Downtown Development Corp advances in High Point plan
High Point residents watch the Downtown Development Corp now in its third year push a private redevelopment program for the CBD bounded by Church Green Hamilton and Willowbrook. Dick Culler says a survey team report may be ready next spring and emphasizes voluntary funding and salesmanship to gain property owner support.
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Pete Gibson
Enterprise
High Point
Development Corporation
Downtown Development Corp
Cbd
Church and Richardson Streets
Green Street
Hamilton Street
Willowbrook Street
Dick Culler
Culler
Accident Box Score Last Week Risks and Losses
Report of accidents showing 0 persons killed, 8 injured, and property losses totaling 13920 this year to date. All accidents record 183 killed, 6 injured, and property losses 309798.00.
Local Realtors Plan Open House Event Week of Oct 29
Local realtors sponsor about 20 new and modern homes open from 1 p m until dark during the week beginning October 29. Public invited to inspect, with arrows and Realtor Open House signs. Homes cover all prices and town sections, displaying new building methods and materials. A map and list of houses will be prepared.
FBI Agent Speaker for IMC Meeting
Donald E. Roney, FBI special agent and North Dakota native, will address the High Point Industrial Management Club at its regular meeting Tuesday. Based in Charlotte, he will discuss Americanism and the Crime Problem and is a University of North Dakota alumnus with degrees in business administration and law. He has been in FBI work since 1940 and belongs to the North Dakota Bar Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald E. Roney
FBI
North Dakota
High Point Industrial Management Club
Roney
Charlotte
University of North Dakota
North Dakota Bar Association
Industrial Management Club
High Point Ymca
Paul Justice
Last Rites Today For J. E. Millis
Funeral services for J. E. Millis a pioneer industrialist and civic leader will be held at 2 30 p m at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church with Dr C C Herbert Jr presiding. Burial follows at Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery. Surviving are his wife son James H Millis president of Adams Millis Corp and daughter Mrs J Harriss Covington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Millis
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
C. C. Herbert Jr
Millis
Oakwood Memorial Park
Forest Hill Dr
Adams-Millis Corp
High Point Memorial Hospital
James H. Millis
J. Harriss
Enrollment at High Point College Reaches 1271
High Point College reports fall 1961 62 enrollment of 1271 students including 722 men and 547 women. Compared with 1154 students last year the class breakdown includes 498 freshmen 344 sophomores 168 juniors and 133 seniors. Special and unclassified students total 218 this semester up from 129.
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High Point College
Stan Broadway
Methodist Liberal Arts School
Hermit Roy Ozmer lives on Panther Key with panther legends
In Naples Florida Roy Ozmer a 62 year old hermit inhabits an 8 by 10 foot plywood cabin on Panther Key in the Ten Thousand Islands. He recalls why pioneer boatmen named the island Panther Key noting there are panthers on it and often hears panther screams at night. He jokes hoping they are as cowardly as they are supposed to be.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naples
Fla
Roy Ozmer
Ozmer
Panther Key
Open House Planned at High Point Water Filtration Plant</s>
High Point invites the public to tour the expanded Earl Kearns Water Filtration Plant on Kivett Drive from 2 to 6 pm. The event showcases bond-funded upgrades, plant capacity of 12 million gallons daily, and displays detailing water processing from City Lake to distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Kivett Drive
Earl Kearns
Kearns
City Lake Park
Frank Ward
Joe Yarbrough
Bill Williams
City Utilities Department
Signs Are Good Furniture Makers Braced For Record Fall Market
The Southern furniture industry prepares for a large fall market opening Friday in High Point Thomasville Lexington Hickory Lenoir and Drexel through Oct 27. SFMA data show August orders up 25.3 percent from last year and July up 27.2 percent. first eight months of 1961 sales up 3.5 percent. Unfilled orders on Sept 1 equal seven weeks of production, up 9.7 percent from Aug 1. Retail furniture sales run about seven percent ahead. producers expect year end sales about ten percent higher than 1960 as new lines and larger showrooms debut.
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Enterprise
Southern Furniture Industry
High Point
Thomasville
Lexington
Hickory
Lenoir
Drexel
Southern Furniture Manufacturers Assn
SFMA
James T. Ryan
Ryan
Gov Sanford to Speak at Market Luncheon in Raleigh
Gov. Terry Sanford will headline a fall market luncheon at Emerywood Country Club and speak on the Wrenn Street Wing expansion dedication marking the Southern Furniture Exposition Building’s 40th anniversary. Susan Kay Woodall of Roanoke Rapids will attend alongside industry leaders and press at a Sky Room party after.
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S. Main Street
Gov. Sanford
Terry Sanford
Emerywood Country Club
Wrenn Street
North Carolina
Susan Kay Woodall
Roanoke Rapids
Exposition
Wrenn Street Wing
Biorythym theory and a fish tale headline the week
A lighthearted column explores a joking biorythym theory predicting life cycles in three bands and its faulty World Series forecast. A pier fishing anecdote follows where Brant Lewis reels in a fish by mistake, and a playful news release touts aluminum cots and fold-away beds from a furniture maker.
Frost Forecast Nips Next Morning In High Point
The Friendship weatherman warned of possible frost tomorrow morning as cool air settled over High Point and vicinity. Temperatures yesterday peaked at 70 and fell to 46 last night, with 40s expected early today and a high near 60 before a drop into the 30s tomorrow morning.
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Friendship
High Point
Officer Witness To Two Crashes On City Streets
Traffic officer S M Mattocks narrowly avoided two collisions on Gordon Street and East Green Street while responding to separate wrecks. In the East Green crash Donald Gray Gregory and Anderson Long Jr were involved. Long faces court on November 1 for failure to reduce speed. Gregory, his wife Betty Joe Gregory, and their young son were passengers. Gregory was injured. In the Gordon Street incident Grady A Snow and Joe John Doggett collided on a curve. Doggett was charged with drunken driving and also faces court on November 1.
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S. M. Mattocks
Gordon Street
East
East Green
Walnut
Donald Gray Gregory
Granby Street
Anderson Long Jr
Rt. 1
Jamestown
Gregory
Green
Mattocks
Grady A. Snow
Joe John Doggett
Meredith Street
Snow
Doggett
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Judy Raykes
Faye Dean Page
Judy
Faye Dean
Reidsville
Joe Rawhey
Culler Reports
High Point Enterprise
Southern Furniture Exposition
Yankees
Maris
Ford
Biarythym
Brant Lewis
Brant
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