City eyes ambulance franchise after funeral directors pull service
Winter City officials discuss continuing ambulance service via franchise after six white funeral homes abandon operations at 12:01 a.m. Jan 1. Mayor Stout urged careful timing and potential new funeral home, while council favored a franchise to set rates and maintain service with at least three ambulances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forrest Cates Enterprise
Winter City
Funeral Home
Carson Stout
Stout
Charlotte
City Lake duck hunting plan vetoed by commission
The parks and recreation commission rejected a plan to allow duck hunting at City Lake this year. No second was given for a trial. concerns cited include safety for lakeside residents, noise, and birds abandoning the lake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parks and Recreation Commission
City Lake
Jack Southerland
Lakeside
Roy Culler
Revenge Plot Is Thwarted by Family and Police
A teen planned revenge on an acquaintance. After his brother and mother alerted officers near Oak View School, police found a loaded Japanese rifle hidden in bushes. The youth was taken to police HQ and released after consultation with his family.
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Oak View School
AB Clubs To Dedicate Headquarters
The American Business Clubs association sets a Nov 4 dedication for its national headquarters at 3315 N Main alongside the AMBUCS midwinter board meeting. Officials and AMBUCS members are invited to a reception and ceremonies, with a dinner dance at Emerywood Country Club. Chapters in High Point and Furniture City host. The building houses reception, conference, offices, and an executive secretary’s room. funds and furnishings were donated by AMBUCS chapters.
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American Business Clubs Association
N. Main
Ambucs
North Carolin
Emerywood Country Club
High Point
Furniture City
Davidson County to share expense of photos
Lexington Davidson County Commissioners voted to assume half of a $1,000 bill for aerial photos of Thomasville. The photos were taken several months ago. They approved a two day Christmas holiday for county employees on December 25 and 26. Ed Hill reported on a study of a new tax listing system but no action was taken pending further study.
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Lexington
Davidson
Thomasville
Ed Hill
Pemican 1961 Yearbook Earns All American Rating
The Pemican yearbook of High Point Senior High School earned the National Scholastic Press Association All American rating for 1961, one of six nationwide. It also received an A rating from NSYA and a separate award from the North Carolina Scholastic Press Institute for color photos and coverage of student life. Editor in chief Connie Newnam, associate editor Becky Bradner, business manager Jean Craven, and faculty advisor Louise Tapp led the staff.
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High Point
National Scholastic Press Assn
National School Yearbook Assn
North Carolina Scholastic Press Institute
Pemnican
Connie Newnam
LC. C. Newnam
Chestnut Street Extension
National Health Foundation
University of North Carolina School of Nursing
Becky Bradner
Beverly H. Bradner Jr
Gatewood Ave
Bradner
DAR
Plans to Sell Hosiery Mill Machinery in Catawba
The High Point Machinery Co announces a sale of the Robinson Hosiery Mill knitting equipment in Catawba. The auction runs from tomorrow through October 12 and includes knitting and sewing machines loopers and various accessory machinery.
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Robinson Hosiery
Catawba
High Point Machinery Co. Inc
Miss High Point Hopefuls Lead Off Show
Gen eva Pearl Blackburn and Claudia Lee Hamlin headline the Miss High Point pageant list set for October 28. Blackburn, 18, a High Point High graduate, will perform song and dance. Hamlin, 17, a River Road resident and future Ragsdale High graduate, will present clothes designing and modeling as her talent.
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Geneva Pearl Blackburn
Claudia Lee Hamlin
Miss Blackburn
H. R. Blackburn
Fisher St
High Point High
B 52 Bomber Highlighted By Major At Club Event
Maj. T A Whitney of Seymour Johnson Air Force Base spoke at the High Point Exchange Club about the B 52 bomber as the United States top aircraft and, when armed with a nuclear bomb, the era s most devastating weapon. He said the Air Force remains on constant alert for national defense and noted the program included a film showing an actual alert mission.
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High Point Exchange Club
Maj
T. A. Whitney
Seymour Johnson Air Force Base
Goldsboro
United States
Maj. Whitney
Bill Cheves
Whitney
Presbyterians Convene State Bequest Conference
A bequests and deferred gifts conference will be held at the First Presbyterian Church tomorrow at 12 30 p m A Walton Litz of Charlotte assistant director of the Presbyterian Foundation will speak The event is one of twenty sponsored statewide by the Synod of North Carolina through its Permanent Committee on Bequests and Deferred Gifts
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First Presbyterian Church
A. Walton Litz
Charlotte
Presbyterian Foundation of the
Presbyterian Church In the
United States
The
Synod of North Carolina
City Council Advances Water Sewer Projects Over 300000
City council members tentatively approve a batch of water and sewer work totaling more than 300000 with projects labeled public necessity and to be funded by property owner assessments unless directly connected to an outfall. A public hearing will precede final approval by the governing body.
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Burton Street
Shady Lane
Peace Avenue
Vickers Avenue
Juanita Street
Wright Street
Eastchester Drive
Lakewood Drive
Bridges Street
Hampton Drive
Davis Avenue
Creekside Drive
Pearson
Lois Avenue
Oak View Road
Roseland Avenue
Marsh Furniture Co
Tate Street
Rain Ends Late Tonight With Cool Thursday Outlook
The weather will bring heavy rain at times today and end late tonight. Today's high reaches the upper sixties with a tonight low near 56. Partial clearing is expected tomorrow with a cooler high in the mid sixties and a brighter Thursday outlook. The Friendship weatherman calls for generally fair and mild conditions.
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Friendship
Special Session of Court Begins in Davidson County
Special term of Davidson County Superior Court opened under Judge Robert M. Gambell after a 24 hour delay due to illness in the family of Judge H Hoyle Sink of Greensboro. Judge Sink was in an automobile accident near Salisbury but not injured.
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Lexington
Davidson County Superior Court
Robert M. Gambell
H. Hoyle Sink
Greensboro
Sink
Salisbury
Agreement Signed For Widening Of S. Main Street
City and State officials signed a pact for a 1.35 mile widening of S. Main Street from Russell Street to the superhighway. The agreement bans parking on the widened section and requires removal of a High Point, Thomasville and Denton Railway spur between Russell and Grimes Streets. The city negotiates rail removal, with costs for right of way shared. traffic remains two way with a three lane each direction layout and a mountable median.
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State Highway Commission
S. Main Street
Carson Stout
H. G. Ilderton
Ilderton
S. Main
Russell Street
Highway Commission
Raleigh
Thomasville
Denton
Russell
Grimes Streets
Downstown
Hearing continues in murder case of 17 year old Burton
Municipal Court Judge allows a continuance for the murder case of 17 year old William Jeppy Burton tied to the fatal shooting of his step father on Ashburn Street. Burton remains held without bond as the case resumes next Monday October 9. A 28 year old High Point resident Jack Vaughn is bound over to Guilford Superior Court on breaking and entering larceny and receiving after police valued the stolen goods at 430 dollars. Vaughn faces a session in High Point Division and had not posted 750 dollars bond. Ben Davis was convicted of carrying a concealed weapon after police found a loaded .32 caliber pistol on Border Street. Davis blamed the gun on a trip to a watchmaker and was fined 15 dollars plus costs with the weapon confiscated.
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Byron Haworth
William Jeppy Burton
High Pointer
Jack Vaughn
Guilford County Superior Court
High Point
G. E. Snider
Vaughn
Hughes
Burton
Ashburn Street
Paul Baldwin
Young Burton
Ben Davis
Polce
Davis
Border Street
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Commission
Fice
O. Arthur Kirkman
Lion’s Club
McCain Park
College Village
Guilford
Randolph
Forsyth
North Carolina Recreation Society
Terry Sanford
Parks and Recreation Administration
18Th Green
Blair Park
Ruth Folger
Oth
Ers
Jane Jackson
Jill Dunivant
Art Richardson
Senior High Yearbook
Remican
Miss High Point
Merywood Studio
Presbyterians State Meeting
Council
Judy Gail Wood
Howard E. Wood
Rt. 1
Jamestown
N. C. School For the Deaf
Morganton
Fepha Honor Society
School For the Deaf
Crossnore High
Haworth
Jack Byerly
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