Elsie Borden Receives Keys To City During Four-Day Tour
Elsie Borden the famous Borden cow visits High Point for four days earning keys to the city. She will tour orphanages and handicapped centers meet children at Forest Hills Presbyterian Church and attend a milk and ice cream party at Willow Creek. The event includes a police escort a touring schedule and a con dolic trailer with her image.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsie Borden
John Lowe
Rachel Gray
Listory
High Point
Borden, Inc
North
South Carolina
Elmer Lawson
Borden
United Fund
Lawson
Elsie
Elmer
Beaulah
Beauregard
Caribbean Hilton
Puerto Rico
Brian Young
Drew Rhodes
Columbus
Ohio
Chamber of Commerce
Forest Hills Presbyterian Church
Greensboro
Willow Creek Golf and Country Club
Abbotts Creek Church Road
Transfer Decision Likely Sparks Legal Action In Oak View Case
High Point Board of Education voted to transfer Oak View Elementary teacher Vicki Pilkington and principal John Russell after a dispute. Attorney James Snider warns of litigation to retain Pilkington, while board chair Laurin Welborn says no reversal decision has been made. Petitions circulate as teachers and parents push to keep Pilkington. an affidavit of sexual harassment involving Russell surfaced but deemed not central to the decision.
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Lee Mortimer
High Point Board of Education
Oak View
Vicki Pilkington
John Russell
Lexington
James Snider
Snider
Mrs. Pilkington
Pilkingtons
Laurin Welborn
Welborn
Russell
Pilkington
Andrews
Edwin West
N.C Assn. of
High Point Settles Theater Office Complex Cost at 1.856 Million
City Council approves 1.856 million dollar price for the theater office complex at the Southern Furniture Market Center on Wrenn Street. Architects fees of 123 thousand included. Lease terms run 50 years with city ownership at end. annual deductions fund construction and city assumes some punch list costs.
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Forrest Cates
Enterprise City
High Point
Southern Furniture Market Center
Rachel Gray
Wrenn Street
Furniture Center
SFMC
Cy Brooks
Market Center
Police Dept
Porter pins conspiracy label on Preyer in Labor Party bid
Greensboro resident Marion Porter, Labor Party candidate for Sixth District Congress, accuses incumbent Richardson Preyer of a Rockefeller New York bank conspiracy and calls for bold reforms. She links the Center for Creative Leadership to soft brainwashing and alleges government involvement with the Black Liberation Army, touting a threefold plan backed by gold currency, a central gold bank, and debt moratorium to avert a global crisis. Porter positions Ford and Carter as foes, praises LaRouche forecasts, and vows a dramatic underdog push for 50 percent of the vote.
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Carol Wilson Utley
Justice Dept
Black Liberation Army
New York
Preyer
Porter
Greensboro
Institute For Policy Studies
Labor Party
Lyndon LaRouche
Peru
Chicago
Dong So
Carter
Democratic Party
Gerald Ford
Council Hears Landfill Case
City Council weighs whether landscaper S B Simmons violated zoning by using Summit Road tract as a dirt supply. Neighbors petition to halt hauling and remove a steel tank. City Manager reports site graded. Simmons says filling prior to now for drainage. Council orders permit adherence and studies landfill policy.
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S.B. Simmons
Summit Road
Simmons
Cy Brooks
City Hall
Brooks
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Ken Beamon
Gayle Brookbank
NCAE
West
Enterprise
City
Carl Wills
Rockefeller
Soviet Union
International Monetary System
The
United Way Report
Council
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