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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1927
Page
3
The piece recalls High Point’s 1927 tax experience with a $1.60 rate and a re appraisal year. It breaks down assessed values totaling about $34.6 million, outlines anticipated rate needs between 1.20 and 1.25, and notes added school staffing while warning of budget pressures and bond obligations.
Raleigh September 3. A full committee tasked with forming a statewide farm body faces two paths: create a new umbrella organization or preserve existing groups under a state farmers council. The September 9 Raleigh session will finalize the plan for presentation to farm groups for approval.
Bill Longe and C F Bodenheimer of the Southside fire station were hurt when their Chevrolet coupe left Mendenhall Road eight miles from the city. Longe suffered a deep facial cut and was thrown through a door window. Bodenheimer, the driver, had lip and tongue cuts. They were taken to High Point hospital and then to the Southside station. Bodenheimer attributed the accident to an approaching curve at 45 mph, leading him to mount an embankment to avoid the turn.
Numa Hill of 930 Council Street is jailed on a charge of operating a car under the influence after a Friday night crash on Sink Street near Boulevard. Hill, badly injured, was taken to Guilford General Hospital. his son Dallas, unhurt, was a passenger. Police doubt Hill’s claim of a hit by a stranger and say the wreck caused the extensive damage to the Star touring car.
A humorous exchange unfolds as a child asks if the grandfather was in the ark and the elder retorts with a sharp punchline about survival, underscoring a playful grandfatherly wit.
A 1924 Chrysler sedan owned by Mrs. W. G. Poole, wife of the Sheraton hotel manager, was stolen from the hotel front between 2 and 2:30 yesterday afternoon. License 33 512 and city tag 2715, with the name W. G. Poole engraved on rear door handles. A bellboy saw a man in a cap enter and drive off shortly after 2 o'clock but could not identify him.
Greensboro officials report that after the recall petition drive, 12 votes were found lacking but leaders say more than the required 12 additional signers have been secured. The city clerk will receive the names Monday for council action Tuesday to set a date for the election.
Cumberland county sheriff William B. Johnson was acquitted of murder in the July 15 staying of John Mack Truelove. The verdict came after about five hours of deliberation with little reaction from the sparse courtroom audience.
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