15 hearing for an unnamed defendant.
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Thomasville — Area
Leon
Dowless
Stallings
Greensboro student joins national journalism fraternity
Kenneth Lamar Smith son of Mr and Mrs R Lamar Smith of Rt 7 Greensboro has been inducted into Sigma Delta Chi at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill He is a 1967 Ragsdale High School graduate and worked for WNOS He is a Daily Tar Heel staff member majoring in radio television motion pictures and journalism
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Kenneth Lamar Smith
R. Lamar Smith
Rt. 7
Greensboro
Sigma Delta Chi
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
Ragsdale High School
WNOS
Daily Tar Heel
Brentwood PTA Reports Music Program and Lunch Price Hike
Brentwood School PTA met Tuesday night. Principal F. W. Riddle outlined a lunch price increase while a music program was presented and a financial report reviewed.
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The
Brentwood Pta
F. W. Riddle
Wake Forest President warns of rising violence and education aims
Wake Forest University President Dr James R Scales told a High Point Kiwanis Club luncheon that violence may rise as the world grows crowded and social problems persist He urged reevaluating universal higher education arguing for more artisans and fewer white collar workers and urged campuses to heed students' reformist impulses.
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James R. Scales
Wake Forest University
High Point Kiwanis Club
Scales
United States
U.S
U. S
Acquittals Highlight Mixed Thoamsville Court Docket
In Thoamsville Recorder's Court Jerry Wayne Beasley was acquitted on a larceny and receiving charge for taking a pistol from George Hunter. James Hudson faced no prosecution for assaulting Lonnie Johnson with a shotgun. H B Clinard and Bobby Sechrist faced court costs for carrying concealed pistols in unrelated cases. Nine people were fined for drunken driving and Willie Floyd Foushee was acquitted on a drunken driving charge. Willie Rutkowsky was not prosecuted on drunken driving.
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Thomasville
Tremont Street
Thoamsville
James Hudson
Lake Road
Lonnie Johnson
Johnson
H. B. Clinard
Barrington Street
Bobby Ray Sechrist
Rt. 2
James Marvin Byrd
Rt. 10
Lexington
Larry Wayne Tomlin
High Point
Glenn W. Woods
David Britt Jr
Anthony Vasconiello
Somerset
Mass
Robert Gale Garner
Kendall Mill Road
Lanny Ross McDaniel
Dogwood Road
Wilford
B. M.dowell
Larry W. Littleton
Kennedy Road
Littleton
Willie Floyd Foushee
Sherman Street
Willie Kurt Rutkowsky
Amarillo
Tex
Motorist Sought After 1956 Car Crash on Ward Street
Police search for the driver of a 1956 model car that left Ward Street curve at high speed, hit a utility pole, and abandoned the vehicle after traveling 144 feet twice. The car lacked a state license tag and no owner identified in the report.
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Ward Street
Polly Starrett
Route 1
Brentwood Street
Frances Richardson Gammons
Belmont Drive
Tool Box Theft and Local Offense Reported in Trinity Area
Mickey W. Platt reports a tool box and tools valued at 200 stolen from his car at High Point Fixture Linden Street. College notes include multiple petty thefts and arrests for assault with deadly weapon drunk driving and forgery among Trinity Archdale area incidents.
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Mickey W. Platt
Trinity
High Point
Linden Street
Edward James Mullins Jr
Archdale
Avery North
William Wesley Hippert
Oak Street
Robert Henry
S. Elm Street
James Bailey
Randolph Tech Offers Courses For Adults
Randolph Technical Institute in Asheboro announces adult extension courses in machine shop and maintenance welding. Machine shop starts Monday Nov 30 at 6:30 PM running 11 weeks on Mondays and Wednesdays. Welding offers two classes starting Nov 30 and Dec 1, each 6:30 to 9:30 PM with Nov 30 sessions on Mon/Wed and Dec 1 sessions on Tue/Thu.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheboro
Randolph Technical Institute
North Carolina to press ahead in 1971 General Assembly
Wake County representative Samuel H. Johnson, veteran budget expert, predicts a progressive but moderate session. The Advisory Budget Commission has outlined general fund needs totaling about 3.02 billion dollars with plans to review decisions before Governor Bob Scott presents the budget to lawmakers in January. Johnson defends NC taxes as near the bottom nationally and questions prospects for new taxes or major repeals, aside from a possible soft drink tax.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Samuel H. Johnson
Johnson
Wake County
House
Bob Scott
Commission
Ion
Johnson Ak Johnson
Advisory Budget Commission
General Assembly
Budget Commission
Justice Unit Gets 30 Project Grants
The regional Criminal Justice Planning unit in the Piedmont Triad area received 30 project grants totaling 928,463 dollars for improvements in communications systems youth programs and police academy facilities. A separate 50,000 grant funds a five year plan due February next year while 200,000 in recent projects were completed.
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Greensboro
Piedmont Triad Council of Governments
Lindsay Cox
COG
Cox
Mark Combs
Swing Road
Council of Governments
U. S. Dept. of Housing and
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Yadkin River
Att Phato
Sonny Hedgecock
George Henry Whitesides Jr
Evelyn Greenwood Waggoner
Gilbert Power Waggoner
J. A. Richardson
Richardson Corporation
PTA Report
Brentwood School
Follie Parish Ridge
S. Main Street
Moore Avenue
Frances Ludlum
Rt. 4
June Grant Woodell
C. Newman Jarrett
Mills Street
Ralph Harold Jensen
Main Street
Linden Avenue
Ronnie Lambeth
Food World
Westchester Drive
Dean Zimmerman
Hulda Street
Zimmerman
James C. Johnson
Schoonbeck Furniture Co
Joe Neal Gainey
Spencers
Southgate
Randolph Tech
Justice Unit
Alamance County
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