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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1964
Page
11
Horticulture expert Fred Yoder warns warm autumn weather boosts plant sap and buds but predicts limited damage unless followed by a sudden hard freeze. Weather observers expect a cooling trend by midweek, returning temperatures toward normal. Yoder notes bulb planting slowed by dry soil but will resume after rain.
The council approved a private firm contract raising costs by over 20 percent and pushed to have a city engineering division operating in 60 to 90 days for an efficiency survey. Mayor Mehan noted the higher fee while others urged haste. A new fire station site near 5 S Main St was earmarked for purchase and a zoning hearing was set on three separate cases.
Atlanta remembers Dr. G Ray Jordan 68 a leading Methodist preacher and Emory professor of Homiletics since 1945 He authored 20 books and preached in Formosa Pakistan India Germany and Norway Survivors include wife Carolina Monday two sons Gerald Ray Jordan Jr and Terrell Franklin Jordan and two brothers Funeral held at Durham Chapel Emory campus.
Guilford County Commissioners move to borrow 700000 to push the school improvement program, fund additions at Allen Jay primary Union Hill elementary and Brightwood schools, and plan junior high Jamestown and rural high and secondary schools. Also set to swear in new Register of Deeds Mark Stewart December 1.
City council moved to develop Johnson Street as a north south artery to ease N Main Street traffic. Plans include acquiring right of way to straighten the street to Eastchester Drive and elimination of a dog leg, with hearings on other street improvements.
Harnett County sheriff's deputies probe a fatal stabbing of 25 year old Indian man J C Dunn found across the road from a nightclub on N C Highway 210 near Lillington. The incident occurred about 4 am Sunday with no arrests and investigators see no evident racial motive. Dunn had gone to the club with his wife and another Indian couple. they lived about two miles away.
Duke University scientists report first direct evidence of the Hatteras Submarine Canyon off Cape Hatteras. Oceanography director Dr. Robert Menzies says sonar from the Eastward indicates a deep thread hundreds of feet deep and possibly hundreds of miles long into the Atlantic. Further correlation planned in two weeks to confirm the canyon’s outline.
Official results show 1965 Senate with 17 holdovers and 43 new House members. Freshmen include Basil Barr James Green Sam Ervin III Mary Brumby and others. Women gain seats with Martha Evans in the Senate and Frances Ramsey in the House. The Weeks family also appears with the senator and his wife to sit together.
Mrs. Nannie Albert Stewart of High Point died at her home after a heart attack at 1 a.m. She was born October 21, 1892 in Roanoke Virginia and married L. R. Stewart on October 13, 1913. Surviving are her husband two daughters grandchildren and a son. Funeral 4 p.m. Wednesday at St Mary’s Episcopal Church with burial in Oakwood Cemetery. Memorials to St Mary’s Episcopal Church.
A shift in trends is slated for tomorrow over the Piedmont region with temperatures dropping from today’s sunny 70 high and 53 low tonight to a forecast high of 65 tomorrow. Clouds move in with milder conditions replacing today's clear skies and the expected low around 53 tonight.
Three church groups totaling over 70 000 members in North Carolina plan a racially integrated merger this week. The Southern Conference of the United Church of Christ will combine with the Southern Synod of the Evangelical and Reformed Church. The new conference meets in Greensboro on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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